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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Publishers' Card. (search)
desire of the 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 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)
ters; and not always in the order of time. Thus, the third chapter of the first book was written two weeks after the account of his execution; the history of his Kansas exploits before I obtained the autobiographical sketch of his childhood and youth. Hence, if there be occasional repetitions, whether of fact or idea, the just ong in 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 alume--first, to every 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, (whethe
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Book 1: he keepeth the sheep. (search)
grandfather of Captain John Brown, the hero of Kansas and Harper's Ferry. John Brown, the third, atnated when we find the old man and his sons in Kansas and Virginia. One of his favorite verses wpearance. When first I saw him in his camp at Kansas, although his clothing was patched and old, ann the Missourians, and keep them from going to Kansas to disturb the people, and that he was success adding that he had acted on this principle in Kansas, and never suffered from it. He ascribed his wtifications. Many of them still exist in Southern Kansas. He thought no American could visit Europll the whole truth now-that John Brown's whole Kansas life was the result of this self-imposed missirprise. I never saw such men. It was so in Kansas I never saw such men outside of John Brown's ce head of the family made his visits home from Kansas, he commonly held a Sunday meeting in the littt themselves that the men might continue their Kansas work. But when the father came upon his visit[12 more...]
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 1: the child and his ancestors. (search)
the spirit world,) for the long period of sixty-five years. Mary, the eldest child of this marriage, remained a spinster till her death at the age of one hundred. John, the third, was born November 4, 1728; married Hannah Owen in 1758; John Owen, the ancestor of Hannah, was a native of Wales. He was among the first settlers of Windsor, where he was married in 1650. was the father of John, Frederick, Owen, and Abiel Brown; and the honored grandfather of Captain John Brown, the hero of Kansas and Harper's Ferry. John Brown, the third, at the outbreak of the revolutionary war, was chosen Captain of the West Simsbury (now Canton In 1806, West Simsbury, with a narrow strip of New Hartford, was incorporated, by act of legislature, into a township named Canton.) trainband; and, in the spring of 1776, joined the forces of the continental army at New York. He served under Colonel Jonathan Pettibone. His commission from Governor Trumbull is dated May 23, 1776. After a service of
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 2: the father of the man. (search)
young souls, they instinctively recognized the true hero. One of them asked him many questions about his childhood, and he recounted, with great interest, the incidents of his infancy and boyish days. When the old man was preparing to return to Kansas, Master Henry (to whom the letter is addressed) asked his father's permission to give all his pocket money to Captain Brown. The permission was readily given, and the old hero received the money. He promised, at the same time,--if he should evenished. As he phrased it, I know no more grammar than one of your calves. But he went to the University of the West, where he studied the science of Liberty; and, having taken his degrees, he finally commenced the public practice of humanity in Kansas. Such were his humanities — he would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man. Henry D. Thoreau. He would always choose to stay at home & work hard rather than be sent to school; & during the warm season mi
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 3: the man. (search)
who knew him, equally as courageous and devout a personage as the Liberator of Kansas, the Invader of Virginia, and the Prisoner of the Jail of Charlestown. The lthe young men of principle and talent, who loved and flocked around him when in Kansas. In 1844, John Brown removed to Akron, Ohio; in 1846, he went to Springfieldce --we will see how it was incarnated when we find the old man and his sons in Kansas and Virginia. One of his favorite verses was, says a daughter, Count th gave utterance to a boast. Upon one occasion, when one of the ex-Governors of Kansas said to him that he was a marked man, and that the Missourians were determined,nce from one of his family: On leaving us the first time that he went to Kansas, he said, If it is so painful for us to part, with the hope of meeting again, clean and tidy in his personal appearance. When first I saw him in his camp at Kansas, although his clothing was patched and old, and he was almost barefooted, he wa
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 4: Perkins and Brown, wool Factors. (search)
arper's Ferry, and knew the wool growers in all that part of the country. Since Brown went to Kansas he has been in town several times. I have seen him repeatedly. Once he called on me to inquirecceeded. He was here again last summer, and called on me, and told me what he had been doing in Kansas. His story was such that I told him I did not think he had done wrong. He professed to have acsouri to help the slaves escape, merely to frighten the Missourians, and keep them from going to Kansas to disturb the people, and that he was successful in it. I cannot learn that he spoke to any one could be held by a few men against a large force, adding that he had acted on this principle in Kansas, and never suffered from it. He ascribed his winning the battle of Black Jack to his choice of gll in choosing his ground and in erecting rude fortifications. Many of them still exist in Southern Kansas. He thought no American could visit Europe without coming home more in love with our own co
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 5: North Elba. (search)
s come to tell the whole truth now-that John Brown's whole Kansas life was the result of this self-imposed mission, not the e Adirondacks. Five years before, when they first went to Kansas, the father and sons had a plan of going to Louisiana, try I thought that I had learned the lesson once for all in Kansas, which no one ever learns from books of history alone, of d be less surprise. I never saw such men. It was so in Kansas I never saw such men outside of John Brown's camp as I saw But when the head of the family made his visits home from Kansas, he commonly held a Sunday meeting in the little church, uthese privations simply was, that it cost money to live in Kansas in adherence to the cause of freedom, (see the tombstone en must stint themselves that the men might continue their Kansas work. But when the father came upon his visits, he never nd carried on the wool business. In 1855, on starting for Kansas, he again moved his household to North Elba, where they st
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 1: the Lord's first call. (search)
ages. Missouri now secured, the South coveted Kansas, the most fertile portion of the remaining ter the side of slavery. Missouri,her borders on Kansas peopled with semi-barbarous ruffians,--was the, will better illustrate their early career in Kansas, than even an extended account of their outrage and all, to enter every election district in Kansas, in defiance of Reeder and his myrmidons, and t the two last named, and all three arrived in Kansas early in the spring. During this slow journeyear the Pottawattomie, a little stream in Southern Kansas, in Lykins County, about eight miles disteech, during which he said he had four sons in Kansas, and had three others who were desirous of goi Smith. He had only two objects in going to Kansas: first, to begin the work for which, as he bele in their new home. John Brown did not go to Kansas to settle there. Already, elsewhere, I have mice against him for having voluntarily gone to Kansas, and solely to fight the battles of freedom: a[9 more...]
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 2: the work begun. (search)
ter 2: the work begun. Before John Brown reached Kansas, the South had thrown off its flimsy disguises. It eight non-residents, citizens of Missouri, invaded Kansas, and controlled the elections at every precinct sav post. They elected several men who did not live in Kansas; who never intended to settle there; who are citizee than seventy-five, at any time, were residents of Kansas Missouri, confessed Governor Shannon, sent not onlder confessed, was, or had ever been, a resident of Kansas, or had any social or pecuniary interest in its preve them to commence hostilities! See Conquest of Kansas, by William Phillips, p. 214. The leading milit in their judgment, should best secure that end. Kansas, its interior and Exterior life, &c., by Mrs. Sara William Phillips, the most trustworthy historian of Kansas as to facts: There was an evident suspicion a the treaty; that he was a stranger in Lawrence and Kansas, and ought not, by his rash remarks, to compromise
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