Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-11-05
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From the Chicago Press.
0SAWATOMIE BROWN,

o'a'' OsAWATOMIE BROWN.
John Brown-Varously known as "Old Brown
"6ghtng Brown" and "Osawatomie Brown
made his first public appearance in Lykins Count
Kansas, in the year 1856 That which will prot
ably prove bis last, took place, as the reader is
ready advised at Harper's Ferry, virginia,o Mon
day and Tuesday last. SO strange career as hi
has not arrested the public attention since 10
Smith was shot in the Carthage Jail. His ran
AMONG the worlds notabilities will be among sue
fanatics as Peter the Hermit, who believed himsel
commissioned of God to redeem the HOLY Sepul
chre from the hands of the In6dels-Joanna South
cote, who deemed herself big with the promise
Shiloh-Ignatius Loyola, who thought that the Sol
OF Man appeared to him, bearing bis cross on hi
shoulders, and gave him Latin commission O
mighty import-of Don Quxote, (f we may Civ
him place in history,) who was persuaded tha
be had a mission to rescue all the prosecuted dam
sells 10 Spain. 1t was Browns superstition tha
ne was divinely appointed TO bring American sla
very 10 sudden and violent end.
OF his birthplace we are not advised, bat we be-
lieve that his home, prior to his appearance ir
Kansas. was in Northern Ohio, md that lie mi
grated thither from North Elba Essex Co., N. Y
In the latter State he was q tenant of the Hon
Gerrit Smith, and often befriended by thai
gentleman after the desolaton of his farm and
the breaking up of his family in Kansas. had made
Dim guerrilla chief in the border conflicts Of the
territory The earlier skrmishes conseq uen,
hpon the Border ruffian invasions of Kansas, de-
veloped fighting qualities in Brown which gave
him immediate prominence among the extempore
military leaders nf tho;
tion of the territory where Brown lived, not being
brought into action SO early as the region about
Lawrence and Leavenwortb, Brown toCk part, we
believe, in the "Wakarusa war; When the Ruff
fan army, under the lead Of Atchinson and Depu.
~ Marshal Fain marched upon Lawrence in May
1906, Brown prece1 led them with a small company
from Osaw atmie. and offered TO take the command
IN defence OF the town. Robinson, Pomery, and
other prominent citizens having decided to offer nc
resistance to the Mssourians, Brown retired in
much disgust The invading force entered and
piuaged the town, battering down the Free State
Hotel with six-pounder, and throwing the con-
tents OF the Herald of Freedom Office into the Kaw
river Five days after this event fight occurred
at Potawatomo, in which five Rufiane were killed.
Il is, believed that Brown was in the secret OF
.AAeiA- lson'hS oh' VA hHo <u VI ouue, DEOWu
fell in With party of marauders under the COM
mand Of II. Clay Pate, who had raised compa-
ny specially for the purpose of capturing Old
Brown. This was the battle on Black Jack. Pate
was taken prisoner together with twenty-onc of
his fellow rutians, and large quantity Of plum
der, which had been levied on the country through
which be had marched Those who witnessed this
affair cay that the cooness and skill displayed by
Brown, and the awkwardness and cowardice of
his antagonist, were equally noticeable. Browns
force was considerably inferior to Pate's. The
The prisoners were liberated few days af.erward
We believe that Brown was not present at the first
sacking of osawatomie, (June 7, 1860 at which
time his own house was destroyed, and horrible
ATROCITIES were perpetrated on his neighbors On
the occasion Of the second battle of Osawatome,
(August 29), Brown was there with some forty
men. The Missourans under Reid numbered 800
to 400. Browns company had only two rounds of
ammunition, but these were used to 80 good pur-
pose that the Rufians carried back two wagon
loads Of dead bodies, though they acknowledged
the loss Of only five men. One of Browns sons
lFrederick by name) was taken prisoner. and
,nurdsred in cold blood by the Rev. Martin White,
Yhoaocom panied Reid in the capacity of chaplain.
There is tradition in Kansas that about this time
Brown captured five predatory Missourians, and
ip the darkness of night tried them by martial
lew, con victed and executed them. At the second
invasion of Lawrence, (by Reidl, Brown COM
map9ed a small party of his own men and routed
al advance guard of the enemy few miles from
Lawrence killing half dozen of them in run
ming fight. This is also part of the history Of
the times which the newspapers on the Ruffan
side did not choose to admit, and which the other
party did not care to make public. Brown then
left the Territory, proceeding through Nebraska
and Iowa, and riding two days with company of
United States dragons who were in pursuit of
"Old Brown!"
Passing thropgh this city he went to his old
home in New York, and visited several Eastern
cities, endeavoring to raise funds for equpng one
hundred men for future operations. In this he
was. mainly unsuccessful but he nevertheless made
contracts for arms wagons, saddles, etc.. in vari
ogs places, with which he re-appeared in Kansas
in the summer or fall of 1857. Settling again in
Bourbon County, he occupied claim for some
mo4sty under an assumed name. intending. as his
friends supposed, to pre-empt it for his son. The
Fort Scott troubles, including the Marais des
Cygnes massacre. and the night attack ON Captain
were the next events which called
Brown into action, A short time previously, howe
YER, it became noised abroad in Missouri, that
"0ld sBrown" had returned. and reports were dis
patched to the country that he had three or four
hshdred men under his command, all armed with
ShsSps's rides, park of artillery and no end of
ammunition. Nobody on the border believed
those itories as is shown in the fact that Mis-
sopri Shsfif with Missouri posse Of twenty or
Ehirty men, set out to capture him and Montgome-
rysf brown was duly notified of the proposed cap
ture, and though sick with the ague, mustered
seven Of bic friends and neighbors and took posi-
'iqh io log house, where he awaited the captur-
ing party. The posse came up and ordered the
nmases TO Surrender. The latter replied no deci-