Quotes
John S. Wise
On Saturday night, May 24, 1856, John Brown and his band visited house after house upon Pottawatomie Creek, and, calling man after man from his bed, murdered five in cold blood.
John S. Wise
Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.
John S. Wise
Nowhere is the type of the original settler in Virgina so well preserved, or are to be found the antique customs manners, and ways of the Englishman of the seventeen century in America so little altered, as in the Kingdom of Accawmacke.
John S. Wise
Nothing pleased me more than dropping corn in planting-time, or hauling wood and straw with my own team.
John S. Wise
My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.
John S. Wise
My father's third wife was a refined and cultivated woman, of suitable age, and possessed a most lovable disposition.
John S. Wise
John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.
John S. Wise
It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.
John S. Wise
It is impossible to describe the consternation which these scenes produced among the citizens of Harper's Ferry.
John S. Wise
In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.