I will add, if the Court will allow me, that I look upon it
as a miserable artifice and pretext of those who ought to take a different
course in regard to me, if they took any at all, and I view it with contempt
more than otherwise. As I remarked to Mr. Green, insane prisoners, so far as my
experience goes, have but little ability to judge of their own sanity; and if I
am insane, of course I should think I knew more than all the rest of the world.
But I do not think so. I am perfectly unconscious of insanity, and I reject, so
far as I am capable, any attempts to interfere in my behalf on that score.
SOURCES: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters
of John Brown, p. 574-5
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