The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-01-24
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Solth ) american Review for February
n article on eJohn Browns Place in
History This Is ID reply 10 The state {
nente ofthe Rev. David y. Utter in the
November number OF the came maya
zine, and Is a eaustic 3 Bit Of criticism
and Is neat an illustration Of haDdIiag 9
man witbout gloves es has appeared in
our periodical literature for many q
day.
Dir. Utter took the position that John
Brown was a disturbing influence in
Kansas from the first, that he went 70
the territory not rs settler. but to fight;
that he was an extremist and revclu-
tionIst who belonged 20 an insignificant
party that was led. BY newspaper CORE
spondsnis and siipendiaries who had
really no right to be in the territory at
all.
Seaasor Ing sllss show that Brown and
his four sous went1o Kansas as farmers
In The autumn of 1854 Instead of max
ing an attack, Broxn was harTassed, in
suited, raidsd ard plundered by gangs
of marauders. ard fiually notified TO
lesve The territory under penalty Of
death. And why2 Not because he had
melted riot or made threats against
any one. but because he was opposed 10 /
slavery.
John Browa went 10 Kansas 10 make
home. Che disturbing influences were
the drunken mobs from Missouri, the |
eight hundred border rufians who as
sembled on their own account TO destroy |
Lawrence, the men who rode oyer the
border not to make homes, but 10 fight, |
and 70 dexastate the homes others had
made. Ia making tins point clear Sen
aior ingalls, gives the history of the in
tesv4l between July 2, 1855, and May 81,
1856. s!urred over by UAer. The legis-
latuTe was elected in March by Misl
sourians who entered the territory in
armed bands for the purpose, and was
unanimously pro-slaYerY.
This legislature devised scheme by
which the people we're deprived FOR two
years of all control over the executive,
legislative and Judicial departments of
the government They filed the offices
with pro-slavery. men and enacted laws
affixing the penalty of death to the
crime Of carry ing or assisting slaves out
of the territory. and Furnishing the de
NAL o. the right TO hold slaves with ims
pr1sonment at hard labor for two years,
with ball aud chaiu
/ THIS was the beginning Free State
men were raided, robbed and murdered
John Brown ami his sons were among
the men who marched to the defense of
Lawrence. Later it was struggle be-
tween the Free State men, and the
Pro Slavery men, and Governor
Shannon reported that THE roads were
literally strewed with dead bodies y
Lawrence was raided, Governor Robin
son was arrested and his dwelling burn
ed, and most of the Free State leaders
were imprisoned.
!, John Brown advocated policy of re-
slstancc, and when the Pro- Slavery lead.
ers openly ayowed policy of EXTERN
inasIon lac stood fifm. Going to the de-
tense of his old neighbors on Pottawat
omie creek. the military company to
! which be belonged turned the tables or
} the Pro-SlaYerY partisans. As Senator
: ingalls, puts il, sit was the blood anc
> prescription of Bismarck - and 1t wal
3 approved by the Free State Leaders.
J Dir. Utter stated that when Johr
Brown, Jr, learned of the massacre b,
: resigned his command, went home, anC
: through adherence of the crime became
e Insane, Senator Ingalls, meets this witt
:, q square denial. John Brown Jr., wa
|. captured by Captain Pate, manacles
f with OK chains, and driven under no
: sun until he became dtlirious.
$ Utter stated that John Brown coul,
/? not live in Kansas after the Pettawato
/ mic massacre, aud that he fled in dis
h guise to New Epgland Mr.. Iogall
/ declares that as matter OF fact, thu
John Brown did live in Kansas after tn
= P.Jttawat)mie affair, AMI that he partici
8 pated in sew, raj engagements, and afte
Is the siege at Lswrtnce, went east fC
IS funds. After his visit TO Boston he ri
q turned to Kansas ard remained. wit
n brief intervals OF abssnce, until Januaf,
i 1859
II John Browns last act in Kansas WI
y to invade Miss uri, liberate eleve
e slaves and to 20 with them to Windso
p Canada His subsequent career, 4
u Senator Ingalls, remarks, belongs to IL
20 history OF the nation, and he adds /
a conclusion:
70 Out of the poTtentous and mtnacin
80 cloud oi antI-slaVery sentiment that ha
90 long brooded with sullen discomfort,
81 | baleiul meteor above the north, /
rs, sprang like terrific thunderbolt, who's
iurid glare illuminated the contineI
81 with its devastating flame, and whose r
Z veFberations among the splintered Graz
8 of Harper's Ferry were repeated on
thousand battle fields from -GettYsbuI
to the Gulf From the instant that sh'
was fired the discussion and the deba
of centuries were at an end. He WI
was not for slavery was against it: II
no north became yerteDrated, and the 81
)st OF cartilage and compromise was at Z
Nm end The nation seized the standard
universal emancipation which droppe
'a' from his dying hand on the scsffold
Is Charleston, and bore il in triumph
raj Appomatcx.
,is Carlyle says that when any gre
change in human society is to be wrong
God raises up men to whom that chanj
IT. is made to appear as the one thing nee
sIy full aud absolutely indispe nsible. SchC
pd airs, orators, posts. philanihropisis, pls
!. their parts. but theorists comes at Ia
through some cns Who is stigmatized
ice fanatic by his contemporaries, al
whom the supporters of the systems
70 assails cruelty between thieves or q
:, bet as felon. The man who is q
eu' afraid tn die for an idea is its most 2
Al tential and convincing advocate.
of Already the great intellectual leadt
ne of the movement for the abolition
- slavery are dead. The student Of &
N future viii exhume their oTaii0ns, arg
ne meats aud state papers as part Of t
ng- subierraneau history of the epoch. I
in. antiquarian viii dig up their renal
from the alluylsl drift of the paFiC
and coEstrus their relations to {
great events In which they we're actor
ne but the three men of this era "
lug will loom forever against the femot,
cy. horizon of time as the by
er. mids above the voiceiess desc
or mountain peaks oyer the suboEdin,
Ten plains, are Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses
The Grant, and Old John Brown, of 0saw
es- omie.
81 Az has often been SAID OF Senator
ION gals in other matters. be states ]
an case well. He is to be commented, !
,on only for his vigorous defense of 10
~ Brown and the Free State men OF &
:, sas, but for his clear and vivid Oh
an ae,erization of the spirit of rtmar
:, BILE epoch.
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