Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-10-27
The Scene Charged from Kan.
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The scene Changed IRON Kan
sas sOs sEHginia.
We put it to any. reasonable man, North
or South: Is not ths blood at Harper's
Ferry the direct conseq of the ousra-
ges perpe trated BY Slave Holders in Kan
sas? i
We condemned those outrages in Kan
sas, we condemn these outrages in Virgin
ia, but, as between John Browns band oe
desperate mon and the Slave Holders,
How stands the accounts We yet have
doubts as to the veritable John Brown be-
ing the insurgent leader at Harper's Ferry;
there is no positive proof of that fact, and
we do not yet believe he and his son are
so foolishly reckless as to be engaged in the
melee. But, admitting it to be John
Brown, How stands the account between
him and the Slave Holdersl
For months, the Border Rufians of Mis-
souri oyerran Kansas, numbering men and
ravishing women. What did the President
then doa What were his troops, that
should have rushed, as they now have, to
the relief of the terror-stricken murdered
citizens, doingi Let not the people in
their condemnation of those reckless men
in Virginia forget that Col. Sumner was
superseded in command in Kansas by the
blood-thirsty, squaw fighter, Harney, be-
cause he, Sumner, wished to stay the hand
of the murderers of Free State men. All
these things should be fresh in the recol-
lection of the people and We will not di-
late upon them, for it is as plain as the
sun at cloudless noon-day that the poison
Gus chalice from which the Slave Holders
in Kansas made the Free State men drink,
is now commended to their own lips in
Virginia and Maryland. As We said be-
fore, we condemned those outrages in Kan
sas, and we condemn the same at Har-
per's Ferry. szs7'
But how stands the account personally,
between John Brown and the Slave Hold
ers! Let the blood-stained pages of Kar-
sas in the winter of 1866 answer. John
Brown had son, E. P. Brown, who near
Easton that winter, was taken prisoner by
the Missouri Rufians and confined in a
store. Then it was an express visited Fort
Leavenworth and begged that Uited States
troops might 60 to the spot and save
Brown from being murdered. That was
refused too in compliance with positive Or
ders from Washington. What followed
Capt. E. P. Brown was helpless and alone
in the power of the Pro-Slavery men; that
band of rufians struck him and he rose 10
his feet and asked to be permitted to fight
the best man among them-he would fight
for his life-but the towards dared not
give him that chance. Brown then dared
any two or three of them to fight him,
but the towards would not comply with
that request. ~.
One OF his sons, who was elected to the
Legislature in February, 1856, was seized
and taken from Ossawatomie to Lecomp-
ion in chains, distance of Thirty miles.
His feet and hands were chained together
with large heavy Chain, the size of that
used upon OK teams. He was compelled
to walk the whole distance beneath the
burning sun. The irons wore the flesh
from his ankles; he was attacked with brain
fever, was neglected and died in two OF
three uayS. ne WAS companion Vi Wv
ernor Robinson, jenkins, (since shot by
Lane) and some eight others. After the
death of his first son, occasioned by tho
torture and fatigue of his forced march,
Brown swore vengeance upon the pro-sla-
very party, and il was frequently observed
by the more prudent of the free state men
that he was evidently insane. on the sub
ject. He was always considered by them
rs dangerous man, was never taken into
their councils, and never consulted by them
with reference either to their policy or
movements.
Read that bloody page and tell us. how
stands the account between John Brown
and the Slave Holders Ciereland Her
aid