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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, chapter 1.13 (search)
mpany; as, also, a bridge over a stream to the south of Lawrence, which had been built by a Free State man; were each indicted by a jury, under the instructions of the Federal Judge, Lecompte, as a public nuisance, and orders for their destruction were issued by the Court. On the 11th of the same month, the United States Marshal issued a proclamation assembling the militia ; and from that time, as the writer personally knows, till the 20th instant, in the words of a democratic author, Gihon. preparations were going forward, and vigorously prosecuted, for the sacking of Lawrence. The pro-slavery people were to wipe out this ill-fated town, under authority of law. They had received the countenance of the President, the approbation of the Chief Justice, the favorable presentiment of the Grand Jury, the concurrence of the Governor, the order of the Marshal, and were prepared to consummate their purpose with the arms of the Government, in the hands of a militia force gathered from
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 8: the conquest of Kansas complete. (search)
o shocking and disgusting to relate, or to be accredited if told. The tears and shrieks of terrified women, folded in their foul embrace, failed to touch a chord of mercy in their brutal hearts; and the mutilated bodies of murdered men, hanging upon the trees, or left to rot upon the prairies, or in the deep ravines, or furnish food for vultures and wild beasts, told frightful stories of brutal ferocity, from which the wildest savages might have shrunk with horror. Geary in Kansas. By John H. Gihon, p. 91. And why? Because the North had consented to league and compromise with the hideous crime of Southern slavery. The South triumphant. Every movement made by the Free State men to defeat and punish the crimes of these organized marauders, was thwarted by the Federal troops, who, in an official proclamation, were ordered to disperse all persons belonging to military companies, unauthorized by law; in which were not included the banded Southern invaders, for they, as soon a