. John Brown and his men; with some account of the roads they traveled to reach Harper's Ferry. wis Sherrard Leary was a bright, and quite well-educated young man Leary was the first Oberlinrecruit, and introduced Copelandto Kagi. In an alleged confes-sion, which was merely statementsthat Mr. Hunter, by adroit exam-ination, got out of Copeland, itappears that Ralph and SamuelPlumb, of Oberlin College, gavethem fifteen dollars to defray theirexpenses to Chambersburg; thatthey came by way of Cleveland,stopping with Mrs. Isaac Sturte-vant, a distant relative of C. VV. Mof-fet, meeting Charles H.
. John Brown and his men; with some account of the roads they traveled to reach Harper's Ferry. wis Sherrard Leary was a bright, and quite well-educated young man Leary was the first Oberlinrecruit, and introduced Copelandto Kagi. In an alleged confes-sion, which was merely statementsthat Mr. Hunter, by adroit exam-ination, got out of Copeland, itappears that Ralph and SamuelPlumb, of Oberlin College, gavethem fifteen dollars to defray theirexpenses to Chambersburg; thatthey came by way of Cleveland,stopping with Mrs. Isaac Sturte-vant, a distant relative of C. VV. Mof-fet, meeting Charles H. Langstonthere, and from thence coming onto Chambersburg, where they werereceived by James Watson, a col-ored man. Andrew Hunter spent a good deal oftime in the effort to get some one of the pris-oners to tell something they did not know, buthe utterly failed. Letters of Copeland, written fromthe jail, to his father and mother at Oberlin, are asnotable for cheerfulness and religious resignation asany of John Browns correspondence. He wrote,shortly before the execution of December 16th, that:. JOHN A. COPELAND. JOHN BROWN^S MEN: WHO THEY WERE. 509 I am not terrified by the gallows, which I see staring mein the face, and upon which I am soon to stand and sufferdeath for doing what George Washington was made a hero fordoing. ... While, for having lent my aid to a generalno less brave, and engaged in a cause no less honorable andglorious, I am to suffer death. Washington entered the fieldto fight for the freedom of the American people—not for thewhite man alone, but for both black and white. Nor were theywhite men alone who fought for the freedom of this blood of black men flowed as freely as that of white . And some of the very last blood shed was that of blackmen. . It was a sense of the wrongs which we have suf-fered that prompted the noble but unfortunate Captain Brownand his associates to attempt to give freedom to a small number,at least, of those who are n
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