Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1859-11-25
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From the New York Tribune.
JOHN RROWN,s INVASION.

Then he graped bis rrusty rne and boldly fought for
Freedam;
smote from borderunt border the eree invading band
And he and his brave boys vowed-so might Heaven help
and speed EN-
They would those grand praries from the curse
that bghis the land;
And Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown
Said, "Boys, the Lord will aid us r. and he showed his
ramrod down.
And the Lord did aid these men and they aborod day and
even,
Saving Kansas from its peril--and their very lives
seemed charmed
Till the Rusns killed one son. in the blessed light Of
Heaven
In cold blood the fellows slew him, he journeyed all
unarmod
Then Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown
Shed nota tear but shut his teeth and frowned terrible
irown
Then they seized another brave boynot amid heat of
battle,
But in peace, behind his plow-shareand they loaded
him with chains,
And with pixies before their horses even as they goad
their CATTLE
Drove him, cruelty for their sport and at last blew out
his brains;
Then OldBrown,
Osawatomie Brown,
Raised his right hand up Heaven calling Heavens ven
down.
And he swOrc fearful oath, by the name of the Al
mighty
He would hunt this ravenng evil that had scathed and
torn him So
He would seize by the vas he would crush it day and
night; he
Would pursue its footsteps-so return it blow for
blow
That Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
Should be name to swear BY in backwoods or in town
Then his beard became more grzzled and his wild blue
eye grew wilder,
And more sharply curved his hawks nose snuing bat
tie from afar;
And he and the two boys left though the Kansas STRIFE
waxcd mder,
Grew more sueh till was over the bloody Border War,
And Old Brown
Osawatome Brown,
gone crazy they reckoned by his fearful glare and
frown.
So he left the plains Kansas their bitter behind
him
slipt of into Virginia, where the statesmen all
born
Or whether he'd turned parsOn, or was jacketed and
shorn;
For Old Brown,
| Osawatomie Brown,
Mad he was, knew texts enough to wear parsons
He bought pows and harrows, spades and shoves
such trines;
But quietly to his rancho there by every train
Boxes full of pixies and pistols and his well-beloved
sharps rifles;
And eighteen other madmen Joined their leader there
again
Says Old Brown,
osawatomic Brown
"Boys We have got an army large enough to whip the
town.
"Whp the town. and seize the muskets FREQ the negroes
and then them
Carry he County and the state aye and all the potent
South;
On their heads be the slaughter il their victims rise
| to harm them
These Vrgnansi who believed not would heed the
warning mouth"
Says Old Brown,
osawatomie Brown,
'The world shall sec Republic, my is not JOHN
BRowNr'
"This good work." declared the captain, 'shan be
holy night |"
1t was Sunday evening and, before the of Mon
! day.
With two sons and Captain Stephens fifteen prvates-
black and white
Captain Brown,
| osawatomie Brown,
Marched the brdged Potomac knocked the
tinel down;
Took the guarded armory building and the muskets and
the cannon;
Captured all the county majors and the coones by
one;
Scared to death each gallant scion ofvrgna they
And before the Monday say the deed was done
Mad Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
With his eighteen other crazy in aud took the
town
Very little noise and buster little smell POWDER made
he;
1t was all done in the midnight like the Emperors eOuf
fstat;
"out the wires; stop the acurs hold the streets and
ordgesF saidh
Then declared the Republic, with hlmselffor guild
ing star
This Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown
Aud the bold two citizens ran on and left the
town.
Then riding and raroadug and expressing here and
thither
And the 'Marnsburg sharpshooters, and the Charles
town Nounteers'
And the shepardstown and Winchester Militia hasteneG
whittier
Old Brown was said to muster his thousand grenA
diersi
General Browui
OsRwatomie Brownl!
Behind whose rampant banner all the North pouring
down.
But at last ts said prisoners escaped from OLD
Browns duranoe,
And the eervescent valor Of Ye Chvary broke forth
When they learned that nineteen madmen had the marvel
Gus assurance
Only nneteen-thus to seize the place aud drive then
frightened forth;
And old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown
Found an army to take him, encampsd around In,
But to storm with all the forces we have mentioned wa
too risky;
SO they hurried oil to Richmond for the Government
Marines
Tore them from their weeping mRtrons-Rred their soul
with Bourbon whiskey-
Till they battered down Browns castle with their lad
derS and mAchiues;