1859年12月2日，约翰·布朗在临赴绞刑架之前，挥笔留下了最后的遗言：
“我，约翰·布朗，现在坚信只有用鲜血才能清洗这个有罪的国土的罪恶。过去我自以为不需要流很多血就可以做到一点，现在我认为这种想法是不现实的。”约翰·布朗为黑人的解放事业献出了宝贵的生命，在他英勇就义的时刻，北方各州统统下半旗，高大建筑物上饰以黑色装置，教堂鸣钟致哀。
约翰·布朗虽然牺牲了，他的精神却鼓舞了更多的人，他们纷纷加入斗争的队伍，解放黑奴的呼声传遍美国的每个角落，不久，两种制度的决战——美国南北战争终于爆发了。
參考答案:September 2th, 1859, before being sent to the gallows, John Brown left his last words:
"I, John Brown, now in the full conviction that the evil of this gilty country can only be cleaned by blood. I used to think it can be done with less blood, however, now I realized this idea is unrealistic." John Brown gave his precious life for the liberation of Black people.
At the moment when he was dying a martyr, all the north states flied flags at half-mast, and a lot of high building were coloured in black, and churches rang the bells.
Although John Brown is died, his spirit has encouraged many more people, they joined the conflict one after another, the cry for liberating Black people spreaded to every corner of America, before long, the decisive battle between two systems----The War Between the States------broke out.