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James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., Slavery in Kansas. (search)
Thus: the murderer of Phillips, as well as every man who had outraged his person a year before, has been rewarded with government offices. The press has not been forgotten. Three Free-State offices in Kansas have been destroyed by violence--two by order of Judge Lecompte and the official posse of the United States Marshal; one (the Leavenworth Territorial Register, a Douglas Democratic paper), by a legally organized Territorial militia company — the same men who so savagely butchered R. P. Brown — the infamous Kickapoo Rangers. The pro-slavery press, on the other hand, has also been rewarded for its success. The Squatter Sovereign, once published in the town of Atchison, was edited by Mr. Speaker Stringfellow, already mentioned, and Mr. Robert S. Kelley. This Kelley has always advocated the most blood-thirsty measures against the Free-State men — urging their expulsion always, and often their extermination. He advocated, also, a dissolution of the Union, and the formation o<
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, chapter 1.13 (search)
orbade an election being held there. But there was one man, Captain R. P. Brown,--as brave a hero as his venerable namesake-who determined th ensued; they were successfully resisted and driven back; but Captain Brown, on the following day, in returning home, was surrounded by an ptain of the Company. The prisoners were taken back to Easton; but Brown was separated from them, and put in an adjoining building. A rope Fort Leavenworth, in hopes of getting some troops to go and rescue Brown; but it was a vain attempt — such protection was refused. Then followed a scene of atrocity and horror. Captain Brown had surrendered his arms, and was helpless. His enemies, who dared not face him the nigut it was in vain. . . . These men, or rather demons, rushed around Brown, and literally hacked him to death with their hatchets. One of theead, which penetrated the skull and brain mans inches. The gallant Brown fell, and his remorseless enemies jumped on him, while thus prostra