Wednesday, October 20, 2010

John Brown's Barn: North Elba, NY


"I, John Brown, am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done,"--was soon to be realized in the Civil War.

December 2, 1859

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