[Dixielandjazz] Re: Battle Hymn & John Brown

[Charlie Hooks]

Pat, you have it all precisely correct!   Bless you for writing.

Charlie Hooks


On Sunday, July 3, 2005, at 10:12 AM, Patrick Cooke wrote:

> Not all murderers were abolitionists, neither were all abolitionists 
> murderers; but the John Brown whom Julia Howe elevated to sainthood 
> with her lyrics was indeed both a serial mass murderer and an 
> abolitonist.  He and his sons killed dozens of people, some entire 
> families, in Kansas; and was primary cause of the state being named 
> "bleeding Kansas."  He was captured at Harpers Ferry by a federal 
> force led by captain Robert E. Lee, who was still an officer in the 
> U.S. Army at the time.   Brown's legal defense tried to claim 
> insanity, but he was found guilty and hanged.  I believe he was 
> indeed insane, but I'm glad they hanged him anyway.  He needed 
> hangin'.
>         Pat Cooke
>
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