Prayers and Sneers.

Newspaper Title

Illinois State Register

Publication Date

12-6-1859

Publication Place

Springfield, Illinois

Event Topic

John Brown

Political Party

Democratic

Region

free state

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a scoundrel and traitor has paid the just penalty of the laws.

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Article (Journal or Newsletter)

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"Brown Prayer Meetings" have been held in all quarters of the north by the black republicans, and a deluge of tears have been shed, "because a scoundrel and traitor has paid the just penalty of the laws. The Illinois Journal neither prays nor weeps, but contents itself with sympathetic sneers at the fears of the people whose blood Brown sought to shed, that other Browns would assail them. It would be difficult to decide which style of sympathetic expression is most to be abhorred, the prayers of the abolition pharisees, or the sneers of their partisan organ here. It is only a question of vicinage. The journal would pray and shriek over Brown, but sneers are less expensive in this locality. That's all the difference.

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Ben Barnhill

Identifier

ilsrjb591206a

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Prayers and Sneers.

a scoundrel and traitor has paid the just penalty of the laws.