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William Thompson (search for this): chapter 9
ties made their rendezvous in Worcester, one under command of my friend Stowell; the third party was formed largely of Maine lumbermen, recruited in a body for the service. I never saw thirty men of finer physique, as they strode through Boston in their red shirts and rough trousers to meet us at the Emigrant Aid Society rooms, which had been kindly lent us for the purpose. The rest of the men came to us singly, from all over New England, some of the best being from Vermont, including William Thompson, afterwards John Brown's son-in-law, killed at Harper's Ferry. I have never ceased to regret that all the correspondence relating to these companies, though most carefully preserved for years, was finally lost through a casualty, and they must go forever unrecorded; but it was all really a rehearsal in advance of the great enlistments of the Civil War. The men were personally of as high a grade as the later recruits, perhaps even higher; they were of course mostly undisciplined, and
Charles Robinson (search for this): chapter 9
tter luckily being an old acquaintance of my own. As a result, I went with Charles Robinson, the Free State governor, and James Redpath for a half-amicable, half-compy a very unfavorable impression of Governor Geary, and a favorable one of Governor Robinson, and lived to modify both opinions. The former, though vacillating in Kpprove of the act, and its beneficial effects were universally asserted,--Governor Robinson himself fully indorsing it to me, and maintaining, like the rest, that iublic meeting held at Lawrence, Kansas, three years later (December 15, 1859), Robinson supported resolutions saying that the act was done from sad necessity; that onve never fully reconciled myself to this vindication of the blow; but that Charles Robinson, after justifying it for nearly thirty years, and after the fighting men oprivations as to food, especially as regarded breadstuffs. The hotel and Governor Robinson's house had been burned, as well as many mills and bridges; some of the b
Rail Road (search for this): chapter 9
wn's favorite alias. The phrase partly believe was a bit of newspaper slang of that period, but came originally from Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians (xi. 18) whence Brown may well have taken it. I wrote in return, wishing for farther information, and asking if the underground railroad business was what he had in view. In a few days came this reply:-- Rochester, N. Y. 12th February, 1858. My Dear Sir,--I have just read your kind letter of the 8th inst., and will now say that Rail Road business on a somewhat extended scale is the identical object for which I am trying to get means. I have been connected with that business as commonly conducted from my boyhood and never let an opportunity slip. I have been opperating to some purpose the past season; but I now have a measure on foot that I feel sure would awaken in you something more than a common interest if you could understand it. I have just written my friends G. L. Stearns and F. B. Sanborn asking them to meet me fo
John Brown (search for this): chapter 9
first to foster. Jealousy of the influence of Brown, Lane, and Montgomery led him in later years tision. In regard to the most extreme act of John Brown's Kansas career, the so-called Pottawatomie of Brown's monument at Osawatomie, he compared Brown to Jesus Christ; and that on February 5, 1878, James Hanway, I never had much doubt that Captain Brown was the author of the blow at Pottawatomieshould later have spoken of the punishment due Brown for his crimes in Kansas, --this appears to mes certainly not Brown, it may have been one of Brown's aliases. My first conscious acquaintance wid, John Brown. This name, N. Hawkins, was Brown's favorite alias. The phrase partly believe wnglishman who had been a Garibaldian soldier. Brown's plan was simply to penetrate Virginia with a debt, to our friend Stearns, who gave them to Brown on his own responsibility. Nearly a year now d next week from these regions and elsewhere. Brown's address was at this time at West Andover, Oh[15 more...]
Thomas Russell (search for this): chapter 9
ve, if intercepted, to shoot down any one who attempted to arrest him; and this advice would have been given by every Abolitionist, unless a non-resistant. There was, of course, an immediate impulse to rescue Brown from prison. I do not know how far this extended, and can only vouch for myself. The primary obstacle to it was that one of Brown's first acts, on meeting a Northern friend in his prison, had been positively to prohibit any such attempt; the message being sent North by Judge Thomas Russell, from whom I received it at the railway station on his arrival. This barred the way effectually, for after Brown had taken that position he would have adhered to it. It occurred to me, however, that his wife's presence would move him, if anything could, and that she might also be a valuable medium of communication, should he finally yield to the wishes of his friends. For this purpose I went to North Elba, New York, the mountain home of the Browns, to fetch her, and wrote, after tha
Martin Stowell (search for this): chapter 9
their way, if necessary, into Kansas. Our three parties, accordingly, went by that route; the men being provided with rifles, revolvers, and camp equipage. Two of these parties made their rendezvous in Worcester, one under command of my friend Stowell; the third party was formed largely of Maine lumbermen, recruited in a body for the service. I never saw thirty men of finer physique, as they strode through Boston in their red shirts and rough trousers to meet us at the Emigrant Aid Society rhowever, civilization reassumed its force, and Kansas appeared as far off as Culloden. After returning home, I kept up for a long time an active correspondence with some of the leading Kansas men, including Montgomery, Hinton, my old ally Martin Stowell, and my associate brigadier, Samuel F. Tappan, afterwards lieutenant-colonel of the First Colorado Cavalry. Some of these wrote and received letters under feigned names, because many of the post-offices in the Territory were in the hands of
N. P. Willis (search for this): chapter 9
enty-two men against sixty-eight, yet this was quite a different affair. For myself, I had at that time such confidence in his guidance that the words of the Scotch ballad often rang in my ears:-- I could ha'e ridden the border through Had Christie Graeme been at my back. Lithe, quick, low-voiced, reticent, keen, he seemed the ideal of a partisan leader, and was, indeed, a curious compound of the moss-trooper and the detective. Among his men were Carpenter, Pike, Seamans, Rice, Gardner, Willis, and Silas Soule,--all well known in Kansas. The last three of these men had lately been among the rescuers of Dr. Doy from jail at St. Joseph, Missouri,--a town of eleven thousand inhabitants,--under circumstances of peculiar daring; one of them personating a horse-thief and two others the officers who had arrested him, and thus getting admission to the jail. The first need was to make exploration of the localities, and, taking with him one of his companions,--a man, as it proved, of gr
D. R. Atchison (search for this): chapter 9
lso in the fighting, should a chance be offered. They were drunken, gambling, quarrelsome boys, but otherwise affable enough, with the pleasant manners and soft accent of the South. Nothing could be more naive than their confidences. Don't you remember, said one, with a sort of tender regret, how when we went up the river we were all of us drunk all the time? So we would be now, replied his friend sadly, only we ain't got no money. They said that they had been inveigled into coming by Atchison and others, on the promise of support for a year and fifty dollars bonus, but that they had got neither, and had barely enough to take them to St. Louis. Let me once get home, said the same youth who made the above confession, and I'd stay at home, sure. It has cost me the price of one good nigger just for board and liquor, since I left home. Curiously enough, in reading a copy of Mrs. Stowe's Dred, just published, which I had bought in Lawrence, I opened soon after on the apt Scriptural
Albert Hazlett (search for this): chapter 9
ers when they saw that the enterprise was to fail. The same question of a rescue presented itself, after Captain Brown's execution, in regard to the two members of his party whose trial and conviction took place two months later,--Stevens and Hazlett, the former of whom I had met with Lane's party in Kansas. In February, 1860, after urgent appeals from Mrs. Rebecca Spring, of New York, who had visited these men, I made up my mind to use for their relief a portion of certain funds placed inand North, had taken the same view of their duty that Whitman held, there would have been no occasion for hospitals on either side. The only persons beside myself who were intimately acquainted with the project formed for rescuing Stevens and Hazlett were Richard H. Hinton, already mentioned, and John W. LeBarnes, afterwards lieutenant of a German company in the Second Massachusetts Infantry during the Civil War. It was decided that an attempt at rescue could best be made from a rendezvous a
Steams (search for this): chapter 9
sonal safety. I have been told that you are both a true man: and a true abolitionist; and I partly believe, the whole story. Last fall I undertook to raise from $500 to $1000, for secret service, and succeeded in getting $500. I now want to get for the perfecting of by far the most important undertaking of my whole life; from $500 to $800 within the next sixty days. I have written Rev. Theodore Parker, George L. Stearns and F. B. Sanborn Esqrs. on the subject; but do not know as either Mr. Steams or Mr. Sanborn are abolitionists. I suppose they are. Can you be induced to operate at Worcester and elsewhere during that time to raise from anti-slavery men and women (or any other parties) some part of that amount? I wish to keep it entirely still about where I am; and will be greatly obliged if you will consider this communication strictly confidential: unless it may be with such as you are sure will feel and act and keep very still. Please be so kind as to write N. Hawkins on the su
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