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The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas and Martyr of Virginia; Liberator of Kansas, and Martyr of Virginia
The Life and Letters of John Brown Liberator of Kansas and Martyr of Virginia Liberator of Kansas and Martyr of Virginia Author:John Brown General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1910 Original Publisher: F.B. Sanborn Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can se... more »lect from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VI. FAMILY COUNSELS AND HOME LIFE. A I/THOUGH he lived so actively in his business affairs, and planned so much public activity, yet a great part of John Brown's life was spent in the most quiet, humble, and domestic manner. Before entering, therefore, upon the startling record of his public career, let me disclose more fully his home life, and his affectionate, practical relations to all those who depended upon him; which can best be done by his family letters at different dates, before he sent his sons to Kansas or set forth to join them there. To his Children. Hudson, Jan. 18, 1841. Dear Son John, -- Since I parted with you at Hudson some thoughts have passed through my mind which my intense anxiety for your welfare prompts me to communicate by writing. I think the situation in which you have been placed by Providence at this early period of your life will afford to yourself and others some little test of the sway you may be expected to exert over minds in after life, and I am glad, on the whole, to have you brought in some measure to the test in your youth. If you cannot now go into a disorderly country school and gain its confidence and esteem, and reduce it to good order, and waken up the energies and the very soul of every rational being in it, -- yes, of every mean, ill-behaved, ill-governed boy and girl that compose it, and secure the good-will of the parents, -- then how are you to stimulate asses to attempt a passage of the Alps? If yon run with footmen and they should weary you, how should you contend with horses ? If in the land of peace they...« less