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United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.23
to those who came the day of the battle to help, or was in the hands of some others who had been there, and who were not now here. The guns these men had were United States arms. Where did you get these arms? asked Colonel S- of Captain Pate. We got them from a friend, was the reply. A more truthful answer was never given by man. The Government of the United States was the friend of every Missouri highwayman and far-Southern assassin, horse-thief, or burglar, who at this period infested Kansas. A friend! growled S-. What friend had a right, or could give you United States arms? In this dilemma, Captain Pate did as many a wise man hasUnited States arms? In this dilemma, Captain Pate did as many a wise man has done before him — evaded the question when he did not feel it advisable to answer it. The arms in question were the public Territorial arms, given in charge of the Federal officers of the Territory, for the use of the Territory, and by them given to the Missourians. This not being exactly a fit story to tell, Pate entered into a
Black Jack, Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.23
design of the Missourians, we marched upon Franklin on the night of the 2d of June,--only a few days after the fight at Black Jack,--and, after two or three hours of firing, chiefly in the dark, drove the ruffians out and captured their provisions. he invading forces. Mr. Cantroll was murdered by a ruffian named Forman, one of Captain Pate's men, who was wounded at Black Jack, carefully nursed at Prairie City, and dismissed by his captors uninjured. Of such were the Southern companies. The So rapidly and unexpectedly did the thing occur, that there was no opportunity to secure the arms and horses taken at Black Jack. Only fifteen of Brown's men were in the camp at the moment they entered it; Among them was John E. Cook, who, a fality. On the 4th of July, 1856, the crowning victory of the South was gained — not by their own cowardly forces, whom Black Jack, Franklin, and a series of successful guerilla fights had inspired with a salutary aversion to battles, but by compani
Prairie City (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.23
urdered seven Free State men, not one of whom was armed, when they were taken prisoners by the invading forces. Mr. Cantroll was murdered by a ruffian named Forman, one of Captain Pate's men, who was wounded at Black Jack, carefully nursed at Prairie City, and dismissed by his captors uninjured. Of such were the Southern companies. The Captain of the dragoons, when near Prairie City, heard that Old John Brown was in the neighborhood, and sent a messenger to him, requesting to have an intervPrairie City, heard that Old John Brown was in the neighborhood, and sent a messenger to him, requesting to have an interview. The old man came in response to the call, and voluntarily offered to give up his prisoners, in order that they might be tried for their highway robberies. But the dragoons insisted that they should be unconditionally surrendered; as, whatever their offences might be, there was no warrant out against them; and to receive them as prisoners, as the old man proposed, would be tacitly to admit that civil war existed, which, as a Federal officer, he could not acknowledge. John Brown had volu
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.23
Chapter 8: the conquest of Kansas complete. When the news of the defeat of Clay Pate reached Missouri, a force of twenty-one hundred mounted men, not one of them a citizen of Kansas, set out from the border village of Westport, under the lead of the Territorial delegate to Congress, with the triple purpose of rescuing their brother-highwaymen, seizing Old Brown, and completing the conquest of the disputed land. A few days before this invasion they had sent on supplies of provisions to t United States arms. Where did you get these arms? asked Colonel S- of Captain Pate. We got them from a friend, was the reply. A more truthful answer was never given by man. The Government of the United States was the friend of every Missouri highwayman and far-Southern assassin, horse-thief, or burglar, who at this period infested Kansas. A friend! growled S-. What friend had a right, or could give you United States arms? In this dilemma, Captain Pate did as many a wise
Milton (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.23
Chapter 8: the conquest of Kansas complete. When the news of the defeat of Clay Pate reached Missouri, a force of twenty-one hundred mounted men, not one of them a citizen of Kansas, set out from the border village of Westport, under the lead of the Territorial delegate to Congress, with the triple purpose of rescuing their brother-highwaymen, seizing Old Brown, and completing the conquest of the disputed land. A few days before this invasion they had sent on supplies of provisions to the town of Franklin, with cannon and ammunition for their coming forces; and there the Georgians began to concentrate, and committed robberies and other outrages on the persons and property of the Free State men. To defeat the design of the Missourians, we marched upon Franklin on the night of the 2d of June,--only a few days after the fight at Black Jack,--and, after two or three hours of firing, chiefly in the dark, drove the ruffians out and captured their provisions. We then retired to Hick
Hickory Point, Jefferson county (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.23
town of Franklin, with cannon and ammunition for their coming forces; and there the Georgians began to concentrate, and committed robberies and other outrages on the persons and property of the Free State men. To defeat the design of the Missourians, we marched upon Franklin on the night of the 2d of June,--only a few days after the fight at Black Jack,--and, after two or three hours of firing, chiefly in the dark, drove the ruffians out and captured their provisions. We then retired to Hickory Point, and there concentrated to oppose the invading force; which, although doubling us in numbers, we saw with great delight, on the 5th of June, in battle array on the prairies near Palmyra. Every one in our camp was exultant at the prospect of obliterating and avenging the disgrace of Lawrence. But the Federal troops hastened down, and induced the Missourians to retire; which, knowing our readiness to fight, they willingly consented to do; but not until, in cold blood, they had murdered
Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.23
Chapter 8: the conquest of Kansas complete. When the news of the defeat of Clay Pate reached Missouri, a force of twenty-one hundred mounted men, not one of them a citizen of Kansas, set out from the border village of Westport, under the lead of the Territorial delegate to Congress, with the triple purpose of rescuing their and far-Southern assassin, horse-thief, or burglar, who at this period infested Kansas. A friend! growled S-. What friend had a right, or could give you Uniterocity, from which the wildest savages might have shrunk with horror. Geary in Kansas. By John H. Gihon, p. 91. And why? Because the North had consented to leaern success; the date, at once, of the death and the resurrection of Freedom in Kansas. The Missouri River was closed against Northern emigration; the roads were lopulation of Leavenworth had been driven from their homes; almost every part of Kansas was in the power of the invaders; the army, and the Government, Federal and Ter
Topeka (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.23
nvaders, for they, as soon as they crossed over the border, were organized into Territorial militia. The face of Freedom was gloomy; every where the South was triumphant, or had conquered; only one additional indignity remained to be inflicted. Topeka had hitherto escaped the ravages of the ruffians. There, Colonel Aaron C. Stevens, a man afterwards destined to be immortally associated in fame with John Brown, had a company of Free State boys, who were ever on the alert to defeat the designs ower of the invaders; the army, and the Government, Federal and Territorial, the Bench and the Jury box were in the hands of the oppressor; and our State Organization had been destroyed by the Dragoons; but this assemblage of eight hundred men at Topeka, on the 4th of July, inspired a feeling of unity and power never known before ; and, slowly coming to the Territory, with a little army, but a mightier influence of inspiring rude men with furious passions, was General Jim Lane; while, in the woo
Lecompton (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.23
f Freedom in Kansas. The Missouri River was closed against Northern emigration; the roads were literally strewed with dead bodies; Declaration of Governor Shannon. the entire Free State population of Leavenworth had been driven from their homes; almost every part of Kansas was in the power of the invaders; the army, and the Government, Federal and Territorial, the Bench and the Jury box were in the hands of the oppressor; and our State Organization had been destroyed by the Dragoons; but this assemblage of eight hundred men at Topeka, on the 4th of July, inspired a feeling of unity and power never known before ; and, slowly coming to the Territory, with a little army, but a mightier influence of inspiring rude men with furious passions, was General Jim Lane; while, in the woods near the town, lay John Brown encamped, who did not despair, but was ready to release the prisoners at Lecompton, or attack the Dragoons if the party would advise it. They did not; and he left the town.
Geary (search for this): chapter 1.23
ruffians; some of them too shocking and disgusting to relate, or to be accredited if told. The tears and shrieks of terrified women, folded in their foul embrace, failed to touch a chord of mercy in their brutal hearts; and the mutilated bodies of murdered men, hanging upon the trees, or left to rot upon the prairies, or in the deep ravines, or furnish food for vultures and wild beasts, told frightful stories of brutal ferocity, from which the wildest savages might have shrunk with horror. Geary in Kansas. By John H. Gihon, p. 91. And why? Because the North had consented to league and compromise with the hideous crime of Southern slavery. The South triumphant. Every movement made by the Free State men to defeat and punish the crimes of these organized marauders, was thwarted by the Federal troops, who, in an official proclamation, were ordered to disperse all persons belonging to military companies, unauthorized by law; in which were not included the banded Southern inva
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