men struggling against the brute strength Oi their own household servants. This picture strikes my compassion dumb, and 1 can only cover my face and pray God to have mercy on the old man's soul.

John Brown was tried, condemned, and exe cuted as a traitor--;i guard of American citi zens st od around the scaffold, sad at heart, but steady in their devotion to the laws. The Legislature of a great Commonwealth sat, de