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Chapter 6: H. Clay Pate.
Among the unhappy men whom Old John Brown has dragged into an exceedingly undesirable immortality is H. Clay Pate, author, journalist, and warrior, alike unfortunate in each of these capacities, and in every thing that he has tried and lied and done or hoped for. A man-butterfly, whom no one would have ever thought of disturbing, with the vanity of the fabled frog he aspired to equal John Brown, and flew against his soul of fire — but only to be scorched for his pains, and pinned to a page of history by the stern old Puritan, and then placed, as a curious study, in the cabinet of human imbecilities forevermore.
By way of a contrast, if for no other reason, he deserves a separate chapter here — does H. Clay Pate, of Black Jack and Virginia.
Pate, by birth a Virginian, first sought to find fame and fortune in the city of Cincinnati.
He published a thin volume of collegiate sketches, and several pointless, bombastically written stories, which, we are
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 8 : the conquest of Kansas complete. (search)