So frequently have pictures of the bridge appeared in books and in national publications that it vies with the old John Brown Fort at Harpers Ferry as the two nationally best known structures in West Virginia.

The Providence Daily Journal answered the Daily Post by stating that the raid of John Brown was characteristic of Democratic acts of violence and that `` He was acting in direct opposition to the Republican Party, who proclaim as one of their cardinal principles that they do not interfere with slavery in the states ''.

On October 31, 1859, John Brown was found guilty of treason against the state of Virginia, inciting slave rebellion, and murder.

Despite the excitement being caused by the trial and sentence of John Brown, Rhode Islanders turned their attention to the state elections.

During the month of November hardly a day passed when there was not some mention of John Brown in the Rhode Island newspapers.

On November 7, 1859, the Providence Daily Journal reprinted a letter sent to John Brown from `` E. B. '', a Quaker lady in Newport.

`` E. B. '' compared John Brown to Moses in that they were both acting to deliver millions from oppression.

In contrast to `` E. B. '', most Rhode Islanders hardly thought of John Brown as being another Moses.

The Woonsocket Patriot admitted that John Brown might deserve punishment or imprisonment `` but he should no more be hung than Henry A. Wise or James Buchanan ''.

In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.

A week later the Daily Journal had discovered the initial plans of some Providence citizens to hold a meeting honoring John Brown on the day of his execution.

On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, Virginia.

The only public demonstration in honor of John Brown was held at Pratt's Hall in Providence, on the day of his execution.

He spoke of his desire to promote the abolition of slavery by peaceable means and he compared John Brown of Harper's Ferry to the John Brown of Rhode Island's colonial period.

Barstow concluded that as Rhode Island's John Brown became a canonized hero, if not a saint, so would it be with John Brown of Harper's Ferry.

Whereas, John Brown has cheerfully risked his life in endeavoring to deliver those who are denied all rights and is this day doomed to suffer death for his efforts in behalf of those who have no helper: Therefore,

Diplomats stayed up nights thinking of ways to attain peaceful coexistence, not with Nikita Khrushchev, but with John Rooney.

She stayed at the house of John Chapman, the radical publisher whom she had met at Rosehill ( near Coventry ) and who had printed her translation.

Most succeeding Spaghetti Westerns tried to get a ragged, laconic hero with superhuman weapon skill, preferable one that looked like Clint Eastwood – Franco Nero, John Garko and Terence Hill started out that way ; Anthony Steffen and others stayed that way all their Spaghetti Western career.

Hoping to gain an advantage in the dispute, Wolfgang William converted to Catholicism ; John Sigismund, on the other hand, converted to Calvinism ( although Anna of Prussia stayed Lutheran ).

As a result, U. S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced McVeigh's execution would be stayed for one month.

* September 11 – Thirty Years ' War: As a result of Tilly's invasion, John George, Elector of Saxony, who had until now stayed neutral, allies with Gustav Adolf of Sweden in order to drive the Imperial army out of Saxony.

However, Louis IV had silenced the papal claims and John XXII stayed the rest of his life in Avignon.

The Romantic poet John Keats stayed in Winchester from mid-August to October 1819.

King John III was succeeded by Augustus II who stayed in power primarily because of Russian support.

For example, the forward half of future President John F. Kennedy's PT-109 ( Elco ) stayed afloat for 12 hours after she was cut in half by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri.

( Dulian would later become sales manager for the Tucker Car Corp .) Dulian was transferred a couple of years later ; Tucker stayed in Memphis and was a salesman for Ivor Schmidt ( Stutz ) and John Fischer ( Chrysler ), where he became general sales manager.

American missionary John Magee stayed behind to provide a 16 mm film documentary and first-hand photographs of the Nanking Massacre.

Clive Anderson stayed on as host when the show moved to television, with John Sessions resuming his role as the only regular in the first series.

Three years afterward, when all the dignitaries of the Empire met at Augsburg to receive commands from the emperor, and Titian came at Charles's bidding to paint King Philip II of Spain, John Frederick asked Cranach to visit the city ; and here for a few months he stayed in the household of the captive elector, whom he afterward accompanied home in 1552.

People such as James Whitcomb Riley, John L. Sullivan and Harry Lauder are known to have stayed at the hotel, which burned down in 1920.

Powell was himself put in the county jail by an MP detachment from Eglin field and stayed there until his attorney, John M. Coe, Pensacola, released him through circuit court action.

The night before John Brown stayed in Prairie City and Quantrill's raiders passed within three miles ( 5 km ) of Baldwin after the burning of Lawrence in 1863.

Grant stayed at Waverly, the plantation of John B. Peyton, and Union soldiers used St. Mark's Episcopal Church as a hospital.

It was still an ecclesiastical centre when Henry II, King of England stayed here in 1171, and except for a brief period after 1185 when his son King John of England built a ' castellum ' here, it served as the episcopal residence of the local bishop.

During World War I, Doolittle stayed in the United States as a flight instructor and performed his war service at Camp John Dick Aviation Concentration Center (" Camp Dick "), Texas ; Wright Field, Ohio ; Gerstner Field, Louisiana ; Rockwell Field, California ; Kelly Field, Texas and Eagle Pass, Texas.

Various visiting British monarchs stayed at the Viceregal Lodge, notably Queen Victoria and George V. American presidents hosted here include Presidents John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all of Irish descent.

Former chairman John Wardle stayed on the board for a year, but resigned in July 2008 following Nike executive Garry Cook's appointment as executive chairman in May.

After the death of his father / half-brother in 1853 John Louis's ownership had stayed within the family and he remained known as the slave of Morgan W. Brown even though Judge Morgan Welles Brown was deceased.

John stayed in England to dispose of the family property and joined his family in Toronto in 1832.

Leatherface and the hitchhiker bring an old man, " Grandpa " ( John Dugan ), from upstairs to share the meal.

In 1642, in an upstairs room known as the Plotting Parlour, Sir John Hotham resolved to bar King Charles I from Kingston upon Hull.

He moved upstairs in 1974, becoming the club's general manager for the next three years, with John Lyall being placed in charge of the first team.

" And then when we did a scene, we were shooting, and he was so low-energy that John Landis sent him upstairs and said, " Just rest, Eddie, and I'll do the scene with Bronson.

Poets such as John Ashbery, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Donald Hall, and Frank O ' Hara were regulars at the store during their time as undergraduates at Harvard ; the poet Conrad Aiken lived upstairs from the store in its early days.