Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1859 — Old John Brown. [ARTICLE]

Old John Brown.

John Brown is no longer among the living. He has gone up higher. He has passed from the realm of expediencies to the uncompromising sunlight of God. Lut us trust that those who have strangled him, equally with tho. e who have clamored for his blood, will leave him to the just tribunal of the Al-mighty—-not insisting that he be now sent to the lake which burnetii with fire and brimstone. His errors, whatever they were, have been expiated by his death. His virtues, though as many as the sands on the shore, will have their fullreward. It is safe to leave him to the judgment of that Judge before whom he was not afraid to appear. Vve need fire no salvos of artillery over his grave; we want no attempts to make political capital out of the dust to which his body has returned. But let men pray if they will. Our supplication shall be that Heaven in its mercy may save the country, in all its parts, from the horrors of o servile insurrection, and from the fanaticism and madness of those who would excite one. The way for the emancipation of the American slave, and for the civilization of the South, lies not through the incendiary fires, the brutal ravishing of delicate women by untamed beasts upon whom Slavery has fixed its impress, the braining of children against the doorposts of their fathers’ dwellings, and the naiDeless midnight horrors and atrocities which a revolt would bring in its train. These may be the ministers of vengeance long cherished and lung delayed, but they are not the weapons which Christians and patriots propose to use. Let prayers ascend; but let supplicants remember that the success for which Brown toiied> is that thing which would have made even Anti-Slavery men wish that he had never been born. John Brown has worked out his mission. He has pointed out the immeasurable distance between any possible application of! the “golden rule” to this question of human ' slavery, and a decent respect for the laws by which the country has agreed to abide. Is is a fearful gap that separates man from hit most humane instincts; but Brown’s life and death have made it visable even to the blind. He has shown the men of the South that all they hold dear—their wealth in land,“slaves I and other property,” their wives and little ' ones—are resting upon a volcano that may ! any day or any hour belch out its smoke and flames and swallow them up. So far has he , done the Anti-Slavery cause yeoman’s service. For that service we neither canonize him as a saint him as a martyr; nor for his errors of action and judgment, d» j we seek to condemn his memory to infamy,] in the eyes of mankind. Let those blame him who have never hoped for the freedom of the whole human race. Let those praise him who know not what a slow, painful and laborious thing the attainment of a people’s freedom is!— Chicago Press and Tribune. (Lj*The Laporte Union says that a Mr James Clark of that place discovered last Sunday night about 10‘o clock, lying on his back porch two babies, o£ the male persuasion, and both of them boys, as Artemus Ward says of his twins. They were about four weeks old, carefully wrapped in a large shawl, and by them was found a bundle of clothing, showing their mother was not dis- ' posed to let. them be any greater trouble than possible. Mr. Clark took charge o-f them, of course. Suh equently the Township Trustee Mr. G B Roberts, m;i de preparations lor their care at the public, xpense and took steps ti> find out the mother.