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Kaw river (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.13
e Government, they were public nuisances. This mob was headed by an ex-Senator and ex-Vice President of the United States! Among the brave young men who saw these outrages committed, were Charley Lenhart and John E. Cook. Next day they left the town, to commence reprisals. Nearly two hundred thousand dollars worth of property had been stolen or destroyed, without reckoning, in this amount, nearly two hundred Horses that had been pressed into the service of the South. North of the Kansas River, the conquest of the Territory was complete ; and, south of it, several Free State districts had submitted to the power of the invaders. All the towns on the Missouri River were in their hands; Lawrence had been sacked, its prosperity checked, and its prestige broken; while Tecumseh, and Lecompton, Fort Scott, and the far Southern region, had always been faithful to the traffic in human souls. On a flag that waved in the ranks of the lawless sheriff's southern force, on that memorable 2
Lecompton (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.13
e stood at the entrance of his tent. He was not dangerously wounded; but, to subserve the interests of the South, it was reported that he was dead. Missouri, again appealed to, invaded the Territory ; the far Southern marauders assembled at Lecompton; and now, in order that they might march together on devoted Lawrence, under the shadow of the wings of the Federal eagle, it was determined to arrest Governor Reeder, then the leader of the party, under the pretence of needing him as a witness and, south of it, several Free State districts had submitted to the power of the invaders. All the towns on the Missouri River were in their hands; Lawrence had been sacked, its prosperity checked, and its prestige broken; while Tecumseh, and Lecompton, Fort Scott, and the far Southern region, had always been faithful to the traffic in human souls. On a flag that waved in the ranks of the lawless sheriff's southern force, on that memorable 20th of May, was printed the Goliath-like boast of t
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.13
cians, and exasperated by the outrages daily committed by the Southern marauders, one brave but wayward boy, on hearing the abusive language of the Sheriff, swore that he would bring matters to a crisis forthwith ; and, in the evening, he and two companions, half drunk, and wholly incensed, fired at and wounded the insolent officeholder as he stood at the entrance of his tent. He was not dangerously wounded; but, to subserve the interests of the South, it was reported that he was dead. Missouri, again appealed to, invaded the Territory ; the far Southern marauders assembled at Lecompton; and now, in order that they might march together on devoted Lawrence, under the shadow of the wings of the Federal eagle, it was determined to arrest Governor Reeder, then the leader of the party, under the pretence of needing him as a witness at Tecumseh. Mr. Reeder, dismissed from his office as Federal Governor, in consequence of his refusal to be the passive instrument of the ruffians, was ele
Topeka (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.13
sing a Governor, Judges, Legislators, Executive State officers and municipal functionaries must inevitably have been included. Assuming the good faith of the framers of the Act, the Free State men proceeded to carry out their principles-first, by repudiating the code of enactments compiled by the invaders, and denying the authority of the officers they had elected and appointed to execute them; and, secondly, by calling on the pioneers to choose representatives to a Convention to be held at Topeka, for the purpose of forming a State Constitution. The squatters did so; the Topeka Constitution was adopted; and, on the 15th of January, 1856, an election under it, for State officers and legislators, was held throughout the Territory. The pro-slavery Mayor at Leavenworth forbade an election being held there. But there was one man, Captain R. P. Brown,--as brave a hero as his venerable namesake-who determined to resist this tyranny; and, on the adjournment of the polls to a neighboring
Kickapoo (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.13
by a gang of cowards, in cold blood, without any cause! he said. And, as the poor wife stooped over the body of her gallant husband, he expired. And, as she thus stooped, with a fiendishness truly Southern, one of the ruffians dared to offer her an insult. No notice has ever been taken of this atrocious murder by the powers that be; never once did they interfere to preserve the purity of the ballot box or the right of free speech. The polls were not permitted to be opened either at Kickapoo, or Atchison, or the other pro-slavery villages; and a. clergyman, who, at Atchison, said in a private conversation, that he was a Free State man, was tarred and feathered, and sent down the river on a raft-Federal officeholders leading and encouraging the rioters. John Brown, Junior, was elected a member of the Topeka Legislature. In the month of February, the President, in an official proclamation, denounced the Topeka Legislature as an illegal assembly; endorsed the code of the inv
Tecumseh (Michigan, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.13
at the entrance of his tent. He was not dangerously wounded; but, to subserve the interests of the South, it was reported that he was dead. Missouri, again appealed to, invaded the Territory ; the far Southern marauders assembled at Lecompton; and now, in order that they might march together on devoted Lawrence, under the shadow of the wings of the Federal eagle, it was determined to arrest Governor Reeder, then the leader of the party, under the pretence of needing him as a witness at Tecumseh. Mr. Reeder, dismissed from his office as Federal Governor, in consequence of his refusal to be the passive instrument of the ruffians, was elected as the Free State delegate to Washington, and was now in Kansas, with the Congressional Committee of Investigation, collecting evidence to sustain his claim to a seat in the National House of Representatives. Governor Reeder, of course, refused to go,--for to have gone would have interrupted his duties, and have forfeited his life. He knew
Easton, Pa. (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.13
e; and, at the earnest entreaty of his companions, although against his own judgment, surrendered under a promise that their persons should be safe. But the moment this was complied with, writes Mr. Phillips, whose every statement I know to be correct: The terms were violated. One young man was knocked down, and a ruffian was going to cut him with his hatchet, (the Kickapoo Rangers carried hatchets,) but was prevented by the Captain of the Company. The prisoners were taken back to Easton; but Brown was separated from them, and put in an adjoining building. A rope was purchased at the store, and was shown to the prisoners, with the intimation that they should be hanged with it. ... . It was fiercely discussed for hours what should be done with them; and meanwhile liquor was drank pretty freely; and they who were brutal enough without any thing to make them more so, became ungovernably fierce. Unwilling that all of these men should be murdered, the Captain allowed the other
Atchison, Kan. (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.13
wife stooped over the body of her gallant husband, he expired. And, as she thus stooped, with a fiendishness truly Southern, one of the ruffians dared to offer her an insult. No notice has ever been taken of this atrocious murder by the powers that be; never once did they interfere to preserve the purity of the ballot box or the right of free speech. The polls were not permitted to be opened either at Kickapoo, or Atchison, or the other pro-slavery villages; and a. clergyman, who, at Atchison, said in a private conversation, that he was a Free State man, was tarred and feathered, and sent down the river on a raft-Federal officeholders leading and encouraging the rioters. John Brown, Junior, was elected a member of the Topeka Legislature. In the month of February, the President, in an official proclamation, denounced the Topeka Legislature as an illegal assembly; endorsed the code of the invaders as the laws of Kansas; and ordered the Federal troops to aid the Territorial
Austria (Austria) (search for this): chapter 1.13
ng of two hostile peoples — of a free, progressive, tolerant, enlightened, law-loving race, on the one hand ; and, on the other, of lawless organized bands of despots, with able but unprincipled leaders, and with a lower class only slightly in advance of our barbarous semi-civilized Indian tribes of the West. On the 20th of May, the United States Marshal, at the head of eight hundred men, entered the town of Lawrence, and made arrests; and then, with an ingenuity worthy of the South, or Austria, or any other power satanic, dismissed his immense force within the limits of the corporation. Had the army then committed any lawless act, how could the Democracy have been held responsible? The posse comitatus was now a mob. But the slot Sheriff, who so lately had been lamented as dead, stepped forward at this juncture; reorganized the force as his official staff; and then, filling the streets with these Southern marauders, destroyed the presses and offices of the two Northern papers, ba
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.13
kicked him, he said, Don't abuse me; it is useless; i am dying. It was a vain appeal. One of the wretches [since a United States Deputy Marshal] stooped over the prostrate man, and, with a refinement of cruelty exceeding the rudest savage, spit tolation throughout the Territory; but first were enrolled as Territorial militia, by Governor Shannon, and armed with United States muskets, the more effectually to enable them to carry out their purpose. An excuse was needed to march against Lawreg. And all this under the pretence of law and order, and in the name and under the sanction of the government of the United States. These, and worse outrages, the murdering of the young boys Stewart and Jones, and the ravishing of a mother and ayes of the Government, they were public nuisances. This mob was headed by an ex-Senator and ex-Vice President of the United States! Among the brave young men who saw these outrages committed, were Charley Lenhart and John E. Cook. Next day they
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