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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, chapter 1.13 (search)
Chapter 3: Southern rights to all.
The siege of Lawrence raised, the ruffians, on returning homeward, on the 15th of December, 1855, des ssued for the arrest of its citizens; United States troops entered Lawrence to enforce them.
To Federal authority no opposition was made; for to incite the people to resist him, encamped with his prisoners in Lawrence over night, and, in coarse and filthy language, abused the Norther ness.
This refusal was instantly made the pretext for marching on Lawrence, under the authority of a United States Marshal.
The news sprea dministration.
On the 5th of May, the two Free State papers in Lawrence, and a hotel erected by the Emigrant Aid Company; as, also, a bridge over a stream to the south of Lawrence, which had been built by a Free State man; were each indicted by a jury, under the instructions of t tes Marshal, at the head of eight hundred men, entered the town of Lawrence, and made arrests; and then, with an ingenuity worthy of the South
Chapter 7: battle of Black Jack.
A few days after I left the camp of Old Brown, and returned to my post at Lawrence, he had his long-looked — for fight with Captain Pate's marauders.
A friend has so faithfully narrated this action, that I prefer to transcribe his account of it, rather than describe the fight from my own recollections of the event.
I make a few additions and corrections only.
A Sabbath gathering.
After dinner on Sunday, Pate's men wanted to go over to Prairie City and plunder it. Fancying that it would be easily taken, and that no resistance would be offered, six of Pate's men started on the expedition.
At the time this party approached Prairie City, the people of that place and vicinity were congregated in the house of Dr. Graham to hear preaching, the doctor himself being a prisoner in the camp at Black Jack.
They could watch as well as pray, however.
There were some twenty men present, and most of them, after the old Revolutionary pattern, had gone
X. John Brown's defence of Lawrence.
We next find our hero in the town of Lawrence, at the most perilous crisis of itsLawrence, at the most perilous crisis of its history.
His defence of it is still remembered with gratitude by all the brave men who witnessed and participated in it. T saction, another scene in the Kansas drama was enacted at Lawrence.
Brown, who had been up to Topeka, was on his way home, and remained in Lawrence over Sunday.
His little army --which consisted of some eighteen or twenty men, and probably never , and came back to my tent, which was on the west side of Lawrence, and busied myself in the forenoon in writing letters hom moke of Franklin, a little town five miles south-east of Lawrence, curling up towards heaven, and mingling with the clouds. nvading army had left Franklin, and were marching towards Lawrence; and about five o'clock in the afternoon, their advance g the brave old hero gathered around him.
The defence of Lawrence. All night, upon the guarded hill, Until the stars were l
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, chapter 1.27 (search)
Chapter 2: some shadows before.
We were at supper, on the 25th of June, 1858, at a hotel in Lawrence, Kansas.
A stately old man, with a flowing white beard, entered the room and took a seat at the public table.
I immediately recognized in the stranger, John Brown. Yet many persons who had previously known him did not penetrate his patriarchal disguise.
A phrenologist, who was conversing with me, having noticed him, suddenly turned and asked if I knew that man?
Such a head, such develop , by the law of attraction or mental affinity, were the devoted friends and admirers of John Brown; and mentioning that, in November, 1857, Cook, Realf, and Kagi left the Territory for.Tabor, in Iowa, in his company; and recording his arrival in Lawrence under the name of Captain Morgan, on the 25th of June, 1858, he thus continues:
A talk with John Brown and Kagi.
On Sunday I held a very interesting conversation with Captain Brown, which lasted nearly the whole afternoon.
The purport of