my love to all the family. Kiss little Joey for me.
Remember me to all my relatives and friends. And now farewell for
the last time.

From thy nephew, EDWIN COPPOCK.

Two days later the slave state of Virginia hung Edwin Coppock by the
neck until he was dead. The gallant John E. Cook went to the scaffold
with him. The account says:

"After the cap had been placed on their heads, Coppock turned toward
Cook and stretched forward his hand as far as possible. At the same
time Cook said, 'Stop a minute--where is Edwin's hand?' They then shook
hands cordially and Cook said, 'God bless you.' The calm and collected
manner of both was very marked.... They both exhibited the most
unflinching firmness, saying nothing, with the exception of bidding
farewell to the ministers and the sheriff."

More than half a century has passed since John Brown and his faithful
followers gave up their lives to set the black men free, but history has
yet to do them justice. Some day the hatred and prejudice will all have
died away and then these men, summoned to the bar of enlightened
judgment, will be crowned as the greatest heroes in American history.

THE SOCIAL SPIRIT.

Appeal to Reason.

We need to grow out of the selfish, sordid, brutal spirit of
individualism which still lurks even in Socialists and is responsible
for the strife and contention which prevail where there should be
concord and good will. The social spirit and the social conscience must
be developed and govern our social relations before we shall have any
social revolution.

If there are any among whom the social spirit should find its highest
expression and who should be bound fast in its comradely embrace and
give to the world the example of its elevating and humanizing influence,
it is the Socialists. They of all others have come to realize the
hardening and brutalizing effect of capitalist individualism in the
awful struggle for existence and it is to them a cause of unceasing
rejoicing that they live at a time in the world's historic development
when the very conditions which resulted from this age-long struggle
forbid its continuance and proclaim its approaching termination.

The rule of individualism which has governed society since the days of
primitive communism has effectually restrained the moral and spiritual
development of the race. It has brought out the baser side of men's
nature and set them against each other as if the plan