. John Brown and his men; with some account of the roads they traveled to reach Harper's Ferry. or Letcher made a demand MEN WHO FOUGHT AND FELL. OR ESCAPED. jj for Virginia on Governor Dennison, Ohio, for the sur-render of Owen Brown and Francis J. Merriam. \latter had been sojourning a brief period at Cleve-land, while passing to and from Chatham, Canada,where I find by O. P. Andersons letters to me, hemade his residence until the summer of 1S6:. Theattorney-general of Ohio, to whom Letchers demandwas referred, stated that no le-gal demand had been made orproper papers submitted. Hesaid: In
. John Brown and his men; with some account of the roads they traveled to reach Harper's Ferry. or Letcher made a demand MEN WHO FOUGHT AND FELL. OR ESCAPED. jj for Virginia on Governor Dennison, Ohio, for the sur-render of Owen Brown and Francis J. Merriam. \latter had been sojourning a brief period at Cleve-land, while passing to and from Chatham, Canada,where I find by O. P. Andersons letters to me, hemade his residence until the summer of 1S6:. Theattorney-general of Ohio, to whom Letchers demandwas referred, stated that no le-gal demand had been made orproper papers submitted. Hesaid: In all these documents,from beginning to end. there isno word, no letter, from whichhuman ingenuity can draw thevaguest hint that Owen Brownor Merriam had fled from Vir-ginia, nor was there any properproof of either of the men beingwithin the bounds of Ohio. Owen Brown showed in hisconduct of the escape, as in hislife in Kansas and elsewhere, thebest qualities and the true stuffof which the Browns were all made. George B. Gill, who knew him well, writes abit of analytical description. He says:. • OWEN BROWN. Owen Brown came as near being a philosopher, in manyways, as I ever saw. A thorough optimist, too. often expressing approbation of life by wishing that he could live a thousandyears. Apparently organized like his father, yet having butfew of the latters severe peculiarities, every idea had to passthrough the cynical test of logic. In contradistinction to hisfathers views, Owen was an avowed agnostic. He was moral 556 JOHN BROWN. and upright, very kind, and very willing to sacrifice his per-sonal comforts, if by doing so he might benefit others. Toinduce me to quit the use of tobacco he offered to live upontwo meals a day. Very firm, yet entirely free from vindictive-ness : the very soul of honor and honesty. The equanimity ofhis temper I have never seen equaled. He must have been six feet in height and well propor-tioned, with red or sandy hair and full, long beard. He hadbe
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