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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Book 1: he keepeth the sheep. (search)
y years old, he spent most of his time working at the Tanner & Currier's trade keeping Bachelors hall; & he officiating as Cook; & for most of the time as forman of the establishment under his Father. During this period he found much trouble with soe is not all this from principle, it is nothing. The daughters, who knew all the Harper's Ferry men, had no confidence in Cook, because he was not a man of principle. They would trust Stevens round the world, because he was a man of principle. pleasant to add that this same brave-hearted girl, who had known most of her father's associates, recognized them all but Cook as being men of principle. People are surprised, she said, at father's daring to invade Virginia with only twenty-three sas I never saw such men outside of John Brown's camp as I saw when in it. When the old hero was last in Boston, I said of Cook: he is brave, generous, but too talkative, and without discretion; he has no moral foundation for his bravery. You've h
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 2: the father of the man. (search)
little imperfect; he had recourse to various means in order to secure a more independant; & perfect right of property. One of those means was to exchange with his Father for some thing of far less value. Another was by trading with other persons for something his Father had never owned. Older persons have some times found difficulty with titles. From Fifteen to Twenty years old, he spent most of his time working at the Tanner & Currier's trade keeping Bachelors hall; & he officiating as Cook; & for most of the time as forman of the establishment under his Father. During this period he found much trouble with some of the bad habits I have mentioned & with some that I have not told you off: his concience urging him forward with great power in this matter: but his close attention to business; & success in its management; together with the way he got along with a company of men, & boys; made him quite a favorite with the serious & more intelligent portion of older persons. This was
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 5: North Elba. (search)
brave, ardent, generous; no matter — if he is not all this from principle, it is nothing. The daughters, who knew all the Harper's Ferry men, had no confidence in Cook, because he was not a man of principle. They would trust Stevens round the world, because he was a man of principle. He tries the hardest to be good, said Annple way, of any man I ever saw. It is pleasant to add that this same brave-hearted girl, who had known most of her father's associates, recognized them all but Cook as being men of principle. People are surprised, she said, at father's daring to invade Virginia with only twenty-three men; but I think if they knew what sort oI never saw such men. It was so in Kansas I never saw such men outside of John Brown's camp as I saw when in it. When the old hero was last in Boston, I said of Cook: he is brave, generous, but too talkative, and without discretion; he has no moral foundation for his bravery. You've hit the nail, exactly, sir, he said. That
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, chapter 1.13 (search)
re; reorganized the force as his official staff; and then, filling the streets with these Southern marauders, destroyed the presses and offices of the two Northern papers, battered at with cannon, and finally burned down, the recently finished and splendid hotel. In the eyes of the Government, they were public nuisances. This mob was headed by an ex-Senator and ex-Vice President of the United States! Among the brave young men who saw these outrages committed, were Charley Lenhart and John E. Cook. Next day they left the town, to commence reprisals. Nearly two hundred thousand dollars worth of property had been stolen or destroyed, without reckoning, in this amount, nearly two hundred Horses that had been pressed into the service of the South. North of the Kansas River, the conquest of the Territory was complete ; and, south of it, several Free State districts had submitted to the power of the invaders. All the towns on the Missouri River were in their hands; Lawrence had bee
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 8: the conquest of Kansas complete. (search)
hat the presence of a company of soldiers would not save him from the fate the old man threatened. Pate liberated. Colonel S- ordered him to stand by his stirrup and lead him into camp. Under these circumstances, the dragoons went into the camp of Old Brown. So rapidly and unexpectedly did the thing occur, that there was no opportunity to secure the arms and horses taken at Black Jack. Only fifteen of Brown's men were in the camp at the moment they entered it; Among them was John E. Cook, who, a few days before, after Lenhart's camp was broken up by the Dragoons, went and joined Old Brown for a time. but that camp, Colonel S--, who was astonished at it, afterwards said, a small garrison could have held against a thousand men, as, from the peculiar nature of the ground, artillery could not be brought to bear on it. It is not wonderful that both Colonel S- and the Deputy Sheriff should come to the conclusion that the handful of Free State men they saw, with nearly twice the
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 9: battle of Ossawatomie. (search)
urned to the ground, all their property stolen,--horses, cattle, clothing, money, provisions, all taken away from them,and their ploughs burned to ashes. This colony came from Georgia to settle peaceably in Kansas, and were quietly cultivating the soil, and disturbing no one. They did not even have arms for defence. They are now driven from the territory, with nothing left but their clothes on their backs — indeed, they even took the boots off the men's feet, and put them on their own. Captain Cook, who has charge of the colony, is now here asking for arms and men to aid his colony to settle again in the Territory. This peaceable colony of Georgia men, women, children, and slaves, was really composed of about one hundred and sixty of Buford's Southron invaders, the Georgia contingent of that marauding force. About the beginning of July, they camped near Battereville, a village of the Wea Indians, on the Reserve belonging to that nation. This place is about eight miles south-eas
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 1: Whetting the sword. (search)
braska City for the East, and Captain Brown went down to Kansas by the emigrants' road, in a wagon driven by one of his sons. He left two others at Tabor. Here Cook's Confession (which, although false in certain particulars, is mainly a correct statement of facts) becomes an authority of historical interest to the biographer o a long talk with Captain Brown. A few days afterwards I received another note from Captain Brown, which read, as near as I can recollect, as follows: Date-- Captain Cook. Dear Sir: You will please get every thing ready to join me at Topeka by Monday night next. Come to Mrs. Sheridan's, two miles south of Topeka, and br not know of our purpose. We remained at Pedee till about the middle of April, when we left for Chatham, Canada, via Chicago and Detroit. In this extract there are two false statements; that some warm words passed between Cook and Brown; and that there was a good deal of wrangling between the Captain, and Parsons, and Realf.
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 5: assembling to conspire. (search)
at Chatham, in Canada. At this time he intended to attack Virginia within a very few months. Cook, in his Confession, thus writes of the Convention: While we were in Chatham, he called a Co reports, not only of this public Convention, but of many secret meetings, which are mentioned in Cook's Confession, and were written in phonography, and then translated into a secret cipher by Kagi, John Brown, J. H. Kagi, Richard Realf. L. F. Parsons, C. H. Tidd, C. Whipple, C. W. Moffit, John E. Cook, Owen Brown, Steward Taylor, Osborn Anderson. A. M. Ellsworth, Richard Richardson, W. H. LeeJohn J Jackson, J. Anderson, Alfred Whipple, James M. Bue, W. H. Leeman, Alfred M. Ellsworth, John E. Cook, Stewart Taylor, James W. Puniell, Geo. Akin, Stephen Dettin, Thos. Hickerson, John Cannet, Rmerican statesmen. Why John Brown did not at once proceed to Harper's Ferry, is thus stated by Cook in his Confession: We staid about two weeks in Chatham — some of the party staid six or sev
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Monday, may 10th, 1859-- (search)
Monday, may 10th, 1859--9 1/2 P. M. The Convention assembled and went into balloting for the election of Treasurer and Secretary of Treasury. Owen Brown was elected to the former office, and George B. Gill to the latter. The following resolution was then introduced by Mr. Brown, and unanimously passed. Resolved, That John Brown, J. H. Kagi, Richard Realf. L. F. Parsons, C. H. Tidd, C. Whipple, C. W. Moffit, John E. Cook, Owen Brown, Steward Taylor, Osborn Anderson. A. M. Ellsworth, Richard Richardson, W. H. Leeman, and John Lawrence, be, and are hereby, appointed a Committee, to whom is delegated the power of the Convention to fill by election all offices specially named in the Provisional Constitution, which may be vacant after the adjournment of the Convention. The Convention then adjourned sine die. Signed, J. Kagi, Secretary of the Convention
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 6: making ready. (search)
bent down in a peculiar manner, which Smith explained by stating that it was the habit of the Indians, in travelling through a strange country, to mark their path in that way, so as to find their way back. He had no doubt, he said that Indians passed over these mountains, unknown to the inhabitants. These statements of conversations with John Brown must not be fully credited; but the accounts of the hiring of the farm are substantially correct. The greater part of the men, according to Cook's Confession, kept out of sight during the day, for fear of attracting attention. The arms, munitions, et cetera, were carted from Chambersburg to his rendezvous. The spear heads and guards came in strong boxes, and the shafts passed for fork handles. They were put together by our men at the house, where most of them were afterwards found. During his residence at the Kennedy farm, writes one who lived with him, the old man used often to take his Bible, sit down on a stool in the corner
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