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After he fell the old man received two bayonet thrusts at the hands of an infuriated sol- dier. Brown and the rest of his little band, who fell into the hands of the Virginians, were tried and executed at the town of Charles- town, all of them djdng with calm and unflinching courage. It was a mad scheme, with a tragic ending, but it has been immortalized in song and story in every land where the spirit of liberty is cherished. John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, doomed to failure from its inception, as any one not blinded by a fanaticism that has no mis- givings might have foreseen, was in consequence of the events that were its immediate outcome the prelude to the civil war. Henry Wise was Governor of Virginia. prev next |