Pete Seeger John Brown s body

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  • @cheatcharoninc172
    @cheatcharoninc172 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5075

    fun fact: *this video has been in youtube longer than the confederacy has ever existed*

    • @akorn9943
      @akorn9943 2 ปีที่แล้ว +368

      Glory glory hallelujah!

    • @unknownuser6940
      @unknownuser6940 2 ปีที่แล้ว +157

      And may our motto ever be, for union men, for liberty!

    • @AristonSparta
      @AristonSparta 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      that isn't fun... why do people constantly call things that aren't fun "fun facts"

    • @onewingedangel9189
      @onewingedangel9189 2 ปีที่แล้ว +314

      @@AristonSparta oh but it is

    • @Jay-629
      @Jay-629 2 ปีที่แล้ว +147

      @@onewingedangel9189 no it isn’t, the confederacy lasted far too long

  • @Preston6757
    @Preston6757 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2469

    Us government: *Doesn't free slaves*
    John Brown: "𝘞𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬."

    • @greatandmightykevin
      @greatandmightykevin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +100

      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)

    • @bespit6654
      @bespit6654 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@greatandmightykevin pumps ten million shots of slasher
      *time stops*

    • @brremsilverte.9022
      @brremsilverte.9022 3 ปีที่แล้ว +100

      I do not enjoy killing, but when done righteously it is but a chore like any other.

    • @DuBstep115
      @DuBstep115 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      John Brown: Fine, I'll do it myself

    • @akorn9943
      @akorn9943 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Oh my god John Brown and Joshua Graham are literally the same person this is amazing

  • @Killzoneguy117
    @Killzoneguy117 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2550

    U.S. Government: "we're not going to free the slaves"
    John Brown: *fine, I'll do it myself*

    • @Bladeofwar94
      @Bladeofwar94 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      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!

    • @Killzoneguy117
      @Killzoneguy117 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@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.

    • @greatandmightykevin
      @greatandmightykevin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@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.

    • @liamcollins9183
      @liamcollins9183 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@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.

    • @Killzoneguy117
      @Killzoneguy117 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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.

  • @ironicdivinemandatestan4262
    @ironicdivinemandatestan4262 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2467

    John “If blacks are in shackles, your ass is gettin’ tackled.” Brown

    • @sirmount2636
      @sirmount2636 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He murdered a black guy on one of his raids

    • @ToluacheLoc
      @ToluacheLoc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +185

      @@sirmount2636 STFU NEO-CONFEDERATE

    • @generalsherman519
      @generalsherman519 3 ปีที่แล้ว +267

      @@sirmount2636 Completely accidental.

    • @friendlywobbly9903
      @friendlywobbly9903 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      nice pfp

    • @friendlywobbly9903
      @friendlywobbly9903 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@ToluacheLoc not you, TANKIE

  • @Sana_a04
    @Sana_a04 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2953

    Everyone when PragerU starts calling Robert E. Lee a hero and John Brown a traitor:

    • @gabrielegenota1480
      @gabrielegenota1480 3 ปีที่แล้ว +309

      They did what

    • @BorgCoitus
      @BorgCoitus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +759

      @@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."

    • @gabrielegenota1480
      @gabrielegenota1480 3 ปีที่แล้ว +382

      @@BorgCoitus what the fuccckkkkk???

    • @ncs2195
      @ncs2195 3 ปีที่แล้ว +461

      It’s PragerU are you really surprised?

    • @ehs1452
      @ehs1452 3 ปีที่แล้ว +131

      Prager Urine and Feces

  • @paulmahoney7619
    @paulmahoney7619 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2533

    When the kid from Virginia starts ranting about ‘the war of Northern Aggression.’

    • @llamaOats
      @llamaOats 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Lol

    • @frapseddatsht
      @frapseddatsht 4 ปีที่แล้ว +189

      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.

    • @saudade7842
      @saudade7842 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      As a Virginian I approve!

    • @Jemoto-wn3nw
      @Jemoto-wn3nw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +123

      Chad Persinger love the excuse of “states rights” the states right for what

    • @antrim7008
      @antrim7008 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      @@frapseddatsht Blame Woodrow Wilson for spreading this myth.

  • @JohnAndTroy
    @JohnAndTroy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4141

    Replace every confederate statue with John Brown.

    • @AbrahamLincoln4
      @AbrahamLincoln4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +269

      YES

    • @samuelrichards5521
      @samuelrichards5521 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      John brown shouldn't be deifeid either

    • @StayStrapped1
      @StayStrapped1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +182

      DJ Dave he’s a American hero

    • @ilikedota5
      @ilikedota5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      @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.

    • @Ladyofthelake48
      @Ladyofthelake48 4 ปีที่แล้ว +171

      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.

  • @hihello207
    @hihello207 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1518

    Take down the traitors' statues and replace them with John Brown.

    • @thatonedudebutwho9919
      @thatonedudebutwho9919 4 ปีที่แล้ว +168

      The virgin Confederate statue vs The Chad John Brown Statue

    • @romualdcaffeserre6230
      @romualdcaffeserre6230 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      @@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.

    • @MrMobiusfan
      @MrMobiusfan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@user-qx9ok3gb4o Only in the eyes of traitors.

    • @BoogalooBoy
      @BoogalooBoy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thatonedudebutwho9919 John Brown was hanged like a dawg, can't see how he was a chad if he was a white knight.

    • @realkingofwales3917
      @realkingofwales3917 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      @@BoogalooBoy A so how one dies now determines one's character? That is a ridiculous mentality.

  • @kuwinsitall
    @kuwinsitall 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2981

    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.

    • @amonduul2154
      @amonduul2154 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Really ?

    • @sampeterson6538
      @sampeterson6538 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      John Frum “he *wasn’t* all talk and no action”

    • @plainiack_arts4076
      @plainiack_arts4076 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Yeah!! Kansas gang

    • @fuckitweballin759
      @fuckitweballin759 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      @Lucas McCullah you think he would've debated the slave owners? Lmao. Fuck outta here with that liberal civility fetishism, Senator Douglas

    • @fuckitweballin759
      @fuckitweballin759 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      @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.,

  • @DerEinzige
    @DerEinzige 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1205

    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.*

    • @chewchewtrain
      @chewchewtrain 3 ปีที่แล้ว +196

      Rip and tear, until it is done!

    • @ZLScratch
      @ZLScratch 3 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      After all, he's off to serve in the army of the lord.

    • @RedKincaid
      @RedKincaid 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      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!

    • @pogwog5309
      @pogwog5309 2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      John Brown: I'm not trapped in here with you slavers... you slavers are trapped in here with me

    • @meganmills9623
      @meganmills9623 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I misread this as slaves, and was confused for a full minute!

  • @hardlineamerican8495
    @hardlineamerican8495 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2215

    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.

    • @TjtheSquishyLegomanic
      @TjtheSquishyLegomanic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Amen fellow Kansan

    • @ironicdivinemandatestan4262
      @ironicdivinemandatestan4262 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Amen, fellow Kansan.

    • @m00t53
      @m00t53 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      He was hardly a hero. A significant figure to be sure, but he was mentally ill

    • @Eastcyning
      @Eastcyning 4 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      @@m00t53 Slavers deserved it.

    • @m00t53
      @m00t53 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@Eastcyning He didn't know if they were slave owners or not. He killed people at random

  • @TimeandMonotony
    @TimeandMonotony 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3252

    John Brown was a true hero and freedom-lover who gave his life for the people of this country! May he never be forgotten!

    • @mishutoful
      @mishutoful 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      He was ordained to do so by God!

    • @marvinmonroe3462
      @marvinmonroe3462 3 ปีที่แล้ว +135

      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.

    • @thatonekid9177
      @thatonekid9177 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      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.

    • @stevendayt97
      @stevendayt97 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @jari lol lmao

    • @lepidotos
      @lepidotos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      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.

  • @RealAlanSmithee
    @RealAlanSmithee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1123

    I am thoroughly disappointed that Pete Seeger left out the great lyric that "We'll hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree."

    • @newsfight1801
      @newsfight1801 3 ปีที่แล้ว +265

      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.

    • @windwaker105
      @windwaker105 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      Newsfight That is a neat fact thank-you for telling us

    • @DickEnchilada
      @DickEnchilada 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      I wonder how that bastard would have liked them apples.

    • @rokkfel4999
      @rokkfel4999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Newsfight than you you....for a....odd fact

    • @GalvatronRodimus
      @GalvatronRodimus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Wouldn't have fit Seeger's brand too well, I think.

  • @kingMT514
    @kingMT514 ปีที่แล้ว +403

    As a black Mississippian, all praise John Brown!!! Dude is an absolute hero!!!

    • @crimsondynamo615
      @crimsondynamo615 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      I as a white Mississippian share the same sentient, praise be to Brown, slayer of slavers and savior of the imprisoned!

  • @ZLScratch
    @ZLScratch ปีที่แล้ว +734

    163 years since the tragic execution of this fine American hero.
    His soul goes marching on.

    • @ViktorEnjoyer
      @ViktorEnjoyer 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      GLORY GLORY HALLELUJAH

    • @user-zv4fh6cq2s
      @user-zv4fh6cq2s 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      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.

  • @MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive
    @MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive 3 ปีที่แล้ว +343

    The Virgin Dixie vs. The Chad John Brown's Body/Battle Hymn of the Republic.

    • @nemicofitid3617
      @nemicofitid3617 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      and the chad union Dixie ?

    • @duncanabrams7441
      @duncanabrams7441 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      And chad whe. Johnny comes marching home?

    • @mayayamato7351
      @mayayamato7351 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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.

  • @FRANKIESIXTOES
    @FRANKIESIXTOES 3 ปีที่แล้ว +936

    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.

    • @gavin7129
      @gavin7129 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He was a tyrant not a heri

    • @calebwheeler8143
      @calebwheeler8143 3 ปีที่แล้ว +144

      @@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.

    • @putridtortilla6285
      @putridtortilla6285 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      @@gavin7129 cringe

    • @validuranium1890
      @validuranium1890 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@gavin7129 how

    • @flamandzrumem6053
      @flamandzrumem6053 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@gavin7129 cry more southerner

  • @juansantiago3296
    @juansantiago3296 3 ปีที่แล้ว +428

    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.

    • @mynameudste
      @mynameudste 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      well sad brother

    • @CodeZaffre
      @CodeZaffre 2 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      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!

    • @goroakechi6126
      @goroakechi6126 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Well said. Keep John Brown’s soul marching on, brothers and sisters. Fight isn’t over yet.

    • @neilbarnes7537
      @neilbarnes7537 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Well said. It’s disgraceful

    • @NaviRyan
      @NaviRyan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      They even changed the lyrics to this song, because he’s “too controversial”.

  • @PatriotMapper
    @PatriotMapper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +190

    Neo-Confederates: The Confederacy did nothing wrong.
    Me: *The power of John Brown compels you*

    • @eggisfun4217
      @eggisfun4217 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      the top comment about this song being on youtube longer than the confederacy has a bunch of confederatboos in the replies
      its entertaining

  • @veiledAutonym
    @veiledAutonym 5 ปีที่แล้ว +891

    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.

    • @huelads740
      @huelads740 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      cringe, ngl

    • @ammarally3055
      @ammarally3055 4 ปีที่แล้ว +138

      @@huelads740 nah, extremley based

    • @mitchmiddleton8413
      @mitchmiddleton8413 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      The international working class will put an end to wage slavery, to global capitalism!

    • @theformerkaiser9391
      @theformerkaiser9391 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Mitch Middleton I detect a commie

    • @ammarally3055
      @ammarally3055 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      KaiserWilhelmTheInfinite And?

  • @notandromeda847
    @notandromeda847 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Remember, kids, it's not terrorism if they're slave owners

    • @pancytryna9378
      @pancytryna9378 ปีที่แล้ว

      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

  • @lisa2948
    @lisa2948 4 ปีที่แล้ว +199

    Truly, an exceptional American.

    • @lemonlite_
      @lemonlite_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      An American hero, no less.

  • @MegaVortigern
    @MegaVortigern 3 ปีที่แล้ว +111

    "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

  • @robertmullins6501
    @robertmullins6501 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1306

    John Brown is an American hero. I'm from Wv and I'm proud of our history

    • @colarisaka
      @colarisaka 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Robert Mullins And you are not an American hero! You praise terrorists and traitors.

    • @KD-jb9pq
      @KD-jb9pq 6 ปีที่แล้ว +162

      Dustin O'Connor Jesus Christ was hanged for treason. John Brown is a true christian knight.

    • @colarisaka
      @colarisaka 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Jeff Madrigal You probably think all mass murderers and psycho killers are heroes, you sick f*ck.

    • @colarisaka
      @colarisaka 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.

    • @KD-jb9pq
      @KD-jb9pq 6 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      Dustin O'Connor revisionist idiocy.

  • @jhonklan3794
    @jhonklan3794 ปีที่แล้ว +201

    Man saw three of his sons die right in front of him and still had the will to fight on. A legend.

    • @sereese4937
      @sereese4937 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      To be fair he had plenty of sons to spare. Man hanged dong

    • @lephishe6271
      @lephishe6271 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      "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

    • @MelyricanGovernment
      @MelyricanGovernment 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@lephishe6271 Bro was too based to be

  • @captaincrafterstudios2581
    @captaincrafterstudios2581 4 ปีที่แล้ว +524

    He and Sherman did one thing wrong. THEY STOPED

    • @iceveins412
      @iceveins412 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      I mean...John Brown was executed

    • @captaincrafterstudios2581
      @captaincrafterstudios2581 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@iceveins412 exactly he let them execute him

    • @inkaf225
      @inkaf225 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@captaincrafterstudios2581 pretty cringe take, but he should've won morally.

    • @t.gregory835
      @t.gregory835 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      John Brown is a BASED BEAST
      Sherman is a second hand war Criminal

    • @JackClockerinos
      @JackClockerinos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      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

  • @MacMillan_the_First
    @MacMillan_the_First 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1378

    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.

    • @ComradeGrimmGames
      @ComradeGrimmGames 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @SLACKER614, John Brown would have made a good comrade.

    • @reapthewhirlwind2114
      @reapthewhirlwind2114 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      @@ComradeGrimmGames Never a better approach to oppressors than John Brown's approach.

    • @ComradeGrimmGames
      @ComradeGrimmGames 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@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
      @austinlarson7113 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The republican party was founded to end slavery.

    • @ComradeGrimmGames
      @ComradeGrimmGames 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@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.

  • @MichaelTheAwesome32
    @MichaelTheAwesome32 4 ปีที่แล้ว +378

    May history never forget John Brown, _the_ true American hero.

    • @captaincrafterstudios2581
      @captaincrafterstudios2581 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Amen

    • @onerandomdude4015
      @onerandomdude4015 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      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)

    • @henocksherlock3340
      @henocksherlock3340 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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

  • @mrpopeshistoryclass7285
    @mrpopeshistoryclass7285 3 ปีที่แล้ว +488

    As a Texan I approve of John Brown and his actions.

    • @Bob-fh4ht
      @Bob-fh4ht 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I am also a texan, no matter where people are born in this country he's a hero!

    • @kyleshiflet9952
      @kyleshiflet9952 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      So am I and I believe their should be more statues of Mr Brown

    • @stonewalljackson5692
      @stonewalljackson5692 ปีที่แล้ว

      You mean gunning down a freed black man? That's kinda odd

    • @universome511
      @universome511 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bruh Texas was literally formed in a Race War against Brown People

    • @stonewalljackson5692
      @stonewalljackson5692 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@universome511 What? Lol

  • @GoodAvatar
    @GoodAvatar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +224

    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.

    • @josephschultz3301
      @josephschultz3301 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      "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.

    • @jamesturnage1967
      @jamesturnage1967 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "...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...

    • @OnTheThirdDay
      @OnTheThirdDay 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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."

    • @jamesdakrn
      @jamesdakrn 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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!"

    • @TheT-90thatstaresintoyoursoul
      @TheT-90thatstaresintoyoursoul 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@OnTheThirdDayThat’s the modern rendition.
      The correct version is “As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free”

  • @voidutopian
    @voidutopian 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    164 years, and his soul is still marching on.

  • @247lethal
    @247lethal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +178

    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

    • @josephschultz3301
      @josephschultz3301 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Glory, glory, my friend.

    • @Senriam
      @Senriam 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glory glory!

  • @basedGODDDDDDDDDDDDD
    @basedGODDDDDDDDDDDDD 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1272

    A man before his time who saw the truth.

    • @edwardomoran
      @edwardomoran 9 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Do you mean Pete, John Brown, or both?

    • @wotnograpefruit
      @wotnograpefruit 9 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Eddie Moran Yes

    • @christopherkimball350
      @christopherkimball350 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      +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.

    • @Sky-pg6xy
      @Sky-pg6xy 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gilbert Van Buskirk yeah but this wreaks of childish bullshit so I think I'll pass

    • @Epicbam
      @Epicbam 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.

  • @hewhogoesbymanynames
    @hewhogoesbymanynames 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1147

    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.

    • @andrzejwilk7316
      @andrzejwilk7316 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Oh look, the man himself hath spoken!

    • @thunderkatz4219
      @thunderkatz4219 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Johh brown is my hero and I may be a kid but I wish I could meet him

    • @JesusSanchez-kc7wn
      @JesusSanchez-kc7wn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      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

    • @evelynfalconnier4567
      @evelynfalconnier4567 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      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.

    • @erack117
      @erack117 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      @@evelynfalconnier4567 Southerners

  • @samwiseb2799
    @samwiseb2799 2 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    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.

    • @bernardsmith2994
      @bernardsmith2994 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ah such a hero, the first person their little raid on harpers ferry killed was a freed black.

    • @boneboy1517
      @boneboy1517 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bernardsmith2994 ok Jonny reb

    • @ZLScratch
      @ZLScratch 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      John "If Blacks Are Shackled, Your Ass Is Getting Tackled" Brown.

    • @hostomelhorsehoarder
      @hostomelhorsehoarder 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@bernardsmith2994 I smell a traitor

    • @bernardsmith2994
      @bernardsmith2994 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hostomelhorsehoarder A smell a leftist who can't handle the truth.

  • @davidintrabartolo5887
    @davidintrabartolo5887 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Today is May 9th. Happy birthday, John Brown.

    • @saltedjules_
      @saltedjules_ ปีที่แล้ว +3

      glory, glory hallelujah!

  • @gregorflopinski9016
    @gregorflopinski9016 4 ปีที่แล้ว +391

    If this ain’t playing at the protests, I ain’t goin’

    • @williamsledge3151
      @williamsledge3151 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      You know what to do then

    • @hexa3389
      @hexa3389 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Most of the protests are just election fever tbh.

    • @jasonst2871
      @jasonst2871 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @@hexa3389 Buddy you've been watching too much Fox news

    • @LordVader1094
      @LordVader1094 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jasonst2871 No, they're just right.

    • @jasonst2871
      @jasonst2871 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@LordVader1094 Is that why protests are still happening? The election is over shouldn't they have stopped?

  • @MrZZooh
    @MrZZooh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +351

    Why isn't his picture on one of the dollar bills yet?

    • @ShidaiTaino
      @ShidaiTaino 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      MrZZooh southerners

    • @odessawild7798
      @odessawild7798 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      he's worth way too much for that

    • @JollyOldCanuck
      @JollyOldCanuck 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @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
      @jjomalley6307 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Maybe replace Grant on the 50 with John Brown. Grant was a great general but a shitty president

    • @JollyOldCanuck
      @JollyOldCanuck 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@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.

  • @ultraviolet7838
    @ultraviolet7838 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Me when someone says the War of Southern Aggression wasn’t about slavery:

  • @michaelh2001
    @michaelh2001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +176

    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.

    • @rockthelightGomer
      @rockthelightGomer ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I've heard that line too... "it wasn't about slavery"
      Since when?

    • @anyaw340
      @anyaw340 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      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.

    • @marcusweber7436
      @marcusweber7436 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      All the slavers have are their lies. We have the soul of John Brown.

    • @jerrimenard3092
      @jerrimenard3092 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      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.

  • @Joker-om7ff
    @Joker-om7ff 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    He was a true martyr, no human should ever experience slavery.

  • @jacquesforet3156
    @jacquesforet3156 4 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    As someone from Lawrence KS, I feel it’s important to note what a hero John Brown was.

    • @thunderkatz4219
      @thunderkatz4219 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Jacques Forêt I’m from Bonner Kansas and I love this so g

    • @berniekatzroy
      @berniekatzroy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Kansas City, KS.

    • @rockthelightGomer
      @rockthelightGomer ปีที่แล้ว

      As your rival in Manhattan, I'm sorry your town caught on fire. But we both can hate those Missouri border ruffians!

  • @Mountainpeakprophet
    @Mountainpeakprophet 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Had to come here after hearing Nikki Haley speak the boldest feckin civil war dog whistle in a town hall.
    GLORY GLORY HALLELUJAH

  • @grugg3108
    @grugg3108 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    "Northern agression? I'LL SHOW YA NORTHERN AGRESSION!"

  • @cuthbertjolly4859
    @cuthbertjolly4859 9 ปีที่แล้ว +781

    John Brown, one of the greatest Americans who ever lived. An amazing American hero.

    • @Shootkicksass
      @Shootkicksass 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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 TH-cam. 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.

    • @jamesronniegreen3312
      @jamesronniegreen3312 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +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.

    • @jamesronniegreen3312
      @jamesronniegreen3312 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +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.

    • @jamesronniegreen3312
      @jamesronniegreen3312 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +frenchrebell Thank you Mr. frenchrebell. We neocons have a duty to get the truth past the Yankee lies, though, don't we?

    • @jamesronniegreen3312
      @jamesronniegreen3312 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +frenchrebell Then Welcome to the Southern movement, frenchrebell!

  • @SunnierVoyage97
    @SunnierVoyage97 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    DOWN WITH THE TRAITORS AND UP WITH THE STARS!

  • @tz3456
    @tz3456 ปีที่แล้ว +156

    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

  • @herberger223
    @herberger223 11 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    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...

  • @Mr.BoogieWoogie
    @Mr.BoogieWoogie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    I recommend John Brown for the Medal of Honor.
    Who agrees with me?

    • @stephenwright8824
      @stephenwright8824 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@jacobmuraco4276 Okay, how about a retroactive posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, then. Not an ironic name for a civilian award, in the least, imo.

  • @GabrielUngacta
    @GabrielUngacta 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    We need more John Browns now to stand agsinst both Republicans and Democrats!!

  • @Ejz1988
    @Ejz1988 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    The story of John Brown should be taught in every school. A true American hero and badass.

    • @icspps
      @icspps 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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.

    • @onerandomdude4015
      @onerandomdude4015 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@icspps that's mostly im the deeper south I think I live in Virginia and was taught that the civil war was about slavery

    • @icspps
      @icspps 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@onerandomdude4015 I live in California. I was taught this.

    • @WeaselLikeMan
      @WeaselLikeMan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@icspps wasn’t taught that way in michigan, though it did call lee a military genius which is blatantly false

    • @exploreohio1735
      @exploreohio1735 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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.

  • @justforever96
    @justforever96 10 ปีที่แล้ว +302

    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.

    • @APBAGreat
      @APBAGreat 9 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      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

    • @nitropost
      @nitropost 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ***** Nice way of analysing the historical context, pretty different from emotional posts that have no facts and go overboard whit ignorant obscene comments.

    • @willwright2099
      @willwright2099 9 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      ***** 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!!

    • @teslashark
      @teslashark 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Not everyone is joking when they say "make the confederacy great again"...

    • @beinspiredlivelife2242
      @beinspiredlivelife2242 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      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 .....

  • @roberttreborable
    @roberttreborable 8 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    John Brown still inspiring people today, as the song says, "his truth, (soul) goes marching on".....

    • @jamesronniegreen3312
      @jamesronniegreen3312 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +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?

    • @quisqueyanguy120
      @quisqueyanguy120 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@GilbertVanBuskirkIII All advocates of the institution of slavery are evil humans who deserve to die in the most cruel death possible.

  • @firebat36
    @firebat36 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    John Brown had the balls to act before everyone else, men like him are always the bravest of their age.

  • @TheEmperorCho
    @TheEmperorCho 10 ปีที่แล้ว +131

    Pete Seeger's soul goes marching on

  • @surgeland9084
    @surgeland9084 6 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    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.

    • @surgeland9084
      @surgeland9084 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @brmbly Well, that's good. They should be celebrated for that.

  • @MrSkinhead911
    @MrSkinhead911 7 ปีที่แล้ว +432

    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.

    • @biolumess4463
      @biolumess4463 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you so much!

    • @PlutoniumDG
      @PlutoniumDG 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This should be pinned

    • @figjam59
      @figjam59 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A much better transcript than the pinned one.

    • @idontknoq4813
      @idontknoq4813 ปีที่แล้ว

      thanks.

    • @idontknoq4813
      @idontknoq4813 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@PlutoniumDG yes

  • @gregorflopinski9016
    @gregorflopinski9016 4 ปีที่แล้ว +154

    Beware of virginia regiment young traveller, they hide in the replies

  • @ElmoRocket49
    @ElmoRocket49 7 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    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.

  • @volk4all805
    @volk4all805 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    He truly instilled fear in slavers. Bless him.

  • @battyrae1398
    @battyrae1398 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    old school wobblies had one tune but by GOD did they make use of it!
    man we need more folks like john brown

    • @AshiraMK
      @AshiraMK 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Which Side Are You On tho.

  • @collegiumpontificum7971
    @collegiumpontificum7971 4 ปีที่แล้ว +925

    Mmmm, taste the yummy Confederate tears in the comments section. Sweet as the dream of true American freedom and equality.

    • @captaincrafterstudios2581
      @captaincrafterstudios2581 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Amen brother. God bless John brown and the nation of liberty and justice

    • @StayStrapped1
      @StayStrapped1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      UNION FOREVER

    • @captaincrafterstudios2581
      @captaincrafterstudios2581 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@StayStrapped1 hell yeah

    • @henriquemelchiorgomes8750
      @henriquemelchiorgomes8750 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@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.

    • @captaincrafterstudios2581
      @captaincrafterstudios2581 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@henriquemelchiorgomes8750 agreed

  • @shitpostadmiralty2921
    @shitpostadmiralty2921 6 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    An ideal American. God bless John Brown and his insurrectionists. You set the Union on the path to victory!

  • @daryno9048
    @daryno9048 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I say tear down every Robert Lee statues and place a statue of John Brown, a true American hero, in its place.

  • @alexblack8565
    @alexblack8565 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    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!"

  • @ChrisDeanXYZ
    @ChrisDeanXYZ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +202

    We need a John Brown today more than ever.

    • @ethanblair7368
      @ethanblair7368 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      *ahem* George Floyd *clears throat*, nothing I was just coughing.

    • @Mrjmaxted0291
      @Mrjmaxted0291 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      A John Brown for the ICE generation.

    • @Xx_BoogieBomber_xX
      @Xx_BoogieBomber_xX 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Mrjmaxted0291 Willem van Spronsen?

    • @henriquemelchiorgomes8750
      @henriquemelchiorgomes8750 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @yossarian honestly, why don't you go back to Europe?

    • @henriquemelchiorgomes8750
      @henriquemelchiorgomes8750 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @yossarian and what? ICE is doing what the natives should have done.

  • @KingMob.
    @KingMob. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    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...

    • @206hxcx
      @206hxcx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      he would be cleaning his musket and setting route for Harper's Ferry again if he was alive now.

    • @TheT-90thatstaresintoyoursoul
      @TheT-90thatstaresintoyoursoul 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@206hxcxMaybe somewhere else, though I get your point.
      The Harpers Ferry Armory and whatnot was destroyed in the Civil War

  • @steeltoecommunist6980
    @steeltoecommunist6980 7 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Glory to John Brown and the martyrs of the emancipation and the struggle for civil rigths!

  • @stephensmith5795
    @stephensmith5795 10 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Happy birthday John, and well done for a life of heroism. Long live the memories of John Brown, Harriet Tubman and Pete Seeger!

    • @APBAGreat
      @APBAGreat 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And Abe Lincoln

  • @metal4ever516
    @metal4ever516 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    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.

  • @magneto44
    @magneto44 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    possible most patriotic song ever

    • @applescruff1969
      @applescruff1969 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      No, that definitely goes to The Star Spangled Banner. Or maybe the Battle Cry Of Freedom.

    • @whattawhaddaya6561
      @whattawhaddaya6561 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@applescruff1969 or my favorite Columbia: The Gem of the Ocean

  • @treymagathan847
    @treymagathan847 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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.

  • @richardc.gusman665
    @richardc.gusman665 7 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    we were learning about john brown on December 2nd in class, then we realized that was the same day he died. AMEN John Brown

    • @jamberstone1
      @jamberstone1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I hope they arent still presenting him as a crazy person

    • @namoa8202
      @namoa8202 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      jamberstone1 In my class our teacher told us to think for ourselves. So it’s getting better at that.

  • @leoblanc7805
    @leoblanc7805 7 ปีที่แล้ว +892

    why is robert Lee more celebrated that this man ?

    • @Balon-Breakspear
      @Balon-Breakspear 6 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Léo Blanc ironically Robert e lee hung john brown

    • @grouchomarx5609
      @grouchomarx5609 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Robert Scannell I never did that!

    • @Balon-Breakspear
      @Balon-Breakspear 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      General Lee you did too. I seent it

    • @agenericbot
      @agenericbot 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      why do you fuckin' think?

    • @RamdomView
      @RamdomView 6 ปีที่แล้ว +221

      Because Southern socialites were allowed to rewrite history because the racial equality portion of Reconstruction was not enforced.

  • @CountGrasshopper
    @CountGrasshopper 7 ปีที่แล้ว +478

    This should be the national anthem tbh.

    • @thesmiler1579
      @thesmiler1579 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      John Brown would roll over in his grave. He was an anarchist.

    • @gifyifhkhmcucyk6865
      @gifyifhkhmcucyk6865 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      What about batyle hymn? Actually written as a patriotic song whith the same tune as this one.

    • @huckthatdish
      @huckthatdish 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Teutonic Boi as a Missourian who isn’t a slavery apologist, I love John Brown. He was a hero.

    • @downandout73
      @downandout73 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I can't find one symphonic version, but wouldn't it be something?

    • @tthesurvivalist7737
      @tthesurvivalist7737 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agreed

  • @jholtgym
    @jholtgym 9 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    glory, glory, hallelulia......his TRUTH goes
    marches on!!!!!

  • @russianbear7832
    @russianbear7832 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Can someone blast this at a Confederate rally?

    • @mynameudste
      @mynameudste 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      they would cry

    • @hostomelhorsehoarder
      @hostomelhorsehoarder 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They would start by cheering, but one the song starts praising John brown they will start screaming like children

  • @chaosXP3RT
    @chaosXP3RT 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    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!

  • @controllerplayer2091
    @controllerplayer2091 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    John Brown; dared to enact traitorous action upon the worst tyranny imaginable. May he Rest In Peace.

  • @Punk__pixie
    @Punk__pixie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    We need a john brown today, maybe one day if I got nothing left to lose lol 🤷‍♂️

  • @pepitojudeallen797
    @pepitojudeallen797 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Happy birthday John, may your soul and truth go marching on

  • @whailingwhale6352
    @whailingwhale6352 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Let's get this to 100,000,000 Views
    "They hanged him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew."

  • @lilboydafriend
    @lilboydafriend 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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.

  • @Alexbrodbeck1096
    @Alexbrodbeck1096 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This song is so touching. John Brown is the true American hero. His soul goes marching on!

  • @uddhabdhakal1472
    @uddhabdhakal1472 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This is my grandma’s favourite song.
    She taught me this when I was really small

  • @J0sh_395
    @J0sh_395 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Happy Bday John Brown.

  • @thegrasswhistle5238
    @thegrasswhistle5238 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    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.

  • @Tea_N_Crumpets
    @Tea_N_Crumpets 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    “We can’t expect God to do all the work”
    -John Brown, probably

  • @hoboboatman
    @hoboboatman 7 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    May the people of Charlottesville find their place.

  • @Pharry_
    @Pharry_ ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The world would be better if we had more John Browns

  • @alexelliott5662
    @alexelliott5662 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    John Brown, Abe Lincoln and General Sherman; three American heroes!

  • @GaryBettmanSucks1
    @GaryBettmanSucks1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +302

    We need another John Brown today

    • @shiprek03
      @shiprek03 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      screw that piece of shit

    • @ruthbuschard7735
      @ruthbuschard7735 5 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Fuck Robert e Lee Davis and the rest of those southern bigited trader u lost deal with it

    • @ruthbuschard7735
      @ruthbuschard7735 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      @@shiprek03 John brown was more man than all those lazy aristacrats

    • @fadhlanarmon3670
      @fadhlanarmon3670 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@vertrand8640 what kind of a dixie name is François? Enough defending traitors frog.

    • @vertrand8640
      @vertrand8640 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Whining about treason while defending the legacy of John Brown is hysterical. The US government's relationship with the South was bordering on colonial.

  • @quinnrollen
    @quinnrollen 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    A hero singing about a hero.

  • @dreadedworld8864
    @dreadedworld8864 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    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

    • @95bekirable
      @95bekirable 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't think he was a commie.

    • @dreadedworld8864
      @dreadedworld8864 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@95bekirable the manifesto wasn't widly published yet but he had communistic ideals

    • @Dameatii
      @Dameatii 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@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.

    • @dreadedworld8864
      @dreadedworld8864 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Dameatii ok not gonna read that but I am happy for you or sorry for what happened

    • @Dameatii
      @Dameatii 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@dreadedworld8864 Was just pointing out how John Brown was unlikely to be a communist.

  • @eric3844
    @eric3844 10 ปีที่แล้ว +289

    R.I.P, Comrade Seeger. You were an inspiration to me. Sleep well.

    • @user-bq3qw2dt6m
      @user-bq3qw2dt6m 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Afro San *congestive heart failure intensifies*

    • @imdaman4539
      @imdaman4539 6 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      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.

    • @lukejohns5900
      @lukejohns5900 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      DOWN WITH THE TRAITORS UP WITH THE STARS

    • @josephsmith9724
      @josephsmith9724 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Down with the american Ceaser

    • @lukejohns5900
      @lukejohns5900 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Huey Long The Best Autocrat *crossing Mississippi intensifies*

  • @kalynbrown1966
    @kalynbrown1966 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This song is about my great great grand grandfather lmao

  • @Aragon1500
    @Aragon1500 4 ปีที่แล้ว +192

    This is even more relevant now than ever.

    • @callumsmodellingcentre6902
      @callumsmodellingcentre6902 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      I mean, I'd say it was *slightly* more relavant in 1859 but ok.

    • @Aragon1500
      @Aragon1500 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Does your mom know you ate the paint. The song didn't exist 1859 so it couldn't be relevant then.

    • @callumsmodellingcentre6902
      @callumsmodellingcentre6902 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Aragon1500 1861 then, 2 years out

    • @frapseddatsht
      @frapseddatsht 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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.

    • @DudeMichaelJackson
      @DudeMichaelJackson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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.

  • @JohnSmith-uk6wh
    @JohnSmith-uk6wh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    This should be the national anthem.

  • @baracksays9401
    @baracksays9401 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    One of the greatest Americans who ever lived. An absolute hero in every sense of the word.

  • @agenericbot
    @agenericbot 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    We need john brown today