"The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry……" — John Sergeant Wise
"The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky."
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24 Quotes by John Sergeant Wise
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My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in…
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As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.
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Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.
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THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.
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However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters…
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John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.
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Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far…
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In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards…
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In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished…
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And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be…
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The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the…
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In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost…
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More Attack Quotes
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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be…
— Jane Austen
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
— Emilie Autumn
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I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart…
— Alan Ball
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall…
— Honore de Balzac
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I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.
— Antonio Banderas
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Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands,…
— Jack Adams
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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade…
— Joe Biden
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few…
— Daniel Boone
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Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then…
— H. Rap Brown
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We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay,…
— Tom Brown, Jr.
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