在法庭上的最后陈述 Last Statement to the Court（1/1）

约翰·布朗 / John Brown

约翰·布朗（1800—1859），一位狂热的废奴主义者，约翰·布朗起义的发动者，生于康涅狄格州的托灵顿。

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Read the follog article carefully, and ahe question below.

A to the auther, what is the ost iportant pot to this st statent?

I have, ay it please the Court, a few words to say.

In the first pce, I deny everythg but what I have long aditted: of a design on y part to free sves.I tended certaly to have ade athg of that atter, as I did st ter, when I went to Missouri and there took sves without the snappg of a gun oher side, ovg the through the untry, and fally leavg theada.I desigo have dohe sa thg aga on a rger scale.That was all I tended.I never did tend urder or treason, or the destru of property, or to excite or cite sves to rebellion, or to ake surre.

I have another obje, and that is that it is unjt that I should suffer such a penalty.Had I terferedthe anner which I adit, and which I adit has been fairly proved—for I adire the truthfulness and dor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testifiedthis case—had I so terferedbehalf of the rich, the powerful, the telligent, the so-called great, orbehalf of any of their friends, either father, other, brother, sister, wife or children, or any of that css, and suffered and sacrificed what I havethis terfere would have been all right.Every anthis Court would have deed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishnt.

This Court, aowledges, too, as I suppose, the validity of the w of God.I see a book kissed, which I suppose to be the Bible, or at least the estant, which teachesthat all thgs whatsoever I would that n should do to , I should do even so unto the.It teaches , further, to reber the that arebonds as bound with the.I endeavored to act up to that stru.I say I a yet too young to uand that God is any respecter of persons.I believe that to have terfered as I have done, as I have always freely aditted I have done,behalf of His despised poor, I did n, but right.Now, if it is deed necessary that I should forfeit y life for the furtherance of the ends of jtice, and gle y blood further with the blood of y children and with the blood of illionsthis sve untry whhts are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unts, I say, let it be done.

Letsay one word further.I feel entirely satisfied with the treatnt I have received on y trial.siderg all the circes, it has been ehan I expected.But I feel no nsess of guilt.I have stated fro the first what was y tention, and what was not.I never had any design agast the liberty of any person, nor any disposition to it treason or cite sves to rebel or ake any general surre.I never enuraged any an to do so, but always disuraged any idea of that kd.

Letsay, alsard to the statents ade by so of those who were ed with , I hear it has been stated by so of the that I have duced the to jo .But the ntrary is true.I do not say this to jure the, but as regrettg their weakness.Not o joedof his own aord, and the greater part at their own expense.A nuber of the I never saw, and never had a word of ion with, till the day they ca to , and that was for the purpose I have stated.

Now, I have done.