The author, Miles Mathis, argues that the hanging of John Brown was faked, citing Henry Steele Olcott’s account, “How We Hung John Brown,” as the primary evidence. Mathis asserts that Olcott was a “top spook” and worked for the New York Tribune, a newspaper he claims was created and staffed by Intelligence. Olcott’s story, published in Lotus Leaves in 1875, is deemed “outrageously false” due to Olcott’s implausible claims about his involvement, including being an agricultural editor, a Whig uninterested in politics, and risking his life to report on the events. Mathis highlights Olcott’s questionable journey to Charlestown, his acceptance into Virginia militia groups despite being a Northerner, and his interactions with prominent figures like General Taliaferro and Senator Ruffin.
Mathis further scrutinizes the details of the alleged hanging, pointing out the military lockdown of Charlestown, which prevented civilian witnesses and allowed for a controlled narrative. He questions Olcott’s account of Brown’s attire and the use of the term “the thing” to refer to Brown’s body, suggesting a dummy was used. Mathis also notes the inclusion of numerology, such as the mention of “eight minutes” and “eighteen inches,” which he associates with Masonic symbolism.
The author then delves into John Brown’s background, claiming he was not from a humble background as often portrayed, but rather the son of Owen Brown, founder of Western Reserve College, and that his family had Jewish ties. He connects Brown to prominent New England merchants, the “Secret Six,” who allegedly funded his militant activities. Mathis identifies members of the Secret Six, including George Walker, Franklin Sanborn, Amos Adams Lawrence, Gerrit Smith, Thomas Higginson, George Luther Stearns, and William Lloyd Garrison, suggesting they were also Jewish or connected to Intelligence.
Mathis dismisses Brown’s actions, like the Pottawatomie Massacre and the Osawatomie Siege, as fabricated exaggerations designed to inflate his importance. He also questions the attack on Harper’s Ferry Armory, pointing out the discrepancy between the planned number of men and the actual attackers, and the implausibility of the small force taking on a large armory with minimal resistance.
Finally, Mathis concludes that the entire John Brown saga, along with the Civil War, was manufactured by military intelligence under the direction of wealthy Jewish merchants. He argues that the slavery issue was a cover for the true causes of the war, which he claims was a battle for control of North America by a few wealthy families. The Underground Railroad is reinterpreted as a recruitment pipeline for the Union Army and a means of inciting discontent among slaves against the South. Mathis asserts that the wealthy elite manipulated both black and white populations for their own gain, using rhetoric about human rights and freedom as a tool for plunder. He believes that major historical events are largely fabricated and that the mainstream narrative is often significantly false.
List of Subjects, Names, References, Locations, Companies, etc.:
- John Brown
- Miles Mathis
- Henry Steele Olcott
- “How We Hung John Brown”
- Lotus Leaves
- Intelligence
- New York Tribune
- Charlestown, West Virginia
- US history
- Lincoln assassination
- Warren Commission
- Theosophy project
- Madame Blavatsky
- American public
- Virginia
- Horace Greeley
- Petersburg
- New York
- Washington Post
- Abraham Lincoln
- John Wilkes Booth
- Union Army
- Communist
- Marxism
- Republicanism
- Civil War
- Harper’s Ferry Armory
- The Liberator
- Isaac Knapp
- Pottawatomie Massacre
- Kansas
- Osawatomie Siege
- Bleeding Kansas
- Hugh Forbes
- Garibaldi
- Allan Pinkerton
- Pinkerton Agency
- Secret Service
- CIA
- 11
- Salem
- Cuba
- October 18
- Harriet Tubman
- Underground Railroad
- Thoreau
- General Taliaferro
- William Booth Taliaferro
- Freemason
- Colonel Scott
- Sheriff Campbell
- Stuart
- Murray
- Stanley
- Chai
- Mason
- Owen Brown
- Ruth Mills
- Western Reserve College
- Case Western Reserve
- Case
- Chase
- Ulysses Grant
- Oberlin College
- Philo Stewart
- J. F. Oberlin
- Germany
- Feltz
- Christian Socialism
- Social Christianity
- France
- Massachusetts
- League of Gileadites
- Secret Six
- George Walker
- George Herbert Walker Bush
- Franklin Sanborn
- Transcendentalists
- Leavitt
- Amos Adams Lawrence
- Ipswich Mills
- Sarah Appleton
- Gerrit Smith
- Ann Carroll FitzHugh
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Wales
- Nottingham
- Livingston
- Levinson
- Ten Broeck
- FitzHughs
- US President
- Thomas Higginson
- Boston Brahmins
- Harvard College
- Continental Congress
- Channing
- Fullers
- George Luther Stearns
- Isaac Sterne
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Boston
- Springfield
- Southern Intelligence
- Virginia Militia
- Petersburg Grays
- Provost-guard
- Colonel Blank
- Senator Ruffin
- South Carolina
- Frances Todd Booth
- Mary Todd Lincoln
- Alexander
- Casson
- Bruce
- Kings of Scotland
- Sarah Bruce
- James Seddon
- Confederate Secretary of War
- Obama
- Jerusalem
- Western Wall
- Trump Station
- Yarmulke
- Jewish merchants
- Christianity
- North America
- Civil War
- Slavery
- Propaganda
- Human rights
- Freedom
- Lincoln assassination