{"id":10374,"date":"2013-08-26T14:29:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T18:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=10374"},"modified":"2013-08-26T14:29:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T18:29:51","slug":"i-never-did-intend-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/26\/i-never-did-intend-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"I Never Did Intend Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted, the design on my part to free the slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clean thing of that matter, as I did last winter, when I went into Missouri and there took slaves without the snapping of a gun on either side, moved them through the country, and finally left them in Canada. I designed to have done the same thing again, on a larger scale. That was all I intended. I never did intend murder, or treason, or the destruction of property, or to excite or incite slaves to rebellion, or to make insurrection. <\/p>\n<p>I have another objection; and that is, it is unjust that I should suffer such a penalty. Had I interfered in the manner which I admit, and which I admit has been fairly proved (for I admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case), <strong>had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great,<\/strong> or in behalf of any of their friends, either father, mother, brother, sister, wife, or children, or any of that class, and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference, it would have been all right; and <strong>every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&mdash;John Brown, from his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyisaweapon.com\/defcon1\/johnbrown.html\" target=\"_blank\">last speech<\/a>, emphasis mine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted, the design on my part to free the slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clean thing of that matter, as I did last winter, when I went into Missouri and there took slaves without the snapping of a gun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1371],"class_list":["post-10374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-nuggets","tag-last-speeches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->