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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 5: Pottawattomie. (search)
t, I would have advised it had I known the circumstances; and I endorsed it as it was. Time and the honest verdict of posterity, he said, in his Virginia cell, will approve of every act of mine. I think it will also endorse all the acts that he endorsed; and among them this righteous slaughter of the ruffians at Pottawattomie. John Brown did not know that these men were killed until the following day; for, with one of his sons, he was twenty-five miles distant at the time. He was at Middle Creek. This fact can be proved by living witnesses. It is false, also, that the ruffians were cruelly killed. They were tried, made confession, allowed time to pray, and then slain in a second. The effect of this act was highly beneficial to the security of the Free State men. It gave, indeed, to a preconcerted invasion, an excuse for entering the Territory ; but, by the terror which it inspired, by teaching the Missourians that the sword of civil war had a double edge, it saved the lives
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 9: battle of Ossawatomie. (search)
n the morning, they started for Fort Sanders, on Washington Creek, to find that the Missourians had fled. It is probable that the old man was also at the capture of Fort Titus; and it is certain that, on the 26th of August, his company was at Middle Creek, at a point now called Battle Mound, eight miles from Ossawatomie, where there was a camp of one hundred and sixty Southern invaders. The Free State forces, consisting of sixty men,--the united companies of John Brown, Captain Shore, and Prewithin one mile and a half of the western boundary of the town of Ossawatomie. At this place my son Frederick K. (who was not attached to my force) had lodged, with some four other young men from Lawrence, and a young man named Garrison, from Middle Creek. The scouts, led by a pro-slavery preacher named White, shot my son dead in the road, whilst he-as 1 have since ascertained — supposed them to be friendly. At the same time they butchered Mr. Garrison, and badly mangled one of the young m