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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 2: the work begun. (search)
the jury chamber; and many other statutes, transcribed from Southern codes, of equal moral atrocity and despotic character. The Free State men declared that they would never recognize the code thus compiled, or obey the executive officers, whom, by an unprecedented usurpation, this legislature had chosen to enforce their statutes. During the last week of November, 1855, an incident occurred to test the sincerity of the Free State--men. A cowardly murder was committed by a person named Coleman, a pro-slavery settler, on Mr. Dow, a quiet New England emigrant. The authorities, instead of arresting the assassin, leagued themselves with him; and seized an innocent Free State squatter, in order to have him rescued in Lawrence — the Boston of the prairies-that, thereby, they might have a plausible excuse for calling on Missouri to destroy the town, under the pretence of enforcing the territorial laws. The prisoner was unexpectedly rescued several miles from Lawrence; but, despite of
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 4: In caucus and camp. (search)
ir directions, was to be reached by an Indian trail, which, difficult enough to trace in the daylight, it was impossible for a stranger to find or follow at night. I rode on to a hamlet of half a dozen log houses, dignified with the name of the City of Palmyra; and there, at the cabin of a moderate pro-slavery man, rested till the following morning, when I found that my horse had been stolen, and that my host had suffered with me in the loss of an Indian pony. H. Clay Pate and his friend Coleman, the murderer, were supposed to be encamped in the neighborhood, and were with reason suspected of having committed this theft. After the battle of Black Jack, and not till then, the horses were discovered and returned. I walked over to Prairie City,--a municipality which consisted of two log cabins and a well,--and from there, having told my errand, a messenger was instantly despatched to inform John Brown, Junior, of the approach and supposed design of the Federal troops. I remained
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 6: H. Clay Pate. (search)
und that was destined to witness his failure as a military man, and, at the same time, with a humor almost puritanic in its grimness, to satisfy his longings for extended fame — although, possibly, not the kind of it he most desired-his friend Mr. Coleman, the murderer, and others of his company, marched on Palmyra, sacked a free state store there, and then blew it up with a keg of gunpowder. I heard of this robbery and outrage, and wrote an account of it; which, with my Confessions, and a not directions — preserved the incendiary documents, and destroyed the harmless billet-doux! He was captured, and brought to the camp of the marauders. Pate ordered the letters to be opened, as soon as he learned that they were mine, and appointed Coleman, the murderer whom I had denounced, to read my productions to his men! First, came my humorous Confessions of a horse Thief. Captain Wood, the United States officer who arrested me, was spared the ridicule I had endeavored to throw on him; f