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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Dedication. (search)
Dedication. To Wendell Phillips, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry D. Thoreau, defenders of the faithful, who, when the mob shouted, madman! said, Saint! I humbly and gratefully dedicate this book. James Redpath
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Epigraphs (search)
zed no unjust human laws, but resisted them as he was bid. No man in America has ever stood up so persistently for the dignity of human nature, knowing himself for man, and the equal of any and all governments. He could not have been tried by his peers, for his peers did not exist. --Henry D. Thoreau. God makes him the text, and all he asks of our comparatively cowardly lips is to preach the sermon, and say to the American people that, whether that old man succeeded in a worldly sense or not, he stood a representative of law, of government, of right, of justice, of religion, and they were pirates that gathered about him, and sought to wreak vengeance by taking his life. The banks of the Potomac, doubly dear now to History and to Man! The dust of Washington rests there; and History will see forever on that river side the brave old man on his pallet, whose dust, when God calls him hence, the Father of his Country would be proud to make room for beside his own. Wendell Phillips.
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 4: In caucus and camp. (search)
t a man, and too devout a Christian, to rest satisfied with the only action against slavery consistent with one's duty as a citizen, according to the usual Republican interpretation of the Federal Constitution. That teaches us that we must content ourselves with resisting the extension of slavery. Where the Republicans said, Halt; John Brown shouted, Forward! to the rescue! He was an abolitionist of the Bunker Hill school. He followed neither Garrison nor Seward, Gerritt Smith nor Wendell Phillips: but the Golden Rule, and the Declaration of Independence, in the spirit of the Hebrew warriors, and in the God-applauded mode that they adopted. The Bible story of Gideon, records a man who betrayed him, had manifestly a great influence on his actions. He believed in human brotherhood and in the God of Battles; he admired Nat Turner, the negro patriot, equally with George Washington, the white American deliverer. He could not see that it was heroic to fight against a petty tax on te
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 6: H. Clay Pate. (search)
om Westport, Missouri, about the end of May, with the avowed intention of arresting Old Brown, whom the pro-slavery men had charged with the slaughter of the ruffians of Pottawattomie, and for whom already they had a salutary and daily increasing dread. His only fear, he said, was, that he might not find him! Captain Pate's achievements, from the day he left Westport until Old Moore, the minister, started for Missouri, with my letters from Prairie City, are thus narrated by my friend, Mr. Phillips, in his Conquest of Kansas:-- While near Ossawatomie, he contrived to seize two of the old man's sons-Captain John Brown, Jr., and Mr. Jason Brown. These were taken while quietly engaged in their avocations. Captain Brown, Jr., had been up with his company at Lawrence, immediately after the sacking of the place, and at the time the men at Pottawattomie were killed. He had returned home when he saw he could not aid Lawrence, and quietly went to work. He and his brother Jason were
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 8: the conquest of Kansas complete. (search)
annon about your particular case, and he declared that you had no authority for going about the country with an armed force. There was no replying to this; and the enraged and silenced Pate bit his lip. Colonel S-went on and denounced him for his conduct in language more pointed and succinct than complimentary. He wound up his remarks, however, by allowing Pate to take every thing his company had — even the public arms. Captain Brown and his company were then ordered to disperse. Mr. Phillips, to whom I am indebted for this narrative, received the facts from Captain Brown, Colk, and other witnesses of the scene. This was the first instance in which the Missourians were officially reprimanded; and for this rebuke, Colonel Sumner, a relative of the distinguished Massachusetts Senator, was immediately superseded in command! Sacking of Ossawatomie. The force under Whitfield, although they had given their word of honor to disperse, committed numerous and brutal depredatio
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 9: battle of Ossawatomie. (search)
rage was recorded, would sneeringly allude to Poor Martin White. For his services in furthering this stratagem, and as a reward for the murder of Frederick Brown, Poor Martin White was elected a member of the Territorial Legislature which assembled at Lecompton. During the course of the session he gave a graphic account of the killing of Frederick; laughingly described how, when shot, he toppled over --the honorable members roared at this Southern-Christian phrase — and abused my friend Phillips, author of The conquest of Kansas, for having spoken of the act as a murder; when, said the assassin-preacher, calmly, I was acting as a part of the law and order militia. Poor Martin White, when the session was finished, proceeded to his home. But he never reached it. Ho went to his own place, indeed; for his corpse was found stiff and cold on the prairie — with a rifle ball in it. Poor Martin White! Brown's address to his men. They are coming — men, make ready; See their ensigns —
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 2: some shadows before. (search)
He then spoke of Governor Robinson's actions as being of a weather-cock character, and asked if it was true that Colonel Phillips had written his first two messages to the Topeka Legislature. I told him my reasons for believing the truth of the st draft of the message sent to the Legislature at Topeka, in June, 1857, as placed in the hands of the printers, was in Phillips' handwriting. At this John Brown grew angry — the only time I ever saw him so. He denounced the act severely, declaring it a deception to which no one should lend himself. I replied that Phillips had done for the best without doubt; that the Free State men had placed Robinson in the position, and that they must sustain him in it. The Captain answered shortly, All nonsense. No man has a right to lend himself to a deception. Phillips had no business to write the messages. Robinson must be a perfect old woman. John Brown, sir, would, if he was Governor, write his own documents, if they contained but six li
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 6: making ready. (search)
Chapter 6: making ready. From the 16th of March, when John Brown was in Canada, up to the 16th of October, when he conquered Virginia,--a period of eight months,--it would neither be prudent nor just to trace his movements too minutely; and I do not propose to do so now. From the 20th to the 30th of March, he was at Cleveland, with Kagi. An incident of this residence is thus related by Wendell Phillips: Prudence, skill, courage, thrift, knowledge of his time, knowledge of his opponents, undaunted daring in the face of the nation,--all these he had. He was the man who could leave Kansas and go into Missouri, and take eleven men and give them to liberty, and bring them off on the horses which he carried with him, and two which he took as tribute from their masters in order to facilitate escape. Then, when he had passed his human proteges from the vulture of the United States to the safe shelter of the English lion,--this is the brave, frank, and sublime truster in God's rig
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 8: sword in hand. (search)
ridge; shot him as he was falling the fearful height of forty feet; and, some appearance of life still remaining, riddled him with balls as he was seen crawling at the base of the pier. Contrast the Virginia savages of the olden time with the Virginia gentlemen of the present day. The contrast does not stop here. Miss Foulke, the modern Pochahontas, when asked why she shielded Mr. Thompson, replied, not that she loathed a murder, but that she didn't want to have the carpet spoiled! Wendell Phillips, in his great speech recently delivered at New York, in which he so successfully subdued the satraps of Virginia who had assembled to put him down, related another incident of the fight at Harper's Ferry, in which this Miss Foulke was a participatory: When, in the midst of the battle of Harper's Ferry, the Mayor's body lay within range of the rifles of those northern boys. his friends wanted to bring it off, but none of them would go. At last the porter of the hotel said to a lady
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 9: forty days in chains. (search)
end to retire for the purpose of letting her and Brown talk of old times alone, looked in through the window. But the wit of the woman got rid of him; for, having finished her needlework, she turned round and said, Young man, get me a brush to clean this coat with; but the chivalry of the old State was so livid hot with rage at being asked to do any thing useful, that he went off, and was not seen again for half an hour, Now, that is a specimen of this white race in working. Speech of Wendell Phillips, New York, December 15. arrived in Charlestown, and had an interview with John Brown. The Judge spoke of the charge preferred by an administration journalist in Kansas against the Captain, which charged him with having killed the ruffians of Pottawattomie. The old ran declared that he did not, in any way, participate in their execution ; but thought here, in jail, as he had believed in Kansas, that the act was just and necessary. A reliable writer, who was admitted to the cell on the
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