Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-10-31

men Drew his pistol and shot james
= Doyle in the forehead Some OF
the Others cut down William with
their heavy sabres. Drury started to
run to the house but was overtaken
and cut down also with sabres. There
was still a younger brother about six
teen years old whose life was spared at
the entreaty Of his mother.
This was the first act ofJohn Brown
that laid the foundation for his subse
qrent canonigation as Saint 0ssawat-
tonic Brown through tho violence Of
leading Republicans Of New England
such as Emerson, Theodore Park ter,
Wendell Philips and others.
MURDER OF WILKINSON.
Continuing their swept down the
Pottawattomie creek the next house
the Northern army came to was that
Of man by the name Of Wilkinson
His wife was sick with the measles.
Brown raped at the door aud de
manded admittance. His wife begged
Wilkinson not to open it. He was
then asked to tell them the way to
Dutch Honrys. He said he could
tell just as we'll in tho house as out OF
it. Tie was then told to surrender TO
the Northern army and il he did not
open the door they would break ii
down. The door was opened-he was
ordered 10 put on his clothes He
said that he would answer any charge
against him, and entreated to be per.
mitted to remain with his sick wife,
His wife made the same entreaty, but
Captain John Brown said ut matters
not" Before he could put on his
boots he was taken about a hundred
and fifty yards from the house and
there killed.
MURDER OF SHERMAN.
About 2 o'clock in the morning Of
Sunday they reached Dutch Henry's
Crossing. They there killed a man
by the name of Sherman, and took
prisoner another man by the name Of
Granville.
e1RN 80 ~ 49, %-AA ANNs
On that Sunday morning May %,
1856, when the sun rose it shone upon
five CHASTITY corpses lying in the grass.
Two widows with their fatherless
children were weeping over the dead,
INVOKING A BLESSING. II B
AT breakfast that morning IS the
seven men sat down and Captain
Brown raised his hands to invoke a
blessing upon the food they we're
about to eat the prisoner Granville
said he saw upon them the dried
blood Of his murdered victims.
JOHN BROWN, JR. BECOMES CRAZY.
When John Brown, IT. beard Of
these atrocities that had been com
mitted BY his father he resigned the
command of his company, went home
and became deranged. In his rawlings
he would say there cannot be any
palliation for such atrocities. Moth
ing can excuse them. 1t was very
cowardly. II they had been killed in
daylight there would have been some
show Of mantness, but to take men
out Of their beds at midnight in the
presence Of their wives and mothers
and cut them to pieces is more savage
and barbarous than cause can justify
or excuse"
Such isan epitome Of the facts and
circumstances attending the conduct
of John Brown during a part Of bis
career IN Kansas, as given to the pub.
lie by the Rev. David N. Utter in the
North American Review. In refer
ence to what is supposed TO have been
heroic conduct of John Brown at 0s,
sawattomie, from which be derived
his sOubriquet BY which he was after
wards known, Mr.. Utter says instead
Of displaying courage and heroism, he
ran away from The fight
After John Browns career 10 Kan.
sas he was received into great Evor BY
leading Republicans everywhere at the
North, But his browning act was his
entry into Virginia at Harper's Ferry
with bis Northern army Of three men
to stir up &c instruction among the
slaves and induce the blacks to muir
der the whites. His subsequent exc.
cution for this act, in the performance
Of which murder occurred, secured
his csnonization as saint. His mem
DRY is still revered by very many Re.
publicsns North. But, as Mr.. Utter
says, the time has come to reyalue biz
character, and the reputation Of this
cold blOOded, atrocious and merciless
murderer should be stamped and Ia.
beled as it deserves TO be. And it il
very much to be desired that we shall
never have his like placed in the cal
endar Of saints Of the people of tn,
United States by any portion of thu
country. 90 IiIna