[Dixielandjazz] Re: Battle Hymn & John Brown

[Jack Tracy]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Cooke" <amazingbass at cox.net>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 8:12 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Battle Hymn & John Brown


> 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

##############

I'll be 79 this month, and I am still not old enough to agree that any 
person has the god-given right to judge another human being's right to live 
or die.

Jack Tracy