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Rochester (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
tance with that leader was nearly a year and a half later, when I received from him this communication, implying, as will be seen, that we had met before:-- Rochester, N. Y. 2d February, 1858. My Dear Sir,--I am here concealing my whereabouts for good reasons (as I think) not however from any anxiety about my personal safety. y be with such as you are sure will feel and act and keep very still. Please be so kind as to write N. Hawkins on the subject, Care of Wm. I. Watkins, Esqr. Rochester, N. Y. Should be most happy to meet you again; and talk matters more freely. Hope this is my last effort in the begging line. Very Respectfully your Friend, Johwrote in return, wishing for farther information, and asking if the underground railroad business was what he had in view. In a few days came this reply:-- Rochester, N. Y. 12th February, 1858. My Dear Sir,--I have just read your kind letter of the 8th inst., and will now say that Rail Road business on a somewhat extended sca
Medford (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
ritory were in the hands of pro-slavery men who were suspected of tampering with correspondence. I also spoke on Kansas matters by request, before the legislatures of Massachusetts and Vermont, and was nominated by the Worcester Republicans for the state legislature on the issue of Kansas sympathy; but declined, feeling that I must at length recognize the claim of the Free Church on my attention. I was brought much in contact with that noble and self-devoted man, George Luther Stearns, of Medford, who gave, first and last, ten thousand dollars to maintain liberty in the new Territory; and also with Dr. Howe and Frank Sanborn, then the leading men in the Massachusetts Kansas Committee. In looking back on the inevitable confusion of that period, and the strange way in which men who had been heroic in danger grew demoralized in politics, I have often recalled as true the remark made by Sanborn, that it was difficult for a man to have much to do with the affairs of Kansas, even at lon
Nebraska (Nebraska, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
t. A little inquiry served to show that only the latter method would as yet be available. Events moved rapidly; a national committee was soon formed, with headquarters at Chicago, and it was decided to send all future emigrants across Iowa and Nebraska, fighting their way, if necessary, into Kansas. Our three parties, accordingly, went by that route; the men being provided with rifles, revolvers, and camp equipage. Two of these parties made their rendezvous in Worcester, one under command ofs case; and as I was fortified by the fact of having all their means of subsistence in a money-belt about my waist, the advantage was clearly on my side, and some order was finally brought out of chaos. Soon after arriving I had to drive from Nebraska City to Tabor on an errand, over about twenty miles of debatable ground, absolutely alone. It had been swept by the hostile parties of both factions; there was no more law than in the Scottish Highlands; every swell of the rolling prairie offe
Arkansas (United States) (search for this): chapter 9
ied pork and made bread; women with their babies sat round the fire; and a saddler brought out his board and leather every night and made belts and holsters for the emigrants. Each man kept watch for an hour, striding in thick boots through the prairie grass heavy with frost. Danger had always to be guarded against, though we were never actually attacked; and while we went towards Kansas, we met armed parties day after day fleeing from it, hopeless of peace. When at last we reached the Kansas River, we found on its muddy banks nineteen wagons with emigrants, retreating with heavy hearts from the land of promise so eagerly sought two years before. The Missourians could not conquer us, they said, but Governor Geary has. On my first morning in Lawrence, Kansas, I waked before daybreak, and looking out saw the house surrounded by dragoons, each sitting silent on his horse. This again was a new experience in those ante-bellum days. A party of a hundred and fifty of these men had b
Pottawatomie (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
ate check to the armed aggressions of the Missourians. It is certain that at a public meeting held at Lawrence, Kansas, three years later (December 15, 1859), Robinson supported resolutions saying that the act was done from sad necessity; that on August 30, 1877, at the unveiling of Brown's monument at Osawatomie, he compared Brown to Jesus Christ; and that on February 5, 1878, he wrote in a letter to James Hanway, I never had much doubt that Captain Brown was the author of the blow at Pottawatomie, for the reason that he was the only man who comprehended the situation and saw the absolute necessity of some such blow and had the nerve to strike it. Personally, I have never fully reconciled myself to this vindication of the blow; but that Charles Robinson, after justifying it for nearly thirty years, and after the fighting men of the Territory (Brown, Lane, Montgomery) were dead, should have begun to pose as a non-resistant, and should later have spoken of the punishment due Brown f
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
reaches religion; then he drops that and pitches into politics; and then he drops that too, and begins about the sufferina niggers (this with ineffable contempt). And what's more, he's here in Leavenworth now. What's his name? exclaimed several eagerly. Just what I don't know, was the sorrowful reply, and I should n't know him if I saw him; but he's here, boys, and in a day or two there'll be some gentlemen here that know him. (At my last speech in Lawrence I had been warned that three Missouri spies were present.) It's well we've got him here, to take care of him, said one. Won't our boys enjoy running him out of town? added another affectionately; while I listened with dubious enjoyment, thinking that I might perhaps afford useful information. But the gentlemen did not appear, or else were in search of higher game; and I was to leave town that night, at any rate, for St. Louis. I took the steamer Cataract on October 9, 1856, and went down the river; my chief companions bein
Vermont (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
ode through Boston in their red shirts and rough trousers to meet us at the Emigrant Aid Society rooms, which had been kindly lent us for the purpose. The rest of the men came to us singly, from all over New England, some of the best being from Vermont, including William Thompson, afterwards John Brown's son-in-law, killed at Harper's Ferry. I have never ceased to regret that all the correspondence relating to these companies, though most carefully preserved for years, was finally lost thror feigned names, because many of the post-offices in the Territory were in the hands of pro-slavery men who were suspected of tampering with correspondence. I also spoke on Kansas matters by request, before the legislatures of Massachusetts and Vermont, and was nominated by the Worcester Republicans for the state legislature on the issue of Kansas sympathy; but declined, feeling that I must at length recognize the claim of the Free Church on my attention. I was brought much in contact with th
Nebraska City (Nebraska, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
just as it goes down beyond the ocean, and then seeing it rise in the same way. When the stage at last rolled me into Nebraska City, it seemed as if I had crossed the continent, for I had passed through Council Bluffs, which in my school geography neighbors, and I met there with the heartiest encouragement, and had an escort back. The tavern where I lodged in Nebraska City was miserable enough; the beds being fearfully dirty, the food indigestible, and the table eagerly beset by three suceary, who was making an attempt, more or less serious, to clear Kansas of all armed bands. Lane stopped two days in Nebraska City, and I did something towards renewing the clothing of his band. He made a speech to the citizens of the town,--they a bit of crumpled paper, appointing me a member of his staff with the rank of brigadier-general. As I rode out of Nebraska City on the march, next day, my companion, Samuel F. Tappan, riding at my side, took occasion to exhibit casually a simila
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 9
ds Senator James H. Lane, of the United States Congress; at this time calling himself only Major-General commanding the Free State Forces of Kansas. He was now retreating from the Territory with his men, in deference to the orders of the new United States governor, Geary, who was making an attempt, more or less serious, to clear Kansas of all armed bands. Lane stopped two days in Nebraska City, and I did something towards renewing the clothing of his band. He made a speech to the citizens oman-Americans, among whom he had much influence, from New York. Only one man in Harrisburg, an active Abolitionist, knew of our purpose, and I met Montgomery at this man's house, after taking up my own residence, on February 17, 1860, at the United States Hotel, under the name of Charles P. Carter. I had met the guerrilla leader once before in Kansas, and we now consulted about the expedition, which presented no ordinary obstacles. The enterprise would involve traversing fifty miles of mou
Pottawatomie (Oklahoma, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
for that curious myth concerning the Kansas conflict which has wholly taken possession of many minds, and has completely perverted the history of that State written by Professor Spring,--a theory to the effect that there existed from the beginning among the Free State people two well-defined parties, the one wishing to carry its ends by war, the other by peace. As a matter of fact there was no such division. In regard to the most extreme act of John Brown's Kansas career, the so-called Pottawatomie massacre of May 24, 1856, I can testify that in September of that year there appeared to be but one way of thinking among the Kansas Free State men, this being precisely the fact pointed out by Colonel William A. Phillips, in his Conquest of Kansas, which is altogether the best and fairest book upon the confused history of that time and place. I heard of no one who did not approve of the act, and its beneficial effects were universally asserted,--Governor Robinson himself fully indorsing
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