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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 20 (search)
assurance that the high character and love of truth which have marked Tom Brown's School Days and the Manliness of Christ will not withhold the truth, and willingly offend the innocent. It seems strange that one accustomed to weighing evidence should be misled by Redpath's book, whose extravagance classes it among works of romance 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, 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