Osborne Perry Anderson

“ On their own heads be the slaughter, if their victims rise to harm them—
⁠These Virginians! who believed not, nor would heed the warning mouth."
⁠Says Old Brown,
⁠Osawatomie Brown,
"The world shall see a Republic, or my name is not John Brown!" ”

“ But at last, 'tis said, some prisoners escaped from Old Brown's durance,
⁠And the effervescent valor of Ye Chivalry broke forth,
When they learned that nineteen madmen had the marvellous assurance—
⁠Only nineteen—thus to seize the place, and drive them frightened forth ”

“ And each drop from Old Brown's life-veins, like the red gore of the dragon,
⁠May spring up a vengeful Fury, hissing through your slave-worn lands;
⁠And Old Brown,
⁠Osawatomie Brown,
May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his coffin down!
↑ "The hunt was up—woe to the game enclosed within that fiery circle! The town was occupied by a thousand or fifteen hundred men, including volunteer companies from Shepherdstown, Charlestown, Winchester, and elsewhere ”