My Immediate Reaction the Manning Sentence ...

... is to let someone else speak for me.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood. I had as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed, it might be done.

Depressing, yes, and I wish it weren't so. But at times like this a peaceful end to the US government's war on its subjects just doesn't seem very likely.