John Brown: The Man Who Ignited the American Civil War

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[@AnimeFan-ot7bu]

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[@d.c.8828]

@@AnimeFan-ot7bu And without the beard, he just looks like Moby, but British!

[@patrickkelly5004]

How about doing a profile on Patrice Lumumba?

[@christopher6101]

"His zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun." - Frederick Douglass

[@zacharyking900]

And yet when Brown asked Fredrick Douglas to join him, he refused.

[@DLC..]

​@@zacharyking900because he forsaw the failure

[@thomasprislacjr.4063]

​@Fair-Trial and he was smart enough to use that failure to free his people in the end.

[@stoheha]

Kind of makes me emotional to think that union soldiers sang about this man in their victory marches. What a legacy.

[@tylerferrand8786]

Would be nice to hear some if you know any

[@samuelrichards5521]

@@tylerferrand8786 John Brown’s Body is the most famous

[@mwi3865]

The legacy of a murderer 😬

[@williamsherman1942]

@@samuelrichards5521It’s said that Union soldiers sang it when Grant arrived in Richmond, so yeah you are right,

[@Adammonte9000]

"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" takes its melody from "John Brown's Body"

[@valmid5069]

*“There is no peace in this land until slavery is done for”* -John Brown

[@jamesweatherford988]

And he was wrong we still having slavery problems like reverse discrimination Abraham Lincoln was sending them back to Africa . because he said that he doesn't believe that the blacks and whites can live in harmony.and he was right.thrse black people are racist against the white people.

[@mikegalasso6718]

What's the excuse now?

[@johnlarsen4455]

we just import products that are made from slave labor

[@jamesweatherford988]

@@mikegalasso6718 I'm just saying what the out come is ,what's your excuse or narrative?

[@mwi3865]

@@Kodachrome02 good. We do need less laws though. All drugs should be legal. Highways shouldn’t have speed limits etc. On the other hand infidelity should be the death penalty.

[@arghyachatterjee3008]

Funny, how Churchill and Roosevelt's legacies are not controversial; yet, that of John Brown's are.

[@thatguywhois]

Churchill is debated here and then as well and Roosevelt's atomic decision is still viewed as unnecessary in Russian education. History is written by the victors quotes is just true, I guess

[@gracelove4978]

It’s honestly very clear what’s going on in the heart of people who have an issue with John brown.

[@Matt4941]

Churchill's legacy is certainly controversial. He is either viewed as a national hero who helped defeat fascism or a war monger & responsible for the Bengal famine. You rarely find someone sat on the fence when it comes to him.

[@AtillatheFun]

One of my heroes. Went above and beyond to fight for what he believed in until the end. If there is a heaven, I hope Brown is up there.

[@joeshoe6184]

True heros don't hack unarmed men to pieces in front of thier families.

[@AtillatheFun]

@@joeshoe6184 Ends justify the means. A lot of terrible acts were done in service of an outcome that would better humanity. Slice and dice, baby.

[@joeshoe6184]

@@AtillatheFunWow you speak very flippantly about killing. I hope you have not had an opportunity to act on these impulses. So how about those that kill abortion doctors? They believe that they are preventing murder. Do they get to kill people too? Who gets to decide?

[@AtillatheFun]

@@joeshoe6184 I didnt know that killing pro-slavery jackholes was similar to a woman controlling what comes out of her vageen. Thank you for explaining how the two are related. Never mind the fact that one restricts the freedom of a race of people while the other is a personal choice.

[@antoniobarbosameillon8911]

@@AtillatheFun I agree completely, it’s not like he killed innocent people, he killed slavers and pro slavers. Literally one of the most righteous oddly reasons to do that.

[@NorthKoreaUncovered]

John Brown is nothing short of a Hero. A caliber of American that is sorely needed today. RIP.

[@standdownrobots_ihaveoldglory]

I was raised loving him, despite coming from racist grandparents...long story, family got twisted around but retained pride in our connection to Brown. That said, methinks a spot of mental illness might be in the mix.

[@frankgordon8829]

What I love is that Robert E. Lee led the successful attack that killed him!

[@Peter-jo6yu]

​@@frankgordon8829Robert Lee was a far bigger traitor than John Brown ever was. Brown killed about 10 people at most, that too with a righteous motive. Robert Lee killed hundreds of thousands of American soldiers, that too to preserve slavery. If anyone deserved to be hung for treason, it was Robert Lee and the other confederate traitors.

[@skeleex]

@@frankgordon8829 Robert E. Lee also led the 10 straight losses that cost him his country!

[@frankgordon8829]

@@skeleex Yea... being outnumbered 2: & even 3 & 4:1 will do that. Not to mention he South was agrarian. Lee would never have sided with the South save for Lincoln planning on invading Verginia. BTW, Grant not only had slaves (which Lee didn't), he never released them, even after the war. It was a few years before they could leave.

[@pattyjay9999]

“I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with blood" John Brown.

[@Jakob_Herzog]

Kind of chilling knowing what followed.

[@danielfortier2629]

The citizens of the United States have NOT evolved since then. They STILL love violence and love fire arms. Meanwhile the rest of the western industrialized nations HAVE evolved and left the States in the dust. The States' antiquated and absurd idiologies make them look SO ridiculous to more progressive nations of the world. Too bad they still live with their heads in the sand.

[@zebstime9668]

​@@nosonoliento haha, yeah, its still such an issue still these days... lol

[@reginaromsey]

The bath of blood that was Brown’s Civil War didn’t wash anything but the clod of slavery, it left the stain that is being examined, glorified, and fought and bled about still.

[@cronchybo]

@@zebstime9668 yes it is. watch 13th and Neoslavery (both on KZbin)

[@lisacavanaugh8068]

In doing my family genealogy I found two cousins, Quakers, who were so taken with John Brown that they joined up. Edwin Coppock participated and was hanged for his part. His brother Barclay never went to the ferry but stayed behind and fled to Canada. Eventually he came back to the US and joined the Union Army. He was killed in battle. Thank you for sharing the story of John Brown.

[@EvonneLindiwe]

May your ancestors who sacrificed their lives for their beliefs and convictions, be blessed 🙏🏿

[@curtiswfranks]

A bad end for them both, but they did right.

[@sethcourtney468]

Wow- there should be a piece done on them. That’s historically significant and heroically tragic at the same time.

[@kiteinthesky9324]

Don't worry bro, they both were likely chosen by the Valkyries to go to Valhalla to fight at Odin's side at the end of the world. They're up there chilling and drinking honey mead right now. They absolutely did the right thing.

[@zaco-km3su]

It's Quakers, not Quaker's.

[@alancline2810]

The story of John Brown has always been a part of my family. My great grandfather rode with Brown for a time during his time in Kansas.

[@2degucitas]

Dang! That's impressive!

[@alancline2810]

@@2degucitas Really surprised me when I found him in one of the history books about Brown. Until then it was just family history.

[@Will-ex2wr]

That is awesome.

[@randonceccoli8428]

My uncle got drunk with Socrates

[@crotalusatrox7931]

Perhaps he knew my Great Great Grandfather, Smith Wilhite, who also rode with John Brown in and near Osawatomie, Kansas.

[@TheMrmoc7]

When I learned of John Brown's story, I was brought to tears. What a man!

[@JoshEmerson0421]

Lol 😆 no wonder America has lost its soul

[@felixrodriguez5050]

​@JoshEmerson0421 yeah people still trying to mitigate or rationalize why it's bad to kill slavers.

[@puzzlepupwoody6574]

"I can live for the slave. But John Brown...died for them." Fredrick Douglas

[@lapislazulii141]

….and their descendants despise his more than ever🤦🏼‍♀️All in vain.

[@cocorna3282]

"I won't have MY kids go to school in some racial jungle" - Joe Biden

[@cocorna3282]

@@lapislazulii141 SPOT ON. The Deli rats despised this staunch Republican.(known as the Whig party back then)

[@puzzlepupwoody6574]

@@lapislazulii141 true. They say the past was the worst. But ... Our present era isn't exactly the best in human history. Not even close.

[@puzzlepupwoody6574]

@@cocorna3282 yes... So who is the racist?? Biden... Or Trump... But Biden had a point.. as far as undisciplined wild school kids go. Rather than shooting up a school.. we took our bullies down with brass Knicks or a pry bar. People today are too arrogant and prideful to take an ass whoopin'.... And don't get me started on these modern feminists. Worse than Nazis.

[@gemcitychico]

One of my favorite historical Americans to learn about. I read about him as a teenager in The Autobiography of Malcolm X when Malcom said Brown is a man who should be emulated more, and I decided to look him up. Definitely one of the 🐐s to me & an inspiration

[@mirquellasantos2716]

I have a pic of him in my house. I learned of him in my history class. Washington, Jefferson, Lee..... get nothing cause they were all slavers and pedophiles.

[@catdaddy2643]

Malcom X was bi racial hence the red hair and the nickname Detroit Red.

[@blackfirefox666]

I was born and grew up in Torrington, CT. His house still stands as our biggest landmark. Damn proud of that. What a brass-baller to the end, if an egotistical humourless bastard too.

[@joeshoe6184]

Don't forget to insert "muderous" in that past part.

[@matios83]

@@joeshoe6184 so you support slavery?

[@joeshoe6184]

@@matios83 Hell no.

[@matios83]

@@joeshoe6184 when you said murderous was it to throw some arrows at him. Cause I'm gonna tell you both side committed murders. He's an American hero.

[@joeshoe6184]

@@matios83 He's far from a hero by my definitionof the word. He's a religious fanatic that murdered people in cold blood. Look up the Potawatomi Massacre. If you find anything heroic in it, you might need to look up the definition of "hero".

[@ezragonzalez8936]

"I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with Blood. I had...vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed, it might be done." - John Brown. chilling statement that came to fruition!

[@GrimaldiJ]

The painting of Brown shown several times is a huge mural in the Kansas state capital. As a young kid, I saw it during a field trip, and knowing some of the story at the time, I was kind of stunned in awe. The scale of the thing, in person, and the rendition of Brown, are powerful.

[@Vscustomprinting]

Free people: "is violence really justified?" Slaves: 🤦

[@idkwhattohaveasausername5828]

Yes

[@Smok3_710]

“A man dies when he refuses to stand up to justice” -MLK

[@hawes-wintersart]

When you look at what was done to and how slaves were treated, he'll yes violence was justified. It was not only justified but unavoidable.

[@aleksanderfinstad5785]

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent." - Mahatma Gandhi

[@mistahanansi2264]

@@aleksanderfinstad5785 Missing context, much...?

[@thesswb4463]

John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave But his soul goes marching on The stars above in Heaven are looking kindly down The stars above in Heaven are looking kindly down The stars above in Heaven are looking kindly down On the grave of old John Brown Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah His soul goes marching on (Original version of the battle hymn of the republic)

[@me0101001000]

Dude.... VERY COOL

[@Liv-sz8rv]

I’m English and this song is the only reason I’ve heard of John Brown lol

[@d.c.8828]

🎶 Solidarity Forever 🎶

[@redjirachi1]

One of the most based Americans to ever live. If more people were like John Brown slavery may have ended without a Civil War

[@d.c.8828]

Lol, no, there would have still been a civil war.

[@boatsanhs9709]

As much as people like to think slavery was the only reason there was a war it wasn’t. There would still have been a war.

[@charlemayneshivers4985]

@@boatsanhs9709 you are right but what were the reasons for the confederacy to go to war and leave the union

[@Robert_H_Diver]

The civil war wasn’t about slavery 🤦🏻‍♂️ weren’t you paying attention?

[@fantaconsumer]

@@Robert_H_Diver lol okay

[@Pulsatyr]

Owen Brown, John's Dad, employed a young Jesse Root Grant at his Ravenna tannery and often hosted him at his Hudson home. Jesse Root Grant was the father of Hiram Ulysses (Ulysses S.) Grant. Imagine how a tannery accident could have removed two iconic figures of the U.S. Civil War. A few of my friends live within a stone's throw of the site of the Hudson tannery. It's amazing how important a little town midway between Cleveland and Akron was to that period.

[@MaryamofShomal]

This is one of the most amazing stories I’ve ever heard. Dammit, do I love me some American history.

[@christopherhorn1161]

Would love to visit

[@imsochill1162]

@@MaryamofShomaleven crazier John Browns grandfather Captain John Brown fought in the revolutionary war and was a direct descendant of the original pilgrims. The Browns played a big role in what we call America.

[@haily_joel_osment]

“You own black people? That’s cringe” -John Brown

[@haily_joel_osment]

@@Endgame707 He’s even more based now

[@aq5426]

John Brown was a damned hero. He knew that there was a need for action, and he stepped to the plate.

[@MrTexasDan]

the cause was just, but dragging people from their home and murdering them for their beliefs? Sure, very heroic.

[@JK-gu3tl]

@@MrTexasDan exactly, very shortsighted.

[@lirrobinson8377]

@@MrTexasDan but those people Brown killed believed in keeping other people as property and murdering them out right when their, "property" acted up.

[@MrTexasDan]

@@lirrobinson8377 So if someone believes those things, they should be murdered?

[@benjaminhenderson7059]

@@MrTexasDan If that belief is slavery, and they are actively promulgating and supporting it (as they did) then yes, it is heroic. Im sure the french resistance killed many NAZI sympathizers too, and they were right to do so.

[@ErikAziz]

This is one of those things in history that if this person succeeded he would have been known to be more likeable and less controversial

[@jackgarrett3458]

I love John Brown and Harriet Tubman. Those two and sitting bull should be the new faces over mount Rushmore. Lincoln can stay ig

[@dovbarleib3256]

John Brown did succeed fabulously. He brought the issue of slavery in the territories to a head with pulsating bloodshed and advanced the Civil War earlier by about a decade during which 600,000 people died in 4 years to ultimately end the practice.

[@ErikAziz]

@@dovbarleib3256 i meant more like he actually got the uprising and abolished slavery with no civil war.

[@TheHaughtyOsprey]

This guy is the George Floyd of the civil war and anyone who actually believes this has done zero actual research.

[@TheHaughtyOsprey]

Tubman is just a propaganda invention, too.

[@r.travisbrazelton7941]

One of my favorite historical figures that I follow today... I "Do not associate with anyone that John Bown would have killed."

[@ClannCholmain]

Based! 😂

[@TheLazyass111]

Eugene V. Debs and John Brown are my two heros of Old America. Both of them were top knotch

[@fredbowles4721]

You don't associate with any democrats?

[@ClannCholmain]

@@fredbowles4721 what? Dixiecrats?

[@MatthewChenault]

So, you don’t associate with good people and freedmen? His crew’s first victim at Harper’s ferry was a black freedman…

[@fl00fydragon]

The gigachad wishes he was one thousandth of the hero John Brown was.

[@MrCrossdatracks]

No African American thinks John Brown was controversial. The people that didn't like him were the ones that were beating, killing and raping African Americans for many years. The main thing they loved was the free slave labor that made them generational wealth. Many wealthy white families today are still living off of that money today. I'm not here to blame anyone today that was born in that type of family. Your not responsible for who your ancestors are but you are responsible if you keep that same mindset or behavior that they had. The Civil War wasn't started by John Brown but the racist South that didn't want to obey the law that abolished slavery by Abraham Lincoln. Today all of the South and those Confederate Generals would be considered enemies of the state.

[@paulorchard7960]

After understand what was just heard the civil war was started the minute the slave owners cheated they way through the Virginia election! We never seem to learn from the past!

[@TokenBlackman7]

John Brown... A REAL American hero!

[@LetsGoWrongboarding]

Someday every city will have a park named for him

[@thomasrush2095]

FYI...He is already honored with a park named after him in Harper's Ferry. That may be enough to hold his memory.

[@mikeyoung9810]

@@LetsGoWrongboarding Osawatomie Ks. John Brown park. Yearly festival and battleground reenactment with parade. I lived their for many years and while I commend his anti-slavery actions, committing treason is not the way to go about it. (the cabin he was born in is in the park and open for visitors along with a museum.)

[@MatthewChenault]

John Brown, a psychopath who would have gotten hundreds of innocent people killed for absolutely zero gain. People should look at how Nat Turner’s slave revolt went and they might get a clue of why slave revolts were a dumb idea.

[@LetsGoWrongboarding]

@@mikeyoung9810 sorry, I dont speak bootlicker

[@jkp41978]

I live very close to Harper's Ferry and grew up thinking John Brown was the villan in the story. It wasn't until I learned more about him and his actions does the true story emerge.

[@whitetig2]

I'm curious why he was portrayed as a villain to you

[@jkp41978]

@@whitetig2 His plan for freeing the slaves wasn't normally brought up. It was taught that he came to the area to take over the armory and then the government. It's still referred to as the John Brown Raid on Harper's Ferry. It seems we learned more about the raid, trial and hanging then what led up to it.

[@Aristel25]

@@jkp41978 Considering it's West Virginia that checks out. Man is treated with insane respect and reverence in most of Kansas and is all over artwork here.

[@jordaneggerman4734]

@@Aristel25 as someone who was born in Manhattan, the biggest thing that makes me proud of my birth state is the giant mural Tragic Prelude. For Kansas, a state often considered bass-ackwards, to commemorate Brown and his personal vendetta again slavery, always made me feel like there are things we can all agree on...unfortunately, you've only gotta go back 160 years...

[@whitetig2]

@@jkp41978 Goes show that we need a full account of history

[@gotlumpz4upaintball447]

I remember reading about John Brown in school textbooks in the 80’s that made him out to be crazy. Salute to John Brown and his family for fighting and sacrificing their lives for freedom

[@FFNOJG]

I mean... he was crazy. his fight is a good fight. him killing just random people isn't really a good way of going about it.

[@HideAndRead]

The first victim in Harper's ferry was an old black man who was the janitor for the train station.

[@grilledleeks6514]

He was crazy, but be that as it may I wouldn't have stopped him were I there.

[@Itsfineweerallfine]

Ah yes, the rewriting of history by those in the south writing textbook’s for the whole country. 🙄 Tell me, where you taught that the south retreated from the Union because of ‘StAtEs RiGhTs’? I remember that, and already knowing that was complete BS.

[@minnowpd]

He captured Harpers Ferry with his 19 men so true, he frightened "ole Virginia" till she trembled through and through. They hanged him for a traitor, they themselves a traitorous crew, his soul goes marching on.

[@a.leemorrisjr.9255]

Some called him a madman, others a radical. He will always be controversial. Love or hate him, sometimes perhaps he's what it takes!

[@JoshMonreaux]

"Is there such a thing as going too far in the name of a righteous cause?" No. "Is violence an acceptable answer when confronted by a great evil." Yes. "These are questions that have been hotly debated for hundreds of years, and will probably go on being debated for hundreds more, without a conclusive answer being decided upon." HEY!

[@robertward9780]

Thank you John Brown for fighting for the rights of a people to be recognized as Americans.

[@KingofDiamonds85]

Yes, he did so by murdering anyone who disagreed with him. What a guy!

[@FM_DOOM]

@@KingofDiamonds85 those people who disagreed supported the enslavement of other human beings. He did the right thing

[@JeffChadNWO]

@@KingofDiamonds85 holy based slave owners don't deserve to breathe

[@KingofDiamonds85]

@@FM_DOOM Not all of them. Some were just associates moving to Kansas trying to start a new life and a lot of people had to go through different avenues to get land. Those avenues included associating with pro slavery or people against slavery to get what they needed. John Brown made no distinction, if you were seen associating with pro slavery people, even if you weren't pro slavery, you got killed just for guilty by association. Again, you can't romanticize what he did. It was pure murder.

[@Chicken_Wing91]

@@KingofDiamonds85 kind of similar to the way things are being solved now minus the murdering but with chaos and riots

[@josephkmeyer5178]

I’m wondering if you all would ever be willing to do one on Governor George Wallace? I think his trip from moderate to the face of segregation, his presidential campaign and assassination attempt, all the way back to moderate is an interesting story. Just how chasing the vote and populism can change someone for the worse.

[@thomasrush2095]

George Wallace was horrible human being who now deserves no attention other than to have his grave pissed on.

[@KC-Mitch]

@@thomasrush2095 that's great and all, but the point you were missing was "how chasing the vote and populism can change someone for the worst." It's important to _learn_ from because it acts as a useful _allegory_ for politics today.

[@jamellfoster6029]

@@thomasrush2095 he actually repented of his racism late in life. I'm from Alabama so I'm quite aware of Mr. Wallace's history- his moderate leanings, his extreme racism during the Civil Rights Movement (I'm not that old but my Mom told me about it), the assassination attempt when he sought the Presidential nomination, then his repentance of his racist beliefs late in life as his health was declining. Mr. Wallace died when I was a young lady in 1998.

[@JK-gu3tl]

@@thomasrush2095 yet he won the black vote. Best governor Bama had.

[@nothuman3083]

If you want the duality of man I want you to look up the education of little tree and the chruch of creativity.

[@etaureau]

I remember reading about John Brown and Harper's Ferry in elementary school in the 70s and being super confused about Brown. Thank you for all the great information and presentation!

[@whyjnot420]

I live in Torrington and most people here if they know anything, they know his name, maybe that he was involved in the start of the Civil War. But that is about it. The only reason for those who know the name is because we have 'birthplace of John Brown" signs in some places. Even for those who know about him, being confused is the order of the day. 1 part genuine psychopath, 1 part puritan christian 1 part abolitionist. That is a recipe for, shall we say, mixed feelings.

[@BlackAmerica1st]

Right they glossed over John brown in school. It wasn’t until after when I found out John brown

[@naughtiusmaximus1811]

Amazed that history was taught in elementary school. They used to have music and trades as well.

[@DonMeaker]

@@BlackAmerica1st He is buried in North Elba, New York, where his family lived (18 children).

[@chrispaschal7955]

Elementary school? Wow. Today, you'd be considered way too young for an intro to John Brown, you'd still be learning that George Washington never told a lie.

[@phaikia13]

He is a founding father as far as I'm concerned, without the slavery.

[@waffles4322]

The history of America can be watered down to one phrase: "Sometimes a reasonable man must do unreasonable things"

[@JoshSweetvale]

That's the history of America's _moral rise._ America altogether is best summarized as the WHEEL OF SANCTIMONY!!!

[@YTRulesFromNM]

John Brown was a rapist that raped girls.

[@BlueHooloovoo]

John Brown would probably say that the pro-slavery crowd had plenty of chances to repent, but they chose violence and intimidation. What happened to them next was all on them.

[@jamesmartin6050]

Future Video suggestion - Eamon DeValera (1882-1975) - prominent political leader in 20th century Ireland who, after the Irish war of independence from 1919 to 1921, was in the public eye for over forty years from 1922 until his death were he served as head of government (Taoiseach) and head of state (president). He was nearly executed in the Easter Rising in 1916 and was key in putting into place the new constitution on 1937. A very prominent figure in Irish history.

[@robertoleary5470]

Yeah I would love more Irish figures in general. DEV would be a great start

[@ceciljohnrhodes4987]

Sent his condolences to the German embassy on hearing of Hitlers suicide.

[@robertoleary5470]

@@ceciljohnrhodes4987 yeah definitely not one of his better moments

[@JG-lw5uz]

As long as people don't justify the IRA

[@AyubuKK]

John Brown is such a fascinating person to learn about. Aside from Harriet Tubman he’s another person seen as an absolute icon and hero amongst black Americans.

[@femaleswolf]

Harriet Tubman is a fictional character... additionally so is Nat Turner. Check out Dane Calloway for the receipts on this information

[@TheBLGL]

@@femaleswolf 😂 😂 Yeah, okay .

[@TheBLGL]

And here I thought it was just leftists (REAL leftists, not liberals, aka “capitalists”) who remember John Brown. 😊

[@darenfairhurst7895]

Loved this video...I'm in the UK and currently doing a stamp presentation about the American Civil War. The story of John Brown has given me an excellent way into it.

[@jmmck2361]

Don’t forget to include how there were black slave owners as well. That’s a fact that is always ignored.

[@briebel2684]

Bleeding Kansas was basically the catalyst that set it off. General Sherman of civil war fame spent a few years working at a law firm in northeast Kansas, and had read newspaper articles about what was happening just to the south. That may have fueled his brutality in his March to the Sea.

[@datman3416]

Watch Ken Burns Civil War documentary and thank me later 👍🏻 I can send ya a link if you need it

[@darenfairhurst7895]

@@datman3416 Hi there - if you can that would be great

[@datman3416]

@@darenfairhurst7895 enjoy, let me know what ya think

[@ZachValkyrie]

May his example continue to teach us all how to be just in an unjust world.

[@bluemonday09]

John Brown's body lies moldering in the grave, but his soul goes marching on

[@dewforpolitics]

He took out the advocates of slavery and sent them to hell. He’s an American hero. 🇺🇸

[@theawesomeman9821]

I'm all for abolition but I don't praise terrorists

[@chiccngeorge3058]

Absolutely not. Rather than slavery these people didn’t want colored people on the land period that’s why America did what they did to the Africans and natives for the next hundred to two hundred years after you “freed the slave”.

[@gordonhuskin7337]

Not really, but OK

[@klofin]

He was a terrorist. Hardly heroic.

[@josesbox9555]

Yes he did. With swords. Dude was a badass. ✊

[@EvonneLindiwe]

A true hero to me ✊🏿🙌🏿 Walked the walk to the End. Long live John Brown.

[@Disastra]

His Truth goes marching on.

[@lalos9782]

John Brown was about it. Hence why Malcolm X always said if you want to know where a White American truly stands on equality ask what they think about John brown.

[@danielfortier2629]

He was a KOOK!!! A dangerous phycho!!!

[@EvonneLindiwe]

@@lalos9782 that’s profound 🙌🏿

[@ericabeeman4081]

This is the one I’ve been waiting for!! Thank you !

[@jeffreywj7773]

If I had the ability to write a television series like "Breaking Bad" or "Better Call Saul", I would most definitely make it about John Brown and his times. The challenge would be, like the Walter White or Jimmy McGill characters, making him both sympathetic and determined about his convictions towards slavery, but to also show his ego and dark side that any means to his end is acceptable.

[@freshnewcungadero]

Better call Brown

[@Manupaya24]

The series exists. It's called the good lord bird

[@frank124c]

John Brown was a great hero and martyr who gave his life to end the horrors of slavery.

[@Trinket90]

I’m so used to watching Simon’s more casual/cold read channels that when the intro poses a moral question like “is violence an acceptable response to evil,” I’m shocked when Simon doesn’t launch into a long argument with himself that concludes with “this is not the channel where we solve moral quandaries.”

[@rouskeycarpel1436]

The answer to that question is yes.The United States committed righteous violence in our response to monarchist tyranny.

[@1313tennisman]

absolute legend john brown

[@stonecoldku4161]

I can't believe that this story hasn't been made into a movie yet.

[@ardugaleen2231]

it has, I don't remember the name but a movie came out in 2022

[@HeyItsMattGuy]

Topekan here. That painting shown with John Brown, the Union and Confederate soldiers and the tornado is a full sized mural in the Kansas Capitol building here. Even in Kansas, some admire him and some revile him. While he was a poor business man, we could always use more people like him that are true to their convictions to right legitimate injustices.

[@camilohiche4475]

Biographies that you have criminally overlooked so far: Classical composers: - Ludwig van Beethoven - J.S. Bach - Antonio Vivaldi Gods/iconic figures: - Michael Jackson - Babe Ruth Chess legends: - Gary Kasparov - Bobby Fischer Painters: - Gustav Klimt - Marcel Duchamp Architects/builders: - Gustav Eiffel - Frank Lloyd Wright - Le Corbusier - Antonio Gaudi - Buckminster Fuller Writers: - Léon Tolstoï - Fiodor Dostoïevski - Homer - Sophocles - Victor Hugo - Jules Verne - Jorge Luis Borges - Miguel de Cervantes - John Steinbeck - Dante Alighieri Philosophers/theologists: - René Descartes - Confucius - Emmanuel Kant - John Locke - Voltaire - Jean Calvin Scientists: - Pythagoras - Euclid - Leonardo Fibonacci - Max Planck Dictators: - Nicolae Ceausescu - Manuel Noriega Explorers: - Zheng He - Vasco da Gama - John Cabot - Amerigo Vespucci - Hernán Cortés Other: - Anne Frank - Caterina de' Medici - Cesare Borgia

[@jeycee32]

Add under painters…Bob Ross.

[@yohannbiimu]

I don't think they care.

[@Lordoftheramble]

I don't know where this research is from but they did not ever expect slaves to suddenly free themselves and come to Harper's Ferry during the raid. That is just idiotic. The plan was to get the weapons onto a wagon train that was waiting for a signal that the town was taken. Then they would retreat into the wilderness and begin creating a guerilla army by raiding plantations, then freeing and arming slaves. The wagon train got the signal, but then didn't show up. The raiders that took the town waited and waited. During this time word got out and the raiders got surrounded. The idea that John Brown was expecting slaves to suddenly appear and start using the guns makes him sound like a idiot. He was not an idiot, I'll give you egotistical, but not stupid. That is why it was called John Brown's Raid. It was intended to be a raid, not a battle.

[@ttheway2life157]

Thank you but some of this was intended to make him look like a fool. thanks for fixing the narrative.

[@vernonpeterson3323]

My sources from the early 1860s say that he did expect the slaves to rise up. I do agree that the mode of telling is flavored to make him look like a fool. Although his facts may be 92% accurate it is hard to listen to because the narrator's nose is held too high.

[@Lordoftheramble]

@@vernonpeterson3323 Rise up yes, after word got out that a guerilla war had begun. My point was that he did not expect tons of slaves to somehow know between the hours of 5am and 12pm on the day of the raid they needed to escape, and travel to Harper's Ferry to start that guerilla war.

[@Lordoftheramble]

There was never intended to be a gun fight/battle at Harpers Ferry.

[@Groovewonder2]

John Brown is a hero. Indescribably based

[@alexandercarder2281]

He is amazing 😻 a bad ass MoFo who takes no Sht of NOBODY 😤

[@alexandercarder2281]

I like him

[@RhadaGhast100]

He was just too based for most Americans to handle at that time.

[@MatthewChenault]

John Brown is a villain. Indescribably cringe.

[@WhenInDarknessSeekTheLight]

@@MatthewChenault Robert E Lee.

[@stevenwilliams9413]

John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave But his soul goes marching on The stars above in Heaven are looking kindly down The stars above in Heaven are looking kindly down The stars above in Heaven are looking kindly down On the grave of old John Brown Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah His soul goes marching on He captured Harper's Ferry with his nineteen men so true He frightened old Virginia till she trembled through and through They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew But his soul goes marching on Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah His soul goes marching on. - James E. Greenleaf, C. S. Hall, C. B. Marsh, 1861.

[@karenftx1]

I am very surprised this wasn't mentioned. This song was turned into a rallying cry for the north, The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Most know the alternate words: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored He has loosed the fateful lightening of his terrible swift song His truth is marching on....

[@duncancurtis5971]

Used for Marines anthem Glory Glory what a helluva way to die and Dugout Doug.

[@MatthewChenault]

Why do Yankees idolize the worst people humanly possible? If it isn’t one murder-crazy psychopath, it’s another.

[@jonathanlax734]

John Brown is one of those historical figures who was everything his supporters and enemies say about him

[@gregwillis7767]

Most probably the most accurate response here. MANY historical figures were disliked by those of their own time. Even Abraham Lincoln, when starting out was shunned as nothing more than a "country bumpkin" by both parties. That's an interesting read itself.

[@raymondpetrovits2336]

I live in Torrington and my home is on John Brown Road. His birth place is just down the road. This is a very rural section of Torrington and the only thing left is the foundation and a stone monument that acknowledges him being born there. Very quiet and forested everywhere. Not many people visit the birthplace.

[@Edward-hn8ed]

John Brown is a National Treasure. A hero.

[@americanuscaesar]

🎵 “John Brown’s body lies moldering in the grave… John Brown’s body lies moldering in the grave… John Brown’s body lies moldering in the grave, and his soul goes marching on…” 🎵

[@nickgov66]

Glory, glory Halaluyah.

[@AnthonyEvelyn]

Long live the Great Union!🙏🏾💪🏾🏡

[@vincentsaia6545]

In his autobiography Frederic Douglas depicts Brown as a passionate and intimidating but very sane person

[@arlosmith2784]

Actually, Franklin Pierce and Steven Douglas caused the Civil War by passing the Kansas-Nebraska Act. By allowing slavery to be introduced into Kansas, that law caused a mini-civil war to occur in Kansas as pro and anti-slavery settlers fought each other. John Brown was part of such warfare. This mini-civil war sharpened regional conflict and led to Abraham Lincoln's election with only Northern support. Then came secession and Civil War.

[@felixrodriguez5050]

John brown was active in Kansas before the bleeding Kansas period you're referring to

[@arlosmith2784]

​​@@felixrodriguez5050 Slavery was illegal in Kansas until the Kansas -Nebraska Act was passed. My view of John Brown: He was idiot. Ho Chi Mihn and Fidel Castro staged revolutions because they had adequate troops and supplies, John Brown lacked these.

[@dustbowlhammer7119]

If anything it is a testament to the fact that sometimes violence is the only thing that will make people wake up. People never change.

[@Astaroth_Belial]

John Brown's cause was amongst the noblest for white settlers of this time period. America has a long history of abolition and we need to rediscover it now more than ever.

[@jahendrix1543]

Slavery has been outlawed for a while now…

[@joannecarolyn5018]

This was really enlightening! Great timing it's just been the 159th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg 😊👌🏻 Thanks so much to Simon and the team! ❤️❤️❤️ Joanne from Singapore 😊 🇸🇬

[@goblinking9824]

John Brown was a hero.

[@Christobanistan]

Dude is a legend.

[@Ironwill902]

To people who say "Was violence really warrented?" I would like to point you to the story of Spartacus. Enough said.

[@TheStapleGunKid]

But that's not the right question. The question is "was violence practical?" And the answer for John Brown is no. It simply did not accomplish anything useful and never had a chance of doing so. All it did was get his men and other men killed, including a free black man, who was the first casualty of the raid, killed by them.

[@williamsherman1942]

@@TheStapleGunKidHe still did something about the evil institution of slavery and died to destroy it, many cannot say the same.

[@TheStapleGunKid]

@@williamsherman1942 All my above points still stand.

[@williamsherman1942]

@@TheStapleGunKid As does mine, for evil to succeed good must not act. John Brown felt he needed to act and did so, he can atleast tell he fought for freedom and for the ideals America represents unlike our politicians and leaders!

[@TheStapleGunKid]

@@williamsherman1942 And that includes stealth-killing a free black man who was just minding his own business because they were afraid he would sound the alarm? Sorry I have a hard time getting over that. Brown's raid was totally suicidal and had zero chance of success, plus it got a totally innocent free black man killed, not due to a mistake, but because they intentionally killed him. However noble fighting against slavery is, I don't think that justifies any and means, particularly when success chances were zero anyway. People like Lincoln may not have waged a literal war against slavery like Brown did, but they got results.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

2:00 - Chapter 1 - Growing up in the house of god 3:30 - Chapter 2 - The peculiar institution 6:20 - Chapter 3 - The road to freedom 8:15 - Chapter 4 - Bleeding kansas 11:40 - Chapter 5 - Striking a blow for freedom 14:55 - Chapter 6 - The spark 17:50 - Chapter 7 - Purged with blood

[@The_SCPFoundation]

Finally!!!! John brown was the man! Crazy man but the man.

[@kyledehaven394]

Not crazy at all. Just calling it like it is. Society couldn't handle the truth.

[@albertbecerra]

@@kyledehaven394 I mean he did murder some people who weren't involved, but nobody's perfect

[@ttheway2life157]

@@kyledehaven394 Still can handle the truth. why trump was elected.

[@stephencarter7266]

@@ttheway2life157 I'm guessing you've worn a mask (ALONE) in your car before.

[@pi3man252]

Upon researching more yes he was one hell of a man we're his actions right who knows maybe not all of them but he lived by what he believed to be right and his truth I can respect that.

[@danschreimann215]

Interesting choice for the 4th, we could use a John Brown today

[@gwickle1685]

I've read up on John Brown. Thank you for putting it more succinctly and renewing my memory.

[@Gatorgetfresh]

Mr John brown was a true American . Thank you sir

[@zacharyking900]

A true loser

[@Sparrows1121]

@@zacharyking900 Here's your confederate flag. 🏳 You're welcome! John Brown is a great heritage of tearing down the Confederacy for sure!

[@robertslater8293]

It's a three day weekend here in the states so I was wondering why Simon was uploading on a Sunday at first and I remembered it's Monday lol. Also I'd like to request again a dual biographics of Merryweather Lewis and William Clark. Lewis' death could also be a Decoding the Unknown episode. But definitely don't forget his dog Seaman, probably the most famous Newfoundland

[@Allylonng1416]

Not for all people who have part time jobs like me I have to work

[@haroldcampbell3337]

Meriwether Lewis

[@MidnightMan5001]

"You see this? They're coming for us. Soon there will be a million John Browns!"

[@TrrrollinCuzItsFun-Relax]

Well, I'll be John Brown!!! 👀

[@surelyashley5726]

Lol @ the oversimplified reference

[@austinhansen9079]

“Here, before God in the presence of these witness, I consecrate my life to the destruction of Slavery.” -John Brown, An American Hero A Holy oath made and kept. We should all be proud to call ourselves part of John Brown’s heritage.

[@m9078jk3]

Slavery is still legal to this day in the USA for conviction of serious crimes and prison labor.

[@BPD1586]

@@m9078jk3 But not legal based solely on the color of one's skin...

[@m9078jk3]

@@BPD1586 Yes

[@m9078jk3]

@Nicholas Time I'm all for putting them back in chains on chain gangs at hard labor especially any crimes of dishonesty like robbery,counterfeiting,theft,fraud,car jacking,racketeering etc, They also should be humanely whipped too on a scheduled monthly basis. I also would approve of convicted felons being unable to legally posses any license for operation of a motor vehicle,ownership or possession of any motor vehicle too. That should be an addition Class B felony crime with a minimum sentence of 5 years in a penitentiary. The tool used mostly by criminals is not firearms but rather motor vehicles in many commissions of crimes so penalizing that would be a bonus. I am glad that John Brown the mass murderer was justly hanged.for his wicked crimes

[@MatthewChenault]

God, watching John Brown break every other commandment He gave to be followed: “…”

[@mattnelson7258]

John Brown is actually my great, great, great grandfather

[@CodyCole80]

You should be proud. 👍🏾

[@uberXserial]

What a great man. "No heroes or villains" is a wise take. We all are representations of our values. Some values are more pure than others'.

[@curtiswfranks]

I was always taught in a way which implied that the text or teacher viewed him somewhat negatively. But I ultimately approve of his most-famous contribution to history.

[@JoshSweetvale]

Virtue is only virtue in extremis. Sic Semper Tyrannis. Booth may have said it, but as with all American things, it was rank hypocrisy, and the sincere sentiment was held by the man who started the Civil War, not the one who finished it.

[@MatthewChenault]

Possibly because he murdered five people in cold blood before starting something that would have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of innocent people.

[@ryanmarlin2974]

@@MatthewChenault innocent people? Innocent how? Those weren't innocent people. Further, had he succeeded, a civil war could have been avoided.

[@MatthewChenault]

@@ryanmarlin2974, they are innocent, yes. You cannot accuse of anyone of having guilt without having the evidence of said guilt. Even if they are guilty of whatever sin you charge them with, what makes you any better than them? “He who is without sin, let him cast the first stone.”

[@ryanmarlin2974]

@@MatthewChenault right, so was everyone killed in the Civil War guilty? No. They were just at the wrong place at the wrong time. Perhaps some people here may have been accidentally killed when they had nothing to do with the conflict. But most did. Thus, they were unjust. Thus they were guilty of owning slaves.

[@elchapojunior3091]

When you’re in a based competition and your opponent is John Brown 😥

[@gordonhuskin7337]

No contest since he is one of the most gay and cringe figures in American history

[@MatthewChenault]

That’s an easy competition, considering John Brown was cringe.

[@WhenInDarknessSeekTheLight]

@@MatthewChenault Wrong imao you mispelled Robert E Lee now that man was pure cringe.

[@MatthewChenault]

@@WhenInDarknessSeekTheLight, sorry, I couldn’t hear you with all the rocks in your mouth.

[@MatthewChenault]

@Joseph Waters, cringe and Yankee-pilled.

[@wandaholmes7125]

John Brown wasn't just talk, he was action. I would gladly invite him to dinner with my family. I agree with Malcolm X and what he said about John Brown.

[@NoahBodze]

Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman hated him. You know so little about the past.

[@ynow9722]

@@NoahBodze they were just scared and wanted to be more strategic (aka no violence). John brown knew what was necessary. an American hero without a doubt

[@MatthewChenault]

@@ynow9722, I wonder how many little girls John Brown would have had clubbed to death…

[@biggrocc19]

@@ynow9722 People like you are the reason humanity will never evolve beyond our current understanding. Always looking back for the wrong reasons.

[@Cull501]

How is there a debate? The man was correct and righteous!

[@ratave6472]

John Brown is a complete Gigachad

[@aarondigby9859]

My great grandmother born in 1894, whenever she heard some startling news would retort, "I be John Brown."

[@robcoventry574]

Very good way to tell the story. Thank you.

[@Bush_Dude]

Ah, John Brown. The most based man to exist in American history

[@seandawson5899]

his death also lead to the "battle hymn of the republic" becoming the unofficial song of the Union Army. Battle Hymn of the Republic is a remix of "John Brown's Body". John Brown was sentence to a traitor's end, but passed on into the afterlife a hero.

[@danspawn85]

Well that's Thomas Paine, but not everyone can be the voice of the American revolution. If you actually read his works, you'd find Social Security. emancipation, and total equality. Including full citizenship for women.

[@chavinho7793]

What does based mean

[@seandawson5899]

@@chavinho7793 true to one's self.

[@theblackcatvieweraccount5402]

Violence is never the answer..... It's the question, and sometimes that answer is; Yes.

[@jimmyb5305]

I am so glad you don't have hair dude. It is part of who you are. Keep rocking it

[@thomandstacieverroad8417]

I had fallen asleep listening to the radio with my headphones on one night (about 20 years ago) and woke up to what seemed to be an old recording of a brainwashing session. There was a mans voice who was saying "we love John Brown he's a good white man" and then there was what seemed to be a class of young children repeating "we love John Brown he's a good white man." This went on for some time. I have no idea what this is about and at the time I didn't know who John Brown was. all I know is that I love John Brown ..he's a good white man 😬😳

[@fullmetaltheorist]

OK what did I just read? 😂

[@bluknight6944]

Not without his flaws just like everyone else but still a hero in my book

[@locochang6533]

No. Not just like everyone else. Not everyone is a cold blooded murderer.

[@Ntwolf1220]

@@locochang6533 slave owners are evil and far less human than the people they died to own. :)

[@WhenInDarknessSeekTheLight]

@@locochang6533 Enough about Robert E Lee were are talking about John brown.

[@CartoonHero1986]

The interesting thing about pre-civil war America is you can kind of watch the events leading up to the Civil War fall into place to prime the war perfectly. It's also interesting how many of the Civil War's big name players were loosely involved in a lot of these events as small players. Robert E Lee, Lincoln, and a few others pop up in the strangest places earlier on or mid-way into their careers. Lincoln pops up a lot in legal issues/cases that were at the center of American Industrialisation (like the case for the Tresher Copyright) which was a huge addition to the pressure between Southern Slave Owners and Northern Abolishist, but usually he just pops up as an insignificant lawyer attached to the case to do research for the big name lawyers that where arguing the cases in court. Robert E Lee pops up in so many Western Expansion stories (usually as a hero for The Colonies and Territories) that when you know his military History before the Civil War it's not all that surprising that The Union was actually shocked that Lee joined The Confederates when they seceded from the Northern States. The Pig War of 1859 is another interesting event that was a lead up to priming the Civil War where certain lesser key Civil War figures were also involved like George Pickett who almost restarted the conflict between America and the British Empire during this event and was someone that came up very fast in The Confederate Army and was a Brigade Commander at a lot of big Civil War battles. You also have William S Harney who kind of pushed Pickett to be stupid and occupy disputed land with the military instead of peacefully come to clearer terms of an already existing treaty. During the Civil War Harney was known for being a Southern State Sympathiser BUT he was also heavily against seceding so despite being removed from service during the Civil War for his Southern Sympathies he was remained one of the key members in preventing Tennessee from leaving The Union for the Confederacy. And of course Winfield Scott was also involved in both events due to his position in the Military Command; Scott is kind of interesting because you can watch him go from place to place and event to event in history as a high ranking member in the Military and Government putting out fires that COULD have become the trigger event to the Civil War or another war with the British if it wasn't mediated... then he gets too old, fat, and ill to run around doing that anymore and Fort Sumner happens; and Scott kind of checks out once Lincoln ignores him about resupplying Sumner.

[@davidb2206]

Lincoln and the War Department lied straight out about resupplying Fort Sumner in Charleston harbor.

[@RPSchonherr]

Teaacher: What's your name? Buckwheat: John Brown, ask me again I'll knock you down. (or was that Stymie?)

[@mitchellneu]

My mother always said: “The only way to get things done is to make some noise.” I think John Brown emphasizes this perfectly. Though his story ended with his capture and execution, the continuation of slavery, and impending Civil War, I think it was among the first noises made at the time to finally end race-based slavery for good.

[@deirdre108]

I consider John Brown, Frederick Douglas, and Thomas Paine among the greatest this country has produced.

[@pi3man252]

Yep honestly I still love Abraham Lincoln more than all of them. The guy deserves the title of best president of America.

[@deirdre108]

@@pi3man252 I agree with you. I just like to give an occasional shout out to the other three who often get ignored.

[@paradisecityX0]

Eh, hardly Paine. Add Teddy Roosevelt to that

[@paradisecityX0]

@@pi3man252 Lincoln comitted atrocities against Indians during the "other" Trail of Tears and originally wanted to keep slavery intact to preserve the Union. Not a great guy

[@deirdre108]

@@paradisecityX0 I name-dropped Paine as somewhat of a correction since so few Americans today know who he was whereas most people know something about TR. “Oh, the guy on Mt Rushmore “! Before Paine’s pamphlet “Common Sense” was distributed most colonists thought that gradual reform of laws imposed by Britain was possible. “Common Sense” lit the fire that convinced the Americans that wasn’t possible.

[@standdownrobots_ihaveoldglory]

I was taught at home that John Brown was a great American hero and that, if you go around enslaving people, you'll get your just desserts eventually - I knew he was violent but his rampage was presented to me as a natural consequence of doing evil. Strangely enough, I am white & grew up in the radically conservative rural west. As I got older, I realized most people thought he was bad. All my grandparents were vaguely racist tho, so it made no sense that my family liked him. Turns out, my grandfather's grandfather was an abolitionist & his claim to fame, which he made them put in his obituary, was that he was a friend of Brown. I discovered my grandfather came from a Congregationalist preaching family that, up til my great grand father passed in the 1930s, was beloved but known locally to be a little odd, as my great grandfather was fully pro-equality and was always involved with a variety of civil rights causes (in the background, doing boring stuff that needed doing, being a good role model as an ally in 1900). But his kids all either became missionaries who were too into teaching English or married racists, and by the time I was born, only my childless scientist uncle was still anti-racist. The US juggernaut of 1910s racism hit my family story hard...just one generation destroyed everything our family was working toward. Never underestimate the juggernaut.

[@mariolis]

*HIS SOUL IS MARCHING ON* 🎵

[@Sellot91]

"John Brown's body lies a' moulderin' in the grave. John Brown's body lies a' moulderin' in the grave. John Brown's body lies a' moulderin' in the grave but his soul goes marching on!

[@lizdyson3627]

Great video. been looking for a video like this for ages.

[@jom1727]

looks like another big KZbin channel was hacked

[@Alex-cb2gf]

My daughter in law is related to John Brown. The first time I met her father I thought I was looking at John Brown reincarnated.

[@blackswan4486]

Lucky you!

[@icycorpse]

i saw another comment on a john brown video that said they were john brown’s great however many generations back granddaughter, small world

[@atomic4650]

May John Brown rest in peace. He ended up embodying what America originally stood for.

[@marcbelisle5685]

John Brown was a hero, undaunted, true and brave, And Kansas knew his valor when he fought her rights to save; And now, though the grass grows green above his grave, His soul is marching on. He captured Harper's Ferry, with his nineteen men so few, And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled through and through They hung him for a traitor, themselves a traitor crew, But his soul is marching on.