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Referring to what I hereafter relate of the incident at Saratoga, I
may, at this point, remind the reader that, as late as 1862, President
Lincoln, a sincere abolitionist, could not see his way to declare the
freedom of the slave. He told a deputation from Chicago that "a Pope
once issued a Bull against an eclipse, but the eclipse came along
nevertheless." The moment I saw black soldiers in Northern uniform,
carrying Northern muskets, at the end of 1863, I made up my mind that
the North had won. In 1865 Dr. Mackay, registrar, showed me the
registry of the passage of John Brown's, corpse through New York. I
quote from memory; but if I recollect rightly, it was this:--
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|_ Date. Name. Age. Occupation. Cause of
Death._ |
| ----- ----- ---- ----------- --------------- |
| Nov., 1859. John Brown 59 Farmer Hanging |
| |
| _Remarks._ |
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| Tried and found guilty of treason and of inciting slaves to |
| rebel against their masters.
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