Part 3 (2/2)

Ready! Yes, he had been ready

They carried his body to the old log-house he occupied at North Elba, where it was buried upon the farm That farrave, with the big boulder upon it, forms a conspicuous feature Thousands approach it with reverent feet, not sothere, but for the sake of the soul which is ri those days of suspense before his execution, with the refrain, addressed to the Southerner:

And Old Brown, Osawatomie Brown, May trouble you more than ever When you've nailed his coffin down

It contains a true word of prophecy Says an American writer: soon after, 'I meet him at every turn John Brown is not dead; he is more alive than ever he was' As that sareat Presidential contest, deterh Abolitionist named Abraham Lincoln shall tenant the White House, it is evident that John Brown's soul is th fierce civil war breaks out, and those saht to the sure conviction that Freedoht, and as through long disappointenerous sacrifice of their bravest sons they steadily press to victory under the ever-patient, dogged leadershi+p of President Lincoln and General Grant, it is evident that John Brown's soul ison

In the trarand old battle-hymn of the Republic, I hear the lory of the corapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible, swift sword: His truth is lory, hallelujah, &c

He hath sounded forth the tru out the hearts of ement-seat; Oh, be swift, my soul! to answer Hi on

I have seen Hi ca dews and da la on

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosoures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us live toon

When Lincoln's first Emancipation Decree ( to the disloyal were fighting for the Union), that all slaves in the Rebel States froated; and when, two years later, the Constitution is ah the Republic, now again united; when the nation generously provides food, shelter, and education for the ereet their liberty-loving President in Southern streets with shouts of gratitude and cries of 'Father Abraha on

There in America and elsewhere it continues its march Wherever the swift cruiser speeds in pursuit of the infamous slave-shi+p, in every heart-beat of the brave seahteous errand and will overhaul her in the King's--aye, in God's--name, we hear the march of John Brown's soul

When a nation of free men rises up in wrath at the issue of so language on this supreovernment that has tolerated conditions that approximate slavery, and will have none of it, we know the old hero's soul ison

Whenever in secret council the aotiates a treaty, and, backed by the es an anti-slavery clause, we know John Brown's soul is on the march

And march it shall, while nations learn to prize liberty as God's great chartered right to everyletters of the Golden Rule, while they remember that God made all men of one blood and that all are redeemed by the blood of One

While God looks down from His heaven and sees the distressed face, or hears the piercing cry of the oppressed, and can turn the hearts of ht His battles upon earth, the soul of John Broill bestill