Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1859-12-23

~ Up 10 ms ume, no onslaught upon the
Free State people had been redressed, but the
villains and murderers had been paid, peited
and promoted by the u. $. authorities q,
"ln point of time" AFTER ALL THESE
oJIRAGES-to wit, on the 2Glh of May
the Pottawatomie murder took place, and a
nest of notorious rullians and pro-slavery
agents was destroyed Doyles, Wilkinson and
Sherman were enliced away from their homes.
and killed, Border Ruiiian fashion. 1t is not
known who did the deed, but il threw cons,er-
nation into the Pro-Slavery ranks, and was
about the first 6LOr struck back.
"On the last day of May" says Geary's his
torian, when "old Brown was absent, Captain
/ Pate marched upon Ossawaromie, and sue
ceeded, without resistance, in taking prison.
erS Two of his sons, whom he found engaged
IN their peaceful occupations, and burned The
house of young John Brown the Captain SON."
CHE same author says, Early in the
morning of 30th August, Frederick Brown, a
hall wited young man, son of John Brown,
was killed IN the road near his father house
by Martin W hlte, member of the LeSIs!a-
ture, and formerly Il clergyman. .-"Capt.
John Brown, Jr., is maniac in consequence
of the cruel treatment he received while d
prisoner of Pate" He is now ls59) in OHIO,
measureably recovered from his aflllcuon.)
Old Brown pursued Pate's army, and cap
tured II, and his sons and the other Free State
prisoners were released. Col. Sumner, with
a large force Of L. $. Dragons here interier-
ed, and persuaded Brown 10 release Pate and
his men, and peace was again looked for.
But on the 9TH of June, Gen. Reid with 10
men, re-entered OSsawatomie. There were
but few men present, and the women and
children were plundered and inSuted. They
robbed all they could, set the town on FIRE,
and then retreated. Says Geary's historian,
There are hundreds of well authenticated
accounts of the cruelties practiced by this
horde OF ruftans, some of them too shocking
and disgusting 10 relate, or to be accredited,
If told. The tears and shriekS OF terrified wu-
men. folded IN their foul embrace, failed 10
touch a chord of mercy IN their brutal hearts,
and the mutilated bodies of murdered men,
hanging upon the trees, or left 10 rot upon the
prairIeS or IN the deep ravIneS, or furnish
food Tor vultures and wild beasts, told friehuul
stories OF brutal ierocIiy from which The widest
savases might have Shrunk with horror"
From this time forth, OLD JonS BRowN
appears conspicuously upon the stage of ac
,ion IN KansaS-a harbinger of death and de-
longer quiet settler, acting on the defensive,
he reraliated-"carried the war into Africa
and no man was more vigIlant or successful
in saving Kansas for Freedom. That he WAS
held TO be somewhat deranged even then Is
evident from the testimony of the times. He
was never taken into the Free State Councils
was regarded as often wrong-and yet he
was everywhere that an enemy was TO be met,
Dr slave 10 be rescued, until the Republicans
and the last Border Ruffan wolf
was driven back, howliug, to his den. l:-
with his brave Edward and his unfortunate
Frederick most brutally slain, and his "a
,orIie nameSake maniac-if with three sons
here sacrificed, and burned homes, and prop
'rty taken-revenge overmastered his better
nature, ii is still most UNANIMOUSLY false that
.he opened the bloody baN' If he retaliated-
f his reason, stuns 10 madness, swung from
Is moorings-Heaven knows he had sufficient
,rovocations! NEARLY TWO TEARS OF Border
Ruiiian sway, .'In point of time lntervened
before the Free State men-Ii II was them
struck back the first fatal blow at Possawato-
# warfare.
Last weeks Bufhr County .fm1isal has
IN article from a Kansas correspondent on
his general subject, with which we close our
.otIce of this foulest libel and most gross and
,alpable and malicious lalsehood:
Kansas Correspondence.
Lawrence, Nov. l6, 1859. (
| condemn and
ament the Harper's Ferry tragedy as earnestly
IS any man who loves his flag. But | have {
,onc to combat under the eye Of the Hero of 9
)ssawatomIe," a privileged tavorlte at his
amp table, a companion of his quiet house, a /
riend IN all. | knew him but to love hIm. t
nd now, when the .'brave old man. as we
owed 10 call him, is about 10 appear in the last
Gene of his tragic, erring life, word may
Ut prove TO YOU unInterestn9. / i
| knew the man an Industrious farmer, pros ,
erous, surrounded by his children and his
hildrcn'S children, "under his own vine and t
. tree" with every promise IN the bloom,
"
nd where all the life SO free from wrong was
rawing in It's sunset hours 10 peaceful old r
ge A day passed, and his children were {
wing by the light of their blazing homes over
lie slorm-swept plains, for the "Ruiian" hand +
as upon them Their cornfields were turn
4 10 deserts, their homes laid in ashes. The {
arnings of life of industry, guided by more y
ian ordinary intelligence, were scattered and
lllaged. Homeless the gray head sought the o
Illow of its mother earth, I'LL the first pass 7
mate burst of grief was gone, and then he -
wore his bitter vengeance against the rob- =
ers of his home, the murderers of his boy.
The old mans day of reckoning had come. n
he grav eye glareG like tiger as his muir
,rous guns swept down the enemy at Ossa- 81
atfomie; grapeshot tore through the ranks, 6
1t he held his men steadily 10 the storm I'LL
e last cartridge was spent He stood expo u
d to every ball that swept over his little j
md at Black Jack a victor there, he show =;
the vanquished that he was magnanimous -
brave. Beside hun, on that day "bJore cl
1,rrence," all through that Sabbath afternoon G.
hose won,ed quie, was broken by the crash ~
the musketry and sharp crack OF the rifle, Y
sat on my horse watching the grey head, NJ
red to the tempest of balls. expecting to see
fall at every discharge. Calm and cool, as
that his life was a charmed one, IN
moved from post to post. NJ