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Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Captain John Brown: Who Was Executed at Charlestown, Virginia, Dec, 2, 1859, for an Armed Attack Upon American Slavery; With Notices of Some of His Confederates
North would not have been prepared so soon to defy the slaveholders by electing a republican President. The election of Lincoln was the pretence, if not the motive, for Southern secession 3 and the war which has followed secession - however much to be deprecated in itself - will, we trust, at no distant day work the overthrow of chattel slavery, which just before Brown's enterprise seemed as firmly established as the everlast ing hills. Thus the object which he failed to aecom plish - the commencement of the subversion of slavery -will probably through his means, as an instrument in the hands of Providence, be accelerated much more effectually than it could have been by his temporary success. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
