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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown 1,857 43 Browse Search
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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Publishers' Card. (search)
Publishers' Card. In presenting this work, the publishers deem it proper to congratulate themselves and the public on having secured as the biographer of Captain John Brown, a gentleman so well qualified, both by personal knowledge and literary ability, for the task, and whose previous life has been so identified in feeling andto render. They would also call the attention of the public to the fact that a large percentage on each copy sold is secured by contract to the family of Captain John Brown, and every purchaser thereby becomes a contributor to a charitable object, which appeals to all freemen with a force that is irresistible. The publisherse 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 t
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Preface. (search)
Preface. When the news of the arrest of John Brown reached Boston, I could neither work nor sleaise him. An opportunity offered; I indorsed John Brown. A few years hence this will seem absurd; asher of New York asked me to write a Life of John Brown. He wanted it as a Republican campaign docubook made a nobler request; they believed in John Brown; they wished to do him justice; and they des that made Bunker Hill classic, I think that John Brown did right in invading Virginia and attemptinGovernment to the death, as to apologize for John Brown in assailing the Slave Power with the only we nowhere else can so correct a biography of John Brown be found. It is compiled from hundreds of soresaw. I had intended to write the Life of John Brown, private and public, and biographies of his r, on the return of my wife from the home of John Brown, I found myself in possession, in trust, of ters, or conversational remarks,) respecting John Brown and his heroic associates, and will be great[1 more...]
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Book 1: he keepeth the sheep. (search)
n of Norfolk, the 5th day of July, 1798. John Brown, son of Owen and Ruth Brown, was born in Torm his twenty-first to his twenty-sixth year, John Brown was engaged in the tanning business, and as me. In these relations which I sustained to Mr. Brown, I had a good opportunity to become acquaintapter 4: Perkins and Brown, wool Factors. John Brown went to Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1846.ey sympathized in their anti-slavery ideas. Mr. Brown used to talk much on the subject, and had th its value, and then reshipped to Boston. John Brown in Europe. Of John Brown's travels in Eurl stone upon the other. The farm, and why John Brown bought it. The farm is a wild place; coldegion are still in the hands of colored men. John Brown heard of this; he himself was a surveyor, an save you all. John Brown's orthodoxy. John Brown is almost the only radical abolitionist I ha one night at the house, and drove away with Mrs. Brown, in the early frosty morning, from that bree[130 more...]
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 1: the child and his ancestors. (search)
us obstacles present themselves. For to-day John Brown was ranged by a semi-barbarous Commonwealth,our,men are branding as insane! Why did Captain John Brown, of the fourth generation, in regular derandson of the revolutionary captain. Captain John Brown, the third, left a widow and eleven chiln the State of Ohio. Maternal ancestry of John Brown. Owen Brown, the last named of these sons, and the father of Captain John Brown, the greatest and most heroic of the race, married the daughtomprising Burgoyne's army: thus proving that John Brown inherits his military spirit through a patrhe seventh son, and the great grandfather of John Brown, the liberator, married Elizabeth Higley, a he Rev. Gideon Mills, and the grandfather of John Brown, the liberator, was also a lieutenant in theied Owen Brown, the father of our hero. John Brown born. The town records of Torrington supporn the 26th day of October, A. D. 1804. John Brown, therefore, was born in the year 1800, at To[7 more...]
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 2: the father of the man. (search)
he blossom, too. Happily, in the case of Captain John Brown, this desire can be amply gratified-and of the story of this autobiography. When John Brown was in Boston, in the winter of 1857, among permission to give all his pocket money to Captain Brown. The permission was readily given, and this Father A correspondent thus writes of John Brown's father: My recollections of John BrownJohn Brown begin in the winter of 1826-7. I was then five years old. My father's family lived that winter at t time. A friend, in his Reminiscences of John Brown, thus writes of this period: As a boy he He told me, writes a distant relative of John Brown, that when a lad, say of fourteen, he had bel sketch, there is one important incident of John Brown's early life to be added. At the age of eigest brother of this clergyman thus describes John Brown: He was a tall, sedate, dignified you Ohio. Had not this inflammation supervened John Brown would not have died a Virginia culprit on a [3 more...]
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 3: the man. (search)
believe in God? Do you believe the Bible? John Brown believed in Jehovah and His Word. Sincerelyat John Brown's death. By his first wife, John Brown had seven children: John Brown, juniy to aid them in their attempt to obtain it. John Brown determined to let them know that they had frocked around him when in Kansas. In 1844, John Brown removed to Akron, Ohio; in 1846, he went to see how any one could draw the character of John Brown better than by referring the reader to his f, years hence, Christendom will recognize in John Brown a translation of the Old Testament, not intothousands of poor slaves in bondage? For John Brown's habits a few words will suffice. He was a but I like him, sir; he is a good man. Captain Brown, writes a friend, was extremely fonder and true. Of the different members of John Brown's family I cannot write now; but, on anothers the following Phrenological Description of John Brown, as given by O. S. Fowler. It is dated New [18 more...]
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 4: Perkins and Brown, wool Factors. (search)
apter 4: Perkins and Brown, wool Factors. John Brown went to Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1846. for farmers living in Western Pennsylvania. Mr. Brown left here in 1850 or 1851, and removed with and adhering to them with great obstinacy. Mr. Brown was a quiet and peaceable citizen, and a relent to the sin of slavery, was intimate with Mr. Brown, and they sympathized in their anti-slavery wers in all that part of the country. Since Brown went to Kansas he has been in town several timringfield: While a resident of this city Brown was respected by all who knew him for his perflicting accounts of the reasons that induced John Brown to remove to Springfield. The best authentiice of ground for a strong position; which Captain Brown maintained should be a ravine rather than between Perkins & Brown and those parties. Mr. Brown's counsel resided in Vernon, and he was here The Trojans appealed from their verdict, and Brown then spent some weeks here in looking over the[28 more...]
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 5: North Elba. (search)
's. He did his part faithfully by them. Captain Brown had a higher notion of the capacity of thew out as a suggestion merely. The home of John Brown, and the romantic region around it, have bee and a future one. It bears the name of Captain John Brown, who died during the Revolution, eighty-purpose, nay, the selfsame project that sent John Brown to Harper's Ferry, sent him to the Adirondacegion are still in the hands of colored men. John Brown heard of this; he himself was a surveyor, an in the little church, under the auspices of John Brown, and the Lord heard the slave mentioned pretcks. Politics. In respect to politics, Mrs. Brown told me that her husband had taken little inns, such as steel or iron, for the rescue of John Brown, but only to use the safer metals of gold ant they have none. For nearly a whole winter, Mrs. Brown said, they had no money with which to pay po one night at the house, and drove away with Mrs. Brown, in the early frosty morning, from that bree[34 more...]
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 1: the Lord's first call. (search)
rave pulses thus stirred were those of the family of old John Brown. In 1854, the four eldest sons of John Brown, ThJohn Brown, This is a quotation from a manuscript in John Brown's handwriting, found at his house near Harper's Ferry. named John, Jr., JaJohn Brown's handwriting, found at his house near Harper's Ferry. named John, Jr., Jason, Owen, and Frederick, all children by a first wife, then living in Ohio, determined to remove to Kansas. John, Jr., sol to bring them to Kansas. It was not in the nature of John Brown to resist this petition. He undoubtedly regarded it as Essex, New York, in the summer of 1855. When in session, John Brown appeared in that convention, and made a very fiery speec and help them to shift and contrive in their new home. John Brown did not go to Kansas to settle there. Already, elsewherroughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof; John Brown did not dare to remain tending sheep at North Elba when Either Freedom has no rights, and the Bible is a lie, or John Brown, in thus acting, was a patriot and a consistent Christia
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 2: the work begun. (search)
pending, writes an eye witness, the old man, John Brown, and his four sons, arrived in Lawrence. Thage rather to contrast it with the ideas of John Brown than for the facts that it contains, and to war for the sake of the republican party. John Brown was not of this spirit. Slavery to him was er I will ever obey. To better understand John Brown's reasons for despising the commands of thesth diplomatic tact and Yankee ingenuity; but John Brown, a prophet by virtue of his purity of life a their leaders had concealed something. Captain Brown got up to address the people; but a desire Federal laws and Federal processes only. John Brown ever afterwards regretted that he returned alowing amusing paragraph occurs in a Life of John Brown, written by a Republican politician, and pub In December, 1855, during the Shannon war, Brown first made his appearance among the Free Statehe chairman of the Committee of Safety ordered Brown under arrest. The latter made no physical res[3 more...]
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