A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 009
by Various
A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in these collections are independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, philosophy, nature, religion, etc.

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30 окт 2012

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@benjaminsierra-torres2554 5 лет назад

This one hit hard! "You who pretend to care for Christ crucified, consider what you are about to do to him who offered himself to be the savior of four millions of men."

@JohnThorErnst 7 лет назад

This is not an easy read. The knowledge of the writers of that day Emerson, Thoreau, the townships and the new frontier in contrast to the long holding mentality of the exploitation of a race leading to the base and moral nature of who we are. Thoreau brings this challenge in many forms by attending to a 'Plea' for John Brown Abolitionist in a essay that in it's day was a great challenge the morality of a learned nation and then even to be spoken by those who would not/ could not read which is a massive part of the entire population extending into the boarder lands and to the very halls of Boston, Washington D.C., N. Y, and all points. He was a HERO as spoken over and over in the reading, and outlaw, a man of great nobility and one who was willing to take his quart of blood to the market and get not a penny for it. It is a read in likes of History. #THOR

@MrAmericanworkmule 8 лет назад

Smells of relevance .

@jonathanbarnes3061 2 года назад

(18:12) - Our foes are in our midst and all about us. There is hardly a house but is divided against itself, for our foe is the all but universal woodenness of both head and heart, the want of viability, in man, which is the effect of our vice; and; hence are begotten fear, superstition, bigotry, persecution, and slavery of all kinds. We are mere figue-headsupon a hulk. with livers in the place of hearts. The curse is the worship of idols, which at length changes the worshipper into a stone image himself; and the New Englander is just as much an idolater as the Hindoo. This man was an exception, for he did not set up even a political graven image between him and his God.

@jonathanbarnes3061 2 года назад

( 0:07) - reset button ( 36:30) - The only government I recognize -- and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small it's army, --- is that power that establishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice. What shall we think of a govement to which all the truly brave men in the land are enemies, standing between it and those whom it oppresses ? A government that pretends to be Christian and crucifies a million Christ's every day! Treason! Where does such treason take rise? I cannot help thinking of you as you deserve, ye governments. Can you dry up the fountains of thought. High treason, when it is resistance to tyranny here below, has it's origin in, and is first committed by the power that makes and forever recreates man. When you have caught and hung all these human rebels, you have accomplished nothing but your own guilt, for you have not struck the fountain head. You presume to contend with a foe against whom West Point cadets and rifled cannon point not. Can all the art of the cannon- founder tempt matter against it's maker? Is the form in which the founder thinks he casts it more essential than the constitution of it and of himself?