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January 1st (search for this): chapter 8
it was a pretext to raise the price of her boy; and, as she was nearly worn out already with anxiety and travel, she was beginning to despair of rescuing him from bondage. Could I do anything for her? Could I not run him off? I told her I would try. Shortly after this interview I went out to Kansas. It was some months before I could see any hope of successfully attempting to liberate her boy. The weather was so unusually mild that the river was not frozen over until some time after New Year's Day. I then made a trip to Parkville; carefully, of course, concealing my intention. I saw the boy at the livery stable and spoke to him privately. He refused to try to escape. He would not run the risk of recapture. He appeared, in fact, indifferent to his fate. I afterwards spoke to him, in the presence of a slaveholder, of the efforts of his mother to secure his freedom. He did not think, he said, that she could do it. She had written about it so often that he had given over all
May 15th (search for this): chapter 8
s. Nov. 14. Attended a law and order meeting of ruffians, held at Leavenworth, and declared his deter-mination to enforce the laws at all hazards: and this after the delivery of the most sanguinary speeches by Calhoun and other office-holders, in the course of which Judge Perkins (one of the most conservative of them all--subsequently a District Judge), told them to Trust to their rifles, and to enforce the laws, if abolition blood flowed as free as tile turbid waters of the Missouri. May 15. Lecompte made a violent partisan speech to the Grand Jury (reported by Mr. Leggett, who was one of them), in which he earnestly urged the conviction of the Topeka Free-State officers for high treason, but uttered not a syllable about the murderers of Barber and other Northern martyrs. This jury was packed by Sheriff Jones--thirteen pro-slavery to three Free-State men. The jury became a caucus, the pro-slavery members making abusive speeches against all the Free-State leaders as Massachuse
August (search for this): chapter 8
onsible for its existence in the Federal forts. Will the Republicans see that their Congressional Representatives shall instantly withdraw this Federal protection, and instantly abolish slavery, wherever — according to their own theories — they have the power to reach and extinguish it? Unless the People compel them, they will never attempt it. But, to the slave mother's narrative: An old Kentucky home. I was born and raised in Madison county, Ketucky. I will be thirty-nine next August. I belonged to Mr. William Campbell. I was raised in the same family as Lewis Clarke, who has written a book about his life. My master lived on Silver Creek, about eight miles from Richmond. He owned nineteen or twenty slaves. My mother belonged to him; my father to Mr. Barrett, who lived about three miles off. My mother was always the cook of the family. I lived in Kentucky till I was about fourteen years of age, when old master moved off to Clay county, Missouri, carrying my mother w
August 28th (search for this): chapter 8
d. She had a son in slavery. Having tasted the bitter draught of bondage, she was working, night and day, to save her son from the curse. He was in Parkville, Missouri. His master or masters had offered to sell him for eleven hundred dollars. She had nearly raised the sum, when she wrote to him again. Instead of receiving an encouraging reply, the following inhuman note was sent to the gentleman who wrote in her behalf: Parkville, Sept. 9th 1857 Sir, I recived yours of the 28 of August you Say that the Mother of Miller is verry anxious to Buy him. I have rote some too or three, Letter in relation to the time and Price now all I have to say is if you want him you must come by the fust of Oct or you will have to come to Texs for him & I will not consider my Self under any obligation to take the same price after the first of Oct. if you can get here by the 20 of this Month per haps it would be better for you for I want to start soon as I can & by the 1 of Oct is the out Si
August 30th (search for this): chapter 8
Boyle and Hughes, two brutal ruffians engaged in the transaction, to other minor offices in his court. July, 1855. Published a letter to the Legislature, indorsing their action, and declaring (before any case was before him, and, therefore, extra-judicially), that their conduct and enactments were legal in every respect — thus, without precedent, prejudging a point of law which might subsequently have involved, as it did involve, the legal rights and titles of thousands of citizens. Aug. 30. Invited tie Legislature, by special letter read in the House, to a grand collation, or, rather, what the Indians style a big drunk, and then addressed the inebriated assembly, eulogizing them for their patriotism and wisdom, and indorsing their infamous code of laws. Nov. 14. Attended a law and order meeting of ruffians, held at Leavenworth, and declared his deter-mination to enforce the laws at all hazards: and this after the delivery of the most sanguinary speeches by Calhoun and ot
October 1st (search for this): chapter 8
ply, the following inhuman note was sent to the gentleman who wrote in her behalf: Parkville, Sept. 9th 1857 Sir, I recived yours of the 28 of August you Say that the Mother of Miller is verry anxious to Buy him. I have rote some too or three, Letter in relation to the time and Price now all I have to say is if you want him you must come by the fust of Oct or you will have to come to Texs for him & I will not consider my Self under any obligation to take the same price after the first of Oct. if you can get here by the 20 of this Month per haps it would be better for you for I want to start soon as I can & by the 1 of Oct is the out Side time your in hast John Wallis Mr Henry Mor-- Illegible in the Ms. The poor mother did not think that Mr. Wallace This is the Capt. Wallace mentioned in the chapter on Lynching an abolitionist. had the remotest intention of removing to Texs ; but believed that it was a pretext to raise the price of her boy; and, as she was nearly wo
November 8th (search for this): chapter 8
Leggett, was the fact that it was the property of the Emigrant Aid Co., and had been the Headquarters of the people who assembled at Lawrence, when it was threatened (in December) by a Missouri mob. Issues writs, also, for the destruction of the Herald of Freedom, and Free-State newspapers, and against a bridge over the Wakarusa River, built by a Free State man named Blanden, because he refused to take out a charter for it, and thereby acknowledge the validity of the Territorial laws. Nov. 8th. Releases the murderer of Buffum on straw bail. Geary has him re-arrested. Lecompte again liberates him. He is sustained by Buchanan. Liberates, also, on straw bail (both bondsmen, Federal office-holders in these cases), the scalper of Mr. Hops, the notorious Fuggitt, who bet and won a pair of boots on the wager that he would have an abolition scalp in six hours. Last summer, he liberated Jack Henderson when arrested under the Territorial laws, for stuffing ballot-boxes at the Dela
November 14th (search for this): chapter 8
ct and enactments were legal in every respect — thus, without precedent, prejudging a point of law which might subsequently have involved, as it did involve, the legal rights and titles of thousands of citizens. Aug. 30. Invited tie Legislature, by special letter read in the House, to a grand collation, or, rather, what the Indians style a big drunk, and then addressed the inebriated assembly, eulogizing them for their patriotism and wisdom, and indorsing their infamous code of laws. Nov. 14. Attended a law and order meeting of ruffians, held at Leavenworth, and declared his deter-mination to enforce the laws at all hazards: and this after the delivery of the most sanguinary speeches by Calhoun and other office-holders, in the course of which Judge Perkins (one of the most conservative of them all--subsequently a District Judge), told them to Trust to their rifles, and to enforce the laws, if abolition blood flowed as free as tile turbid waters of the Missouri. May 15. Lec
December (search for this): chapter 8
the Free-State leaders as Massachusetts paupers; and then found indictments against several prominent citizens for the crime of high-treason and usurpation of office. Lecompte (at the same time) issued writs for the destruction of the Free-State Hotel as a nuisance. The only evidence brought against it, according to Mr. Leggett, was the fact that it was the property of the Emigrant Aid Co., and had been the Headquarters of the people who assembled at Lawrence, when it was threatened (in December) by a Missouri mob. Issues writs, also, for the destruction of the Herald of Freedom, and Free-State newspapers, and against a bridge over the Wakarusa River, built by a Free State man named Blanden, because he refused to take out a charter for it, and thereby acknowledge the validity of the Territorial laws. Nov. 8th. Releases the murderer of Buffum on straw bail. Geary has him re-arrested. Lecompte again liberates him. He is sustained by Buchanan. Liberates, also, on straw bail
1855 AD (search for this): chapter 8
d no one supposed we had been out of bed. Fate of the----guards. But that scene was nothing when compared with the charge on the----Guards. Oh, God! My friend shuddered violently. Everybody who is familiar with the history of Kansas has heard of the----Guards. They were a gang of Missouri highwaymen and horse-thieves, who organized under the lead of---------, the Kansas correspondent of a leading pro-slavery paper, when the Territorial troubles first broke out in the spring of 1855. After sacking a little Free-State town on the Santa Fe road, and committing other petty robberies and misdemeanors, they were attacked, in the summer of ‘56, by a celebrated Free-State captain, and defeated by a force of less than one-half their numerical strength. They were kept as prisoners until released by the troops. Capt.----, satisfied with his laurels, then retired from the tented field. But the company continued to exist and still lived by robbery. Shortly after the Xenophon
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