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    Rab and His Friends
    Rab and His Friends
    Rab and His Friends
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    Rab and His Friends

    By John Brown

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Rab and His Friends
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    John Brown

    John Brown (1800-1859) was a staunch abolitionist who came to believe that violence and coercion was the only way to stop the scourge of slavery in the United States. Fiercely religious and believing himself to be the instrument of God sent to earth to personally abolish slavery, Brown led a life of activism and violent resistance, finally deciding that the best way to set off a slave liberation movement would be to capture the Federal armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, arm the slaves and then lead a violent rebellion that would sweep through the southern states. During the raid, in October of 1859, five men were killed and many more injured, but Brown and his forces did indeed take over the armory. Very few slaves joined his revolt, however, and the armory was soon retaken by the local militia and US Marines, the latter led by Robert E. Lee himself. Brown was tried immediately, found guilty and hanged in December of 1859, the first person to be executed for treason in the United States. John Brown delivered the following speech at the conclusion of his trial on November 2, 1859. He would be executed a month later and become a hero and martyr to the abolitionist cause.

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      Rab and His Friends - John Brown

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      Title: Rab and His Friends

      Author: John Brown

      Release Date: April, 2004 [EBook #5420]

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      Last Updated: July 3, 2013

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      RAB AND HIS FRIENDS

      By John Brown, M.D.

      With Illustrations By Hermann Simon and Edmund H. Garrett.

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      Philadelphia:

      1890.

      CONTENTS

      PREFACE.

      RAB AND HIS FRIENDS.

      PREFACE.

      Four years ago, my uncle, the Rev. Dr. Smith of Biggar, asked me to give a lecture in my native village, the shrewd little capital of the Upper Ward. I never lectured before; I have no turn for it; but Avunculus was urgent, and I had an odd sort of desire to say something to these strong-brained, primitive people of my youth, who were boys and girls when I left them. I could think of nothing to give them. At last I said to myself, I'll tell them Ailie's story. I had often told it to myself; indeed, it came on me at intervals almost painfully, as if demanding to be told, as if I heard Rab whining at the door to get in or out,—

            Whispering how meek and gentle he could be,—

      or as if James was entreating me on his death-bed to tell all the world what his Ailie was. But it was easier said than done. I tried it over and over, in vain. At last, after a happy dinner at Hanley—why are the dinners always happy at Hanley?—and a drive home alone through

            The gleam, the shadow, and the peace supreme

      of a midsummer night, I sat down about twelve and rose at four, having finished it. I slunk off to bed, satisfied and cold. I don't think I made almost any changes in it. I read it to the Biggar folk in the school-house, very frightened, and felt I was reading it ill, and their honest faces intimated as much in their affectionate puzzled looks. I gave it on my return home to some friends, who liked the story; and the first idea was to print it, as now, with illustrations, on the principle of Rogers's joke, that it would be dished except for the plates.

      But I got afraid of the public, and paused. Meanwhile, some good friend said Rab might be thrown in among the other idle hours,

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