A voice from Harper's Ferry; a narrative of events at Harper's Ferry

by Osborne P. Anderson

And eighteen other madmen joined their leader there again.

Says Old Brown,

Osawatomie Brown,

“Boys, we have got an army large enough to whip the town!

“Whip the town and seize the muskets, free the negroes, and then arm them—

Carry the County and the State; ay, and all the potent South;

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,