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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 6: H. Clay Pate. (search)
y letters aroused. It was universally admitted that I ought to be hanged; and they swore that they would do it, too — when the cat was belled. Pate's revenge was characteristic. He wrote to the Missouri Republican an account of the arrest of Mr. Moore, by his company, and stated that a number of my incendiary documents had been found on this person. This Redpath, he added, as if parenthetically, was arrested a few days ago by Captain Wood, of the United States army, on a charge of horse steit for it, if he had not shown, by the sentence following, that the construction of the words was accidental only: He was only released, he added, because Captain Wood could not find a magistrate to indict him! This was his revenge on me; on Mr. Moore it was more brutal and cowardly, and still more characteristic. Some of Pate's company had known the old man in Missouri, and knew that he was strictly temperate in his habits and his principles. They therefore seized him, and, putting a tin
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 10: husband and wife. (search)
e of dragoons to escort Mrs. Brown, but not the others. The mortification of the citizens of Harper's Ferry was not less than that of Mrs. Brown, and her friends, at so cruel and unlooked — for an act on the part of the chivalrous sons of Virginia. But as a cow will frighten a private doing sentry duty, one live Northern woman and two Northern men might reasonably be expected to intimidate a Virginia army. The escort consisted of a file of eight mounted riflemen, under a sergeant. Captain Moore, of the Montgomery Guards, stationed at this place, very kindly offered his own services as a personal escort to Mrs. Brown, and she gladly accepted it. The Captain referred frequently, as they came along, to the unfortunate situation of her husband. She exhibited no sorrow or regret, so far as he could observe. The gallant Captain had the brutality to attempt to argue with a wife, thus circumstanced, in favor of that great crime against God and man, for assailing whose power he