The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1859-10-27


ton Ia chains. distance Of thirty miles.
His feet and hands were chained together
with large 'avy chain, the size of that
used upon OK teams. lie was compelled
TO walk the whole distance beneath a,burn-
ing sun. The irons wore The hesh from
bis ankles; he was attacked with the brain
fever, was neglected add died 10 I'VE or
three days. lie was n companion Of Gov
ernor Robinson, jenkins, (since shot by
LaneJ, ard some eight or ten Others An
other son of Captain Brown was snet al
O<sawatomie by marauding party from
Missouri. After the death Of his FIRST
son, occasioned by the tortures ando Ia.
tigue of hls forced march, Brown swore
vengeance upon che rro-siavery party,
and it was frequentiy observed by the
more prudent OF the freesstate men that
he was evidently insane on ths subject
He was always considered by filcm as q
DANGER rs mari was never taken iutot heir
councils, ard never consulted by them
With reference either to their pulley on
movements. ID lIaayp1 u 7ql9oI uUsa /,
The destruction of the Free-State HG
tel and presses at Lawrence, in Nav, 1856,
linciied him anew to action, anu lle organ
lied snail con pany, composed eniefy of
men who had been robbed, or whose rel
Iatives had been murdered by the pro.
slavery party, and at the head of this
band, armed with Sharp's rifles, bowie
knives and Colts revolycrs, lie secured
Southern Kansas, and the name of "Old
Brown" became a terror 10 all who op-
posed his will in that region. While he
was thus marauding, i've pro-slavery men
we're taken from their cabins at Potta-
wattomIe creek, in the night time. and
shot dead. The pro-siavery party charg
ed this deed upon Old Brown, while the
fiee-state party asserted that they ooali
prove him in Lawrence, forty miles dis
tant, when it happened, and that the hor-
rid deed was perpetrated By "Bufords
Georgia Ruffans," supposing shas the
victims were frec-state nleB.
The news of this massacre reached
Westport. Missouri. the biace of rendez-
vous of the ''border Iufsans," the same
evening that the Kansas Commission sent
out By the United States House of Rep
resentativss a1sived at that place. The
exeitelneHt was intense, and was induced
almost as u'uol, BY the appearance of the
commssS loD rs by the news of the massa-
Gle. The "rulhans" swIre vengeance up-
Un the members and officers of the COM
MISSION. declaaing that their blood should
reecmpense for tho slaughter at Pottawat-
tonne creek, aud but for the intsFoessipn
of MF Oliver, the pro,slareFy member Of
the commission, and otherx, II vas belley-
ed that the commission waald have been
attacked. 1t was at this time that TIE
notorious ii. Clay Pate organized band
of MAJ IN the streets of Ecstport, Ms.
souFi, with the aV0wed p7rDose of enter.
ing the territory and capturing ~Uld
brown" He raised about thirty EseH,
and went into the territory about twilight
one evening, aRd was surprised 81 sunrise
the next morning by "Old Brown" who
Was in comlzaEd of nine men, armed as
stated above Pate sent fag of truce
to Brown, who advanced some rods In
front of his company and ordered the fag-
bearer to remain with him. aud sent one
of his own men TO inform Pate to come
himself Pate obeyed. when Brown or
de ed him to lay down his arms. PATE
refused TO give the order to his men,
when Brown Grawning 4 revolver. inform
ed him that he must give the order or be
shot on the spot. Pate immediately sur
rendered up himself and men, apd they
were disarmed and marched into rayine
near by, and kept until liberated and sen,
back to Missouri by Colonel Sumner. Il
a few days subsequently,. who also ordered
Old brown 60 dlsband and 20 home.
The latter agreed 10 dD so if the Colonel
would also agree to protect tbs settlers 10
that region OF the territory. THIS xas the
celebrated Battle of Black Jack Point,
made. famous by the III c. T." Kansas
eoTreS pondent Of the St. Louis RrpuJii-
can, who Was the heruie commander of
the surrenderiDg party. Captain Brown
Was not much heard from again until the
notorious Captain Hamilton uiade his in
cursions into southern Kansas, fF,sn MlS-
s~uri, in 1858, Hhes he raised another
company, AMI, with Captain Montgomery,
drove Hamilton and bis companions back
to Missouri, and, marching his men into
that state, took possession OF one Of the
villages, shot one UT two men, and liber-
ated several slaves. This course of Brown.
was repudiated BY Governor Robinson
and the leaders of the rree-state party. in
and ont of Kansas, which caused Brown
to publish letter explaining his position,
in which he assumed the entire respousi-
b.litY of his acts, aud relieved he free
state men from any share sherein This
letter was called the s.Tgo Parallels " IN