Sunday, November 27, 2016
A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau
This is not an easy read. The knowledge of the writers of that day Emerson, Thoreau, the townships and the new frontier in contrast to the long holding mentality of the exploitation of a race leading to the base and moral nature of who we are. Thoreau brings this challenge in many forms by attending to a 'Plea' for John Brown Abolitionist in a essay that in it's day was a great challenge the morality of a learned nation and then even to be spoken by those who would not/ could not read which is a massive part of the entire population extending into the boarder lands and to the very halls of Boston, Washington D.C., N. Y, and all points. He was a HERO as spoken over and over in the reading, and outlaw, a man of great nobility and one who was willing to take his quart of blood to the market and get not a penny for it. It is a read in likes of History.
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If you come into Harper's Ferry in West Virginia from The town and get a chance to see where John Brown was captured in the old Fire station and then the Court house where he was hung out front then if interest had you follow these directions to what I believe was found in 1985 Aug John Browns hidden cave which was never found.
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John Brown's cave was our destination and we were going with some professionals to our first spelunking adventure. We followed a main cavern over the stream bed then went our own ways. I followed a long upper canal in the mud until it went down way in the back upper left of the system. It then went down under the cemetery I imagine it. the very bottom was met with a small opening and a guide went first. It opened into a very muddy channel of new mud from that year into a new cavern so big we could not see the top with lights and it a huge groove cut through deep mud. I looked around put things together exclaiming "Do you know where we are?" They didn't know so we left.