[Dixielandjazz] Re: Glory, glory & John Brown

[Patrick Cooke]

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

Thanks Charlie, but I wasn't all precisely correct...Lee wasn't a captain at 
the time; he was a colonel.
  BTW...I think Julia should have at leat spent a night in jail for writing 
those lyrics! :-)

Pat Cooke
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> Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 12:10:10 -0500
> From: Charlie Hooks <charliehooks2 at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Battle Hymn & John Brown
> To: "Patrick Cooke" <amazingbass at cox.net>
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> Pat, you have it all precisely correct!   Bless you for writing.
>
> Charlie Hooks
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> 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
>>