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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 20 (search)
mance and fiction, and awakens the suspicion of pure sensationalism. Lying before me is another volume, Reminiscences of Old John Brown, by G. W. Brown, M. D., Rockford, Illinois, 1880. The author of this book was a co-worker with John Brown in Kansas, in full sympathy in politics and with him, but not in his wicked policy of violence, murder and massacre. He asserts and proves that John Brown was the responsible and guilty author of the Pottawattomie massacre of five families in Kansas, withKansas, with torments and cruelties worthy of savagery. The Hon. Eli Thayer, of Massachusetts, an abolitionist, in review of Dr. Brown's book, says: The writer's confidence has been many times abused, but never in any other instance so grossly and wickedly abused as by John Brown. * * * But whether sane or insane, he acted well the part of heavy villain in the Kansas drama. (Italics his). We know, and records prove, that John Brown, after full and fair trial before the proper civil tribunal was duly convi