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• When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person. — John Sergeant Wise
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• THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died. — John Sergeant Wise
• The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky. — John Sergeant Wise
• My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia. — John Sergeant Wise
• It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors. — John Sergeant Wise