John BROWN
1859 - The Public Pulse

We copy a few throbs of the public pulse on John Brown's death as indicating the general public feeling on the subject. The first is the simple announcement from Charlestown.

CHARLESTOWN, Dec. 2 - Noon.
Brown was taken from the jail about 11 o'clock in a furniture wagon. He conversed freely with the soldiers around him. The execution took place at a quarter past 11 o'clock. He died apparently very easy. His body was taken down after being suspended thirty-five minutes, and will be sent to Harper's Ferry at 4 o'clock this P.M., and from thence it will be conveyed north this evening.

ALBANY, Dec. 2. A hundred guns were fired to-day in the commemoration of John Brown's execution.

WARESTOWN, Wis., Dec. 2. Arrangements have been made to have all the bells in this city tolled at 2 o'clock P.M., for the death of Capt. John Brown.

WAUKESHA, Dec. 2. The bells are now tolling the death of John Brown.

The Milwaukee Ere Democrat of the 2d says:
"At 12 o'clock to-day, the city of Milwaukee fired One Hundred Guns for OLD JOHN BROWN.

These mighty HEART THROBS throughout the North will shake the dome of Heaven, and send the life blood of Freedom, through all departments of Government in 1860.

John Brown's body may rot, but his principles are imperishable. John Brown hangs in hemp, in Virginia, his executioners hang in the rope of Public Opinion throughout the North...

Berlin City Courant
Berlin, Wisconsin
December 8, 1859

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