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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, X. John Brown's defence of Lawrence. (search)
iately despatching a messenger to Lawrence for reinforcements and a small six-pound howitzer, with directions to come via Topeka, Lane withdrew his men a few miles to the west, and encamped for the night near a spring, where he found a copy of the inowards the people of Kansas, and thereupon disbanded his men; and after having sent another messenger, also by the way of Topeka, to countermand his previous order for reinforcements, he proceeded in person to the north line of the territory. But Colonel Harvey, to whom this message was sent, instead of going by Topeka, commenced his march directly for Hickory Point, on Saturday night, about ten o'clock, with about one hundred and fifty men, and one piece of cannon. He arrived there about two ed. But during this transaction, another scene in the Kansas drama was enacted at Lawrence. Brown, who had been up to Topeka, was on his way home, and remained in Lawrence over Sunday. His little army --which consisted of some eighteen or twenty
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 11: return to the East. (search)
Chapter 11: return to the East. As soon as the Missourians retreated from Franklin, John Brown, with four sons, left Lawrence for the East, by the way of Nebraska Territory. When at Topeka he found a fugitive slave, whom, covering up .1 his wagon, he carried along with him. He was sick, and travelled slowly. Northern squatters, at this time, were constantly leaving the Territory in large numbers. In coming down with a train of emigrants, in October, I met two or three hundred of thes surveyor-or appeared as such to them. He had a light wagon and a cow tied behind it. His surveyor's instruments were in the wagon in full sight. Letter from Joel Grover, of Lawrence. As soon as the military supplies had been stored, I left Topeka in company with a friend, and overtook the troops a few miles from Lexington, a town site on the prairie, thus named by the Massachusetts companies. Passing them, and travelling twelve miles farther, I found, lying sick in bed, at the solitary l
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 1: Whetting the sword. (search)
tain Cook. Dear Sir: You will please get every thing ready to join me at Topeka by Monday night next. Come to Mrs. Sheridan's, two miles south of Topeka, andTopeka, and bring your arms, ammunition, clothing, and other articles you may require. Bring Parsons with you if he can get ready in time. Please keep very quiet about the maton could not get ready. I left them at Lawrence, and started in a carriage for Topeka. Stopped at the hotel over night, and left early the next morning for Mrs. She meet Captain Brown. Staid a day and a half at Mrs. Sheridan's — then lift for Topeka, at which place we were joined by Stephens, Moffitt, and Kagi. Left Topeka forTopeka for Nebraska City, and camped at night on the prairie north-east of Topeka. Here, for the first, I learned that we were to leave Kansas to attend a military school duriTopeka. Here, for the first, I learned that we were to leave Kansas to attend a military school during the winter. It was the intention of the party to go to Ashtabula County, Ohio Next morning I was sent back to Lawrence to get a draft of eighty dollars cashed, a
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 2: some shadows before. (search)
oked at me with a peculiar expression in the eyes, as if struck by the word, and in a musing manner remarked, Abortion!--yes, that's the word. He then spoke of Governor Robinson's actions as being of a weather-cock character, and asked if it was true that Colonel Phillips had written his first two messages to the Topeka Legislature. I told him my reasons for believing the truth of the statement, among other things mentioning that the first draft of the message sent to the Legislature at Topeka, in June, 1857, as placed in the hands of the printers, was in Phillips' handwriting. At this John Brown grew angry — the only time I ever saw him so. He denounced the act severely, declaring it a deception to which no one should lend himself. I replied that Phillips had done for the best without doubt; that the Free State men had placed Robinson in the position, and that they must sustain him in it. The Captain answered shortly, All nonsense. No man has a right to lend himself to a d
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 4: Exodus. (search)
n the old man's presence. They returned to Atchison, I was told, and one of them indiscreetly related the story: the ridicule that overwhelmed them compelled them to leave the town. The overland journey. Kagi, in the mean time, arrived at Topeka from the South, and found the town in a great commotion. News had just arrived that Old Brown was surrounded. As soon as he appeared, all the fighting boys flocked around him. At the head of forty mounted men, he started at once to rescue his oac on the subject of slavery, he was an honest and brave man. On being jestingly advised to go into mourning for him, he said: he might go into black for many a worse man. This testimony from a kidnapper is not without value. Seventeen of the Topeka boys escorted the party of liberators to Nebraska City. The kidnappers, on being released, asked the old man to restore their horses and weapons. No, said John Brown, gravely; your legs will carry you as fast as you want to run; you won't f
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 25: the Red war. (search)
ere he finds Captain Rickers and sixty border men, acting as militia under a regular commission from Governor Osborn. Who killed the four Osages? repeats Captain Rickers, in high contempt, we killed the Osages; and we mean to kill the vermin whenever we catch them in our State. Rickers refuses to give the Indian Agent details of the fray. The captured ponies are at Medicine Lodge; the agent sees them there, and knows them by their Indian marks. Appeals are made to Governor Osborn in Topeka, but the governor will not interfere with his militia. Rickers, he says, is captain of a company of State militia, properly enrolled, and out on service in the field. The terms of his commission are, to treat all bands of Indians found within the State as hostile. The Indian Agent finds a flaw in this defence. Tell me, governor, he answers, the date of this commission. Is it not the fact that Captain Rickers' commission is dated ten days after the massacre near Medicine Lodge? Osbo
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 4: (search)
in view of the principles which had governed in his election. The argument on the other side was that the entire Constitution had not been submitted to the people, and that the principle of popular sovereignty had been invaded by the Convention, in not representing all the voters of the Territory, and in not submitting the entire result of their labours to a vote of the people. The Anti-Slavery or Free State party had also their Constitution to advocate, an instrument framed in 1855, at Topeka, which had been submitted to the people, and ratified by a large majority of those who voted. But the facts were that scarcely any but Abolitionists went to the polls ; and it was notorious that the Topeka Constitution was the fruit of a bastard population that had been thrown into the Territory by the Emigrant aid Societies of New England. In his first message to Congress, Mr. Buchanan surveyed the whole ground of the controversy. He explained that when he instructed Gov. Walker of Kan
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 19 (search)
fifteen years since the first Woman's Rights Convention was held. The first call for one in Massachusetts, a dozen years ago, bore a name heard often in manful protest against popular sins,--that of Waldo Emerson. But in that short fifteen years, a dozen States have changed their laws. One New York statute, a year old, securing to married women control of their wages, will do more to save New York City from being grog-shop and brothel than a thousand pulpits could do. When Kansas went to Topeka to frame a Constitution, one third of the Convention were in favor of giving women the right to vote. Truly, the day breaks. If time served, I could find a score of familiar instances. It is enough to state the general principle, that civilization produces wants. Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want, the lustier the growth. The power to use new truths in science, new ideas in morals or art, obliterates rank, and makes the lowest man usefu
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 3: Journeys (search)
ka City and probably into the Territory.... I allow six weeks, but it may be only a month, and hope to write a good deal to you and Mary and the Tribune, though letters may be intercepted. Letters for me to be directed to James L. Armstrong Topeka Kansas Mary taxed her wits to invent this name and intends to write in the character of an affectionate grandmother! I shall take out a nice supply of boots and clothing for our Worcester men and a plum cake and some other dainties, and lonconceive that enough has ever been drawn from them to produce the effect, and the dirtiest thing in the landscape is the river .. The most discouraging thing I have heard for liberty in Kansas is that the Kansas River is just like the Missouri. Topeka, September 24, 1856 People joke here as readily as anywhere, though all pronounce it the darkest time Kansas has ever seen. . . Geary is conquering them at last and the leaders are flying from arrest. Just as they had thoroughly expelled t
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, X: a ride through Kansas (search)
tage connection now to the Missouri River below Council Bluffs—thence about 100 miles on foot to Topeka. . .. Beneath the stir of civil war we keep up a more perfectly placid domestic existence tr Rev. Gen. Thos. Wentworth Higginson Centre! On September 24, Mr. Higginson wrote home from Topeka:— I got here yesterday afternoon after six days ride and walk (chiefly the former) across friend, Dr. Seth Rogers (afterward surgeon of his regiment):— Yesterday morning I waked at Topeka and found the house surrounded by dragoons. To my amazement, on going out, the Captain addresseska City, organizing and directing for a train of 150 emigrants, and then travelled with them to Topeka in six days, camping at night; since then I have been in Topeka, Lecompton, Lenora and LeavenworTopeka, Lecompton, Lenora and Leavenworth. . . . Tell Sam I had an Allen's Rifle with me which is an improvement on Sharp's, but had no occasion to shoot anything with it except a superb hawk, whose wings I carry home as a Kansas trophy. <
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