Dramatic Moments.

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 115, 8 February 1935, Page 9

Dramatic Moments.

JOHN BROWN GOES MARCHING ON Slavery was abolished; within the British Empire in 1833, but it continued—often in its cruellest form—-in America till 1865. Here is the story of the last moments of one who helped to give the Negro a chance.

Born in 1800, John Brown—father of 20 children —had virtually to begin life when he was 42. He was a fervent .man, deeply religious, and his belief told him that right was only to be enthroned at the cost of human blood. Five slaves had been murdered; John Brown avenged their deaths, captured the Government arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, and held some of the townsfolk as hostages. He ;Was driven out. of his little fortress, tried, and found guilty of treason, and condemned tb death.

Taller than most men. he had a long white beard, and a stern face. His God was an Old Testament!God, and no man was harder than rugged John Brown No man ever loved the slave better than John Brown. His heart was full of compassion for him. He had tried to strike a blow for humanity, and all he bad done was to get himself hanged for it. He accomplished nothing byliving, and those last moments of bis When he walked to the scaffold after kissing a little piccaninny were the end of a wasted life.

But they were also the beginning of . a mighty triumph, for John Brown ' dead went marching through America, trampling clown■ hard hearts, kindling gentler hearts, and with the spirit of Abraham Lincoln achieving a tremendous victory for right. John Brown’s body was mouldering in the grave, bur. his soul went marching on I