Excerpt from John Brown At the suggestion of my friends, I have pub lished in an appendix a vindication of the char acter of John Brown from the principal charges which have within the last few years been brought against him, as well as some remarks on the bust of him by Brackett, from which the frontispiece in this volume is taken, and the account of a visit to the grave of John Brown, written by a distinguished member of the medical profession. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.