[214] Sanborn, Life and Letters of John Brown, 420; Douglass, Life and Times of John Brown, 279, 282.
[215] Von Holst, John Brown, 104.
Footnotes Chapter IV.
[216] Still, Underground Railroad, 410.
[217] Ibid., 444.
[218] F. L. Olmsted, Journey in the Back Country, 49.
"Gone, gone,—sold and gone
To the rice swamp dank and lone,—
Where the slave-whip ceaseless swings,
Where the noisome insect stings,
Where the fever demon strews
Poison with the falling dews,
Where the sickly sunbeams glare
Through the hot and misty air,—
Gone, gone,—sold and gone
To the rice swamp dank and lone
From Virginia's hills and waters,—
Woe is me, my stolen daughters!
"There no mother's eye is near them,
There no mother's ear can hear them;
Never, when the torturing lash
Seams their back with many a gash,
Shall a mother's kindness bless them,
Or a mother's arms caress them....