James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown

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[154] the State, from which the Missourians never fully recovered. They never afterwards thought, and seldom said, that the Yankees would not fight. Captain Brown first created a dread of the North and her men in the minds of the Missourians; which, more than any other terror, prevented them from proceeding vigorously with the project of re-conquering Kansas. For General Lane, in the North, with hardly any loss of life, had done what Captain Brown, with this salutary slaughter, had effected in the South of Kansas--made it necessary to effect a re-subjugation of the Territory, or to give it up to freedom. Lane frightened the Southern invaders; but Brown struck terror into the centre of their souls.

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“Old Preacher White.”

Old Preacher White, who shot Frederick Brown through the heart,--although his victim was quietly walking along on the road unsuspecting and unarmed, -and afterwards, as the corpse lay stiff and bloody on the ground, discharged a loaded pistol into its open mouth, was a “National” Divine, of “the Church South,” of course, whose fate deserves a passing notice here; In order to make capital against the Northern correspondents in the Territory, by throwing discredit on their statements of Southern outrage, a pro-slavery man of Westport, Missouri, wrote an account of the recent murder of a person whom he called “Poor Martin White, a Free State preacher of the Gospel.” It served its purpose — for it was originally published in a Republican paper and widely copied; when — as had