Old Brown hanged with great ceremony. He died grandly.
Nevertheless he must be called a fanatic. Declined to sign a call for
expressing adherence to the Union, not being conscious that I have ever done or
said anything to endanger the Union, and not wishing to certify my adherence to
the Union very often for the benefit of politicians.
SOURCE: William Lawrence, Life of Amos A. Lawrence:
With Extracts from His Diary and Correspondence, p. 133
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