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Chapter 9: battle of Ossawatomie.
Captain Brown, after the fourth of July, returned to Lawrence.
Early in the month of August, General Lane entered Kansas by the way of Nebraska Territory.
The confidence that the fighting men felt in his military ability, made his return an event of historical importance.
Several revolting atrocities — the mutilation of Major Hoyt, for example, the scalping of Mr. Hopps, and a dastardly outrage on a Northern lady
On the following morning, a young lady of Bloomington was dragged from her home by a party of merciless wretches, and carried a mile or two into the country, when her tongue was pulled as far as possible from her mouth, and tied with a cord.
Her arms were then securely pinioned, and, despite her violent and convulsive struggles — But let the reader imagine, if possible, the savage brutality that followed.
She had been guilty of the terrible offence of speaking adversely of the institution of slavery.
Gilson's Geary in Kansas, p. 9
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, chapter 1.27 (search)