Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-10-22


John Browa-- vadously known as "Old
Blown" fighting Brown" and 'Osawatomie
Bcown'-made his first public appearance in
| IL kins County, Kansas, in the year $50 That
which will probablv prove his last, took place,
as the reader is already advised, at llarpcfs
| Ferry, Virginia, on Monday aud Tuesday last.
So strange Il career at his has not arrested the
pu ,lic attention since Joe Smith was shot in
the Carthage iuil His rauk among the worlds
notabiti,s viii be among such lanatics as Peter
the Hermit, who believed himself commissioned
| Of God to redeem the Holy Sepulchre from the
/ hands of the lufdols-Joannu SUtuhcOtc, who
! deemed herself blg with the promised Shiloh
! Ignatius Loyula, who thought that the Son Of
| Man appeared TO him, bearing hts cross ON his
| shoulders, aud gave him a Latin cOmmieslon of
mighty importer Don Quxotte (if we may
| give him place in history) who was persuaded
that he had mission to rescue all the porseeu
| ted damSols in Spain. lt was Browns super
stiton that he was divney appointed To bnng
| American slavery to a Sudden and violent end.
! Ofhs birthplace we are not advised, but We
! believe that his home prior to his appearance
! in Kansas was ia Northern Ohio, and that he
migrated thithcr from North Elba, Essex Co.,
| New York In the latter State ho was tenant
of the Hon Gerrt Smith, aud was often be
| irendCd by that gentleman after the desooton
of his farm and the breaking up Of his family IN
Kansas, had made him q Guerrilla chief IN the
border conflicts OF the Territory The enrher
skirmishes const quent upon the Border Ruillan
inyasiuus OF Kansas, developed fighting quail
ties IL Brown, which gave him immediate prem
Inencc among the cxteupore mil tary leaders OF
the invaded country. The section Of the terri
tory where Brown lived, not being brought into
action so early as the region about Lawrence
and Lea ycuworlh, Brown took part, we believe,
in the "Wakaiusa war" When the RuiIiAu
army, under the lead OF Atchison aud Deputy
Marshal Fain, marched upon Lawrence IN May,
1856, Brown preceded them with small com
pauy from Osawatomie, end offered to take tee
command in defence OF the town Robinson,
Pomeroy, and other pruminent citizens having
decided to offer no resistance TO the Missourians,
Brown retired in much disgust The invading
force entered and pIlaged the town, batlcrng
down the Free State Hotel with Elk pouLder,
aud throwing the contents of the Herald q
Ficcd0m office into the l(aw River. Five days
after this event fight occurred at Potawatoniie,
in which five lutlians were killed. 1t is be-
loved that Brown was in the secret OF their
"taking Off On the ? Of June, Brown felt
in with a party of maruuders under the com
mlnd of II. Clay Pate, who had raised a COM
pany sp- cially for the purpose of capturing Old
Brown. This was the battle or Black Jack -
Pate was taken prisoner together with twenty.
one Of his fellow Tuihans, and large quantlty
Of fplundcr, which had been levied on the coun-
try through v hich he had malohed. Th0so who
witnessed this affair say that the GOODNESS and
skill displayed by Brown, and tho awkward
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