One hundred fifty years ago, on January 21, 1864, Camden merchant John Brown was in a religious frame of mind: Thursday 21: We as a people, as a favored nation have grievously offended and grievously are we answering for it. We most flagrantly abused the high privileges which kind Heaven bestowed upon us and we ought not to murmur when we meet with Just Chastisement at the hands of a Just God -- Political Ambition ruined us Democracy threw the power into the hands of Ambitious, depraved disagreeing men - They so proscribed all others as to arouse all others who could not and would not yield to democratic corruption to combine and resist that corrupt sway even at the expense of their own liberties and peace. This state of feeling gave strength to the abolitionists, by a common resistance to the arrogant party - and it has at length resulted in will nigh ruining all.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 11:15:00 +0000
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