The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1910-11-10

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man was with me. Sherman rkuil
was split in two pieces and some oil
his brain was washed out by the
water. One hand vas cut off ex-
cept little piece OF skin on one side >
Sauborn SAYS: when the bodies of
the dead were found, there went up Il
cry that they had been mutilated;
hut this -was because of the weapons
used." Ordinarily it would seem that
two gashes through the skull from
which the brain was oozing might
snfice without the extra thrust on
the side and the looping off OF II
| hand However, the director was a
man OF high ideals" and mutiIatlon
was impossible.
Another Of the victims was IL Mr.
Wilkinson, who was the postmaster
at Shermansville (nOw Lanel, and
also u member Of the Territorial
LEGISLATURE OF Kansas. Mrs. WiIkin-
son in her testimony says that she
was sick in bed with the measles, that
she begged them to let her husband
STAY with her as she was helpless.
The old man Brown who seemed
to be in command, looked at me and
then around at the children, and re-
piled: You have neighbours They
then took my husband away. One
OF them came back aud took two
saddles. The next morning Mr..
Wilkinson was found. believe that
one of Captain Browns SONS was in
the party who murdered my husband.
My husband was a quiet man and
was not engaged in arresting and
| disturbing anybody"
Three Doyles, father and SOILS, both
Of the lads under age. were also muir
dered. This done, the horses and
saddles of the dead man were taken
along and according to SanbOrn.
taken to northern Kansas and traded
off. This author styles the killing of
these persons as ''executiOns,' those
killed in retaliation by Pro-Slayery
outlaws be calls "Marais des Cygnes
murders.
On December 20, 1885, John Brown
led an expedition from Kansas into
Missouri and forcibly took from their
lawful owner slaves, horses and other
property, and one of his men "kiIled
one white man, the master, who
fought against the liberation" (qu0-
tation from a letter written by John
Brown, and as a result of these aud
other unlawful acts, he, according to
Sauborn cleft Kansas pursued by
United States troops" page 34O,)
and to escape arrest and punishment
lived in various States under the
names OF Isaac Smith, Shubel Nor
gan, James Smith and Nelson Haw-
kins In a letter to Eli Thayer, dated
April 6, 1857, this man Ofhigh ideals,
heroic valor and grim energy" says:
Il am advised that one of Uncle
Sans hounds is on my tracks"
page 1922
OF the high idealism which was
rampant at this period this letter
from Theodore Parker, the great d.
vine OF Boston, may be an indie ton:
MY Dear Judge (RusselD: IfJohn
Brown falls into the hands of the
marshal from Kansas, he is sure of
the galloWs or of something worse.
If were in his position would shoot
dead any man who attempted to ar
rest me for those alleged crimes; then
| should be tried by a Massachusetts
jury and acquitted" Page 512)
1t is claimed in his and their de-
fence by those who gave John Brown
material or moral aid in his fOray
| into Virginia that it was not intend
ed to incite the instruction among
the slaves, and his latest champion,
Mr.. Roosevelt, quoting from Mr.. Lin
| coin, says: 1T was not slave i'll
surrection." The fact that an insur-
rection did not follow the attempt
does not prove that it was not in
tended or had not been contemplated
as possible. Men of the desperate
character Of John Brown and his
sons, their hands red with the blood
of those they had surprised in their
bed by the side of their wives and
children at dead of night and cut to
death-cut, not shot, for fear of rails
ing an alarm-would scarcely stop at
an insurrection of slaves, and what
ever of horror this might bring, TO
accomplish their purpose. They and
! those who aided them knew we'll that
in that same State twenty eight
years before the Southampton insur-
rectiOn had occurred under the leader
ship OF Nat Turner, who gathered
about him band of sixty negroes.
with these he started at an ap-
pointed time to 60 from house to
house to kill every white person of
whatever age, sex or condition, to
inspire universal terror and arouse
the whole slave population. Begin
ming at Turner's own home they first
killed his master, and then went to
other plantations. An advanced
guard on horseback surrounded each
house in turn, holding it until their
followers on foot, armed with axes,
scythes and muskets came up to com
plete the work of destruction, while
the horsemen rode on to the next
house. In fOrty-eigbt hours fifty five
white persons were killed without loss
to the insurgents" (Bryant's and
Gays History of the United States. -
Vol. A.
The money contributed to this ex-
petition by George l.. Stearns, DR..
Howe, Theodore Parker, Col. Hig-
ginson, +. B. Sanborn, Gerrit Smith
and Others was in part expended in
the manufacture for the especial pur-
pose OF 1000 pixies, weapon with
which to arm the negroes who should
join Brown and which doubtless
would prove superior to the scythes
Nat Turner had employed so success
fully. These pixies and other arms
were captured with Brown.
SanbOrn page 524 says: "Out
OF little more than 4.OOOin money
which passed through the hands o
the secret committee in aid OF hi:
Virginia enterprise at least
$500 was given with a clear knowl
edge OF the use to which it would bt
put" Gerrit Smith was a liberia
contributor. and on August %
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