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James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., In my sanctum. (search)
he truth that they who take the sword shall perish by it. South of Kansas lies a fertile region already darkened by the curse of slavery. It is the Indian Territory. It will soon be thrown open for the settlement of the white race. Another struggle will ensue — and another victory for freedom; for the men who, at Yellow Stone, fired at Federal troops, and, at Osawattomie--seventeen against four hundred--made the embattled marauders bite the dust, will be there to avenge the martyrs of Lawrence and the Marais des Cygnes. Will they have no other aid? Yes; for there are negroes enslaved in the Indian Territory: the descendants of the bravest warriors America has produced — the hunted maroons, who, for forty years, in the swamps of Florida, defied the skill and armies of the United States. They hate slavery and the race that upholds it, and are longing for an opportunity to display that hatred. Not far from this territory, in a neighboring province of Mexico, live a nation of tra
James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., Slavery in Kansas. (search)
s — who hounded on the Carolina and Alabama robbers to the sack of Lawrence and the desolation of the Free State settlements — was retained in Johnson has not been reinstated. He opposed Lecompton. When Lawrence was surrounded by a Missouri mob, in December, 1856, a peaceful anarauders were presented with arms, and paid by the day for sacking Lawrence and desolating the surrounding region; and one of their number, a lth thus contributed greatly to its rapid increase in population. Lawrence was surrounded with ruffians. It was dangerous at Leavenworth to Next morning after the letter arrived, our mutual friend----left Lawrence for Missouri. He went to the woman, told her of her husband's wish, and, after sunset, started her for Lawrence. They reached it in safety, and were beyond Topeka, when the slave-hunters overtook them, overns lying on the prairie, and drove back as rapidly as we came from Lawrence.----drove the wagon a couple of hundred miles. It is now regularly