"Harper's ferry" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tumult of the rising tempest were advancing apace, when suddenly there burst from the national firmament the first warning peal of thunder, and over Virginia there sped the first bolt of the storm. John Brown with his brave little band, at Harper's Ferry, had struck for the freedom of the slave. Tired of words, the believer in blood and iron as a deliverer, had crossed from Pennsylvania into Virginia on the evening of October 16, 1859, and seized the United States Armory at Harper's Ferry. Although ...
— William Lloyd Garrison - The Abolitionist • Archibald H. Grimke
... whence he came there, Nor they his course who took, Down the road to Harper's Ferry, In a shaggy mountain nook; But Nick the Sire grew certain, While from his eye he shrunk, That old man was none other Than the missing ...
— Tales of the Chesapeake • George Alfred Townsend
... afternoon arrived Governor Beaver's staff, mostly by way of Harper's Ferry on the Baltimore and Ohio. All the officers in brilliant uniform and trappings reported to General Hastings. They found their commander in a slouch hat, a rough-looking cutaway ...
— The Johnstown Horror • James Herbert Walker
... years?—to declare with effect what kind of sentiments? All their speeches put together and boiled down,—and probably they themselves will confess it,—do not match for manly directness and force, and for simple truth, the few casual remarks of crazy John Brown, on the floor of the Harper's Ferry engine-house,—that man whom you are about to hang, to send to the other world, though not to represent you there. No, he was not our representative in any sense. He was too fair a specimen of a man to represent the like of us. Who, then, were his constituents? If you read his words ...
— A Plea for Captain John Brown • Henry David Thoreau
... themselves. Every traveller who has seen the faces of a household suddenly grow pale, in a Southern city, when some street tumult struck to their hearts the fear of insurrection,—every one who has seen the heavy negro face brighten unguardedly at the name of John Brown, though a thousand miles away from Harper's Ferry,—has penetrated the final secret of the military weakness which saved Washington for us and ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, Issue 45, July, 1861 • Various |
