John Brown Song

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    This is my commandment, that ye love one another.
    Bible: New Testament Jesus, in John 15:12.

    It is a life-and-death conflict between all those grand, universal, man-respecting principles which we call by the comprehensive term democracy, and all those partial, person-respecting, class-favoring elements which we group together under that silver-slippered word aristocracy. If this war does not mean that, it means nothing.
    —Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921)

    In winter, when the fields are white,
    I sing this song for your delight—
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)