Scared to death each gallant scion of Virginia they ran on,
And before the noon of Monday, I say, the deed was done.
Mad Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
With his eighteen other crazy men, went in and took the town.
Very little noise and bluster, little smell of powder, made he;
It was all done in the midnight, like the Emperor’s coup d’etat:
“Cut the wires: stop the rail-cars: hold the streets and bridges!” said he—
Then declared the new Republic, with himself for guiding star—
This Old Brown,