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James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States. 1 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., Slavery in Kansas. (search)
heir extermination. He advocated, also, a dissolution of the Union, and the formation of a Southern Confederacy. In the pro-slavery camp once, he entered the tent where a young Free-State man, a prisoner, lay dangerously ill, and savagely yelled, I thirst for blood, an expression which, in the debilitated condition of the invalid's health, superinduced a brain fever, from which he did not recover for many months. This man, also, was the leader of the mob which tarred and feathered the Rev. Pardee Butler, and then put him on a raft on the Missouri River — for presuming, in a private conversation, to deprecate the lynching of a man who had suffered there a few days before for his political belief, and also for saying that he himself was in favor of making Kansas a Free State. This man was appointed postmaster at Atchison; his brother-in-law is postmaster still at Doniphan; his paper received the government patronage, and printed the United States laws. The Herald, published at Lea