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Coming of the Civil War
John Brown: Hero, Madman, or Something More Complex
Unit 5
Section 10.2
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2. How accurately does each quote describe the central figure? Why?
Gov. Henry Wise of Virginia, on interviewing John Brown in 1859 said:
"He is cool, collected and indomitable, and he inspired me with great trust in his integrity as a man of truth."
Henry David Thoreau, "A Plea for Captain John Brown an address to the people of Concord, Mass. in October 1859: "A man of
rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles, that was
what distinguished him. Not yielding to a whim or transient impulse, but carrying out the purpose of a life. I noticed that he did
not overstate anything, but spoke within bounds."
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Chiefly About War Matters by a Peaceable Man," article in the Atlantic, 1862 said:
"I shall not pretend to be an admirer of old John Brown...this blood-stained fanatic...Nobody was ever more justly hanged. He
won his martyrdom fairly, and took it firmly."
3. What happened in Kansas?
John Brown has just described a lawless Kansas with "Free State" men killed by proslavery men and
nothing done about it. His violence was a response to this. Is this justified? Why or why not?
4. Is violence against the government ever justified?
You've just heard John Brown give a defense of violence in pursuit of a political goal, the abolition of
slavery. Are any political goals/causes so important, so right, that they justify violence?