TERRIFYING: Look now at Hawley, Cruz, Kevin McCarthy & all the masses who say they believe the election of 2020 was stolen.

 Now, John Brown on 24 May 1856 led his sons and others on a raid in Pottawatomie, Kansas, in which he and the others hacked several men and a boy to death. Everyone knew this, but the New York Tribune and the Boston Liberator denied it and suppressed it. The truth did no come out in absolutely irrefutable form for two decades. But there were still people to believed that John Brown could not have been a murderer who hacking people to death with is own hands. The Liberator printed a letter on 16 December 1859 from R. J. Hinton: "John Brown told me he was not a participator in the Pottawatomie homicides. John Brown was incapable of uttering a falsehood."

         This is the Louisville Courier 19 November 1859, after quoting Emerson’s claim that John Brown (to be hanged, on 2 December) “will make the gallows glorious like a cross.”

         "In addition to these oracles of Northern sentiments, observe also the language of the New York Tribune, the leading organ of one of the great parties of the country. ‘Let their epitaphs (of the insurgents) remain unwritten until the not distant day, when no slave shall clank his chains in the shades of Monticello or by the graves of Mount Vernon.’ It is a fact tat cannot be concealed, though though some of the Republican press (such as the New York TImes, of strong Douglas proclivities by the way) may through policy tenderly condemn the Harper’s Ferry ‘insurrection.’ as they are fond of terming it, yet the mass of the party give their silent approbation. The only thing of regret was its failure. Another significant fact is that though William H. Seward was clearly apprised of the treasonable conspiracy, and said not a word in disapprobation of it, yet not a voice in the party is raised in his condemnation. Think, Kentuckians, of a people upholding their leading statesman in connivance at an iniquitous plot to butcher the innocent families of a sister State! From the signs of the times let us profit, and no longer stultify ourselves under the garb of conservatism."