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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Preface. (search)
ts before I obtained the autobiographical sketch of his childhood and youth. Hence, if there be occasional repetitions, whether of fact or idea, the just or generous reader will overlook this defect. I do not think that there are such iterations; but it is a possibility that I desire to explain in advance. Writing 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 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 of private letters,--every one that has been preserved,--written during the long and active career of the illustrious Liberator, which exhibit his daily life in its every relatio
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 1: the child and his ancestors. (search)
d,) 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 two months dura
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 3: the man. (search)
we will now hurriedly pass, in order that we may the sooner come to those gigantic cameras — Harper's Ferry, and the Jail of Charlestown-- in which, for forty days, every line and lineament of the oldd Ellen Sherboudy, July, 1847. Owen Brown, November 4, 1824, Hudson, Ohio; he escaped from Harper's Ferry. Frederick Brown, (1st,) January 9, 1827, Richmond, Pennsylvania; died March 31, 1831. R October 7, 1835, Franklin, Ohio; 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 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, Hudson, Ohio; died September 22, 1843. rty of Virginia gentlemen murdered in cold blood. writes a sister-in-law, talked of going to Harper's Ferry, his wife begged of him not to go, telling him that she was afraid he would be murdered: he
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 4: Perkins and Brown, wool Factors. (search)
dness. He says Brown had lived in Ohio forty years, and had been out there from Connecticut several times on foot; that he was familiar with the region about Harper'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. Oncans, 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 in this region of his Harper's Ferry enterprise, and do not believe that he did. A lady here asked him if he was not going to lead a quiet life hereafter, and he replied that he should unless he r the bitter wrongs he had received, but as an effective mode of operation against the institution itself. His theory was then, and it was the secret of his Harper's Ferry movement, that his mission was to make the institution insecure, to increase the general feeling of its insecurity at the South, and thus to act upon the fear
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 5: North Elba. (search)
th joyfully on their father's call to keep their last pledge at Harper's Ferry, they issued from that doorway between their weeping wives on tsame purpose, nay, the selfsame project that sent John Brown to Harper's Ferry, sent him to the Adirondack. Twenty years ago, John Brown ma, by some valuable aid from freed slaves and fugitive slaves at Harper's Ferry; especially from Dangerfield Newby, who, poor fellow! had a sl married, and living in Ohio; Owen, unmarried, who escaped from Harper's Ferry, and Ruth, the wife of Henry Thompson, who lives on an adjoinin of Henry Thompson, and of the two Thompsons who were killed at Harper's Ferry; they also lived in the same vicinity, and one of them also hasown, the youngest son, only twenty, wrote back to his wife from Harper's Ferry in a sort of premonition of what was coming, , If I can do a sisome one said, This is Oliver, one of those who were killed at Harper's Ferry. I glanced up sidelong at the young, fair-haired girl, who sat
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Book 1: he keepeth the sheep. (search)
Captain John Brown, the hero of Kansas and Harper's Ferry. John Brown, the third, at the outbreak ober 4, 1824, Hudson, Ohio; he escaped from Harper's Ferry. Frederick Brown, (1st,) January 9, 1827 M. Thompson, September, 1856;--wounded at Harper's Ferry, October 17, while bearing a flag of trucetha E. Brewster, April 17, 1858; killed at Harper's Ferry, October 17, 1859. Peter Brown, Decemberory was then, and it was the secret of his Harper's Ferry movement, that his mission was to make thefather's call to keep their last pledge at Harper's Ferry, they issued from that doorway between thein Ohio; Owen, unmarried, who escaped from Harper's Ferry, and Ruth, the wife of Henry Thompson, whond of the two Thompsons who were killed at Harper's Ferry; they also lived in the same vicinity, and, only twenty, wrote back to his wife from Harper's Ferry in a sort of premonition of what was cominis Oliver, one of those who were killed at Harper's Ferry. I glanced up sidelong at the young, fair[6 more...]
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 1: the Lord's first call. (search)
border and voted in the Territory for the pro-slavery candidate. The news of this crime against republican institutions excited the renewed indignation of the North. Liberty-loving hearts were every where moved by it. Instead of deterring, it incited emigration. Among the brave pulses thus stirred were those of the family of old John Brown. In 1854, the four eldest sons of John Brown, This is a quotation from a manuscript in John Brown's handwriting, found at his house near Harper's Ferry. named John, Jr., Jason, Owen, and Frederick, all children by a first wife, then living in Ohio, determined to remove to Kansas. John, Jr., sold his place, a very desirable little property near Akron, in Summit County. The other two sons held no landed property, but both were possessed of some valuable stock, (as were also the two first named,) derived from that of their father, which had been often noticed by liberal premiums, both in the State of New York and also of Ohio. Jason B
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 4: In caucus and camp. (search)
he old man distrusted the republican leaders. He thought that their success, in 1860, would be a serious check to the anti-slavery cause. The Republicans of 1858 will be the Democrats of 1860--a pithy prophecy found among the manuscripts at Harper's Ferry,--is a brief and clear statement of John Brown's ideas. His reason was, that the people had confidence in these leaders, and would believe that by their action in Congress they would peacefully and speedily abolish slavery. That the people wepublicans would become as conservative of slavery as the Democrats themselves, he sincerely and prophetically believed. Apathy to the welfare of the slave would follow; and hence, to avert this moral and national calamity, he hurried on to Harper's Ferry. He was no politician. He despised that class with all the energy of his earnest and determined nature. He was too large a man to stand on any party platform. He planted his feet on the Rock of Ages-the Eternal Truth — and was therefore
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 9: battle of Ossawatomie. (search)
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, at once declared that he must be a remarkable man in disguise. The old hero and his party then proceeded to Nebraska City, or Tabor, in Iowa,
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, X. John Brown's defence of Lawrence. (search)
eed, that they trusted alone for victory to their Sharpe's rifles and to the God of battles. With these brave and resolute men, six of whom were Brown's own sons, he carried on a guerilla warfare; and whatever may be said of his movements at Harper's Ferry, whether they militate against his sanity or his loyalty to our government, his efforts in behalf of free Kansas will not soon be forgotten by those who witnessed them. I was up early on Sunday morning, and went down to the river and batheo an untimely death. Another eye witness and participator in this memorable action, who was posted with Major Bickerton on Mount Oread, afterwards published a poetical account of it; which, as the writer — Richard Realfhad engaged to be at Harper's Ferry, but died on his passage from England as he was coming over for that purpose, I subjoin, as well as on account of its historical accuracy, literary merit, and an indication of the range of intellect which the brave old hero gathered around hi
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