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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Publishers' Card. (search)
he friends who contribute it that it should appear exclusively in this volume, for the benefit of the family. The work is published with the sanction and approval of the family of Captain Brown, as may be seen by the following letters: North Elba, Dec., 1859. Messrs. Thayer & Eldridge. Dear Friends: I am satisfied that Mr. Redpath is the man to write the life of my beloved husband, as he was personally acquainted with him, and I think will do him justice. ... I think that the portrai the portrait is a very good one. Yours respectfully, Mary A. Brown. North Elba, Dec., 1859. Messrs. Thayer and Eldridge. Dear Sirs: I was somewhat acquainted with James Redpath in Kansas. I am also familiar with his writings, and I consider him an able biographer, and the man above all others to write the life of my beloved father. I believe him to be a man of undoubted veracity, and fully believe he will do justice to the work he has undertaken. Yours respectfully, Salmon Brown.
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Preface. (search)
n this way, the volume grew faster than I foresaw. I had intended to write the Life of John Brown, private and public, and biographies of his men, also. But Kansas, and Harper's Ferry, and Charlestown, and an unexpected gift of materials from North Elba, compelled me to defer the biographies of John Brown's men, as well as a minuter record of his own private life and correspondence. For, on the return of my wife from the home of John Brown, I found myself in possession, in trust, of hundreds one whom I have mentioned in the notes, or text, or whose letters I have quoted; and to Dr. Thomas H. Webb, of Boston, Richard J. Hinton, of Kansas, and, lastly, but not least among them, to a nearer one still and a dearer one for her visit to North Elba and its results. I still desire information, (whether anecdotes, letters, or conversational remarks,) respecting John Brown and his heroic associates, and will be greatly obliged for all such contributions. How unworthy soever this book m
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Book 1: he keepeth the sheep. (search)
bbie C. Hinckley, October 15, 1856; lives at North Elba. Charles Brown, November 3, 1837, Hudson, pter was stereotyped, I have found among the North Elba manuscripts the following Phrenological Desc1850 or 1851, and removed with his family to North Elba, Essex County, New York. This person says Gresolute in all that he did. Chapter 5: North Elba. John Brown and his family removed to NorNorth Elba, in Essex County, New York, in 1849. It was about this time that Mr. Gerritt Smith, the emiwho can do so--God pity him. The route to North Elba. The traveller into the enchanted land of All these young men went deliberately from North Elba for no other purpose than to join in this enmplicity) have been worthy the pilgrimage to North Elba to see. This Bible, presented to my plications left out. Since they had lived in North Elba, his wife said but twice had the slave been he owner, and that he resided in the town of North Elba. The report of the society for that year co[8 more...]
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 3: the man. (search)
o; married Isabella M. Thompson, September, 1856;--wounded at Harper's Ferry, October 17, while bearing a flag of truce; died October 19, 1859. Salmon Brown, October 2, 1836, Hudson, Ohio; married Abbie C. Hinckley, October 15, 1856; lives at North Elba. Charles Brown, November 3, 1837, Hudson, Ohio; died September 11, 1843. Oliver Brown, March 9, 1839, Franklin, Ohio; married Martha E. Brewster, April 17, 1858; killed at Harper's Ferry, October 17, 1859. Peter Brown, December 7, 1840, Hhies. In a business point of view, his ardent and excitable temperament led him into pecuniary difficulties; but I never knew his integrity questioned by any person whatever. Since the foregoing chapter was stereotyped, I have found among the North Elba manuscripts the following Phrenological Description of John Brown, as given by O. S. Fowler. It is dated New York, February 27, 1847: John Brown phrenologically described. You have a brain of good size, and a physical organization of
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 4: Perkins and Brown, wool Factors. (search)
have done, I have called upon a man who was his bookkeeper when he lived here. This person informs me that he came here from Akron, Ohio, in the spring of 1846, and engaged in the business of wool-dealing. He was afterwards associated in business with a Mr. Perkins, of Ohio. and their firm was Perkins and Brown. They sold large quantities of wool on commission; most of it was for farmers living in Western Pennsylvania. Mr. Brown left here in 1850 or 1851, and removed with his family to North Elba, Essex County, New York. This person says Gerritt Smith gave him a large tract of land there. He says he knows it because he saw the deed. ... Mir. Brown's integrity was never doubted, and he was honorable in all his dealings, but peculiar in many of his notions, and adhering to them with great obstinacy. Mr. Brown was a quiet and peaceable citizen, and a religious man. Rev. Mr. Conklin, who was settled here in the North Congregational Church, and who separated himself in a great measur
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 5: North Elba. (search)
Chapter 5: North Elba. John Brown and his family removed to North Elba, in Essex County, New YNorth Elba, in Essex County, New York, in 1849. It was about this time that Mr. Gerritt Smith, the eminent philanthropist, offered towho can do so--God pity him. The route to North Elba. The traveller into the enchanted land ofaments. The Notch seems beyond the world, North Elba and its half dozen houses are beyond the Not that when the disastrous news first came to North Elba, the family utterly refused to believe it, a All these young men went deliberately from North Elba for no other purpose than to join in this enmplicity) have been worthy the pilgrimage to North Elba to see. This Bible, presented to my plications left out. Since they had lived in North Elba, his wife said but twice had the slave been scription again,) but not so much to live at North Elba; and therefore the women must stint themselv for Kansas, he again moved his household to North Elba, where they still reside, and where his body[5 more...]
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 1: the Lord's first call. (search)
t had been a crime or a disgrace, instead of an illustrious, patriotic and Christian act for a Northern man to defend Northern rights; for an anti-slavery champion to oppose by the sword the armed propagandists of slavery; for a believer in the Bible to emulate the examples of Moses, Joshua, and Gideon, and obey the solemn utterances of the Most High God. Believing God to be a Being infallible and unchangeable; believing that He once had ordered His enemies to be smitten hip and thigh; believing that the Ever Just had commanded liberty to be proclaimed throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof; John Brown did not dare to remain tending sheep at North Elba when the . American Goliath and his hosts were in the field, defying the little armies of the living Lord, and sowing desolation and great sorrow on the soil set apart for his chosen people. Either Freedom has no rights, and the Bible is a lie, or John Brown, in thus acting, was a patriot and a consistent Christian.
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 9: battle of Ossawatomie. (search)
and, on the 5th of August, entered the camp of the organized Northern companies, then known as Jim Lane's army, at a place four miles from the northern boundary line, which the emigrants had named Plymouth, in honor of the Puritans,--who had crossed the sea for the same purpose that they were now crossing the prairie: To make the West as they the East, The Homestead of the Free. A brother of John Brown's wounded son-in-law, on learning of the casualties of Black Jack, at once left North Elba, and joined the second Massachusetts Company at Buffalo. The old man rode into camp, and inquired if Wm. Thompson He fell at Harper's Ferry. was there. He found him, and they left the camp together. The Captain was riding a splendid horse, and was dressed in plain white summer clothing. He wore a large straw hat, and was closely shaven; every thing about him was scrupulously clean. He made a great impression, by his appearance, on several of the company; who, without knowing him,
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 1: Whetting the sword. (search)
have a poor little ewe that has fallen into the ditch, and I think the Sabbath is as good a day as any to help her out. I will come. Travels in the Eastern States. The winter and spring of 1857 John Brown spent in travelling. He visited North Elba once. He spoke at different cities, and employed all his energies in collecting money. I believe that a large sum was voted for his use by the National Kansas Committee; but I know that- it is said through the dishonesty of an agent — he recee subject ! That it is true that John Brown was not fully satisfied with the results of his trip to the east, may be seen by the following characteristic note, which was found in his own handwriting among the papers left at the homestead of North Elba. It is entitled: Old Brown's Farewell To the Plymouth Rocks, Bunker Hill Monuments, Charter Oaks, and Uncle Thom's Cabbins. He has left for Kansas. Has been trying since he came out of the Territory to secure an outfit, or in other word
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 2: some shadows before. (search)
narrative. He thus continues the report of his conversation with Mr. Kagi: No politicians trusted. One thing I remember distinctly. In answer to an inquiry, Kagi stated that no politician, in the Republican or any other party, knew of their plans, and but few of the abolitionists. It was no use talking, he said, of Anti-slavery action to Non-resistant Agitators. That there were men who knew of John Brown's general idea is most true; but, south of the Canadian Provinces and of North Elba, there were but few who were cognizant of the mode by which he intended to mould those ideas into deeds. John Brown on insurrection. After a long conversation, the substance of which I have given, we returned to the house. I had some further conversation with John Brown, mostly upon his movements, and the use of arms. The Captain expressed tersely his ideas of forcible emancipation. Of the terror inspired by the fear of slaves rising, he said: Nat Turner, with fifty men, held