The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-05
STRONG KANSAS TESTIMONY AGAINST
BROWN

AN ABOLrTIONIsr PAPER SHOWS HIM UP Az A GOLD.
BLooDED AssAssIN-CURIoUs FACTS ABOUT A
LEAGUE OF BLOOD AND ABOUT THE HARPER'a
FERRY CONSPIRACY.
From the Lawrence CKansas( Herald of Freedom,
Oct. 20.
The first thing people Of Kansas heard Of old John
Brown was in the summer Of 1855 meeting Of ultra
abolitionsts held at Cazenoye N r. we recolect
rightly While in session Brown who is a native Of Essex
county, n. Y, appeared in that convention, and made
very fiery Speech during which he had four sons
in Kansas he had three others who were desirous o
going there to aid in fighting the battles Of freedom He
could not consent 60 unless he could 60 armed
Mould like to arm all his sons, but not able 10 do
Smith,
The four sons had located Pottawa,amie creek ir
Lykins county and in the fall of 1866 Joined by th
father and other brothers When the Wakarusa war was
pending the old and four arrived In Lawrence:
Of the Free State HOTEL Sey vere a san%eo Up
lumber wagon To each Of their persons strapped
short heavy broadsword. Each supplied with q
goodly number Of firearms and navy revolvers, and
poles standing endwse around the wagon with
fixed bayones pointing upwards They looked really
minabe and were receivedwith great eclat small militia
ry company organized once and the command was
given to Old Brown From that moment he CON rnenced
fomentng difficulties in camp, dsregardng the comanda
Of superior officers and trying induce the men TO Ru
down to Franklin and make attack upon the
forces encamped there. The Committee Of Public Safety
were called upon several times TO head off his wild adven
ture as the people Of Lawrence had planted hemselvea
the law claiming that they had not been guilty OF t
the town for any purpose whatever that they woud
not out Of town TO attack such body Peace was
eStaDlShed ana old Brown retired in disgust,
When the news Of the threatened siege Of Lawrence
reached John Brown, Jr who a member Of the To-
peka Legislature he organized company Of about sixty
men and marched towards Lawrence. Arriving at PAL
he learned Of the sackg the town and the posi-
ton Of the people He reconnoitered for time the Vie
entity, but finally marched back towards ossawatome.
The night before reaching that place, when
night old john Brown, She, sN We iss Believe, s
These he marched TO point eight miles above the mouth
OF potawatome creek and called from their beds At their
May 1855, Allen Wilkinson, William Sherman. WILLIAM
Doyle, William Doyle and Drury Doyle. All found
the next morning BY the roadside or in the highway
some with cash In their heads and sides and their throaa
cut others with their skulls split open two places with
holes In their breasts and hands off, and others ha
holes through their breasts with their fingers cut of Ma
man in Kansas has pretended deny that old John Bro,us
led that murderons foray Which p.assdcrd ose men, Up
OF any Of his sors, had been iyared oy ne ProstGucyN
party.
the pottawatomie massacre that the attack made on
Ossawatomc by the pro slavery forces, and Frederick
Brown, son Of old John, was killed
The truth of history requires this statement Brown
monomaniac dates back anterior 70 his nrst visit
Kansas.
From the lawrence Ksnsss1 d % Herald Of Freedom oe
More than during the summer Of 1857 asserte
that the the "Do Nothngs," called them
were opposed engaging the Territorial elections &
that year. and competing with the pro slavery party tor
he Offices Of the government was found in the ac that
he Territory In constant ermcnt that their esien var
revolution and anything which looked hike 4 peeoefuV
solution Of troubles had been would be yioentv
opposed by them We stated that those who led an In
the do nothing policy had no material interest IN Kansas
In common with the settlersthat they wore ssbirda
Of passage" here like bux,ards - Nasd or
dead oorcasses and as soon as ths period should
come when there nothing len for them
to feast upon they would leave the Ter-
rtory We charged them with subssting almost wholly
on funds sent here from the charitable in the East 70 sup
ply the wants m the destitute and SUFFERING These meg
mad charge generally Of the avenues TO public opinion
ney were the correspondents of Eastern and
OF Journals at home. The country continually flooded
with their falsehoods and efforts constantly made
convey the idea that those favor or settling
our troubles quietly and without resort to bloodshed,
were cowards, or chad sold out TO the prosiavefy
party And who those in the Terri ory ae
that umeY We remember meeting delegation OF them
Ut Centropos August that year There were valdez