Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“It is a funny thing, that old-time American religion. For a time, John Brown belonged to a Congregationalist church in Hudson, Ohio. He attended a prayer meeting there following the death of abolitionist editor Elijah Lovejoy, who died defending his printing press from a mob of slavery supporters. Brown apparently said little or nothing until the end of the meeting, at which point he stood up and spoke: ‘Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery.’ Unlike those show ponies angling for future Fox News gigs at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service, John Brown meant it. He was that most dangerous and terrible sort of American: a believer.” (10/15/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/john-brown-harpers-ferry-slavery/