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Tabor (Iowa, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.34
ingly advised to go into mourning for him, he said: he might go into black for many a worse man. This testimony from a kidnapper is not without value. Seventeen of the Topeka boys escorted the party of liberators to Nebraska City. The kidnappers, on being released, asked the old man to restore their horses and weapons. No, said John Brown, gravely; your legs will carry you as fast as you want to run; you won't find any more Old Browns between this and Atchison. The party reached Tabor in the first week of February, and travelled slowly across the State of Iowa. As he was performing this journey, men panting for the price of blood closely followed him; but the sight of his well-armed company prevented an attack on the band of liberators. He stopped at several villages, and was well received by the friends of freedom. From one of his hosts, we have the following letter, which was published at the time: Captain Brown in Iowa. Old Captain Brown of Kansas! I have
Atchison, Kan. (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.34
y weapons used on the occasion. The old man caused them to dismount, and put the negroes on their horses. They swore. He ordered them to be silent, as he would permit no blasphemy in his presence. They swore again. Kneel! said the old man, as, with stern earnestness, he drew his pistol. They knelt down, and he ordered them to pray. He detained them for five days, and compelled them to pray night and morning. They never swore again in the old man's presence. They returned to Atchison, I was told, and one of them indiscreetly related the story: the ridicule that overwhelmed them compelled them to leave the town. The overland journey. Kagi, in the mean time, arrived at Topeka from the South, and found the town in a great commotion. News had just arrived that Old Brown was surrounded. As soon as he appeared, all the fighting boys flocked around him. At the head of forty mounted men, he started at once to rescue his old Captain. He came up just in time to see the l
Nebraska City (Nebraska, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.34
and the kidnappers were saved. One of these men, since the capture of Captain Brown at Harper's Ferry, has spoken of him with the greatest admiration; and said, that although evidently a monomaniac on the subject of slavery, he was an honest and brave man. On being jestingly advised to go into mourning for him, he said: he might go into black for many a worse man. This testimony from a kidnapper is not without value. Seventeen of the Topeka boys escorted the party of liberators to Nebraska City. The kidnappers, on being released, asked the old man to restore their horses and weapons. No, said John Brown, gravely; your legs will carry you as fast as you want to run; you won't find any more Old Browns between this and Atchison. The party reached Tabor in the first week of February, and travelled slowly across the State of Iowa. As he was performing this journey, men panting for the price of blood closely followed him; but the sight of his well-armed company prevented
Springfield (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.34
will hallow his memory, and history will name him the Cromwell of our Border Wars. How unlike the Old Brown sketched by fiendish hate is the man at your fireside!--his mouth unpolluted with tobacco, strong drinks abjured, regimen plain, conversation grave, and occupied with pleasant memories of other days. He drops a tear of gratitude on the mention of the practical kindness of to him in the hour of extremity. He recurs to the solid principles and hearty affection of Dr. Osgood, of Springfield, on whose ministry he attended for many years. He had a lucrative occupation as wool grower and dealer in Ohio, and gained a medal as exhibitor of wool at the World's Fair; and now finds himself in the wool business still, in a land where men find more dreaded foes than the young Hebrew shepherd found in the beasts that took a lamb out of the flock. I am well informed that the people at Grinnell took care of the company for two days, furnishing them food for their journey, and, on Sabba
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 2.34
nd B. L. Reed, were gathered up from their work and their homes by an armed force under one Hamilton, and without trial or opportunity to speak in their own defence, were formed into line, and all but one shot--five killed and five wounded. One fell unharmed, pretending to be dead. All were left for dead. The only crime charged against them was that of being Free State men. Now, I inquire, what action has ever, since the occurrence in May last, been taken by either the President of the United States, the Governor of Missouri, the Governor of Kansas, or any of their tools, or by any pro-slavery or administration man, to ferret out and punish the perpetrators of this crime? Now for the other parallel. On Sunday, December 19, a negro man called Jim came over to the Osage settlement, from Missouri, and stated that he, together with his wife, two children, and another negro man, was to be sold within a day or two, and begged for help to get away. On Monday (the following) night, tw
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.34
d Jim came over to the Osage settlement, from Missouri, and stated that he, together with his wife, It is currently reported that the Governor of Missouri has made a requisition upon the Governor of Kof Kansas is said to be collecting a posse of Missouri (not Kansas men) at West Point, in Missouri, have set my eyes on this old hero, feared by Missouri invaders, and loved by the legions of libertyave enough to do in taking care of slavery in Missouri, without making a foray on the people of Kans of three thousand dollars by the Governor of Missouri, with the value of his company as chattels, hity of certain acts. In taking slaves out of Missouri, he said that he would teach those living in ve more than they could do to keep slavery in Missouri, without extending it against the will of Kay. Two of the women, who were field hands in Missouri last spring, on arriving at Windsor, hired, fs crop would challenge any crop I ever saw in Missouri, and not often beaten even in Kansas, where s[8 more...]
Iowa (Iowa, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.34
to run; you won't find any more Old Browns between this and Atchison. The party reached Tabor in the first week of February, and travelled slowly across the State of Iowa. As he was performing this journey, men panting for the price of blood closely followed him; but the sight of his well-armed company prevented an attack on llages, and was well received by the friends of freedom. From one of his hosts, we have the following letter, which was published at the time: Captain Brown in Iowa. Old Captain Brown of Kansas! I have set my eyes on this old hero, feared by Missouri invaders, and loved by the legions of liberty in Kansas as a father. Hea negro hunt. A reward of three thousand dollars by the Governor of Missouri, with the value of his company as chattels, has made him quite a lion through the State of Iowa. The dirt-eating Democracy covet the reward, but keep at a good distance from the cold lead, and have no desire to be awed into silence and shame by one glanc
Montgomery (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.34
ts embodiment into a law to the Free State sycophants of the South. That embodiment was the Amnesty Act, which pardoned all political offences up to that time, and which the Federal Governor was compelled, by the fear of renewed disturbances, to approve, in order to induce Montgomery to disband his organization. Montgomery, sent for by the politicians, reached the town of Lawrence while John Brown was on his journey to it, for the purpose of arranging to carry off his negroes. To save Montgomery from the odium that his enemies had attempted to cast on him, for his supposed implication in the invasion of Missouri, the old man wrote his parallels from the Trading post in Lynn County. During the absence of Montgomery and Brown, Kagi, who had been left in command, had two or three fights with the invaders. Battle of the Spurs. About the 20th of January, John Brown left Lawrence for Nebraska, with his emancipated slaves, who had been increased in number by the birth of a child
Lawrence, Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.34
the next step. The Governor of Missouri, appealed to by the Borderers, offered a reward of three thousand dollars for the arrest of John Brown, to which the President added a further reward of two hundred and fifty dollars. The politicians of Lawrence, of both parties, became alarmed at a movement which defied their pusillanimous policy — and men who had only hypocritically cursed when their territory was invaded, now worked in earnest to arrest the schemes of the brave retaliators. Some honl offences up to that time, and which the Federal Governor was compelled, by the fear of renewed disturbances, to approve, in order to induce Montgomery to disband his organization. Montgomery, sent for by the politicians, reached the town of Lawrence while John Brown was on his journey to it, for the purpose of arranging to carry off his negroes. To save Montgomery from the odium that his enemies had attempted to cast on him, for his supposed implication in the invasion of Missouri, the old
Chicago (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.34
ry to take me and my company are cowards, and one man in the right, ready to die, will chase a thousand. Not less than thirty guns have been discharged at me, but they only touched my hair. A man dies when his time comes, and a man who fears is born out of time. The nation was not worthy of him. Tyranny is relentless as the grave, and its tools want a victim. Cowardice will hang him, but humanity will stand appalled at the sacrifice of such a victim to the cruel Moloch. When in Chicago, he sent his men in different directions, retaining Kagi and Stevens with him. A gentleman who conversed with him in that city thus writes to me: There is one thing he charged me to do when I last saw him. It was this: Do not allow any one to say I acted from revenge. I claim no man has a right to revenge myself. It is a feeling that does not enter into my heart. What I do, I do for the cause of human liberty, and because I regard it as necessary. The party reached Detroit
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