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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 4: In caucus and camp. (search)
rie City, according to their directions, was to be reached by an Indian trail, which, difficult enough to trace in the daylight, it was impossible for a stranger to find or follow at night. I rode on to a hamlet of half a dozen log houses, dignified with the name of the City of Palmyra; and there, at the cabin of a moderate pro-slavery man, rested till the following morning, when I found that my horse had been stolen, and that my host had suffered with me in the loss of an Indian pony. H. Clay Pate and his friend Coleman, the murderer, were supposed to be encamped in the neighborhood, and were with reason suspected of having committed this theft. After the battle of Black Jack, and not till then, the horses were discovered and returned. I walked over to Prairie City,--a municipality which consisted of two log cabins and a well,--and from there, having told my errand, a messenger was instantly despatched to inform John Brown, Junior, of the approach and supposed design of the Fed
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 6: H. Clay Pate. (search)
Chapter 6: H. Clay Pate. Among the unhappy men whom Old John Brown has dragged into an exceedi he deserves a separate chapter here — does H. Clay Pate, of Black Jack and Virginia. Pate, by bi He had a signboard on his door, inscribed, H. Clay Pate, Author; but as Heaven had not written thishe Lord, were destined soon to meet as foes. Mr. Pate set out from Westport, Missouri, about the ene said, was, that he might not find him! Captain Pate's achievements, from the day he left Westpoo work. He and his brother Jason were taken by Pate, charged with murder, kept in irons in their cas were thus travelling close to each other, Captain Pate's company burned the store of a man named W to find Captain Brown, senior, at Ossawatomie, Pate's company and the troops started back for the Sn Brown's rescuing the prisoners, that made Captain Pate deliver theta to the United States Dragoonsisoners, encamped on Middle Ottawa Creek, while Pate went on with his men to the Santa Fe road, near[4 more...]
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 1: Whetting the sword. (search)
aid that with a pike, or bow and arrows, he could arm recruits more formidably than with patent guns. How he ordered the pikes is thus stated by the maker of them: In the latter part of February, or the early part of March, 1857, Old Brown, as he is familiarly called, came to Collinsville to visit his relatives, and by invitation addressed the inhabitants at a public meeting. At the close of it, or on the following day, he exhibited some weapons which he claimed to have taken from Capt. H. C. Pate, at the battle of Black Jack. Among others was a bowie knife or dirk, having a blade about eight inches long. Brown remarked that such an instrument, fixed to the end of a pole about six feet long, would be a capital weapon to place in the hands of the settlers in Kansas, to keep in their cabins to defend themselves against border ruffians or wild beasts, and asked me what it would be worth to make one thousand. I replied that I would make them for one dollar each, not thinking that