pt. I. In his own words. "Sambo's mistakes," 1848 -- "League of Gileadites," January 15, 1851 -- "Dear wife and children, everyone," June 1856 -- "Old Brown's farewell," April 1857 -- "To Mr. Henry L. Stearns," July 15, 1857 -- "Provisional constitution and ordinances for the people of the United States," May 8, 1858 -- "A declaration of liberty by the representatives of the slave population of the United States of America," 1859 -- "Interview with Senator Mason and others," October 18, 1859 -- "Last address to the Virginia court," November 2, 1859 -- "Prison letters," October-December, 1859 --
pt. II. Northern responses. Horace Greeley, "Tribune editorial," October 19, 1859 -- Boston Courier, "A lesson for the people," October 20, 1859 -- Illinois State Register, "The 'irrepressible conflict,'", October 20, 1859 -- Anonymous, "To the clerk of court, Charlestown," October 23, 1859, and "To friend wise," December 2, 1859 -- The Patriot, "The Harper's Ferry Affair," October 26, 1859 -- Lydia Maria Child, "Dear Captain Brown," October 26, 1859, and "The hero's heart," January 26, 1860 -- E.B., "To John Brown," October 27, 1859 -- Joshua R. Giddings, "The Harper's Ferry insurrection," October 28, 1859 -- Friends' Review, "The riot at Harper's Ferry," October 29, 1859 -- Salmon P. Chase, "To Joseph H. Barrett," October 29, 1859 -- New York Evening Post, "A new version of an old song," October 29, 1859 -- Henry Ward Beecher, "The nation's duty to slavery," October 30, 1859 -- Henry David Thoreau, "A plea for Captain John Brown," October 30, 1859, and "The last days of John Brown," July 4, 1860 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Courage," November 8, 1859, and "Remarks at a meeting for the relief of the family of John Brown," November 18, 1859 -- Frederick Douglass, "Capt. John Brown not insane," November 1859 -- Edmund Clarence Stedman, "How old Brown took Harper's Ferry," November 12, 1859 -- William Dean Howells, "Old Brown," November 1859 -- John Andrew, "Speech at Tremont Temple," November 18, 1859 -- Charles Langston, "Letter to the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer," November 18, 1859, and "Speech in Cleveland," December 2, 1859 -- Theodore Parker, "To Francis Jackson," November 24, 1859 -- Henry Clarke Wright, The Natick Resolution, December 1859 -- Albany Evening Journal, "The execution of John Brown," December 1, 1859 -- "Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Cleveland resolutions," November 29 and December 2, 1859 -- Henry Highland Garnet, "Martyr's day," December 2, 1859 -- J. Sella Martin and William Lloyd Garrison, "Speeches at Tremont Temple," December 2, 1859 -- Fales Henry Newhall, "The conflict in America," December 4, 1859 -- Anne Lynch Botta, "To Henry Whitney Bellows," December 6, 1859-- Wendell Phillips, "Eulogy for John Brown," December 8, 1859 -- Edward Everett and Caleb Cushing, "Speeches at Faneuil Hall," December 8, 1859 -- Charles Eliot Norton, "To Mrs. Edward Twisleton," December 13, 1859 -- Charles Sumner, "To the Duchess of Argyll," December 20, 1859 -- John Greenleaf Whittier, "Brown of Ossawatomie," December 22, 1859 -- Thomas Hamilton, "The Nat Turner insurrection," December 1859 -- William A. Phillips, "The age and the man," January 20, 1860 -- Louisa May Alcott, "With a rose that bloomed on the day of John Brown's martyrdom," January 20, 1860 -- Stephen Douglas, "Invasion of states," January 23, 1860 -- Richard Realf, "John Brown's raid," January 30, 1860 -- Abraham Lincoln, "Address at the Cooper Institute," February 27, 1860 -- William H. Seward, "The state of the country," February 29, 1860, and "The national idea," October 3, 1860 -- John S. Rock, "Ninetieth anniversary of the Boston Massacre," March 5, 1860 -- William Henry Furness, "Put up thy sword," March 11, 1860 -- Carl Schurz, "The doom of slavery," August 1, 1860 -- Pennsylvania Statesman, "Old Brown's argument," October 20, 1860 -- Lucretia Mott, "Remarks to the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society," October 25, 1860 -- Osborne P. Anderson, A Voice from Harper's Ferry, early 1861 --
pt. III. Southern responses. Henry Wise, "Comments in Richmond, Virginia," October 21, 1859 -- Republican Banner and Nashville Whig, "The Harper's Ferry riot, October 24, 1859 -- Robert Barnwell Rhett, "The insurrection," October 31, 1859 -- Richmond Daily Enquirer, "A suggestion for Governor Wise," November 2, 1859 -- Southern Watchman, "The Harper's Ferry insurrection," November 3, 1859 -- D. H. Strother, "The late invasion at Harper's Ferry," November 5, 1859, and "The trial of the conspirators," November 12, 1859 -- Sarah Frances Williams, "To my dear parents," November 7, and 11, 1859 -- Margaretta Mason, "To Lydia Maria Child," November 11, 1859 -- Arkansas Gazette, "The Harper's Ferry insurrection," November 12, 1859 -- Richmond Whig, "Editorial," November 18, 1859 -- Natchez Courier, "Forewarned, forearmed," November 18, 1859 -- Mahala Doyle, "To John Brown," November 20, 1859 -- Edmund Ruffin, "Resolutions of the Central Southern Rights Association," November 25, 1859, and Anticipations of the Future, June 1860 - Susan Bradford Eppes, "Diary," October-December 1859 -- Amanda Virginia Edmonds, "Diary," November and December 1859 -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, "Dear friend," November 25, 1859, and "The triumph of freedom, a dream," January 1860 -- Thomas J. Jackson, To Mary Anna Jackson," December 2, 1859 -- John Preston, "To Margaret Junkin Preston," December 2, 1859 -- Raleigh Register, "The execution of John Brown," December 3, 1859 -- Moncure Conway, "Sermon," December 4, 1859 -- Reuben Davis, "The duty of parties," December 8, 1859 -- Anonymous, "A woman's view of a woman's duty in connection with John Brown's crimes," December 11, 1859 -- Andrew Johnson, "Remarks to the Senate," December 12, 1859 -- James A. Seddon, "To R. M. T. Hunter," December 26, 1859 -- Anonymous, "Old John Brown, a song for every Southern man," ca. December 1859 -- Mann Satterwhite Valentine, "The mock auction," 1860 -- George Fitzhugh, "Disunion within the union," January 1860 -- C. G. Memminger, "The South Carolina mission to Virginia," January 19, 1860 -- Alexander Boteler, "Speech on the organization of the House," January 25, 1860 -- John Tyler, Jr., "The secession of the South," April 1860 -- National Democratic Executive Committee, The Great Issue to Be Decided in November Next, September 1860 -- Howell Cobb, "Letter to the people of Georgia," December 6, 1860 -- William Gilmore Simms, "To a Northern friend," December 12, 1860 -- John Wilkes Booth, "Philadelphia speech," December 1860 -- Richard K. Call, "To John S. Littell," February 12, 1861 -- James Williams, "To Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux," February 1861 --
pt. IV. International responses : The Times, "Editorial," November 2, 1859 -- Joseph Barker, "Slavery and Civil War," November 1859 -- L'Univers, "Editorial," November 24, 1859 -- Cyprian Kamil Norwid, "To citizen John Brown" and "John Brown," November 1859 -- Victor Hugo, "A word on John Brown," December 2, 1859; "To M. Heurtelou," March 31, 1860; and "To the memory of John Brown," October 21, 1874 -- Ottilie Assing, "John Brown's execution and its consequences," December 1859 -- Harvey C. Jackson, "An address to the colored people of Canada," December 7, 1859 -- Glasgow Herald, "The outbreak at Harper's Ferry," December 19, 1859 -- Aberdeen Journal, "A martyr or a criminal?" December 21, 1859 -- Manchester Examiner and Times, "The execution of John Brown," December 24, 1859 -- Harriet Martineau, "John Brown; South's political posturing," December 24, 1859, and "The puritan militant," January 28, 1860 -- Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, "Captain John Brown," December 25, 1859 -- Caledonian Mercury and Daily Express, "A New Year's reverie," January 2, 1860 -- Anti-Slavery Reporter, "The Harper's Ferry tragedy," January 2, 1860 -- Argus, "A revolt in America," January 10, 1860 -- Karl Marx, "To Friedrich Engels," January 11, 1860 -- Joseph Déjacque, "To Pierre Vésinier," February 20, 1861 -- William Howard Russell, "Diary," April 20 and August 17, 1861 -- J. M. Ludlow, "A year of the slavery question in the United States (1859-60)," Decemnber 1862 -- Louis Ratisbonne, "John Brown," February 1863 -- Giuseppe Garibaldi, "To President Lincoln," August 6, 1863 -- W. T. Malleson and Washington Wilks, "Speeches to the Emancipation Society," December 2, 1863 -- John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873 -- Hermann von Holst, "John Brown," 1878 --
pt. V. Civil War and U.S. postwar responses. Various authors, "John Brown's body," May 1861
Elizabeth Van Lew, "Occasional diary," 1861
Mary Boykin Chesnut, "A diary from Dixie," November 28, 1861
Wilder Dwight, "Letters," July 30, 1861, and March 4 and 8, 1862
George Michael Neese, "Diary," January 3 and 26, 1862
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Chiefly about war matters. By a peaceable man," July 1862
John Sherman, "To William Tecumseh Sherman," September 23, 1862
Charlotte Forten, "Diary" and "Letter," November 1862
Moncure Conway, The Golden Hour, 1862
Adalbert Volck, "Worship of the North" and "Writing the Emancipation Proclamation," 1863
John H. Surratt, "Diary," January 16 and 20, 1863
Anonymous, "John Brown's entrance into hell," March 1863
J. Sella Martin, "Speech to the Emancipation Society," December 2, 1863
William Henry Hall, "Oration on the occasion of the Emancipation celebration," January 1, 1864
John Wilkes Booth, "Remarks on Lincoln and Brown," November 1864
Walt Whitman, "Year of meteors (1859-60)," 1865
Joseph G. Rosengarten, "John Brown's raid: how I got into it and how I got out of it," June 1865
C. Chauncey Burr, "History of old John Brown," July 1865
Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, "Dear Mrs. H
Charles Sumner, "The national security and the national faith," September 14, 1865
James Buchanan, Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion, January 1866
Herman Melville, "The portent (1859)," 1866
Gerrit Smith, "John Brown," August 15, 1867
John Milton Hay, "Diary," September 10, 1867
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., "How we met John Brown," July 1871
Henry S. Olcott, "How we hung John Brown," 1875
Colored Citizen, "Wanted, a few black John Browns," January 4, 1879
Eli Thayer, "To G. W. Brown," January 13, 1880
Frederick Douglass, "John Brown," May 30, 1881
George Washington Williams, "John Brown, hero and martyr," 1883
David N. Utter, "John Brown of Osawatomie," November 1883
Mark Twain, "English as she is taught," April 1887
Frank Preston Stearns, "Unfriendly citicism of John Brown," 1888
T. Thomas Fortune, "John Brown and Nat. Turner," January 12 and 29, 1889.