Jefferson Davis: We shall see how brave you are when hanged on the pillars of Congress, your body facing North so you may watch your world die. (gets rekt in 2 seconds)
@@Bladeofwar94 Well that's questionable to be honest. Noble as his cause was, I imagine the Union might worry that it was also a cause unlikely to succeed and that resources diverted to Brown to support him might actually have been better spent being diverted to the frontlines. And the thing is, they wouldn't necessarily have been wrong in thinking so. The simple fact was, freed slaves lacked military training, they lacked the discipline and drilling of trained soldiers, the familiarity with military equipment, the necessary chain of command or even clear, easily fulfilled tactical objectives. They could cause some problems, for sure, but the scattered nature of slave plantations and the lack of familiarity with any countryside outside those immediate plantations would mean that any attempts to wage a guerilla war against the South may be doomed from the start. The slaves would almost immediately be faced with logistical difficulties and difficulties in combining their forces and coordinating their operations. History has shown that slave rebellions, while noble, rarely succeed. I mean its not impossible, but usually its rebellions that occurred in far-off regions, away from the slave state's heartlands.
@@Killzoneguy117 I think he would've succeeded if the freed slaves weren't guerrilla fighters, but instead he focused on having them create underground railroads of their own and freeing slaves from important plantations to devastate the southern economy. Can't fight a war without soldiers, and soldiers only fight if they're paid.
@@Killzoneguy117 The big exception to this, of course, is the Haitian Revolution. The French Army (and later the British and Spanish armies) woefully underestimated the rebels led by Toussaint Louverture, considering them to be a ragtag bunch of runaways, but who proved to be determined and resourceful and with little to lose, and as a result pushed the French out of the country, and resisting against later British and Spanish interventions, as well as an attempted French reconquest.
@@greatandmightykevin Yeah but the North already had a plan to devastate the Southern economy. A plan that was much easier to implement, much more likely to succeed, and much more difficult to stop: burn the South. Sherman's March to the Sea essentially did the same thing and it had the benefit of being hugely successful and also providing a very dramatic example of how far the Union was willing to go to beat the South into submission. They might forget the Underground Railroad but they weren't soon going to forget the burning of Atlanta.
@Lucas McCullah it's good that you understand that John Brown was a morally grey kinda hero. Sorry about the memeing. Also the fetishism part is referencing the liberal tendency to not meaningfully challenge things like racism, colonial apologia, and fascism(and going "I'll protect [insert name of fascist, or fascist group] right to free speech !"). The comparison with senator douglas was because he thought slavery/racism would fade over time if not meaningfully challenged which sounds similar to thinking that fascism and racism would die out if not challenged.,
@@user-qx9ok3gb4o He was fighting for the will of God, against the ennemy of the True Faith who worshipped slavery and racism. Every man he killed is burning in Hell now.
@yossarian Was he a terrorist or a hero? A someone who fought against slavery, making him a hero, who used terrorist methods. I don't feel bad for the slavers at all though. He was a radical terrorist hero.
he believed in the use of physical force to free the slaves. And he died for that; executed by the State of Virginia. He did not kill civilians randomly, nor attack anyone randomly. He planned his moves, against military targets. I don’t call him a terrorist, as terror was not his modus operandi. Now we have another who believes in using physical force, but this time against peaceful citizens gathering with no intention of violence, but just to have their voices heard. I call THAT terrorism.
John Brown was not a terrorist, he didnt threaten to bomb Washington if slavery isnt abolished or smth, he went and try to start a slave revolt, which makes him an insurrectionist
He doesn’t get the recognition he deserves in his efforts to free the slaves. Such a disgusting thing slavery is and was. I am a white male from the South Side of Chicago and I judge people on their character and not the color of their skin. May everyone be equal.
at this point the only people who can't see that are being willfully ignorant. i'm a southern secessionist (before you clutch your pearls, it's mostly over federal corruption, corporate money in politics, and electrical policy) and even i acknowledge john brown was right.
@@gabrielegenota1480 they literally had a segment in a video about Robert E. Lee where they said he should be honored for putting down John Brown's "slave revolt."
The sad story is that there are very little to commemorate this wonderful American. Everything he said came to fruition...John Brown should have schools named in his honor and military bases. He was a soldier for God. Instead we have bridges. Bases, buildings named after traitors who took arms against the Union.
Southerners have succeeded in denigrating his name, just because he viewed African-Americans as equals. We need to make America great again and bring John Brown back!
virgin confederates- were traitors but cried about the thousands of people who "betrayed them" the bunch of hypocrites., fought for profits and maintaining a system that subjugated millions/went against everything the founders said they stood for, were racist, cowardly attacked fort sumter & later killed lincoln with a shot from behind chad John Brown & company- were soldiers for God and freedom, were anti-racist, raided federal armories knowing they were going to be killed for it, upheld the founder's supposed belief in all being created equal and shot people who were violently opposed to this idea.
A "sour apple tree," interestingly enough, probably refers to the osage orange tree, which produces inedible green brain-looking fruit about the size of a softball. The fruit are called "sour apples" or "osage oranges," although the orange part of the name refers to the color of the wood and not the fruit. It's the hardest wood found in North America so was probably used as a preferred tree for hanging due to it's durability and strength and the fact that a branch was very unlikely to break under the weight of a man. They are found across Eastern Kansas where John Brown had many of his escapades.
@@gavin7129 Who did he tyrannise? I can understand someone calling him a terrorist (as he and his sons killed people to advance a political cause) but no-one could honestly call him a tyrant.
At first, John Brown was confused as to why he had been sent to Hell by God. But, he soon came to realize all the sinners around him were slavers. He wasn't being punished. *He was the punishment.*
"His zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine - it was as the burning sun to my taper light - mine was bounded by time, his stretched away to the boundless shores of eternity. I could live for the slave, but he could die for him." Frederick Douglas
It's 2018, December 2nd. 159 years ago today: "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done." His fight is not yet finished.
I wish they would adapt the John Brown biography "Midnight Rising" into a movie. Type in "midnight rising" and you get want-to-be trailers. His life was, umm, complicated. I would consider him a catalyst, an unlikely, tarnished, catalyst.
Nope. John Brown being executed frightened the Southern Planter class into forming the CSA, thus starting the war to end slavery, thus even in dying John Brown did nothing wrong
John “if you enslave be prepared to be razed” brown. But seriously John Brown is a patriot and a hero. All the confederate statues should be replaced by John Brown.
Jeff Madrigal John Brown was cut from the same mould as Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, Jack the Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer and Pol Pot, amongst others. Your admiration for him displays either an inherent stupidity and gullibility, Marxist brainwashing, or a disgusting admiration for psychopaths.
"Now if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments. - I submit; so let it be done" - John Brown
For all of us honest American's John Brown gives us a challenge to live up to. Either you can take the principles of liberty and freedom from tyranny seriously, or you get complacent in servitude. There is no inbetween. Thank you John Brown
@meep When referring political parties in the context of the Civil War, make sure you always clarify whether you're talking about the modern party or Civil War era party, while Republicans are conservatives and Democrats are progressives nowadays, during the Civil War era Republicans were the progressives while the Democrats were conservatives.
@@jjomalley6307 Grant’s presidency being a failure was highly exaggerated by proponents of the lost cause myth, Grant successfully crushed the first iteration of the clan and made the federal government a place where African American workers could be fairly treated (this was undone by Woodrow Wilson). Moreover, Grant was distinctly not involved in any of the corruption scandals that plagued his advisors and the US government at every level regardless of party was plagued by corruption after the Civil War period due to the amount of administrative bloat created by the Civil War era expansion of the federal government.
Sadly I don't think I was taught about him in school witch is wierd because they have no problem telling us that the civil war was about slavery(witch it was)
what's sadder is the fact that people don't know that the battle of hymn was entirely inspired by this song. They have been too afraid to tell of the story of this man due to the fear of seeing all statues of confederate loonies replaced with of his despite the fact that robert e lee never wanted his own statue and neither would he
It's truly odd how much this song affected me. I think it's because I've only heard a fraction of this song before. And now I'm hearing it and it's *SO CLEARLY* and militantly anti-slavery. This is what America *should be.* This, to me, is the Honor of the United States Army.
"No man left behind" has ever rung so true. And from a song that's more than one hundred years old. We should be ashamed. But more than that, we should take heed and continue to do right, that way we better cease the possibility of future wrongs.
"...the Honor of the United States Army" ? Where is the honor in murder? Come to think of it; the Army does have a history of murdering women, children and old people...Wounded Knee Massacre, the Sand Creek Massacre, The Bear River Massacre, etc...
Read the Battle Hymn of the Republic, the last verse starting with "in the glory" which ends with "He [Christ] died to make men holy, let us live to make men free."
This, and the line in "Battle Cry of Freedom" "We will welcome to our numbers the loyal, true and brave, Shouting the battle cry of freedom! And although he may be poor, he shall never be a slave, Shouting the battle cry of freedom!"
Here are the lyrics if anybody wants to sing along or just read along with the song: John Brown’s body lies a moldering in the grave John Brown’s body lies a moldering in the grave John Brown’s body lies a moldering in the grave But his soul goes marching on Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah His soul goes marching on The stars above in Heaven are looking kindly down The stars above in Heaven are looking kindly down The stars above in Heaven are looking kindly down On the grave of Old John Brown Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah His soul goes marching on He captured Harper's Ferry with his nineteen men so true He frightened old Virginia till she trembled through and through They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew But his soul goes marching on Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah His soul goes marching on Well he’s gone to be a soldier in the army of the Lord He’s gone to be a soldier in the army of the Lord He’s gone to be a soldier in the army of the Lord But his soul goes marching on Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah His soul goes marching on Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored He has loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword His truth is marching on Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah His soul goes marching on
+frenchrebell May I excuse Lovejoy? The Branded hand? The caning of Summner? the 75% casualties of Bleeding Kansas being Free State civilians? The reason you southrons are such big babies about John Brown is that for the first time in US history, a white man gave the south a taste of its own cowardly brutish medicine. A society built on the whip, the pistol and the bowie knife felt the wrath of a man who would not equivocate, was guided by his beliefs with eyes unclouded by race and took drastic actions.
He saw the truth but was still fucking insane. (Referring to him murdering southern settlers and shit) The road to hell was paved in good intentions is a saying that comes to mind when describing John Brown.
The man who saw through prejudice and hate. He is a true hero, he might strengthen the whole 'white dies for a black' arguement, but he knew that if he was going to heaven, he would do it fighting to end the tyranny of the slave owners. RIP John Brown, you are a hero to any and all races out there, keep marching.
@@reapthewhirlwind2114, Definitely. It's a shame he's been forgotten by so many. When our time for revolution comes, we'll teach of his virtues along many other *genuine* American heroes.
@@austinlarson7113, Not entirely. Most abolitionists became Republicans, yes, but the party platform was not abolitionist. At most, the average Republican wanted to restrict slavery. That was Lincoln's own position running for office. He did not consider complete abolition until the confederacy had been defeated. Do remember that the Emancipation Proclamation only outlawed slavery in actively insurgent states- excluding the border states that had already been won back.
Lincoln is seen as an American hero for sending others to die for abolition, and yet John Brown is seen as a villain for giving his own life for abolition. I’m an atheist, but I’d love to be wrong. I hope heaven is real, not because I want to go there, but because the thought that John Brown is anywhere else brings me to tears.
Men and women of action are always deemed as radical terrorists to the state and the feds. But I think that they capture the spirit of what we value in this country, standing up to and fighting against tyranny
One time when I visited the south a tour guide told our group, “the Civil War wasn’t about slavery, it was about states rights” I chided him for that, telling him, “Yeah, and what did the southern states want to continue having the right to do?” He ignored me. His presentation was rushed, and inaccurate. He pointed out a building that supposedly had some civil war significance. I found out later that the building was built during World War 1. SMH 🤦♂️ still lots of people who want to... ahem... white wash the evil perpetrated by the south.
Funny. It was about "states' rights", yet the Confederate Constitution expressly removed the right of individual states to abolish slavery. This right existed under the United States, but the Confederacy removed it. So, even if a Confederate state wanted to abolish slavery, they did not have that right under the Confederate Constitution. So, "states' rights" my ass! Also, Southern politicians at the time were not at all bashful about proclaiming that they were seceding over slavery. It is only since Reconstruction, when the South was trying to rehabilitate its image so as to no seem as uncivilized as they were, that the narrative has changed.
The slavers also had it put in the Confederate Constitution that they were all Christians! They had no freedom of religion like in the U.S. Constitution. This was about religion as well as slavery.
What are you talking about, Andrew Jackson was a general in the American south but he fought in the War of 1812. He wasn't a friend to the natives, sure, but again that was well before the Civil War. Stonewall Jackson is not the same as Andrew Jackson, ahahahhahahha. That being said I love how crazy people are in the comments section of CZcams. It's like I'm really living in the 1860s! Also lol this Frenchrebell guy. If general Stuart were worth a damn he would have showed up for battle at Gettysburg. Heh.
+Gilbert Van Buskirk You call the Confederate generals "seditious traitors"?. So were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and all of the leaders of The American Revolution now regarded by Americans as "heroes". Goes to show that one side's "seditious traitor" is the other side's "Founding Father". In case you haven't guessed it. I'm a neocon.
+Gilbert Van Buskirk But all of that is irrelevant to the fact that, by the British Law of the 1770's, the colonial leaders of the American Revolution were still seditious traitors. And some states think that the slavery issue of the 1860's was a smokescreen issue to disguise Northern imperialism of the Southern States. For further reading on this matter, I refer you to Donald W. Livingston's essay on "Why the War Was Not About Slavery" . And, despite me being a neocon, I am also a believer in racial equality and share your views on slavery. And I also commend your general knowledge of American history.
My third grandfather was John Brown, he felt that all men were created equal in the eyes of God, and he gave his life for the belief... I hold his bible, that he gave to his daughter Ruth.. and I feel his caring for all people.. I wish I could have met him, only my great grandma as a child got to really know him...
John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave But his soul goes marching on Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah His soul goes marching on The stars above in Heaven are looking kindly down The stars above in Heaven are looking kindly down The stars above in Heaven are looking kindly down On the grave of old John Brown Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah His soul goes marching on He captured Harper's Ferry with his nineteen men so true He frightened old Virginia till she trembled through and through They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew But his soul goes marching on Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah His soul goes marching on He's gone to be a soldier in the Army of the Lord, He's gone to be a soldier in the Army of the Lord, He's gone to be a soldier in the Army of the Lord, But his soul goes marching on. Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Glory, Glory, Hallelujah His soul goes marching on Mine eyes have seen the glory Of the coming of the Lord He is trampling out the vintage Where the grapes of wrath are stored, He has loosed the fateful lightening of His terrible swift sword His truth is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.
@@jacobmuraco4276 Okay, how about a retroactive posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, then. Not an ironic name for a civilian award, in the least, imo.
Public School system is still teaching people that the Civil War wasn't about slavery, but states rights. There's something wrong with this. It needs to be fixed.
@@WeaselLikeMan was taught the same thing in Ohio which John Brown and Grant lived in Ohio but no mention of Brown and barely any of Grant unless it's about Lee.
+Gilbert Van Buskirk Mr. Buskirk, only a very small number of southerners owned slaves, and some of those who did actually sided with the Union. It is said by some that some of the Union officers also owned slaves, including General Ulysses S. Grant. Abraham Lincoln's emancipation proclamation only intended to free the slaves in the Confederate States that had not surrendered by January 1, 1863. So the institution of slavery was not entirely the fault of "Southern Confederates [sic[ bigots", now was it?
Supreme Court " Our decision on Dredd Scott is that slavery is legal in America." John Brown " I recognize that the court has made a decision, But given that it’s a stupid ass decision I’ve elected to ignore it!"
I find everything about the Civil War so very fascinating. It's interesting to the see the passions still aroused about the actions of a man like John Brown here so many years later, when everyone who was alive then is gone. Reminds me of a humorous quote I read the other day: "The American Civil War; 1860 - Present.". There is some unsettling truth in that.
Because Southerners refuse to put away the flag of tyranny in Stars & Bars, which was the flag of traitors. The Stars & Bars is no better than the Nazi Swasticka
***** Nice way of analysing the historical context, pretty different from emotional posts that have no facts and go overboard whit ignorant obscene comments.
***** You use statements Like "Phased Out" and "One more decade of slavery"!!! Are you serious!!! When people attempt to rationalize barbarity and savagery that has no parallel to date, it fuel's anger and a befuddled response. They weren't a "PRODUCT" to be phased out by new technology.NO! they weren't slave either. They were human being's forced into bondage under the most extreme violence. "One more decade"!!! Really???? You should be ashamed of yourself!!!!I'm am ashamed for!!
One of the most unknown facts about the American Civil War is that both The Southern and Yankee Uniforms were made in Limerick City Ireland by a businessman named Mr. TaTe. The young seamstress girls used to sew in Sacred Heart Medals into both the uniforms to protect the soldiers dying by the dozen. The factory was located on Lord Edward Street Limerick. Now thats something you didnt know I bet! ... Kind Regards form Ireland .....
With John Brown it's difficult to know where the folklore ends and where the truth begins, but ultimately, it's irrelevant. He knew that slavery was wrong which is more than one can say for most in the states at that time.
John Brown a true American relvolutionary. I wonder what John Brown would have to say about the treatment of Black Americans in America today? I'd say he would have a lot to say...
My American heroes aren’t George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, or god forbid Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. My American heroes are John Brown, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Robert M. La Follette, Eugene Victor Debs, Thomas Paine and Sitting Bull, those who did not sit in silence as the United States spread oppression across the globe, but rather took up arms and spoke against it, and especially the TRUE Americans who died protecting their land from European invaders. Those are my American heroes.
@@callumsmodellingcentre6902 I wouldn't. Lost cause propaganda and "the war of northern aggression" are far more likely to be found in the south than anything resembling the truth.
@@Aragon1500 Pete Seeger didn't write the damn song, civil war soldiers did. Get off your high horse and love your neighbor like the old man would want.
Union troops often marched, singing this song! After Robert E. Lee's army had fled Richmond and the Union pursed him, General Grant had stopped on the porch of house to chat with an officer when Union soldiers of the 6th Corps were marching past. They recognized him and broke into cheers as well as singing "John Brown's Body". It was a great informal review of Grant's Union Army, as the long columns of soldiers went by well into the evening!
@@captaincrafterstudios2581 it's weird people who hate everything what USA represents calling the Confederates traitors. This socialists in Portland are the same vile scum of the Charleston slaveholders.
I'm a lifelong Kansan, and when I visit Washington DC, I'll be sure to visit Harper's Ferry and sing this song where he gave his life. Full circle and everything.
John Brown a man who gave his life trying to free others he was a true hero and a man I respect greatly he will be a new symbol and a great one for antifa
@@dreadedworld8864 Being a stonch christian favoring the interests of a capitolist north over a fuedal south isn't too "communist." That's not even considering the fact he'd be considered a bourgeoisie pig under most traditional communist theory. He also became quite familiar with the merchant class in the US, and owned a tannery buiseness. When you consider the fact he was still fighting a system that depended on collectivised labor, in the form of slaves- he'd likely not be a communist, just an Egalitarian Evangellical Christian.
94 years, not too bad. Most of you right wing pricks will be lucky if you make it to 50 seeing as the closest thing you get to exercise is masturbation.
Whining about treason while defending the legacy of John Brown is hysterical. The US government's relationship with the South was bordering on colonial.
I can remember my cousin singing this song about sixty years ago. I never knew the meaning of the song and until tonight I hadn't heard the song again. My cousin grew up and became a preacher.
I heard of this song while on the Harper’s Ferry Ghost Tour from our tour guide who was recounting a personal experience to us. It’s a pretty good song.
"The civil war was about states rights, not slavery." "It should have been called the war of northern aggression." "Most confederates didn't own slaves." "Black people supported the confederacy." "What about (enter bad thing done by the u.s prior to the civil war)?"
Ben Peters It because of what they repsent. George Washington helped founded the nation and was the first president. Thomas Jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and was also a president. What do we remember these people for? Yes they own slaves, but we remember the bigger parts they played. Yes we should acknowledge that fact, but they were remembered for there good. Jefferson Davis was the president of a group of states who were afriad that Lincoln was going to take away their slaves. It’s what they were known for the most. You don’t put up statues of Hitler because he helped Germany rises up from economic crisis, because he was known for being one of the most evil person in the 20th centuries, modern history, and heck maybe in all of history depending on who you ask.
when the song of freedom rings out loud from valleys and from hills when people stand up for their rights john brown is with us still john brown fights with us still
fun fact: *this video has been in youtube longer than the confederacy has ever existed*
Glory glory hallelujah!
And may our motto ever be, for union men, for liberty!
that isn't fun... why do people constantly call things that aren't fun "fun facts"
@@AristonSparta oh but it is
@@onewingedangel9189 no it isn’t, the confederacy lasted far too long
Us government: *Doesn't free slaves*
John Brown: "𝘞𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬."
Jefferson Davis: We shall see how brave you are when hanged on the pillars of Congress, your body facing North so you may watch your world die.
(gets rekt in 2 seconds)
@@greatandmightykevin pumps ten million shots of slasher
*time stops*
I do not enjoy killing, but when done righteously it is but a chore like any other.
John Brown: Fine, I'll do it myself
Oh my god John Brown and Joshua Graham are literally the same person this is amazing
John “If blacks are in shackles, your ass is gettin’ tackled.” Brown
He murdered a black guy on one of his raids
@@sirmount2636 STFU NEO-CONFEDERATE
@@sirmount2636 Completely accidental.
nice pfp
@@ToluacheLoc not you, TANKIE
U.S. Government: "we're not going to free the slaves"
John Brown: *fine, I'll do it myself*
It's a shame too. Imagine if he had done this around the beginning of the civil war. The union would have supported him in his efforts!
@@Bladeofwar94 Well that's questionable to be honest. Noble as his cause was, I imagine the Union might worry that it was also a cause unlikely to succeed and that resources diverted to Brown to support him might actually have been better spent being diverted to the frontlines.
And the thing is, they wouldn't necessarily have been wrong in thinking so. The simple fact was, freed slaves lacked military training, they lacked the discipline and drilling of trained soldiers, the familiarity with military equipment, the necessary chain of command or even clear, easily fulfilled tactical objectives. They could cause some problems, for sure, but the scattered nature of slave plantations and the lack of familiarity with any countryside outside those immediate plantations would mean that any attempts to wage a guerilla war against the South may be doomed from the start. The slaves would almost immediately be faced with logistical difficulties and difficulties in combining their forces and coordinating their operations. History has shown that slave rebellions, while noble, rarely succeed. I mean its not impossible, but usually its rebellions that occurred in far-off regions, away from the slave state's heartlands.
@@Killzoneguy117 I think he would've succeeded if the freed slaves weren't guerrilla fighters, but instead he focused on having them create underground railroads of their own and freeing slaves from important plantations to devastate the southern economy. Can't fight a war without soldiers, and soldiers only fight if they're paid.
@@Killzoneguy117 The big exception to this, of course, is the Haitian Revolution. The French Army (and later the British and Spanish armies) woefully underestimated the rebels led by Toussaint Louverture, considering them to be a ragtag bunch of runaways, but who proved to be determined and resourceful and with little to lose, and as a result pushed the French out of the country, and resisting against later British and Spanish interventions, as well as an attempted French reconquest.
@@greatandmightykevin Yeah but the North already had a plan to devastate the Southern economy. A plan that was much easier to implement, much more likely to succeed, and much more difficult to stop: burn the South. Sherman's March to the Sea essentially did the same thing and it had the benefit of being hugely successful and also providing a very dramatic example of how far the Union was willing to go to beat the South into submission. They might forget the Underground Railroad but they weren't soon going to forget the burning of Atlanta.
When the kid from Virginia starts ranting about ‘the war of Northern Aggression.’
Lol
More like 'the war of you'll free these slaves over my cold dead white body'. Bunch of losers all of them that try and make it about anything else.
As a Virginian I approve!
Chad Persinger love the excuse of “states rights” the states right for what
@@frapseddatsht Blame Woodrow Wilson for spreading this myth.
Here in Kansas he's revered as a state hero. You can say one thing about him...he wasn't all talk and no action.
Really ?
John Frum “he *wasn’t* all talk and no action”
Yeah!! Kansas gang
@Lucas McCullah you think he would've debated the slave owners? Lmao. Fuck outta here with that liberal civility fetishism, Senator Douglas
@Lucas McCullah it's good that you understand that John Brown was a morally grey kinda hero. Sorry about the memeing. Also the fetishism part is referencing the liberal tendency to not meaningfully challenge things like racism, colonial apologia, and fascism(and going "I'll protect [insert name of fascist, or fascist group] right to free speech !"). The comparison with senator douglas was because he thought slavery/racism would fade over time if not meaningfully challenged which sounds similar to thinking that fascism and racism would die out if not challenged.,
Take down the traitors' statues and replace them with John Brown.
The virgin Confederate statue vs The Chad John Brown Statue
@@user-qx9ok3gb4o He was fighting for the will of God, against the ennemy of the True Faith who worshipped slavery and racism. Every man he killed is burning in Hell now.
@@user-qx9ok3gb4o Only in the eyes of traitors.
@@thatonedudebutwho9919 John Brown was hanged like a dawg, can't see how he was a chad if he was a white knight.
@@BoogalooBoy A so how one dies now determines one's character? That is a ridiculous mentality.
Replace every confederate statue with John Brown.
YES
John brown shouldn't be deifeid either
DJ Dave he’s a American hero
@yossarian Was he a terrorist or a hero? A someone who fought against slavery, making him a hero, who used terrorist methods. I don't feel bad for the slavers at all though. He was a radical terrorist hero.
he believed in the use of physical force to free the slaves. And he died for that; executed by the State of Virginia. He did not kill civilians randomly, nor attack anyone randomly. He planned his moves, against military targets. I don’t call him a terrorist, as terror was not his modus operandi.
Now we have another who believes in using physical force, but this time against peaceful citizens gathering with no intention of violence, but just to have their voices heard. I call THAT terrorism.
Remember, kids, it's not terrorism if they're slave owners
John Brown was not a terrorist, he didnt threaten to bomb Washington if slavery isnt abolished or smth, he went and try to start a slave revolt, which makes him an insurrectionist
John Brown was a true hero and freedom-lover who gave his life for the people of this country! May he never be forgotten!
He was ordained to do so by God!
He doesn’t get the recognition he deserves in his efforts to free the slaves. Such a disgusting thing slavery is and was. I am a white male from the South Side of Chicago and I judge people on their character and not the color of their skin. May everyone be equal.
He is flawed in more ways you probably think he was. Yet his actions did serve the cause of the emancipation of slaves across the United States.
@jari lol lmao
at this point the only people who can't see that are being willfully ignorant. i'm a southern secessionist (before you clutch your pearls, it's mostly over federal corruption, corporate money in politics, and electrical policy) and even i acknowledge john brown was right.
Everyone when PragerU starts calling Robert E. Lee a hero and John Brown a traitor:
They did what
@@gabrielegenota1480 they literally had a segment in a video about Robert E. Lee where they said he should be honored for putting down John Brown's "slave revolt."
@@BorgCoitus what the fuccckkkkk???
It’s PragerU are you really surprised?
Prager Urine and Feces
As a black Mississippian, all praise John Brown!!! Dude is an absolute hero!!!
I as a white Mississippian share the same sentient, praise be to Brown, slayer of slavers and savior of the imprisoned!
The sad story is that there are very little to commemorate this wonderful American. Everything he said came to fruition...John Brown should have schools named in his honor and military bases. He was a soldier for God. Instead we have bridges. Bases, buildings named after traitors who took arms against the Union.
well sad brother
Southerners have succeeded in denigrating his name, just because he viewed African-Americans as equals. We need to make America great again and bring John Brown back!
Well said. Keep John Brown’s soul marching on, brothers and sisters. Fight isn’t over yet.
Well said. It’s disgraceful
They even changed the lyrics to this song, because he’s “too controversial”.
The Virgin Dixie vs. The Chad John Brown's Body/Battle Hymn of the Republic.
and the chad union Dixie ?
And chad whe. Johnny comes marching home?
virgin confederates- were traitors but cried about the thousands of people who "betrayed them" the bunch of hypocrites., fought for profits and maintaining a system that subjugated millions/went against everything the founders said they stood for, were racist, cowardly attacked fort sumter & later killed lincoln with a shot from behind
chad John Brown & company- were soldiers for God and freedom, were anti-racist, raided federal armories knowing they were going to be killed for it, upheld the founder's supposed belief in all being created equal and shot people who were violently opposed to this idea.
I am thoroughly disappointed that Pete Seeger left out the great lyric that "We'll hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree."
A "sour apple tree," interestingly enough, probably refers to the osage orange tree, which produces inedible green brain-looking fruit about the size of a softball. The fruit are called "sour apples" or "osage oranges," although the orange part of the name refers to the color of the wood and not the fruit. It's the hardest wood found in North America so was probably used as a preferred tree for hanging due to it's durability and strength and the fact that a branch was very unlikely to break under the weight of a man. They are found across Eastern Kansas where John Brown had many of his escapades.
Newsfight That is a neat fact thank-you for telling us
I wonder how that bastard would have liked them apples.
Newsfight than you you....for a....odd fact
Wouldn't have fit Seeger's brand too well, I think.
Neo-Confederates: The Confederacy did nothing wrong.
Me: *The power of John Brown compels you*
the top comment about this song being on youtube longer than the confederacy has a bunch of confederatboos in the replies
its entertaining
No matter how you look at it John Brown was a hero. He did what he did out of totally moral beliefs, and gave his life.
He was a tyrant not a heri
@@gavin7129 Who did he tyrannise? I can understand someone calling him a terrorist (as he and his sons killed people to advance a political cause) but no-one could honestly call him a tyrant.
@@gavin7129 cringe
@@gavin7129 how
@@gavin7129 cry more southerner
At first, John Brown was confused as to why he had been sent to Hell by God. But, he soon came to realize all the sinners around him were slavers.
He wasn't being punished. *He was the punishment.*
Rip and tear, until it is done!
After all, he's off to serve in the army of the lord.
Glad to see another Discordian in the comments here, as I write this I'm wearing my "John Brown did nothing wrong" shirt and my sacred chao necklace!
John Brown: I'm not trapped in here with you slavers... you slavers are trapped in here with me
I misread this as slaves, and was confused for a full minute!
As a Kansan I must say, John Brown is a hero and any that say otherwise are not true Americans who believe in freedom for all.
Amen fellow Kansan
Amen, fellow Kansan.
He was hardly a hero. A significant figure to be sure, but he was mentally ill
@@m00t53 Slavers deserved it.
@@Eastcyning He didn't know if they were slave owners or not. He killed people at random
"His zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine - it was as the burning sun to my taper light - mine was bounded by time, his stretched away to the boundless shores of eternity. I could live for the slave, but he could die for him." Frederick Douglas
It's 2018, December 2nd. 159 years ago today: "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done."
His fight is not yet finished.
cringe, ngl
@@huelads740 nah, extremley based
The international working class will put an end to wage slavery, to global capitalism!
Mitch Middleton I detect a commie
KaiserWilhelmTheInfinite And?
163 years since the tragic execution of this fine American hero.
His soul goes marching on.
GLORY GLORY HALLELUJAH
I wish they would adapt the John Brown biography "Midnight Rising" into a movie. Type in "midnight rising" and you get want-to-be trailers. His life was, umm, complicated. I would consider him a catalyst, an unlikely, tarnished, catalyst.
He and Sherman did one thing wrong. THEY STOPED
I mean...John Brown was executed
@@iceveins412 exactly he let them execute him
@@captaincrafterstudios2581 pretty cringe take, but he should've won morally.
John Brown is a BASED BEAST
Sherman is a second hand war Criminal
Nope. John Brown being executed frightened the Southern Planter class into forming the CSA, thus starting the war to end slavery, thus even in dying John Brown did nothing wrong
John “if you enslave be prepared to be razed” brown.
But seriously John Brown is a patriot and a hero. All the confederate statues should be replaced by John Brown.
Ah such a hero, the first person their little raid on harpers ferry killed was a freed black.
@@bernardsmith2994 ok Jonny reb
John "If Blacks Are Shackled, Your Ass Is Getting Tackled" Brown.
@@bernardsmith2994 I smell a traitor
@@hostomelhorsehoarder A smell a leftist who can't handle the truth.
Truly, an exceptional American.
An American hero, no less.
John Brown is an American hero. I'm from Wv and I'm proud of our history
Robert Mullins And you are not an American hero! You praise terrorists and traitors.
Dustin O'Connor Jesus Christ was hanged for treason. John Brown is a true christian knight.
Jeff Madrigal You probably think all mass murderers and psycho killers are heroes, you sick f*ck.
Jeff Madrigal John Brown was cut from the same mould as Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, Jack the Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer and Pol Pot, amongst others. Your admiration for him displays either an inherent stupidity and gullibility, Marxist brainwashing, or a disgusting admiration for psychopaths.
Dustin O'Connor revisionist idiocy.
Man saw three of his sons die right in front of him and still had the will to fight on. A legend.
To be fair he had plenty of sons to spare. Man hanged dong
"Now if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments. - I submit; so let it be done" - John Brown
@@lephishe6271 Bro was too based to be
164 years, and his soul is still marching on.
For all of us honest American's John Brown gives us a challenge to live up to. Either you can take the principles of liberty and freedom from tyranny seriously, or you get complacent in servitude. There is no inbetween. Thank you John Brown
Glory, glory, my friend.
Glory glory!
Why isn't his picture on one of the dollar bills yet?
MrZZooh southerners
he's worth way too much for that
@meep When referring political parties in the context of the Civil War, make sure you always clarify whether you're talking about the modern party or Civil War era party, while Republicans are conservatives and Democrats are progressives nowadays, during the Civil War era Republicans were the progressives while the Democrats were conservatives.
Maybe replace Grant on the 50 with John Brown. Grant was a great general but a shitty president
@@jjomalley6307 Grant’s presidency being a failure was highly exaggerated by proponents of the lost cause myth, Grant successfully crushed the first iteration of the clan and made the federal government a place where African American workers could be fairly treated (this was undone by Woodrow Wilson). Moreover, Grant was distinctly not involved in any of the corruption scandals that plagued his advisors and the US government at every level regardless of party was plagued by corruption after the Civil War period due to the amount of administrative bloat created by the Civil War era expansion of the federal government.
May history never forget John Brown, _the_ true American hero.
Amen
Sadly I don't think I was taught about him in school witch is wierd because they have no problem telling us that the civil war was about slavery(witch it was)
what's sadder is the fact that people don't know that the battle of hymn was entirely inspired by this song. They have been too afraid to tell of the story of this man due to the fear of seeing all statues of confederate loonies replaced with of his despite the fact that robert e lee never wanted his own statue and neither would he
As a Texan I approve of John Brown and his actions.
I am also a texan, no matter where people are born in this country he's a hero!
So am I and I believe their should be more statues of Mr Brown
You mean gunning down a freed black man? That's kinda odd
Bruh Texas was literally formed in a Race War against Brown People
@@universome511 What? Lol
It's truly odd how much this song affected me.
I think it's because I've only heard a fraction of this song before. And now I'm hearing it and it's *SO CLEARLY* and militantly anti-slavery.
This is what America *should be.*
This, to me, is the Honor of the United States Army.
"No man left behind" has ever rung so true. And from a song that's more than one hundred years old.
We should be ashamed. But more than that, we should take heed and continue to do right, that way we better cease the possibility of future wrongs.
"...the Honor of the United States Army" ? Where is the honor in murder? Come to think of it; the Army does have a history of murdering women, children and old people...Wounded Knee Massacre, the Sand Creek Massacre, The Bear River Massacre, etc...
Read the Battle Hymn of the Republic, the last verse starting with "in the glory" which ends with "He [Christ] died to make men holy, let us live to make men free."
This, and the line in "Battle Cry of Freedom"
"We will welcome to our numbers the loyal, true and brave,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom!
And although he may be poor, he shall never be a slave,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom!"
@@OnTheThirdDayThat’s the modern rendition.
The correct version is “As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free”
He was a true martyr, no human should ever experience slavery.
We need more John Browns now to stand agsinst both Republicans and Democrats!!
Here are the lyrics if anybody wants to sing along or just read along with the song:
John Brown’s body lies a moldering in the grave
John Brown’s body lies a moldering in the grave
John Brown’s body lies a moldering in the grave
But his soul goes marching on
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
His soul goes marching on
The stars above in Heaven are looking kindly down
The stars above in Heaven are looking kindly down
The stars above in Heaven are looking kindly down
On the grave of Old John Brown
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
His soul goes marching on
He captured Harper's Ferry with his nineteen men so true
He frightened old Virginia till she trembled through and through
They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew
But his soul goes marching on
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
His soul goes marching on
Well he’s gone to be a soldier in the army of the Lord
He’s gone to be a soldier in the army of the Lord
He’s gone to be a soldier in the army of the Lord
But his soul goes marching on
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
His soul goes marching on
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored
He has loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
His soul goes marching on
A man before his time who saw the truth.
Do you mean Pete, John Brown, or both?
Eddie Moran Yes
+frenchrebell May I excuse Lovejoy? The Branded hand? The caning of Summner? the 75% casualties of Bleeding Kansas being Free State civilians?
The reason you southrons are such big babies about John Brown is that for the first time in US history, a white man gave the south a taste of its own cowardly brutish medicine. A society built on the whip, the pistol and the bowie knife felt the wrath of a man who would not equivocate, was guided by his beliefs with eyes unclouded by race and took drastic actions.
Gilbert Van Buskirk yeah but this wreaks of childish bullshit so I think I'll pass
He saw the truth but was still fucking insane. (Referring to him murdering southern settlers and shit) The road to hell was paved in good intentions is a saying that comes to mind when describing John Brown.
The man who saw through prejudice and hate. He is a true hero, he might strengthen the whole 'white dies for a black' arguement, but he knew that if he was going to heaven, he would do it fighting to end the tyranny of the slave owners.
RIP John Brown, you are a hero to any and all races out there, keep marching.
@SLACKER614, John Brown would have made a good comrade.
@@ComradeGrimmGames Never a better approach to oppressors than John Brown's approach.
@@reapthewhirlwind2114, Definitely. It's a shame he's been forgotten by so many. When our time for revolution comes, we'll teach of his virtues along many other *genuine* American heroes.
The republican party was founded to end slavery.
@@austinlarson7113, Not entirely. Most abolitionists became Republicans, yes, but the party platform was not abolitionist. At most, the average Republican wanted to restrict slavery. That was Lincoln's own position running for office. He did not consider complete abolition until the confederacy had been defeated. Do remember that the Emancipation Proclamation only outlawed slavery in actively insurgent states- excluding the border states that had already been won back.
Lincoln is seen as an American hero for sending others to die for abolition, and yet John Brown is seen as a villain for giving his own life for abolition.
I’m an atheist, but I’d love to be wrong. I hope heaven is real, not because I want to go there, but because the thought that John Brown is anywhere else brings me to tears.
Oh look, the man himself hath spoken!
Johh brown is my hero and I may be a kid but I wish I could meet him
Men and women of action are always deemed as radical terrorists to the state and the feds. But I think that they capture the spirit of what we value in this country, standing up to and fighting against tyranny
Who sees John Brown as a villain? We learned in public school in the 70's that he was a martyr and my mom who is 30 years older believed the same.
@@evelynfalconnier4567 Southerners
If this ain’t playing at the protests, I ain’t goin’
You know what to do then
Most of the protests are just election fever tbh.
@@hexa3389 Buddy you've been watching too much Fox news
@@jasonst2871 No, they're just right.
@@LordVader1094 Is that why protests are still happening? The election is over shouldn't they have stopped?
Today is May 9th. Happy birthday, John Brown.
glory, glory hallelujah!
Had to come here after hearing Nikki Haley speak the boldest feckin civil war dog whistle in a town hall.
GLORY GLORY HALLELUJAH
One time when I visited the south a tour guide told our group, “the Civil War wasn’t about slavery, it was about states rights” I chided him for that, telling him, “Yeah, and what did the southern states want to continue having the right to do?” He ignored me. His presentation was rushed, and inaccurate. He pointed out a building that supposedly had some civil war significance. I found out later that the building was built during World War 1. SMH 🤦♂️ still lots of people who want to... ahem... white wash the evil perpetrated by the south.
I've heard that line too... "it wasn't about slavery"
Since when?
Funny. It was about "states' rights", yet the Confederate Constitution expressly removed the right of individual states to abolish slavery. This right existed under the United States, but the Confederacy removed it. So, even if a Confederate state wanted to abolish slavery, they did not have that right under the Confederate Constitution. So, "states' rights" my ass!
Also, Southern politicians at the time were not at all bashful about proclaiming that they were seceding over slavery. It is only since Reconstruction, when the South was trying to rehabilitate its image so as to no seem as uncivilized as they were, that the narrative has changed.
All the slavers have are their lies. We have the soul of John Brown.
The slavers also had it put in the Confederate Constitution that they were all Christians! They had no freedom of religion like in the U.S. Constitution. This was about religion as well as slavery.
John Brown, one of the greatest Americans who ever lived. An amazing American hero.
What are you talking about, Andrew Jackson was a general in the American south but he fought in the War of 1812. He wasn't a friend to the natives, sure, but again that was well before the Civil War. Stonewall Jackson is not the same as Andrew Jackson, ahahahhahahha.
That being said I love how crazy people are in the comments section of CZcams. It's like I'm really living in the 1860s!
Also lol this Frenchrebell guy. If general Stuart were worth a damn he would have showed up for battle at Gettysburg. Heh.
+Gilbert Van Buskirk You call the Confederate generals "seditious traitors"?. So were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and all of the leaders of The American Revolution now regarded by Americans as "heroes". Goes to show that one side's "seditious traitor" is the other side's "Founding Father".
In case you haven't guessed it. I'm a neocon.
+Gilbert Van Buskirk But all of that is irrelevant to the fact that, by the British Law of the 1770's, the colonial leaders of the American Revolution were still seditious traitors. And some states think that the slavery issue of the 1860's was a smokescreen issue to disguise Northern imperialism of the Southern States. For further reading on this matter, I refer you to Donald W. Livingston's essay on "Why the War Was Not About Slavery" .
And, despite me being a neocon, I am also a believer in racial equality and share your views on slavery. And I also commend your general knowledge of American history.
+frenchrebell Thank you Mr. frenchrebell. We neocons have a duty to get the truth past the Yankee lies, though, don't we?
+frenchrebell Then Welcome to the Southern movement, frenchrebell!
Me when someone says the War of Southern Aggression wasn’t about slavery:
As someone from Lawrence KS, I feel it’s important to note what a hero John Brown was.
Jacques Forêt I’m from Bonner Kansas and I love this so g
Kansas City, KS.
As your rival in Manhattan, I'm sorry your town caught on fire. But we both can hate those Missouri border ruffians!
My third grandfather was John Brown, he felt that all men were created equal in the eyes of God, and he gave his life for the belief... I hold his bible, that he gave to his daughter Ruth.. and I feel his caring for all people.. I wish I could have met him, only my great grandma as a child got to really know him...
John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave
John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave
John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave
But his soul goes marching on
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
His soul goes marching on
The stars above in Heaven are looking kindly down
The stars above in Heaven are looking kindly down
The stars above in Heaven are looking kindly down
On the grave of old John Brown
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
His soul goes marching on
He captured Harper's Ferry with his nineteen men so true
He frightened old Virginia till she trembled through and through
They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew
But his soul goes marching on
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
His soul goes marching on
He's gone to be a soldier in the Army of the Lord,
He's gone to be a soldier in the Army of the Lord,
He's gone to be a soldier in the Army of the Lord,
But his soul goes marching on.
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
His soul goes marching on
Mine eyes have seen the glory
Of the coming of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage
Where the grapes of wrath are stored,
He has loosed the fateful lightening
of His terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
Thank you so much!
This should be pinned
A much better transcript than the pinned one.
thanks.
@@PlutoniumDG yes
Nobody sings it like Pete! We miss you Pete! He was a great American who will never die as long as we have his music.
Amen, brother
I recommend John Brown for the Medal of Honor.
Who agrees with me?
@@jacobmuraco4276 Okay, how about a retroactive posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, then. Not an ironic name for a civilian award, in the least, imo.
The story of John Brown should be taught in every school. A true American hero and badass.
Public School system is still teaching people that the Civil War wasn't about slavery, but states rights.
There's something wrong with this. It needs to be fixed.
@@icspps that's mostly im the deeper south I think I live in Virginia and was taught that the civil war was about slavery
@@onerandomdude4015 I live in California. I was taught this.
@@icspps wasn’t taught that way in michigan, though it did call lee a military genius which is blatantly false
@@WeaselLikeMan was taught the same thing in Ohio which John Brown and Grant lived in Ohio but no mention of Brown and barely any of Grant unless it's about Lee.
why is robert Lee more celebrated that this man ?
Léo Blanc ironically Robert e lee hung john brown
+Robert Scannell I never did that!
General Lee you did too. I seent it
why do you fuckin' think?
Because Southern socialites were allowed to rewrite history because the racial equality portion of Reconstruction was not enforced.
old school wobblies had one tune but by GOD did they make use of it!
man we need more folks like john brown
Which Side Are You On tho.
John Brown still inspiring people today, as the song says, "his truth, (soul) goes marching on".....
+Gilbert Van Buskirk Mr. Buskirk, only a very small number of southerners owned slaves, and some of those who did actually sided with the Union. It is said by some that some of the Union officers also owned slaves, including General Ulysses S. Grant. Abraham Lincoln's emancipation proclamation only intended to free the slaves in the Confederate States that had not surrendered by January 1, 1863. So the institution of slavery was not entirely the fault of "Southern Confederates [sic[ bigots", now was it?
@@GilbertVanBuskirkIII All advocates of the institution of slavery are evil humans who deserve to die in the most cruel death possible.
"Northern agression? I'LL SHOW YA NORTHERN AGRESSION!"
John Brown; dared to enact traitorous action upon the worst tyranny imaginable. May he Rest In Peace.
DOWN WITH THE TRAITORS AND UP WITH THE STARS!
John Brown had the balls to act before everyone else, men like him are always the bravest of their age.
We need a John Brown today more than ever.
*ahem* George Floyd *clears throat*, nothing I was just coughing.
A John Brown for the ICE generation.
@@Mrjmaxted0291 Willem van Spronsen?
@yossarian honestly, why don't you go back to Europe?
@yossarian and what? ICE is doing what the natives should have done.
Pete Seeger's soul goes marching on
An ideal American. God bless John Brown and his insurrectionists. You set the Union on the path to victory!
Supreme Court " Our decision on Dredd Scott is that slavery is legal in America."
John Brown " I recognize that the court has made a decision, But given that it’s a stupid ass decision I’ve elected to ignore it!"
I find everything about the Civil War so very fascinating. It's interesting to the see the passions still aroused about the actions of a man like John Brown here so many years later, when everyone who was alive then is gone. Reminds me of a humorous quote I read the other day: "The American Civil War; 1860 - Present.". There is some unsettling truth in that.
Because Southerners refuse to put away the flag of tyranny in Stars & Bars, which was the flag of traitors. The Stars & Bars is no better than the Nazi Swasticka
***** Nice way of analysing the historical context, pretty different from emotional posts that have no facts and go overboard whit ignorant obscene comments.
***** You use statements Like "Phased Out" and "One more decade of slavery"!!! Are you serious!!! When people attempt to rationalize barbarity and savagery that has no parallel to date, it fuel's anger and a befuddled response. They weren't a "PRODUCT" to be phased out by new technology.NO! they weren't slave either. They were human being's forced into bondage under the most extreme violence. "One more decade"!!! Really???? You should be ashamed of yourself!!!!I'm am ashamed for!!
Not everyone is joking when they say "make the confederacy great again"...
One of the most unknown facts about the American Civil War is that both The Southern and Yankee Uniforms were made in Limerick City Ireland by a businessman named Mr. TaTe. The young seamstress girls used to sew in Sacred Heart Medals into both the uniforms to protect the soldiers dying by the dozen. The factory was located on Lord Edward Street Limerick. Now thats something you didnt know I bet! ... Kind Regards form Ireland .....
With John Brown it's difficult to know where the folklore ends and where the truth begins, but ultimately, it's irrelevant. He knew that slavery was wrong which is more than one can say for most in the states at that time.
@brmbly Well, that's good. They should be celebrated for that.
I dedicate this to Willem Van Spronson, a modern day John Brown. A hero. A martyr for freedom.
❤️
Glad I'm not the only one listening and thinking of him
✊🏽 Rest in Power Comrade! We will continue your work!
🏴❤️
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Can someone blast this at a Confederate rally?
they would cry
They would start by cheering, but one the song starts praising John brown they will start screaming like children
John Brown a true American relvolutionary.
I wonder what John Brown would have to say about the treatment of Black Americans in America today?
I'd say he would have a lot to say...
he would be cleaning his musket and setting route for Harper's Ferry again if he was alive now.
@@206hxcxMaybe somewhere else, though I get your point.
The Harpers Ferry Armory and whatnot was destroyed in the Civil War
Beware of virginia regiment young traveller, they hide in the replies
Very well
Their forefathers died in disgrace and that rocks.
Glory to John Brown and the martyrs of the emancipation and the struggle for civil rigths!
Happy birthday John, and well done for a life of heroism. Long live the memories of John Brown, Harriet Tubman and Pete Seeger!
And Abe Lincoln
My American heroes aren’t George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, or god forbid Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. My American heroes are John Brown, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Robert M. La Follette, Eugene Victor Debs, Thomas Paine and Sitting Bull, those who did not sit in silence as the United States spread oppression across the globe, but rather took up arms and spoke against it, and especially the TRUE Americans who died protecting their land from European invaders. Those are my American heroes.
This song is so touching. John Brown is the true American hero. His soul goes marching on!
we were learning about john brown on December 2nd in class, then we realized that was the same day he died. AMEN John Brown
I hope they arent still presenting him as a crazy person
jamberstone1 In my class our teacher told us to think for ourselves. So it’s getting better at that.
I say tear down every Robert Lee statues and place a statue of John Brown, a true American hero, in its place.
This is even more relevant now than ever.
I mean, I'd say it was *slightly* more relavant in 1859 but ok.
Does your mom know you ate the paint. The song didn't exist 1859 so it couldn't be relevant then.
@@Aragon1500 1861 then, 2 years out
@@callumsmodellingcentre6902 I wouldn't. Lost cause propaganda and "the war of northern aggression" are far more likely to be found in the south than anything resembling the truth.
@@Aragon1500 Pete Seeger didn't write the damn song, civil war soldiers did. Get off your high horse and love your neighbor like the old man would want.
This should be the national anthem tbh.
John Brown would roll over in his grave. He was an anarchist.
What about batyle hymn? Actually written as a patriotic song whith the same tune as this one.
Teutonic Boi as a Missourian who isn’t a slavery apologist, I love John Brown. He was a hero.
I can't find one symphonic version, but wouldn't it be something?
Agreed
Union troops often marched, singing this song! After Robert E. Lee's army had fled Richmond and the Union pursed him, General Grant had stopped on the porch of house to chat with an officer when Union soldiers of the 6th Corps were marching past. They recognized him and broke into cheers as well as singing "John Brown's Body". It was a great informal review of Grant's Union Army, as the long columns of soldiers went by well into the evening!
Mmmm, taste the yummy Confederate tears in the comments section. Sweet as the dream of true American freedom and equality.
Amen brother. God bless John brown and the nation of liberty and justice
UNION FOREVER
@@StayStrapped1 hell yeah
@@captaincrafterstudios2581 it's weird people who hate everything what USA represents calling the Confederates traitors. This socialists in Portland are the same vile scum of the Charleston slaveholders.
@@catarinamelchiorgomes8750 agreed
I'm a lifelong Kansan, and when I visit Washington DC, I'll be sure to visit Harper's Ferry and sing this song where he gave his life. Full circle and everything.
Just here on the anniversary of the Harper's Ferry raid. It's 2020 and we need the spirit of John Brown now more than ever.
He truly instilled fear in slavers. Bless him.
John Brown a man who gave his life trying to free others he was a true hero and a man I respect greatly he will be a new symbol and a great one for antifa
I don't think he was a commie.
@@95bekirable the manifesto wasn't widly published yet but he had communistic ideals
@@dreadedworld8864 Being a stonch christian favoring the interests of a capitolist north over a fuedal south isn't too "communist." That's not even considering the fact he'd be considered a bourgeoisie pig under most traditional communist theory. He also became quite familiar with the merchant class in the US, and owned a tannery buiseness. When you consider the fact he was still fighting a system that depended on collectivised labor, in the form of slaves- he'd likely not be a communist, just an Egalitarian Evangellical Christian.
@@Dameatii ok not gonna read that but I am happy for you or sorry for what happened
@@dreadedworld8864 Was just pointing out how John Brown was unlikely to be a communist.
glory, glory, hallelulia......his TRUTH goes
marches on!!!!!
R.I.P, Comrade Seeger. You were an inspiration to me. Sleep well.
Afro San *congestive heart failure intensifies*
94 years, not too bad.
Most of you right wing pricks will be lucky if you make it to 50 seeing as the closest thing you get to exercise is masturbation.
DOWN WITH THE TRAITORS UP WITH THE STARS
Down with the american Ceaser
Huey Long The Best Autocrat *crossing Mississippi intensifies*
possible most patriotic song ever
No, that definitely goes to The Star Spangled Banner. Or maybe the Battle Cry Of Freedom.
@@applescruff1969 or my favorite Columbia: The Gem of the Ocean
We need another John Brown today
screw that piece of shit
Fuck Robert e Lee Davis and the rest of those southern bigited trader u lost deal with it
@@shiprek03 John brown was more man than all those lazy aristacrats
@@vertrand8640 what kind of a dixie name is François? Enough defending traitors frog.
Whining about treason while defending the legacy of John Brown is hysterical. The US government's relationship with the South was bordering on colonial.
I can remember my cousin singing this song about sixty years ago. I never knew the meaning of the song and until tonight I hadn't heard the song again. My cousin grew up and became a preacher.
The world would be better if we had more John Browns
This is my grandma’s favourite song.
She taught me this when I was really small
John Brown did nothing wrong.
Sherman should have gone further.
Their ghosts may soon have to March with us.
Hmh, is that so?
What a hero and legend. This version is the best rendition of the song in my opinion.
Happy birthday John, may your soul and truth go marching on
John Brown is my distant relative. And I'd be glad to march on Harpers Ferry and die behind him and his beliefs of freedom.
love this song..cheers from tennessee
I heard of this song while on the Harper’s Ferry Ghost Tour from our tour guide who was recounting a personal experience to us. It’s a pretty good song.
As a Man United fan, I am proud to have a tribute to this as our hymn. This song is beautiful.
GLORY GLORY MAN UNITED
"Liberty and Justice for all"
*"For, All."*
"The civil war was about states rights, not slavery."
"It should have been called the war of northern aggression."
"Most confederates didn't own slaves."
"Black people supported the confederacy."
"What about (enter bad thing done by the u.s prior to the civil war)?"
Quick question, why did the Confederates states say they were leaving because of slavery if it had nothing to do with slavery
Ben Peters It because of what they repsent.
George Washington helped founded the nation and was the first president.
Thomas Jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and was also a president.
What do we remember these people for? Yes they own slaves, but we remember the bigger parts they played. Yes we should acknowledge that fact, but they were remembered for there good.
Jefferson Davis was the president of a group of states who were afriad that Lincoln was going to take away their slaves.
It’s what they were known for the most. You don’t put up statues of Hitler because he helped Germany rises up from economic crisis, because he was known for being one of the most evil person in the 20th centuries, modern history, and heck maybe in all of history depending on who you ask.
I have the best counter for this “OK BOOMER”
Good one Connor
What you say is mostly true. Not too many people are educated enough to realize or admit it.
One of the greatest Americans who ever lived. An absolute hero in every sense of the word.
Hardly
when the song of freedom rings out loud
from valleys and from hills
when people stand up for their rights
john brown is with us still
john brown fights with us still