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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Publishers' Card. (search)
desire of the friends who contribute it that it should appear exclusively in this volume, for the benefit of the family. The work is published with the sanction and approval of the family of Captain Brown, as may be seen by the following letters: North Elba, Dec., 1859. Messrs. Thayer & Eldridge. Dear Friends: I am satisfied that Mr. Redpath is the man to write the life of my beloved husband, as he was personally acquainted with him, and I think will do him justice. ... I think that the portrait is a very good one. Yours respectfully, Mary A. Brown. North Elba, Dec., 1859. Messrs. Thayer and Eldridge. Dear Sirs: I was somewhat acquainted with James Redpath in Kansas. I am also familiar with his writings, and I consider him an able biographer, and the man above all others to write the life of my beloved father. I believe him to be a man of undoubted veracity, and fully believe he will do justice to the work he has undertaken. Yours respectfully, Salmon Brown.
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 8: the conquering pen. (search)
o their kind regard my poor, bereaved, Widowed wife, and my daughters and daughters-in-law, whose husbands fell at my side. One is a mother, and the other likely to become so soon. They, as well as my own sorrow-stricken daughter, are left very poor, and have much greater need of sympathy than I, who, through Infinite Grace and the kindness of strangers, am joyful in all my tribulations. Dear sister, write them at North Elba, Essex Co., N. Y., to comfort their sad hearts. Direct to Mary A. Brown, wife of John Brown. There is also another, a widow, wife of Thompson, who fell with my poor boys in the affair at Harper's Ferry, at the same place. I do not feel conscious of guilt in taking up arms; and had it been in behalf of the rich and powerful, the intelligent, the great,--as men count greatness,--of those who form enactments to suit themselves and corrupt others, or some of their friends, that I interfered, suffered, sacrificed, and fell, it would have been doing very well.
The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1865., [Electronic resource], General Lee Commander-in-chief. (search)
Confederate Congress. Senate. Thursday, February 2, 1865. Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Minnegerode, of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Brown introduced a joint resolution, which was passed, tendering the thanks of Congress, and of the people of the Confederate States, to Mr. John Lancaster, of Lancastershire, England, for his friendly and humane conduct in rescuing, in his yacht Deerhound, from risk of drowning, Captain Raphael Semmes, the commander, and a portion of the officers and crew out the words of the bill limiting the number of negroes to be taken to thirty thousand east of the Mississippi, and ten thousand west of the Mississippi, gave rise to a lengthy discussion--Messrs. Graham, Semmes, Wigfall and Hill opposing it; Mr. Brown advocating it. Without coming to a vote, the Senate resolved into secret executive session, and soon after adjourned. House of Representatives. The House met at 11 A. M. No minister present. Mr. Wickham presented a memorial f
The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
Police Arrests. --The following parties were arrested yesterday afternoon by the Mayor's police and committed to the lower station-house: Jane Harris, a free negro, charged with stealing a lot of ladies' wearing apparel, the property of Mrs. Mary A. Brown. Thomas, slave of Gideon Garber, for assaulting and beating with a stick, Patrick Nolin, a white man. The cases will be investigated before the Mayor this morning.
The Daily Dispatch: February 4, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
perform other labor connected with the defences of the country, the pending question being on concurring in the second House amendment to strike out the clause restricting the number of negroes to be employed to thirty thousand east of the Mississippi river and ten thousand west of that river. After a lengthy debate, chiefly on the question whether or not negroes should be put into the army as soldiers, the Senate refused to concur in the amendment by the following vote: Yeas.--Messrs. Brown, Burnett, Dortch, Henry, Johnson of Missouri, Simms, Sparrow and Watson--9. Nays--Messrs. Baker, Caperton, Garland, Graham, Haynes, Hill, Maxwell, Orr, Semmes and Wigfall--10. The other House amendments, with few objections, were then agreed to, when Mr. Orr moved a reconsideration of the vote by which the second amendment was agreed to, that one of the Senators from Mississippi might have an opportunity of expressing his sentiments thereon. On motion, by Mr. Caperton, the
The Daily Dispatch: February 4, 1865., [Electronic resource], Blockade-Running. (search)
ined to remand both of the accused for trial, admitting them to bail in the sum of five hundred dollars each, which was given by the fathers of the accused. Andrew J. Mahone, charged with the theft of sundry articles of clothing and cutlery from Conrad Bender, to the amount of thirty dollars, and breaking into his house to obtain the same, was discharged, but remanded to the custody of the Provost-Marshal. Jane Harris, free negro, charged with the theft of clothing belonging to Mary A. Brown and having nine bags, supposed stolen, was remanded. Thomas, slave of Gideon Garber, of Henrico, charged with assaulting and beating Patrick Nolan, a white man, with a stick, was sent on to the Examining Court. Morris O'Donnell, charged with being drunk and disorderly in the street, was sent to the Provost-Marshal. Thomas Fentries and Benjamin Whit lock were fined for a violation of a city ordinance by allowing their hydrants to run waste water, thereby creating a nuisance
The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
of any strong proof against them, they were discharged. Henry, slave of James Bagby, was ordered to receive a whipping for stealing a carpet bag, containing wearing apparel, the property of Roy Jones. Elizabeth Touget, a free woman, was charged with threatening to assault and beat Branch Jackson, a slave. The case was plainly proven, and the accused committed to jail in default of security for her good behavior. Branch Jackson, a slave, appeared to answer the charge of stealing a lot of clothing from Mary A. Brown. No proof of his guilt was adduced, and the Mayor discharged him. Fines of twenty dollars each were entered against George W. Bates, John Miller, (two cases,) and William H. Eggleston, for keeping their drinking-houses open after 10 o'clock at night. A case was booked against Virginia Howard, a white woman, charged with annoying and disturbing the peace of Joseph M. Dominico. By consent of the complainant, however, the prosecution was dismissed.