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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Book 1: he keepeth the sheep. (search)
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 ever find the leisure for it,--to write out for his young friend an account of his own early life. When crossing the State of Iowa, with military supplies, in the month of July following,--he himself driving a team,--he was detained for some time by the failure of certain parties to fulfil their promises to send him money. He then fulfilled his promise, and wrote this autobiographical sketch. I have copied it with the fidelity of a Chinese artist: Italics, punctuation, orthography, and omissions. I add a few notes only, and divide it into paragraphs. It fills six pages of letter paper in the original manuscript,
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 2: the father of the man. (search)
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 ever find the leisure for it,--to write out for his young friend an account of his own early life. When crossing the State of Iowa, with military supplies, in the month of July following,--he himself driving a team,--he was detained for some time by the failure of certain parties to fulfil their promises to send him money. He then fulfilled his promise, and wrote this autobiographical sketch. I have copied it with the fidelity of a Chinese artist: Italics, punctuation, orthography, and omissions. I add a few notes only, and divide it into paragraphs. It fills six pages of letter paper in the original manuscript,
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, X. John Brown's defence of Lawrence. (search)
X. John Brown's defence of Lawrence. We next find our hero in the town of Lawrence, 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. The writer at that time was in Iowa, in charge of a train of provisions, clothing, and military supplies, furnished for the free state men by the patriotism and philanthropy of the generous North. He has, therefore, no personal knowledge of John Brown's conduct at that eventful period of the history of Lawrence; but from a friend who was an eye witness, and a brave actor in it under the command of the mighty man of valor, he has been furnished with the following faithful and graphic narration. Brave like his captain, but, like the old man, modest also, we are not permitted to announce his name. On the 13th day of September, 1856, Jim Lane, with an army of some seventy-five or eighty men, pursued a number of the enemy, and compelled them t
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 1: Whetting the sword. (search)
to return, and the rest of the party were so anxious that we should go with them. At Tabor we procured teams for the transportation of about two hundred Sharpe's rifles, which had been taken on as far as Tabor, one year before, at which place they had been left, awaiting the order of Captain Brown. There were, also, other stores, consisting of blankets, clothing, boots, ammunition, and about two hundred revolvers of the Massachusetts Arms patent, all of which we transported across the State of Iowa to Springdale, and from there to Liberty, at which place they were shipped for Ashtabula County, Ohio, where they remained till brought to Chambersburg, Pa., and were from there transported to a house in Washington County, Md., which Captain Brown had rented for six months, and which was situated about five miles from Harper's Ferry. It was the intention of Captain Brown to sell his teams in Springdale, and, with the proceeds, to go on with the rest of the company to some place in Ashta
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 3: Fleshing the sword. (search)
on from overflowing into the Indian Territory. In November this plan was carried into operation by organized bands of pro-slavery ruffians, who, issuing from Fort Scott, stole cattle, arrested men under false charges, and in. other ways annoyed the Northern settlers. A Free State Squatter's Court was formed in November for the trial of these ruffians by the process of Lynch law. In order to inspire terror, the judge of this organization was called Old Brown; and, although the Captain was in Iowa at one time, the deception was not discovered for many months. It was at this time that Captain James Montgomery, called on by the people, took the field. Little, one of the chief ruffians, acting as a deputy United States Marshal, attempted, with a posse of eighty well-armed men, to arrest this Court. Major Abbott, The Major was a spiritualist and peace man when he came to Kansas, but soon took up carnal weapons, and did heroic service in the cause. He deserves honorable mention in eve
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 4: Exodus. (search)
to run; you won't find any more Old Browns between this and Atchison. The party reached Tabor in the first week of February, and travelled slowly across the State of Iowa. As he was performing this journey, men panting for the price of blood closely followed him; but the sight of his well-armed company prevented an attack on llages, and was well received by the friends of freedom. From one of his hosts, we have the following letter, which was published at the time: Captain Brown in Iowa. Old Captain Brown of Kansas! I have set my eyes on this old hero, feared by Missouri invaders, and loved by the legions of liberty in Kansas as a father. Hea negro hunt. A reward of three thousand dollars by the Governor of Missouri, with the value of his company as chattels, has made him quite a lion through the State of Iowa. The dirt-eating Democracy covet the reward, but keep at a good distance from the cold lead, and have no desire to be awed into silence and shame by one glanc
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 9: fallen among thieves. (search)
e no abolition speech to them. Coppoc, one of the prisoners, said he did not want to join the expedition, but added, Ah, you gentlemen don't know Captain Brown ; when he calls for us we never think of refusing to come. These statements are unworthy of belief. Captain Brown, after his pockets were rifled, was carried, with his dying, son, to the Guard House, and Stevens was soon brought and laid down beside them on the floor. No beds were provided for the prisoners. Coppoc, the brave Iowa boy, thus described, in a letter to their mother, the death of John Brown's sons, and the accommodations provided .for them by the Virginians: I was with your sons when they fell. Oliver lived but a very few moments after he was shot. He spoke no word, but yield'd calmly to his fate. Watson was shot at ten o'clock on Monday morning, and died about three o'clock on Wednesday morning. He suffered much. Though mortally wounded at ten o'clock, yet at three o'clock Monday afternoon he fou
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 10: spoils of war. (search)
documents throwing much light on the affair, printed constitutions and by-laws of an organization showing or indicating ramifications in various States of the Union. In this carpet bag were found various unimportant notes, from prominent persons in different States ; letters to J. Henrie, meaning Kagi; and Friend Isaac, meaning Captain Brown-- referring chiefly to the old man's Kansas work ; brief entries, in journals, of subscriptions received, and journeys made, and hardships endured in Iowa, the Eastern States, and Canada; copies of the Constitution, and of books of military tactics, with numerous receipts and bills for stock and provisions purchased for the war of liberation. In the mean time, now that the fight was over, the valiant Virginians flocked to Harper's Ferry. Governor Wise came down by the midday train, and, after ridiculing the people, visited the prisoners. The interview lasted several hours. None but the bitterest enemies of the Liberators were present duri