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and they kept stabbing at him
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and they kept hitting the brass belt buckle.
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He was captured, put in jail in Charles Town,
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Virginia, just four miles up the road.
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And in November 1859 he would get the most famous,
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sensational trial that the United States had ever seen.
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I'm going to leave you there
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because it's the John Brown hanging and execution
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and the aftermath that is the most important template
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of that election year of 1860 soon to come.