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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 3: Fleshing the sword. (search)
re no difficulties until the winter of 1857-8--until shortly after John Brown paid his visit of three days to Lawrence for the purpose of bringing out his young followers to drill them. In the summer of 1856, the entire Free State population of Lynn and Bourbon Counties had been driven from the cabins and claims by organized marauders from Arkansas and the Indian Territory, under the command of General Clarke, a Federal office-holder, and the murderer of Robert Barber. The emigrants thus exp firing a shot! On the same day, the Sheriff and his companion were disarmed by two men who fell at Harper's Ferry. Do you know who we are? asked the Sheriff. I am the high Sheriff of this county. To the devil with the high Sheriff of Lynn County! said Kagi. Hand over that gun. John Brown returned from Ossawatomie as soon as he heard of the attack on his house. The pro-slavery men, and Free State sycophants of the Federal Administration, had just again sent for United States troo
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 4: Exodus. (search)
or was compelled, by the fear of renewed disturbances, to approve, in order to induce Montgomery to disband his organization. Montgomery, sent for by the politicians, reached the town of Lawrence while John Brown was on his journey to it, for the purpose of arranging to carry off his negroes. To save Montgomery from the odium that his enemies had attempted to cast on him, for his supposed implication in the invasion of Missouri, the old man wrote his parallels from the Trading post in Lynn County. During the absence of Montgomery and Brown, Kagi, who had been left in command, had two or three fights with the invaders. Battle of the Spurs. About the 20th of January, John Brown left Lawrence for Nebraska, with his emancipated slaves, who had been increased in number by the birth of a child at Ossawatomie. It was named, Captain John Brown. When at the third resting place of Jim Lane's army, which had been named Concord, but which subsequent settlers called Holton, a part