The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-12-13

b,s :. owen n Frederick
we ner. n James TovnsIep a Mr.
says: THE weapons used wera shn-.
.utlasseS, straight and broad and 49,
r~iy ground for this ~expedition ~
.,s camp OF John Brown, Jr." T..1sre
$50. ~ of""h' page
Inc murdered men were surprised
III e about two o'clock in the morn
.ms oa May 2s. 1856. One Of these
was william Sherman. lance Earr;.
IN his testimony before the conmits
zee OF congress swore: II took Mr.
wliilan sherman out Of the creek and
examined him. Mr.. Whitman u,as
WIN me- Sherman's skull was split
III TWO pieces and some OF his brain
was washed out by the water. one
aanu was cut Off except a little piece
OF SKIN on one side" Sanborn savs.
When the bodies Of the dead We're
round, there went up a cry that thew
hao been mutilated; but this was be-
cause OF the weapons used" Ordinarily
it would seem that two gashes through
me skull from which the brain was
ooz ng might suffice without the extra
thrust on the side and the looping off
or a hand. However, the director was
a man Of high ideals and rnutilation
was impossible.
another OF the victims was a Mr..
Wilkinson. who was the postmaster
at Shermansviile (now Lance, and
also a member Of the Territorial Leg
isiature Of Kansas. Mrs. Wilkinson ia
ner testimony says that she was sick
IN bed with the measles, that she beg
ged them to let her husband stay with
her as she was helpless. THE old
man (Rrown) who seemed to be in
command, looked at me then
around at the children, and replied:
You have neighbours They then
took my husband away. One of them
am back and took two saddles. The
next morning Mr.. Wilkinson was
found. l believe that one OF Captain
Browns sons was in the party VINO
murdered my husband. My husband
was a quiet man and was not engaged
in arresting and disturbing anybody"
Three Doyles, father and sons, both
Of the lads under age. were also muir
dered. This done, the horses and
saddles of the dead men were taken
along and according to Sanborn, taken
to northern Kansas and traded Off. This
author styles the killing of these per-
sons as Executions those killed in
retaliation by PrO-Slavery outlaws ne
calls "Marais des Cygnes murders"
On December 20, 1855, John Brown
led an expedition from kanSas into
M sssouri and forcibly took from their
lawful owner slaves, horses and otner
property, and one of his men killed
one White man. the master, VINO
fought against the liberation Quota
ton from a letter written by Jonn
Brown and as a result OF these ana
other unlawful acts, he, according to
Sanborn left Kansas pursued by Uni
ted States troops (page 34o,) ana TO
escapes arrest and punishment lived II
various States under the names OF
Isaac Smith, Shubel Morgan. James
Smith and Nelson Hawkins. IN q leg
ter to ELI Thayer, dated Aprfl ., Ie3''
This man of high ideals, heroic Salor
and grim nergy, says: am 40
vised that one Of Uncle SANS hounds
is on my tracks" Gage 3s2.e
OF the high idealism which was
ampan at this period this letter from
Theodore Parker, the great divine o.
| Boston. may be an indication:
my Dear judge (RusselD: II Jonn
Brown falls into the hands Of the
marshal from Kansas, lie is sure OF
the sallows or Of something worse. II
7 were in his position l would snoo'
dead any man who attempted TO ar
rest me for those alleged crimes; tnen
I should be trisa by 5 = sS s12o.
II is claimed in his and their de-
fence bv those who gave John Brown
material or moral aid IN ms rory
INTO Virginia that it was not intend
ed to incite the lnsurrectlon anloIs
| the slaves, and his latest cnan1plon'
~ roosevelt. ouoting from Mr.. Lin
coln. saws: 'It was no. a slave 'nsur-
section" The fact hat an insurrec-
tom did not follow the ATTEMPT does
rot prove that IL was not or
had not been contemplated as posi-
bic. 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 or
| night and cut 70 death-cut. no snot,
for fear Of raising an aiartn-wouii
scarcely stop at an insurrectfon or
! slaves. and whatever of horror this
might hr'ng, to accomplish their pur~
nose. They and those who aided them
| knew well that in that same state
twenty-eight years before the South-
anDtor insurrection had occurred un-
| der the Leadership Of Nat Turner, VINO
gathered about him a band OF sixty