John Brown (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from John Brown "Await the issue. In all battles, if you await the issue, each fighter has prospered according to his right. His right and his might, at the close of the account, were one and the same. He has fought with all his might, and in exact proportion to all his right he has prevailed. His very death is no victory over him. He dies indeed, but his work lives, very truly lives. A heroic Wallace, quartered on the scaffold, cannot hinder that Scotland become, one day, a part of England: but he does hinder that it become, on unfair terms, a part of it, commands still, as with a gods voice, from his old Valhalla and Temple of the Brave, that there be a just real union as of brother and brother, not a false and merely semblant one as of slave and master." - Carlyle. Emerson says that all history resolves itself into the biographies of a few strong characters. This makes it imperative that those who would have a right understanding of the history of their country should study carefully the life of John Brown. For it is rare that any country produces a man who deliberately, even joyously, lays down his life for a principle - for an idea. When such a character appears among men he is first maligned and misunderstood, afterwards driven and persecuted, and often "gibbeted as a felon." After his death the people come gradually to see and understand the great truths he willingly went to the scaffold for. 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.