The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1859-11-16
What they say in Kansas about
HOId John Brown"

The Herad Of Freedom, published at Law
renee, Kansas, has always been considered the
leading organ of the republican party in that
territory; but with this difference between it
and other papers Of that party-it is honest, as
the following articles from its issue OF the 29th
Of October will show:-
The first thing the people Of Kansas heard
of old John Brown was in the summer of 1855.
A meeting of ultra aboltionists was held at
Gaze nova, n. Y, if we recoIlect rightly. While
in session Brown, who is native of Essex
county, N. Y, appeared before that convention,
and made very fiery speech, during which he
said he had four sons in Kansas, and he had
three others who were desirous of going there,
to aid in fighting the battles of freedom. He
could not consent to 90 unless he could 20
armed, and he would like to arm all his sons,
but was not able to do so. Funds were con-
tributed on the spot, principally by Gerrit
Smith.
The four sons had located on Pottawatamie
creek in Lykins county, and in the fall of 1855
we're Joined by the father and other brothers.
When the Wakarusa war was pending the old
man and four sons arrived in Lawrence; the
balance he reported sick. AS they drove up
in front of the Free State HOTEL they were all
standing in small lumber wagon. To each oi
their persons was strapped short heavy broad
sword. Each was supplied with goodly
number Of firearms and navy revolvers and poles
were standing endwise around the wagon box
with fixed bayonets pointing upwards. They
| looked really formidable, and were received with
| great eclat. A small military company was or
ganized at once, and the command was given to
Old Brown. From that moment he commenc-
ed fomenting difficulties in camp, disregarding
the commands of superior officers and irving
to induce the men to go down to Franklin and
make an attack upon the pro slavery forces en-
camped there. The committee of Public SAT-
ETY. was called upon several times to head off
| his wild adventure, as the people of Lawrence
had planted themselves on the law, claiming
that they had not been guilty of its infraction,
and that no armed body of men should enter the
town for any purpose whatever and that they
would not 60 out of town to attack any such
body. Peace was established and Old Brown
retired in disgust. ..... ....-....l ..a.
When the news the threatened siege o.
Lawrence reached John Brown, Jr., who was
a member of the Topeka Legislature, he organ
lied company ofabout sixty men and march.
ed towards Lawrence. Arriving at Palmyra
he learned Of the sacking of the town and the
position of the people. He reconnoitered for q
time in the vicinity, but finally marched back
towards Ossowatomie. The night before reach
ing that place, when only a few miles away
they camped for the nght.--Old John Brown
who we belive, was with the party, singled out
with himself seven men, These he marched
to point eight miles above the mouth Of Pot.
tawatomie creek and called from their beds al
their several residences at the hour Of midnight
on the Oath of May, 1856, Allen Wilkinson
William Sherman, William P. Doyle, William
Doyle aud Drury Doyle. All were found the
next morning by the roadside or in the high
way, some with cash in their heads and sides
and their throats cut; others with their skulls
split open in two places, with holes in theil
breasts and hands cut off; and others had holes
through their breasts, with their fingers cut off
No man in Kansas has pretendedto deny that old
John B,own led that mwde1ous toray aohich mas
sacred those men, Up that period not a hair o.
old John Byo,on's head, or that of any of HI.
sons, had been injured By the pro- SLAVERY party.
1t was not until the 30th of August, three
months after the Pottawatomie massacre, that
the attack was made on Ossawatomie by the
pro slavery forces, and Frederick Brown, sor
of old John, was killed.
The truth OF history requires this statement
If Brown was monomaniac it dates back an
terror to his first visit to Kansas.
And here are couple Of passages from an
other article, of the same date as the above:
Then (during the sitting of the Lecomptor
Constitutional Convention was organized thu
secret, oath bound league, the object of whicl
t0as to murder, in cold blOod, eUery officer elected
unde, the Leco0,pton Constitution, be hea Fret
State man or otherwise, The password to thai
secret organization was "Lane." The whole
plan Of assassination, ofrelays Of horses for tn,
executioners, &C.. and in the possession Of goot
men in Lawrence, and have bee for a long per.
iod. But there was peaceful adjustment o
all these matters, because Congress did not Civ,
legal sanction to the Lecompton swindle.
A short time pefore the breaking out of tn,
difficulty at Harpers Ferry, some of them 70
the partizans of Old Brown were trying tt
hire money in Lawrence with which to pa,
their expenses to the scene of contemplated
strife, no doubt designing to raise the means t.
refund the borrowed money from the sale o
watches, jewelry and plate" which the Con
stitution oft the organization provided should b
used to defrav the expenses OF the war. Tn
whole plan of the organization, mode of opera
ton, &C., it seems has been known IN Kansa
for long time. We are told, by parties in tn
secret, that the plan of Old Brown & Co. was t
strike such bold and vigorous blow as to in
timidate the entire population Of Virginia an
the South, who are known to be exceedingl
timorous over their slave population. Wit
his few immediate supporters he was to tax
possession of the Armory while others, wit
teams, were to carry the arms and military SUP
Iplies to the mountains. In those astnesses
was to arect his independent standard, aroun
which the negroes were to assemble. A secre
organization, permeatng all sections OF til
Noath, with powerful backing in Kansas, wa
to furnish recruits. Thus strengthened, the
would be able to bid defiance to state and Fede
raj authority. t . .4 e...l
! And here are few more passages from th
same paper:-- ,.... .r .... .,.-.-- -.
"The business men of Leavenworth will rt
member the insane movements of James /
Lane and these anti-peace men, who proecte
the idea of numbering the delegates to the Lie
compton Constitution, while on their way {
resume their labors in October and the orde,
ling of the whole countrp to assemble at LIZ
compton with arms and four days. provisions, I
take that town and. hang the members of tn
Convention. They will call to mind the meet
ing in Duncan's building, followed by the on
in front of the Morrow House, in Lawranc,
when he was headed off in that demon worl
and the contemplated sanguinary visit to Lie
compton was changed into peaceful one
protest against the Constitution then being fra
med. "aH Aasd 4# e-s4
The Lecompton Constitution itself was mex
made the pretext for bringing on war; Who
lever is able to call up the incidents of the %
and 23d of December Convention, held in Law
renee, will be able to comprehend that to whic
1--we allude. "Brown's Cellar Kitchen Conven
tion," as Thacher ard his associates brande