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� 37 great men who had figured at Washington, delighted in an execution on a dirch[?], thought John Brown hung "most beautifully" professionally speaking, and would have liked to have seen him take down and hung again and the operation repeated -- would have gone a thousand miles and walked, too, to see it -- Karen O. Jennings Wise, Pryor, and all that clique at Richmond -- they were cold blooded and "rashly game" as he termed it. He know all about the duel in which Gilley was Killed --- and had been engaged himself in several personal affairs.

Strange old man! Such sentiments are very well for Feudal times -- But for this age how sorely behind hand!