The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-12

has been a conspicuous figure in Kan
sas. He helped to shape the fortunes
of the territory in the border ruffian
days, being one of the most aggressive
of the free soldiers" He was init
mately acquainted with such men as
Thurlow Weed, Horace Greeley and
others of those days. His first jour
naliStic work in Kansas was done half
century ago for Horace Greeley. He
was the founder of the Leavenworth
Times and has always been it's editor.
Colonel Anthony was born in Adams,
Mass, eighty years ago. He was
brother of Susan B. Anthony, the noted
advocate of woman suffrage, and a
cousin of George T. Anthony, former
governor of Kansas. His parents
moved to New York state when he was
small and there he grew up. His
parents were Quakers and he began
life as a clerk for his father, who was
a cotton manufacturer, but he became
fired with the free state cause and
Thayer, the Boston abolitionist. That
resulted in his heading a. party of free
state men to Kansas. Hugh Cameron,
the Kansas hermit of Lawrence, was
one of the party.
No person has ever been more prom
inently associated with the history and
development of Kansas for so long
period as Daniel Reed Anthony. He
was the one connecting link between
the struggles with the border ruffians
of fifty years ago, and modern politics
in Kansas. During his fifty years OF
life in Kansas he has at all times been
a leader.
He went through many exciting in
cidents during the border struggles,
and at the breaking out of the war he
helped raise and was made lieutenant
colonel of the First Kansas cavalry.
He was afterward promoted to colonel
of the regiment, and distinguished
himself at the battle of the Little
Blue. While in the army the fugi-
handled it in new and startling man
ner to some of the conservative union
commanders.
While temporarily in command of a
brigade in the army of the Mississippi
in 1852, owners of slaves were de-
manding the right to search for them
in the union camp. Col. Anthony is
sued an order in characteristic Ian
guage, which said in part:
'tThe impudence and impertinence of
the open and armed rebels, traitors
AMI secessionists and southern rights
men of this section of the state of
Tennessee in arrogantly demanding
the right to search our camp for fu-
gitive slaves has become a nuisance,
and will no longer be tolerated. Off
GERS will see that this class of men
who visit our camp for this purpose
are excluded from the lines. Any Off
GER or soldier of this command who
shall arrest and deliver to his master
a fugitive slave shall be summarily
the laws relative to such crimes
The issuing of this order caused a
stir, and Colonel Anthony was placed
under arrest for insubordination when
he attempted to carry out the spirit
of it, after the return of General
Mitchell, the regular brigade COM
mander. Colonel Anthony was re-
stored to his command ON the intro
duction of a resolution into the United
States senate by Senator James Lane
of Kansas asking for the facts about
the case.
One of the most exciting times in
the history of Leavenworth occurred
while Colonel Anthony was mayor tn e
first time. Some of Colonel Anthony's
detectives seized horses belonging to
Missourians and the mayor denied the
right of the military authorities tol
search for them. General Thomas
Ewing, jr., was commanding the dis
trict of the border" and after heat
ed correspondence between them he
declared martial law and had Mayor
Anthony arrested and taken to Kansas