The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1778 - Meet The Domestic Terrorist Who Is Now Worshipped As A Hero
Aired: 2026-05-12
Duration: 47:42


=== Sparking the American Civil War (15:17) ===

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[00:00:56]  On Monday, we established that everything you've been told about the civil rights movement was a lie.
[00:01:02]  Beginning in the 1960s and continuing to this day, self described champions of civil rights.
[00:01:08]  Have relied on propaganda campaigns and violent riots to achieve their objectives, which have nothing to do with racial equality and everything to do with anti white race hatred, which was openly encouraged by the Soviets for the express purpose of dividing America and destroying us from within.
[00:01:26]  As Democrats from Virginia to California recast all of their current political battles as civil rights struggles, it's never been more important to understand their actual motivations.
[00:01:38]  And to do that, You need to understand the history that they're lying about, which is why we launched part one of the real history of the civil rights yesterday on the Daily Wire.
[00:01:48]  Now, at the same time, there's a reason that we released a separate but very much related documentary on the Civil War a month ago.
[00:01:58]  Now, the truth is that if you want to understand the era of mass deception and racial hysteria that's been ongoing for decades in this country, you can't view the civil rights era in isolation.
[00:02:09]  You have to go back much further than the 1960s.
[00:02:12]  Specifically, you have to understand that.
[00:02:14]  Everything you've been taught about the Civil War is a lie as well.
[00:02:19]  You have to understand why exactly the Civil War began because no school in the entire country will tell you the actual reason.
[00:02:27]  And to come to this understanding, you have to put yourself in the position of a white American Southerner in the late 1850s, which is something that you're never supposed to do because you're supposed to believe that all white American Southerners in the 1850s were cartoon villains, but they weren't.
[00:02:46]  They were human beings, they were regular people.
[00:02:49]  Now, let's run this thought experiment for a second using actual numbers from US Census data.
[00:02:56]  Let's assume you're a normal guy, and just like 94% of the white population of the South, you don't own any slaves.
[00:03:04]  I'll say that again.
[00:03:06]  You were just like the 5.1 million other white people in the South, 94%, who did not own a single slave.
[00:03:13]  You were not one of the 316,000 slave owners.
[00:03:19]  And most of the people you know don't own slaves either.
[00:03:22]  Slavery is not a part of your day to day life.
[00:03:26]  Your attitude towards people of different races is probably about the same as the attitude of almost everybody in the North and almost everyone of every race on the planet at the time.
[00:03:37]  This was not an enlightened attitude by our standards today, but then nobody at the time, anywhere on the globe, of any race, had an attitude that we would consider racially enlightened.
[00:03:50]  Now, even so, The supposedly anti slavery good guys were on a campaign to massacre you and everybody who looks like you.
[00:03:58]  They were butchering white infants in the crib.
[00:04:02]  They made it clear that they wanted to wipe out your entire bloodline and the bloodline of anybody who looks like you.
[00:04:08]  And just imagine that for a second.
[00:04:09]  Try to understand the level of moral panic and mass psychosis that must have gripped the northern states for any of this to be happening.
[00:04:17]  Try to imagine what a typical southerner would do faced with a situation like that.
[00:04:22]  Now, they wouldn't be interested in an insurrection or a civil war over a political or economic dispute, but they would certainly be interested in doing whatever it took to survive, and understandably so.
[00:04:33]  And in 2026, you need to understand that a similar mass psychosis, a similar glorification of the mass murder of conservative white people, which has resulted in many deaths and which will potentially result in many, many more, is underway as we speak.
[00:04:47]  The exact same sort of hysteria that led to the Civil War is once again being invoked by a major political party in this country, explicitly so.
[00:04:56]  Only this time around, slavery doesn't exist in this country at all.
[00:05:00]  There is no actual evil like slavery.
[00:05:03]  For the anti white militants in our time to use as a pretense, but that hasn't stopped them.
[00:05:09]  And once you understand the history of the Civil War, you'll agree that this state of affairs, one way or another, simply cannot continue.
[00:05:16]  It's untenable.
[00:05:19]  There's one man who is central to understanding the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, as well as the violence that the left seeks to commit today, and his name was John Brown.
[00:05:28]  Now, to the extent that you've heard about John Brown at all, the basic idea is that he was a brave, though eccentric and maybe slightly crazy, Abolitionist who led an armed uprising against slavery before it was cool to do so.
[00:05:40]  Public schools, media outlets, and the entertainment industry all tell the same story about John Brown.
[00:05:46]  Here, for example, is an excerpt from the trailer of the recent Showtime miniseries about John Brown starring Ethan Hawke.
[00:05:54]  This is from the same people who made the film Get Out, unsurprisingly enough.
[00:06:00]  Watch.
[00:06:03]  My name is Captain John Brown!
[00:06:07]  And I am.
[00:06:24]  The man of Trinity!
[00:06:26]  Cause he is on the side of justice!
[00:06:32]  And you are on the side of change!
[00:06:42]  Whatever he believed, he believed.
[00:06:44]  Didn't matter if it was true or not.
[00:06:47]  The old man was nuttier than a squirrel's herd.
[00:06:48]  Onion, you've been reading the Bible?
[00:06:52]  Not too much, Captain, but I've been thanking him in a jolly way.
[00:06:55]  We can work together.
[00:06:56]  You stand for the Lord.
[00:06:57]  The Lord will stand for you.
[00:06:58]  And for you.
[00:07:02]  So you get the idea.
[00:07:04]  Maybe John Brown's a little off kilter.
[00:07:05]  Maybe he's got his heart, you know, but he's got his heart in the right place.
[00:07:08]  And if anything, his insanity, his total disinterest and self preservation makes him a better fighter for a righteous cause.
[00:07:16]  That's the message they're sending.
[00:07:17]  And indeed, the top comment on the trailer reads For everyone who called him insane, he was as sane as the times he lived in.
[00:07:25]  So message received.
[00:07:28]  Amazingly enough, you'll also find John Brown's portrait in the National Portrait Gallery, which is a federal building just a few blocks from the Capitol in Washington.
[00:07:37]  In fact, there are several portraits of John Brown hanging in that gallery.
[00:07:42]  On their official website, here's how the National Portrait Gallery describes John Brown Abolitionist John Brown believed he had been called by God to embark on a personal crusade to end slavery.
[00:07:51]  Brown and five of his sons were actively engaged in the bloody guerrilla war being waged in Kansas in 1855 to 56 between pro slavery and anti slavery factions.
[00:08:01]  But in 1857, Brown began making plans for the 1859 raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, an event that would make him both infamous and immortal.
[00:08:11]  The scheme to commandeer firearms with which to arm a slave rebellion failed, and Brown was captured, tried, and hanged.
[00:08:17]  His insurrection found favor among many northern abolitionists.
[00:08:22]  That's the description that you'll find in most history textbooks all over the country.
[00:08:25]  It's obviously a very flattering portrayal, and it's not an unusual one.
[00:08:32]  There's a similar sentiment pretty much everywhere else on the internet.
[00:08:35]  John Brown's celebrity has enjoyed something of a resurgence recently.
[00:08:38]  On Theo Vaughn's show, Shane Gillis offered this interpretation of John Brown's life.
[00:08:45]  They're going to rise up if I let John Brown do that.
[00:08:49]  Did he really?
[00:08:49]  Yeah, that's how he sparked the Civil War in America.
[00:08:51]  He was like, I'm going to start a.
[00:08:52]  He thought, rightfully so, that slavery was a.
[00:08:56]  He was very religious and he was like, this is the gravest sin.
[00:08:59]  John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.
[00:09:01]  Yeah, he was like, if I go take the armory at Harper's Ferry.
[00:09:04]  All the slaves from all the area are going to join us.
[00:09:06]  And not many of them did.
[00:09:07]  Most none.
[00:09:08]  So he's a white guy or black guy?
[00:09:10]  He was a honky.
[00:09:11]  But his last name was Brown.
[00:09:12]  He gets a lot of credit in the black community.
[00:09:13]  Does he really?
[00:09:14]  I mean, he was the man.
[00:09:15]  He started some shit.
[00:09:16]  And they hung him.
[00:09:16]  He's from Kansas or something.
[00:09:19]  Yeah.
[00:09:20]  Wow.
[00:09:20]  So he really was trying his best.
[00:09:21]  Maybe he was just out in Kansas.
[00:09:22]  He might be.
[00:09:23]  And who hung him?
[00:09:24]  The whites?
[00:09:24]  Yeah, the honkies got him.
[00:09:26]  God.
[00:09:26]  He's buried in the mountains in New York.
[00:09:30]  How do you pronounce this?
[00:09:31]  I don't know how to pronounce that word.
[00:09:33]  Adirondack.
[00:09:34]  Yeah, there we go.
[00:09:35]  Okay.
[00:09:35]  Everyone had it.
[00:09:40]  He.
[00:09:40]  He was a beast.
[00:09:41]  He was getting after it, though, before he did that.
[00:09:43]  He was killing all the Southern sympathizers.
[00:09:46]  Slave owners?
[00:09:46]  Sympathizers?
[00:09:47]  Yeah, in Kansas.
[00:09:48]  Him and his sons were macheting people.
[00:09:51]  Pretty good guy.
[00:09:52]  So he's a pretty good guy.
[00:09:54]  He killed the slave owners and the sympathizers.
[00:09:57]  He got after it with machetes.
[00:09:59]  And sadly, in the end, the honkies got him.
[00:10:02]  Those disgraceful whites executed an American hero.
[00:10:06]  That's coming from a comedian who many on the right consider to be an independent thinker.
[00:10:09]  He's transgressive and so on, supposedly.
[00:10:12]  And here he's just repeating the same depraved, slanderous narrative as everybody else.
[00:10:17]  A few months ago on Reddit, fans of U.S. history ranked John Brown on their list of top 10 greatest Americans of history, just behind Martin Luther King Jr.
[00:10:27]  The list also includes the mostly fictional character of Harriet Tubman, a disabled woman who was transformed into a mythical hero by two communist writers who invented tales of the Underground Railroad out of thin air.
[00:10:39]  But we'll talk about her later.
[00:10:41]  In the meantime, the left wing outlet Jacobin just wished John Brown a happy birthday Radical abolitionist John Brown was born on this day in 1800.
[00:10:51]  I acknowledge no master in human form.
[00:10:54]  And in response to that post, the brother of Hakeem Jeffries, who's the Democrat leader in the House, wrote the following kind of troubling statement John Brown understood the only way to free America from the scourge of white supremacy was to get rid of white supremacists by any means necessary.
[00:11:09]  He was right then, he is right now.
[00:11:14]  Now, all these people know exactly what they're doing.
[00:11:18]  In that case, very explicitly calling for the extermination of white people.
[00:11:21]  That's what that is.
[00:11:23]  And someone like that, when he says white supremacist, that's what he means.
[00:11:26]  He draws no distinction between white supremacists and just white conservatives.
[00:11:30]  We're all the same.
[00:11:33]  And, you know, they know that John Brown did not target white supremacists, actually.
[00:11:37]  He didn't target slave owners either.
[00:11:39]  He targeted white people.
[00:11:41]  He wanted to start a race war.
[00:11:44]  And ultimately, although no one likes to admit it, he succeeded beyond his wildest imagination.
[00:11:51]  Along with many other so called abolitionists, John Brown.
[00:11:54]  Pushed the South to take up arms against the North by terrorizing them and by threatening to turn their communities into violent hellscapes in which white people were systematically hunted and executed.
[00:12:03]  It's precisely the fact that John Brown and the abolitionists succeeded and pressured the South into the war that makes him an icon on the left today.
[00:12:11]  They want to emulate what they see as his success.
[00:12:17]  Now, again, if you doubt any of this, imagine that you're a white farmer living in the territory of Kansas in April of 1856.
[00:12:24]  Let's say your name is James Doyle.
[00:12:27]  And at public meetings, the topic of slavery is often discussed, even though, again, most whites in the South don't own slaves.
[00:12:32]  The mood is often extremely tense, but none of the anger is directed at you.
[00:12:36]  After all, you don't have a dog in the fight.
[00:12:38]  And then one day, a pro slavery sheriff is shot while he's sitting in his tent.
[00:12:44]  In retaliation, the pro slavery side, composed of roughly 750 men from Missouri, Alabama, and South Carolina, storms into the town of Lawrence, Kansas, which was home to a large anti slavery population.
[00:12:56]  In fact, abolitionists Had set up their own illegitimate rival state government there after a disputed election, which caused numerous clashes and standoffs, including the shooting of the sheriff.
[00:13:05]  And the pro slavery men came in, they destroyed a hotel, newspapers, and even the houses of some abolitionists.
[00:13:14]  No one has killed, but it's a massive escalation of the violence.
[00:13:17]  You're obviously worried about the future of the country.
[00:13:19]  At the same time, as Mr. James Doyle, the farmer, you don't think of yourself as a target because you haven't taken any position on slavery whatsoever.
[00:13:28]  And again, you're not a slave owner.
[00:13:31]  Then the next night, From dozens of miles away, John Brown arrives at your community with about 30 riflemen, not interested in punishing the pro slavery attackers who torched Lawrence.
[00:13:41]  Instead, because you're a white guy, he's interested in killing you in the most sadistic fashion imaginable.
[00:13:48]  So here's what happens to you.
[00:13:50]  This is from Thomas Fleming's fantastic book, A Disease in the Public Mind, which everybody should read.
[00:13:56]  And I'll read from the book now Brown, his four sons, and two other followers dragged five unarmed men out of their cabins.
[00:14:05]  Brown ordered his sons to execute them before the horrified eyes of their wives and children using two edged cavalry swords that all but amputated arms and legs and heads.
[00:14:15]  Perhaps most appalling were the murders of James P. Doyle and his two oldest sons, while Doyle's wife, Mahala, pleaded frantically for their lives, and four other bewildered Doyle children watched the butchery.
[00:14:27]  The Doyles were immigrants from Tennessee who had come to Kansas seeking a better life.
[00:14:30]  They had no interest in owning slaves.
[00:14:32]  The goal of the slaughter, John Brown said, was to strike terror into the hearts of the pro slavery people.
[00:14:38]  Brown's son, Jason, who was seriously mentally ill most of the time and had not accompanied the killers, shouted in his father's face that it was an uncalled for, wicked act.
[00:14:48]  Brown grimly replied that he would let God be my judge.
[00:14:53]  Well, it wasn't just God who was judging.
[00:14:55]  The whole country was watching.
[00:14:56]  Bleeding Kansas, as the crisis would be called, was a civil war in miniature.
[00:15:01]  The situation was tense, but actual deaths were rare.
[00:15:04]  Brown murdering five people, especially in such a grisly way, was a nationwide news.
[00:15:10]  It led to dozens of other deaths and ensuing clashes between pro and anti slavery militias.
[00:15:15]  The military had to intervene to keep the peace.

=== Bleeding Kansas Miniature Conflict (03:20) ===

[00:15:18]  Brown was an undeniably evil man.
[00:15:21]  Who killed innocent people?
[00:15:25]  That's it.
[00:15:27]  That makes you an evil person, deliberately killing, slaughtering innocent people.
[00:15:32]  He had warrants out for his arrests for murder, and yet he managed to earn himself a fandom by doing this.
[00:15:38]  He could travel relatively freely in the North and was even able to raise the equivalent of millions of dollars from wealthy Northerners, including people with enormous influence, who also weren't punished for supporting what everybody would understand today as terrorism.
[00:15:53]  He was a domestic terrorist.
[00:15:55]  Major public figures, politicians, intellectuals in the North tripped over themselves to defend a crazy guy who shows up at strangers' houses and chops them into pieces with a sword.
[00:16:09]  Now, what's critical to understand about Brown's first massacre, which took place three years before his infamous raid on Harper's Ferry, that we'll discuss in a moment, is that his strategy of demonizing and murdering innocent white people was not, in fact, abnormal.
[00:16:22]  It was the defining characteristic.
[00:16:24]  Of these factions of the abolitionist movement.
[00:16:28]  In fact, it was the go to strategy for many of these activists and freedom fighters going back several decades.
[00:16:35]  So, at a certain point, if you're a rational white Southerner, you would stop putting up with this, especially if the same abolitionists who supported terrorism against him were seen as having taken control of the federal government, which also then began threatening to launch a military invasion of the South during the secession crisis.
[00:16:54]  A rational white Southerner might take up arms not to defend slavery.
[00:16:58]  But to defend himself.
[00:17:01]  And that's what happened.
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[00:18:22]  You know, in our Civil War episode of Real History, available now on Daily Wire, which you should go watch.
[00:18:29]  And if you haven't watched the Civil Rights Movement one, I'd watch the Civil War one and then the Civil Rights Movement one.

=== Nat Turner and Race War (15:15) ===

[00:18:38]  But we go into this that the political reasons for the war, which did certainly include slavery, though not solely slavery, often had nothing to do with the personal motivations of the men actually doing the fighting on either side.
[00:18:57]  For the men in the South who actually did the fighting, they saw it not as a war to defend slavery, but as a war to defend their own lives and their homes.
[00:19:08]  And that makes a lot of sense because, again, the vast majority of them didn't have slaves, especially the men who were doing the fighting.
[00:19:16]  Most of them were poor farm boys.
[00:19:19]  They didn't have slaves.
[00:19:20]  They were not going to go to the field of battle and die horrifically for the sake of defending some plantation owner's right to own a slave.
[00:19:28]  It doesn't make any sense.
[00:19:31]  That's not what motivates people.
[00:19:33]  Certainly, it's not what motivates them to risk their lives.
[00:19:36]  What does motivate them is the perception that they are defending their own life, their family's life, and their home.
[00:19:42]  And if we have the intellectual courage to be honest about it, we could see why they might have perceived it that way.
[00:19:51]  We could see why Robert E. Lee, when given the chance, given the choice between leading the army of the North or fighting for the South, he chose the South.
[00:20:03]  Not because he wanted to defend slavery, and not even because he favored secession, he didn't.
[00:20:09]  But because, from his perception, He was fighting to defend his home where he lived from an invading army.
[00:20:18]  The federal government was going to send an army into his home, his state, where he lives.
[00:20:24]  And he could either join that army and take up his sword against his own family, his own community, his own home, his own sons, probably, or he could fight against them.
[00:20:34]  He chose to fight against them.
[00:20:37]  Not for slavery and not even for secession.
[00:20:40]  This is the distinction that's very important for people to understand, and it's totally lost in the way that this.
[00:20:45]  That this subject is taught in schools and handled by the media in Hollywood going back decades.
[00:20:51]  Now, consider what happened after Nat Turner's rebellion in late August of 1831, and more specifically, consider how abolitionists responded to it.
[00:20:59]  The substack called American Tribune made this connection.
[00:21:02]  It's a very important one.
[00:21:03]  So, Nat Turner was a black preacher and slave.
[00:21:07]  He also believed he was on a sacred mission from God to free as many slaves as possible.
[00:21:11]  And to that end, Turner gathered some followers and brutally murdered his owner, Joseph Travis, as he slept in his bed.
[00:21:18]  Hatchet was found in his brain.
[00:21:21]  And then the mob executed Travis's wife, as well as several other family members, members of his family, including an infant.
[00:21:29]  Virginius Dabney writes in his book, Virginia, the New Dominion, that, quote, the child's brains were bashed out against the brick fireplace.
[00:21:37]  It was reminiscent of the barbarism of the slave revolts in places like Haiti or Santo Domingo.
[00:21:43]  And in fact, Turner himself explicitly referenced those revolts.
[00:21:46]  He said that once the whites were eradicated, the mob would achieve the happy effects of their brethren in St. Domingo.
[00:21:52]  And establish a government of their own.
[00:21:55]  But Turner wasn't done at that point.
[00:21:56]  More than 50 innocent people were slaughtered, primarily women and children.
[00:22:00]  And towards the end of the rebellion, Turner's gang of executioners proceeded to a farmhouse owned by the Vaughan family, where he came across Rebecca Vaughan.
[00:22:08]  She was gathering vegetables for dinner in her garden.
[00:22:12]  And when the mob arrived, she informed them that she was defenseless and alone with her children, and they slaughtered her anyway, along with her 15 year old son, who ran towards his mother in an attempt to rescue her.
[00:22:23]  And then 15 year old Eliza Vaughan was cut down with gunfire as she sprinted into the woods to try to escape.
[00:22:30]  The family was slaughtered.
[00:22:32]  Simply for being white.
[00:22:34]  A reporter for a Virginia newspaper who was also a member of the militia that responded to the massacre wrote the following account of what happened Whole families, father, mother, daughters, sons, sucking babes, and school children butchered, thrown into heaps, and left to be devoured by hogs and dogs or to putrefy on the spot.
[00:22:52]  One school teacher and 10 of her students were piled in one bleeding heap on the classroom floor.
[00:23:00]  Shortly afterwards, a Virginia militia arrived.
[00:23:02]  Backed by several hundred regulars, and they quickly suppressed the revolt and beheaded many of the slaves who participated in the slaughter of men, women, and children.
[00:23:10]  In the aftermath of the rebellion, roughly 100 blacks were killed, including blacks who were not directly involved in the rebellion, which was obviously an atrocity as well.
[00:23:21]  A race war erupted, essentially.
[00:23:23]  That's what happened, and the leaders of the abolitionists were happy to see it.
[00:23:26]  In fact, the single most prominent abolitionist of the time, William Lloyd Garrison, celebrated the fact that people were dying because of their skin color as Fleming.
[00:23:35]  Writes, quote, Garrison privately welcomed this retaliation on October 19, 1831.
[00:23:41]  He told one correspondent that he was pleased.
[00:23:43]  The disturbances at the South still continue.
[00:23:45]  The slaveholders are given over to destruction.
[00:23:48]  They are determined to shut out the light.
[00:23:51]  Here was a signal revelation of the fundamental flaw in William Lloyd Garrison's character, a flaw that permeated the New England view of the rest of America, an almost total lack of empathy.
[00:24:00]  Fellow Americans had just been exposed to an awful experience, a tragedy that, Dramatize in horrendous terms the problem of Southern slavery?
[00:24:08]  Did Garrison express even a hint of sympathy or pity for these stunned, grieving families and their terrified neighbors?
[00:24:14]  Did he confess that his immediate emancipation slogan was wrong or at least in need of amendment?
[00:24:19]  The only emotion Garrison permitted himself was thinly disguised gloating in a call for sympathy for the slaves.
[00:24:24]  No matter how much they deserved this emotion, was this the time to demand it?
[00:24:29]  Close quote.
[00:24:32]  Now you have to ask yourself what kind of person would gloat after white women were brutally carved up and white children had their heads bashed into a fireplace.
[00:24:40]  But this is the reality that they don't tell you about.
[00:24:44]  You see, John Brown was not an aberration.
[00:24:47]  The reason John Brown gained a large following is that more than any other abolitionist, he terrorized whites in the South.
[00:24:53]  He took the fight to enemy civilians.
[00:24:57]  He pushed Southerners into a war that they couldn't win, which allowed for even more slaughter.
[00:25:02]  And the South's defeat paved the way for Reconstruction and the Civil Rights era, which directly infringed on the constitutional rights of every white man in the country.
[00:25:11]  And that's why they revere John Brown.
[00:25:15]  Now, if you disagree, if you think the Civil War was merely an ideological battle over slavery and nothing else, then you have to explain away the undying, overwhelming rage that was directed at the South, often in biblical terms.
[00:25:27]  As Fleming puts it, the South was portrayed as a province ruled by Satan that would consume the North's soul if her citizens did not vow to expunge the sin of slavery.
[00:25:37]  Even prominent political figures who opposed slavery found themselves overwhelmed with.
[00:25:41]  The sheer dishonesty of the abolitionist tactics.
[00:25:43]  Thomas Jefferson Randolph, a Virginia planter and the grandson of Thomas Jefferson, is one of the more notable examples.
[00:25:50]  Quoting from Fleming, quote, Thomas Jefferson Randolph went back to Albemarle County, determined to continue his fight for gradual abolition in his grandfather's name.
[00:25:59]  He stood for the legislature again and defeated a former U.S. congressman who ran against him on a pro slavery platform.
[00:26:06]  Randolph soon grew discouraged and abandoned his campaign.
[00:26:09]  42 years later, in a bitter letter written after the Civil War had reduced him and his family to poverty, Randolph told how Virginia had been inundated with an avalanche of abolitionist propaganda that revealed a morbid hatred of the Southern white man and blackened his character with obscene.
[00:26:24]  Malignity.
[00:26:26]  Before long, enraged Virginians would not tolerate a discussion of how to eliminate slavery because abolitionism had become synonymous with hatred and contempt for their way of life, as well as a word that stirred their deepest fear a race war.
[00:26:39]  William Lloyd Garrison wrote that, The spirit of Southern slavery is a spirit of extermination against all those who represent it as a dishonor to our country, rebellion against God, and treason to the liberties of mankind.
[00:26:51]  Now, some of the irrational rage against the South wasn't even remotely related to slavery.
[00:26:55]  Fleming notes that the signing of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Had enraged the Federalists who saw New England as the rightful center of power in the United States.
[00:27:03]  Senator Pickering of Massachusetts floated the idea that New England should secede from the Union and align with Britain rather than be ruled by Southerners from Virginia like Jefferson.
[00:27:14]  And after all, Boston was supposed to be a city upon a hill watched by the world, and the Southerners, in the eyes of the North, were interfering with their sacred destiny.
[00:27:25]  This was the kind of rhetoric that served as a very predictable prelude to John Brown's assault on Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.
[00:27:33]  And to be clear, and this is important, John Brown was not simply deranged.
[00:27:37]  He was also a failure at everything he ever attempted in life.
[00:27:40]  He started several tanneries that collapsed.
[00:27:43]  He went bankrupt multiple times.
[00:27:44]  He invested in land that became worthless and refused to sell when given the chance to cut his losses.
[00:27:49]  He lost tens of thousands of dollars traveling all the way to London in search of cheaper wool, only to discover that the wool was even more expensive there.
[00:27:56]  He was sued in four states, lawsuits that ultimately cost him everything he owned.
[00:28:00]  What the abolitionists understood and what the left understands today is that.
[00:28:04]  Perpetual failures like John Brown are the ideal terrorist recruit.
[00:28:09]  As the American Tribune puts a quote, there is a direct through line between John Brown's rise out of the blood drenched rhetoric of the radical abolitionist movement and the murderous race communist left of today, which is trying to end America for good.
[00:28:23]  All you have to do is take a look at Antifa mugshots and you'll come to the same conclusion.
[00:28:28]  Maybe you've seen some of these highlights on social media.
[00:28:32]  These are degenerates with no future and no desire to improve their lives.
[00:28:37]  The fact they're white, if anything, makes them more susceptible to the endless anti white racial propaganda that takes advantage of their own self loathing and resentment.
[00:28:46]  If there's any redeeming characteristic these people generally share, it's that they're usually pretty incompetent.
[00:28:53]  Now, John Brown made his incompetence clear within minutes of arriving at Harper's Ferry in October of 1859 after his men kidnapped Colonel Louis Washington, the great grandnephew of George Washington, among other notable civilians.
[00:29:06]  Brown's first order was to Cut the telegraph lines running east to Washington and Baltimore and west of Ohio.
[00:29:13]  He wanted to isolate the federal arsenal to delay the arrival of reinforcements, and in the meantime, supposedly, he'd grab all the weapons and distribute them to enslaved blacks and spark a nationwide insurrection.
[00:29:24]  Never mind the fact that without the telegraph lines, it'd be hard to communicate the fact that he had taken over the arsenal.
[00:29:30]  The plan immediately went wrong when a train arrived from Virginia and Brown's men shot the station porter in the back when he refused to stop and be taken hostage.
[00:29:39]  The station reporter was a free black man named Shepard Hayward, and he died of his injuries after about 12 hours.
[00:29:46]  Another early victim of the terrorists was the town's mayor, Fontaine Beckham, who was shot unarmed.
[00:29:53]  Beckham was known for his generosity towards the town's free black community, which was one of the most prosperous in the South, owing to the town's industrial facilities.
[00:30:03]  The gunshots alerted everyone at Harper's Ferry to the attack, and in the morning, churches all began ringing their bells, which was a coded message to the farmers that a revolt was underway.
[00:30:11]  And to make matters worse for Brown, he decided to let the train from Virginia proceed to its destination.
[00:30:17]  And of course, at the next stop, they telegraphed news of the attack to the authorities.
[00:30:20]  In the meantime, Brown did not arm any slaves, nor did he spread news of his insurrection beyond Harper's Ferry.
[00:30:27]  In fact, during the siege, he managed to lose some of his followers when he acknowledged that he was committing treason.
[00:30:33]  Two of his revolutionaries quit on the spot because they were too dumb to realize that they had gotten themselves into and that what they were doing was obviously treason.
[00:30:43]  And in the end, after the town's militia neutralized several of Brown's troops, Brown's men, troops led by Robert E. Lee, stormed into the arsenal.
[00:30:51]  Rescued the hostages and killed or captured the remaining attackers.
[00:30:55]  This is from Smithsonian Magazine.
[00:30:57]  Watch.
[00:30:58]  Very, very few slaves, very few participated.
[00:31:03]  Brown was quickly trapped in the fire engine house near the Federal Armory in Harper's Ferry.
[00:31:12]  There was, in the course of the day, a bitter fight, mostly sniping back and forth, while hundreds and hundreds of militiamen cut off.
[00:31:24]  Brown and his men's only avenues of escape.
[00:31:27]  Brown and his men were holed up in a single room, very congested, crowded with the fire engines, pumping wagons, a number of hostages, his own men wounded, dying.
[00:31:41]  He and his men became willing to martyr themselves.
[00:31:46]  Marines broke through the door to the engine house.
[00:31:49]  There was a melee inside.
[00:31:51]  Brown's men were killed.
[00:31:53]  Those who were captured were hanged later on, including Brown.
[00:31:59]  Immediately after his death, he was heroized, sanctified, really, by Northern abolitionists.
[00:32:06]  He terrified white Southerners.
[00:32:09]  Now, John Brown was hanged as a traitor, which he was.
[00:32:13]  This is the traitor who, again, is honored multiple times in the National Portrait Gallery.
[00:32:20]  A guy who, once again, murdered innocent people who didn't do anything wrong.
[00:32:26]  He's revered by the left to this day.
[00:32:29]  But as we just demonstrated, and as that historian implies, they clearly don't revere him because of his clever strategic planning or his rhetorical skills or his multiple bankruptcies.
[00:32:41]  That's not why the Weather Underground or the Black Panthers respected John Brown.
[00:32:46]  Instead, they revered John Brown because in the aftermath of the raid on Harper's Ferry, whites in the South became justifiably terrified.
[00:32:54]  They realized that they couldn't share a country with people who wanted to murder them.
[00:33:00]  Because of their skin color or their political beliefs.
[00:33:02]  They correctly saw John Brown's act of domestic terrorism as a prelude to a much broader race war, one that could easily transform Virginia into Haiti.
[00:33:11]  Thomas Nelson Page wrote that, The John Brown raid shocked Virginia from the Potomac to the North Carolina line.
[00:33:17]  It was a fire bell in the night.
[00:33:19]  Every man sprang to attention and every mother clutched her babe closer to her bosom.
[00:33:24]  And as the American Tribune points out, citing Virginia's Dabney quote, the John Brown raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859 provided an ominous foretaste of coming events.
[00:33:32]  Brown's announced plan to free the slaves by organizing them into military units to fight their masters and establish a Negro Republic in Western Virginia roused the people of the Old Dominion to terror and fury and alarmed the entire South.
[00:33:46]  After the raid was crushed, Brown displayed another familiar pattern of the left.
[00:33:52]  He started.

=== John Brown as Terrorist Hero (06:02) ===

[00:33:53]  Lying to lay the groundwork for future violence.
[00:33:55]  At his trial, Brown claimed that he did not intend murder or treason or the destruction of property or even to excite or incite slaves to rebellion.
[00:34:06]  Basically, everyone was supposed to ignore the fact that he showed up at a peaceful town and immediately began killing people, including unarmed people, taking civilians hostage, and gathering arms to launch a violent slave revolt.
[00:34:16]  What Brown was actually doing was a mostly peaceful protest, just like you saw during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, just like you saw in the 2020 summer of Floyd.
[00:34:27]  Now, although no one in Virginia believed his lies, Brown's courtroom speech, where he claimed he was just a peaceful protester, was uncritically reprinted in Northern papers, creating the impression that Southern barbarians were executing an innocent man, actually a lunatic previously known for dismembering innocent people with a sword, and that they were doing this for, you know, because he was speaking out against injustice.
[00:34:48]  Now, if you were the Southerner watching this unfold, you must have thought that abolitionists were living in a parallel universe that could justify doing anything against you at all.
[00:34:58]  One detail of the raid that really hammered this home was the presence of nearly 1,000 medieval pikes, which were custom designed to resemble bowie knives that John Brown's terrorists brought with them.
[00:35:09]  They figured that it might be difficult to quickly teach freed slaves how to use guns, but anyone can use that kind of brutal medieval weapon.
[00:35:16]  After the pikes were seized following the raid's failure, one Southern pro secession activist sent the heads of the captured pikes to every governor of a slave state.
[00:35:25]  And the message was clear abolitionists want to use this on you, they want to use this on your kids.
[00:35:30]  Now, the outbreak of the Civil War and its aftermath can only be understood with this context.
[00:35:35]  Abolitionists worshiped John Brown because he terrorized whites.
[00:35:40]  They didn't care about his many monumental failures from a tactical perspective.
[00:35:45]  They understood that strategically he had won.
[00:35:47]  And that's why, in a speech in Boston in November 1859, the famous poet Ralph Waldo Emerson described Brown as an idealist who put his ideas into action.
[00:35:58]  And with that in mind, you can see why the Southern states began.
[00:36:03]  Mobilizing for war.
[00:36:04]  They saw very clearly what was being planned and they acted in self defense to prevent another massacre.
[00:36:10]  Now, just a couple of weeks ago after the raid, John Brown was convicted of all charges.
[00:36:13]  A month later, he became the first American to be executed for treason.
[00:36:18]  In the 19th century, you know, we didn't have 50 years of appeals.
[00:36:21]  We didn't let people go free because they were crazy either.
[00:36:24]  We just executed criminals.
[00:36:25]  Imagine that.
[00:36:27]  And after all this, after causing so much pain and terror and drawing the nation into a civil war in which hundreds of thousands of Americans died, John Brown is.
[00:36:35]  One of the very few white men that our government, media, and education system go out of their way to worship.
[00:36:42]  Precisely what makes the mainstream admiration of John Brown so unsettling and bizarre, among other reasons, is that it's happening at a time when nearly every other white man of history has had their statues and memorials torn down.
[00:36:57]  I mean, you aren't allowed to uncritically celebrate almost any white man in history anymore, not George Washington, not Thomas Jefferson, not Christopher Columbus, nobody.
[00:37:09]  On the list of acceptable historical white men now is John Brown.
[00:37:16]  And who else?
[00:37:18]  Harvey Milk, the pedophile?
[00:37:21]  Justin Bieber?
[00:37:21]  I don't know.
[00:37:22]  It's not exactly a long list.
[00:37:24]  To the extent a white man is treated like a celebrity in our culture, it's because he promises to usher in a new age of degeneracy and anti white violence.
[00:37:32]  That's really what it takes.
[00:37:34]  That's how you get PBS to air propaganda like this on your behalf.
[00:37:38]  Watch.
[00:37:39]  For years, John Brown had been trying to divine God's purpose, to make sense of his afflictions.
[00:37:47]  He had once been a successful merchant and tanner, a good provider to his family.
[00:37:54]  But then, suddenly, his life collapsed.
[00:37:59]  A series of business disasters plunged him deep into debt.
[00:38:03]  Most abolitionists for decades were pacifists and believed in persuading people about the moral wrong of slavery.
[00:38:12]  John Brown didn't really believe that would work, and he put his life on the line.
[00:38:19]  Many people would call him a terrorist.
[00:38:20]  He attacked the Federal Armory at Hartford.
[00:38:23]  Harper's Ferry, but in doing so he actually became kind of a martyr for the cause and rallied a lot of Northern support and in many ways provoked what became a terrible conflict in the United States and the Civil War.
[00:38:41]  The question he was asking in his being, which was to what extent is violence acceptable or necessary for political change, is a question we have certainly asked throughout American history.
[00:39:00]  The accounts of Brown all say how beguiling he was.
[00:39:04]  He's described often like iron or like granite.
[00:39:08]  He had this steadfast quality, and I think when you read even the writings he left behind, his letters and some of his unfinished autobiography, there was a sincerity and a simplicity to him, an earnestness to him.
[00:39:25]  So John Brown is a martyr for the cause.
[00:39:26]  He rallied Northern support.
[00:39:27]  He's steadfast like iron or granite.
[00:39:30]  He was sincere and earnest.
[00:39:31]  He was trying to divine God's.
[00:39:32]  Purpose.
[00:39:33]  He had been successful until for some reason his life collapsed.
[00:39:36]  There's no mention of the fact that John Brown butchered innocent white people or murdered innocent black men.
[00:39:42]  Just like we see with modern day terrorists, the left will feign ignorance about their heroes because they understand that their motivations are repulsive to normal people.
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=== Truth About Left's Heroes (05:04) ===

[00:42:38]  Now, I'm not cynical enough to think that most Americans, if they knew the full story of terrorists like John Brown or the truth about the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement and so on, would go along with this effort.
[00:42:50]  Instead, what's happening is that through a campaign of mass deception that begins very early in life, Millions of Americans are being conditioned to adopt very irrational and highly destructive beliefs about our history.
[00:43:06]  Beliefs that are designed to lead many people to commit acts of racial and political violence.
[00:43:13]  I began making the real history documentaries back in January, which you can watch on the Daily Wire, in order to counteract this information monopoly that has been enjoyed for decades exclusively by the left.
[00:43:29]  They have been the only ones telling the story of American history, basically.
[00:43:35]  And for that reason, I'm going to keep making these documentaries for as long as I can because, judging from the response we received, millions of people want to hear the truth.
[00:43:46]  If you can show people what the left's heroes actually did, the horrors they inflicted, people will watch.
[00:43:54]  They'll be horrified.
[00:43:57]  And they'll more likely turn away from leftism entirely.
[00:44:01]  And for that reason, I'll close with this.
[00:44:03]  Before his execution, Brown received a letter from Mahala Doyle, the mother of the family that Brown had massacred in Kansas.
[00:44:10]  And here's the letter in its entirety.
[00:44:12]  It's from Chattanooga, Tennessee, 20th November, 1859.
[00:44:16]  It says John Brown, sir, although vengeance is not mine, I confess that I do feel gratified to hear that you were stopped in your fiendish career at Harper's Ferry with the loss of your two sons.
[00:44:28]  You can now appreciate my distress in Kansas when you then and there entered my house at midnight.
[00:44:33]  And arrested my husband and two boys and took them out of the yard and in cold blood shot them dead in my hearing.
[00:44:39]  You can't say you've done it to free our slaves.
[00:44:41]  We had none and never expected to own one.
[00:44:44]  It has only made me a poor, disconsolate widow with helpless children while I feel for your folly.
[00:44:50]  I do hope and trust that you will meet your just reward.
[00:44:53]  Oh, how it pained my heart to hear the dying groans of my husband and children.
[00:44:57]  If this scrawl gives you any consolation, you are welcome to it.
[00:45:02]  And then noted on the back, it says, My son John Doyle, whose life I begged of you, Is now grown up and is very desirous to be at Charleston on the day of your execution.
[00:45:09]  He would certainly be there if his means would permit it, that he might adjust the rope around your neck if Governor Wise would permit it.
[00:45:17]  Mahalo Doyle.
[00:45:19]  Any society that valorizes men like John Brown while writing women like Mahalo Doyle out of history is doomed to failure.
[00:45:26]  This is why you have to look beyond the school textbooks and learn the truth about these idols that we've been told to worship and celebrate.
[00:45:37]  If we don't do that homework, then we aren't going to recognize when these same people and same tactics reappear today.
[00:45:45]  As then, to quote, Thomas Fleming, we run the risk of succumbing to a disease of the public mind.
[00:45:52]  That's exactly what the people today celebrating John Brown are hoping for.
[00:45:58]  Yes, the honkies got him, as Shane Gillis puts it.
[00:46:02]  And unless we want another civil war complete with another massacre of innocent white people, we should be grateful they did.
[00:46:10]  That'll do it for the show today.
[00:46:11]  Thanks for watching.
[00:46:12]  Thanks for listening.
[00:46:12]  Talk to you tomorrow.
[00:46:13]  Have a great day.
[00:46:14]  Godspeed.
[00:46:21]  Martin Luther King Jr. is an American icon, widely considered one of the greatest Americans who ever lived.
[00:46:27]  A man who had a vision for a colorblind society, a post-racial America.
[00:46:33]  He had a dream.
[00:46:34]  It's just not the dream you thought it was.
[00:46:36]  Were his true aims a colorblind society or something far more radical?
[00:46:41]  Who bankrolled him?
[00:46:43]  What unfolded behind the scenes in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963?
[00:46:47]  Was civil disobedience actually peaceful?
[00:46:52]  We wanted to show you a clip of the I Have a Dream speech.
[00:46:55]  But according to our lawyers, we can't.
[00:46:57]  In fact, King's family has made a lot of money suing media outlets.
[00:47:00]  They want to silence critics like us.
[00:47:02]  What they're doing makes it very difficult to judge Martin Luther King Jr., not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.
[00:47:10]  Is America today stronger, more unified, and racially equal than before King's rise?
[00:47:16]  These questions demand answers, and as Americans, we are entitled to a full accounting of the Civil Rights Movement and its consequences.
[00:47:22]  King's movement fundamentally transformed our country and our system of government.
[00:47:27]  I speak as a citizen of the world.
[00:47:29]  Each day the war goes on, the hatred increases, though the cause of evil prospers.
[00:47:35]  The first part of our two-part special on the civil rights movement, A New Constitution, available now on Daily Wire Plus.