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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Book 1: he keepeth the sheep. (search)
ection, the worst that I had ever known to this day; consequently, though we removed from Hudson to another settlement early in the summer of 1807, and returned to Connecticut in 1812, so that I rarely saw any of that family afterwards, I have never to this day seen a man struggling and half strangled with at word stuck in his throat, without remembering good Mr. Owen Brown, who could not speak without stammering, except in prayer. moved to Ohio; then a wilderness filled with wild beasts, & Indians. During the long journey which was performed in part or mostly with an ox team; he was called on by turns to assist a boy Five years older (who had been adopted by his Father & Mother) & learned to think he could accomplish smart things in driving the Cows; and riding the horses. Sometimes he met with Rattle Snakes which were very large; & which some of the company generally managed to kill. After getting to Ohio in 1805 he was for some time rather afraid of the Indians, & of their Rifl
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 2: the father of the man. (search)
ection, the worst that I had ever known to this day; consequently, though we removed from Hudson to another settlement early in the summer of 1807, and returned to Connecticut in 1812, so that I rarely saw any of that family afterwards, I have never to this day seen a man struggling and half strangled with at word stuck in his throat, without remembering good Mr. Owen Brown, who could not speak without stammering, except in prayer. moved to Ohio; then a wilderness filled with wild beasts, & Indians. During the long journey which was performed in part or mostly with an ox team; he was called on by turns to assist a boy Five years older (who had been adopted by his Father & Mother) & learned to think he could accomplish smart things in driving the Cows; and riding the horses. Sometimes he met with Rattle Snakes which were very large; & which some of the company generally managed to kill. After getting to Ohio in 1805 he was for some time rather afraid of the Indians, & of their Rifl
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 9: battle of Ossawatomie. (search)
ds being sufficient proof that they had no such intention, for they were not open to settlement. They lived there in tents, sold whiskey to the Weas and Miamis, with whom they pretended to form some sort of treaty, and plundered and annoyed the Free State settlers. About the second of August, they took prisoner Preacher Stewart, robbed him of his horse, and stated that they intended to hang him. Preparatory to the execution of this murderous threat, he was left in charge of two drunken Miami Indians. Stewart, not being desirous of a suspension, made his escape, and reached Lawrence as speedily as possible. He immediately raised a company of ninety Free State men, and started for the Southern camp. They heard of his approach, and left in haste. When the Lawrence boys arrived at Battersville, they found some whiskey and a broken wagon. Captain Brown was on the northern boundary line at the time. Preacher Stewart and Captain Cutler were in command of the Free State men. Augus
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 1: Whetting the sword. (search)
he leaves the States, with a feeling of deepest sadness: that after having exhausted his own small means, and with his family and his brave men; suffered hunger, cold, nakedness and some of them sickness, wounds, imprisonment in Irons; with extreme cruel treatment, and others death: that after lying on the ground for months in the most sickly, unwholesome, and uncomfortable places ; some of the time with sick and wounded destitute of any shelter; and hunted like wolves; sustained in part by Indians: that after all this; in order to sustain a cause which every citizen of this glorious Republic is under equal moral obligations to do: and for the neglect of which, he will be held accountable by God: a cause in which every man, women, and child; of the entire human. family has a deep and awful interest; that when no wages are asked; or expected; he cannot secure, amidst all the wealth, luxury and extravagance of this Heaven exalted people; even the necessary supplies of the common soldie