WOONSOCKET, R. I.,
Nov. 20.
To Captain John
Brown, now under sentence of death at Charlestown, Virginia, for endeavoring to
liberate the Bondmen.
Much Respected
Friend: It is now nearly eighteen hundred and sixty years since our Blessed
Redeemer gave His life for poor, wicked, and fallen humanity. Since that time
the progress has been slow, as appears to us; but steady towards those exalted
and godlike principles which he enunciated. It is difficult to understand how
any community calling themselves Christians can, by what they call Christian
laws, try, condemn, and execute a man for endeavoring to do the very same acts
which our Saviour came to do, viz., "to heal the broken-hearted, to bring
deliverance to the captive, and set at liberty them that are bound."
I recollect your
visit at our place many years since, when you were in the wool trade; but did
not dream of your immortalizing your name with the host of martyrs which have
gone before you, who chose to obey God rather than men.
All I can say is
this: Hold on; trust in God to the last, and Christ will redeem you to Himself.
Die like a Christian and like a man, if needs be, is the sincere desire of your
friend,
E. H.
[Enclosed was a
check for one hundred dollars.]
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