. Book of the Royal blue . ^wWmz^i. ONCE A SLAVE—NOW AN AUTOCRAT. encourages the soul to expand and thevocal organs to move themselves entertain-ingly. The Civil War and the causes leadingup to it are not to be too frankly dis-cussed in a mixed company traveling dan-gerously near Mason and Dixons line. Weof the North were taught in our youth toregard John Brown as a grim and majesticold hero, who died gloriously as a martyrto the cause of human freedom. In theSouth Brown was regarded as a criminalfanatic, a crazy zealot, whose violent at-tack on slavery was another symptom ofthe malevolent att


. Book of the Royal blue . ^wWmz^i. ONCE A SLAVE—NOW AN AUTOCRAT. encourages the soul to expand and thevocal organs to move themselves entertain-ingly. The Civil War and the causes leadingup to it are not to be too frankly dis-cussed in a mixed company traveling dan-gerously near Mason and Dixons line. Weof the North were taught in our youth toregard John Brown as a grim and majesticold hero, who died gloriously as a martyrto the cause of human freedom. In theSouth Brown was regarded as a criminalfanatic, a crazy zealot, whose violent at-tack on slavery was another symptom ofthe malevolent attitude of the whole mis-guided North. to arm the slaves, was, after all, a necessaryincident in the great struggle. The battlebetween the forces of slavery and anti-slavery was inevitable. Brown simplyhelped to precipitate the struggle. Evi-dently he had been a monomaniac, but hissincerity and his undaunted physical cour-age would always command the admirationof the impartial student of history. This was a very generous compliment


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