The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-01-10
Letter from the widow Brown.
RIpaEwAY, HARDIN Co. Ono. !
Dec. 18th &c.


RIpoEwAY, HARDIN Co. 0Hlo.l
Dec. 10th '56.i
Mn. EDITOR 1T is with pleasure
that I have taken up my pen, to com
municate a few words to you IN behalf
of the cause of Freedom and its suf-
fering adherents in Kansas. You
have been foremost, in the struggle OF
the last two wears, and hare, in your
own person, endured much, yet your
life has been spared from the bloody
hands of the Border Ruffians, for
which the, friends of Freedom in Kan
sas are truly and gratefully thankful
to God. While you and yours are
living, your name viii be a living
monument to publish to the world,
of the wrongs that have been inflicted
and the foul murders that have been
committed by the Border Rutiians.-
/ trust that in your forthcoming. His
tory of Kansas, you viii find place
for all those who have been murdered,
and more particularly my dear hus-
band. as he was among the earliest
martyrs for liberty in your country.
L suppose you are well aecBainted
with the facts, but as there has been
so many murders and outrages COM
mitted,. one after another, and SO
many have come under your own OBJ
servation, that it is difficult for you
to remember all who have been killed.
/ would remind you of his name and
whom / am, his wife. Ny husband,
Mr.. Reese p. Brown, of Leayenwerth
City, was killed on the 18th Of Janu-
airy last by party ofpro-slayery muir
derers. They killed him. for no other
crime save loving freedom and hating
slavery. He had not been in the Ter
ritory long before he became marked
man, yet he did not fear them, nor let
his brave and determined spirit, shrink
from faithfully discharging every
known duty in the cause of liberty.
He said the duty he owed to his
country, to his God and to humanity,
called him there, that he might be the
means of helping to establish freedom
in Kansas, and to restore the down
trodden and degraded slave, to the
natural rights, that God-his Creator,
had given him. Alas he has gone
from the scenes of earth and the soil
for which he fought and died, that
progress and truth might prevail-now
covers his mortal remains. May God
speed the day, when the cursed insti-
tuition of slavery shall fall, and the
''star spangled banner" of Freedom,
shall wave undimmed over the blood
bought soil of Kansas, and the inno-
cent blood that has been shed in vain.
Permit me to make few more re-
marks before closing. I left your
beautiful country on the 4th of March
last, and it was indeed with feelings of
deep regret, that l did so. have
never Seen country that | loved as
well, and felt so much interested in its
welfare, as Kansas. ] do hope that
it will be Free State and those mur-
derers brought to justice. If you can
find room to publish my letter, it may
perhaps prove to many of the "Bor-
der Rufian" party. that there was
such person as my husband murdered
in Kansas. 1t is said there is no
such person living as the widow of R.
P. Brown, and it is also said that the
whole story is Black Republican lie,
got up for political purposes. | wish
them to know that it is not lie, but
the sacred and honest truth. / am
truly glad that you have got your pa
per r-eestablished. My brother is get
ting up club for you. Yeurs most re-
spectfully in the cause of Freedom.
MARTHA A. BROWN.