John Brown (abolitionist) Quote

You had better — all you people at the South — prepare yourselves for a settlement of this question, that must come up for settlement sooner than you are prepared for it. The sooner you are prepared the better. You may dispose of me very easily, — I am nearly disposed by now; but this question is still to be settled, — this negro question I mean; the end of that is not yet.


Prison interview (1859)


You had better — all you people at the South — prepare yourselves for a settlement of this question, that must come up for settlement sooner than ...

You had better — all you people at the South — prepare yourselves for a settlement of this question, that must come up for settlement sooner than ...

You had better — all you people at the South — prepare yourselves for a settlement of this question, that must come up for settlement sooner than ...

You had better — all you people at the South — prepare yourselves for a settlement of this question, that must come up for settlement sooner than ...