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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Preface. (search)
Chapter 11: return to the East.
As soon as the Missourians retreated from Franklin, John Brown, with four sons, left Lawrence for the East, by the way of Nebraska Territory.
When at Topeka he found a fugitive slave, whom, covering up .1 his wagon, he carried along with him.
He was sick, and travelled slowly.
Northern squatters, at this time, were constantly leaving the Territory in large numbers.
In coming down with a train of emigrants, in October, I met two or three hundred of these voluntary exiles — all of them having terrible stories of Southern cruelty to tell.
Not contented with having closed the Missouri River against Northern emigration, the South, through the Government, determined, also, to arrest the emigration from the Free States by the Nebraska route.
It was intended to stop and disarm my train; but a few forced marches defeated that design.
It was known that another large party was coming in after me: this train several companies of cavalry and artille
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, chapter 1.27 (search)