The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1859-11-18
BEDFORD Pa, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER IS. 1855

| and Old Brown retired IN disgust.
When the news OF the threatened siege o
Lawrence reached John Brown, Jr., who wa
a member of the Topeka legislature, he organ.
red company of about sixty men and march
/. ed towards Lawrence. Arriving at Palmyra
e he learned of the sacking Of the town and the
position Of the people. He rrconnoitersd fol
time in the vicinity, but finally marched back
4 towards Ossawatomie The night before rea-
ching that place, when only few miles away
: they camped for The night. Old John Brown
who, we believe, was with the party, singled
out with himself seven men. These ne marched
10 point eight miles above the mouth OF Potta-
watomie creek, and called from their beds at
their several residences, at the hour OF midnight
on the 24th Of May, 1886, Allen Wilkinson,
Wm. Sherman, Nm. p Doyle, Wm. Doyle and
Drnrv DovIe. All were found the next morn
ing by the roadside or in th. highway, some
with cash in their hPads ant sides, and their
throats cut Others with their skulls split open
in two places, with holes in their breasts and
their hands cut off; and others had holes
Through their breasts with their fingers cut Off
NO mqn in Kansas has pretendsd 10 deay that
; ojd JoAa Brown led taaf mHrder0Us forag
/, 1r45ct mrssqcred those nea. Up 10 that perioa
4, not hair Of old Jo5a BroUa's heq9, or TINT
. Of ony IF his sons, had been Injured by the
) Pro-Siqury party.
1t was not until the 3Oyh Of August. three
months after the Po;lawa'omie massacre, that
the attack was made on the Ossawatomle by tn
. pro-savery forces, aud Frederick Brown, a son
! Of old John, was killed.
( The tru;h Of history requires this statement.
. II Brown was a monomanlac, II dates back an
( terror 10 his frs, visit to Kansas.
. From the Lawrence (Kansas) Herald of Freedom
OF Oct. 29.l
More than once during the summer Of 1887,
W. asserted that the reason the ''DJ-Ncthings"
as we called them, We're opposed 10 engaging
IN the Territorial election OF that year, and
competing with The pFo-slaveFy party for tnr
! Offices Of the government, was found 10 the
fact that they wished to proong our Kansas DIFF
iicuItieS-o keep the Territory in a constant
fprment that their design was revolution, ant
ANYTHING which looked like peaceful solution
( of our troubles had been and would De violent
" opposed bv them. We stated that those
who led of in the do nothing policy had no
material interest in Kansas IN common with
the sattleIs-that they were s'5irds OF passage"
come here like buzzards 10 feed on dead carcaS
Sos. and as soon as the period should come when
there was nothing left ior them 10 feast upon
they would leave the Territory We charged
sent here from the charitable III tue f>1Ss 10
sunrlv the wants OF the destitute and suffering
These men had charge, generally, OF lhe ave
! nues % pu3Ic oplnion. They We're The
I correspondents Of Eastern newspapers and OF
Journals at home. The country was contInu-
ally flooded with their falSpbo0ds, and efforts
were constantly made to conyry the idea that
those who were IN favor Of settling our troubles
qniet.v, and without a resort to oloodshed, wee
towards, or s.had sold out to The Iro-s!avrIy
party.' And who were those men in The Ter
rltory at tha. time We remember meeting
delegation Of them at Crntropolis IN August oi
that wear. There were Valdez a0d Thatcher,
Ralph and Jonn E. Cook, Holmes and hagl,
we believe, Phillips and RedPath, Hinton and
Conway.
The Lpcompton Constitution Itself was next
made the preteXt for bringing on war. Vino
ever is able to cal up the Incidents OF the I'D
and 2}i of December Convention, held IN Law
renee, will or able to comprehend that to winch
we alude "Brown'S Cellar Kitchen ConveR
tlon,' as Thacher and his associates branded thf
affair, foiIed them in their Plans bnt then camF
on the difficulties at Fort Scott, inauguraied b1
the leaders in all these revolutionary movef
! mpnts, and backed up by jim Lane, Old John
I Brown, Redpath, Phillips and all that class OF
persons. Then 10qs organized the secret ootht
t bound League, the object Of which ,Cas TO mur7
der, in colt blood, egery officer elected under the
I Lecompton Consultation, De he free StGte nan or
othertoiSe The paSSW0rd to that secret organ
izat,on U7s Lane. The whole plan OF assaSSI-
natlon of relays Of horses for the eXecutiouers,
? &C., are in the possession OF good men N Law
renee, and have been for long period. But
} there was peaceful adjustment Of all these
. matters, because Congress lid not give legal
= sanction to the LecomUton Constitution.
t Old John Brown, with his mlnions, who
ogeDed the bloody issue in Kansas by murder
? ing the FIVE heads OF families on Pottawalomie
i creek, at midnight, on the 25th of May, 1886
: appeared and took charge of the marauding for
:, ces. They attempted to make the whole pop
;. ulation OF Missouri responsible TOR the horrlC
e nurder near Chateau'S Trading Post. Brown
= was IN constant intercourse with men in the
h East, who declared on the stump, and in al
Y their published correspondence, that their ''on'
v " hope of abolShiDg slavery in the UniteC
d States lay through revolution )" aud from then
n he received funds from time to time in prose
= cutting his schemes When Montgomery
: discovered Brown s Co.'S plans of revolution
= to his credit be il said, he 2roested and in con-
d sequence of their quarrel, probably more thar
II anything else, the latter made brilliant couI
), detat into Missouri, killed Crew, took bis slave
5, and made forced march into Canada, receiv
o ing any amount of said and comfort" from hi
y cohorts along the route.
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e as he drew his iack-knife across the leaves o
Z, his grammar.
IS "lIustrated with cuts" said the master as h