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  1. John Brown
  2. PREFACE
  3. CONTENTS
  4. CHRONOLOGY
    1. Boyhood and Youth
    2. The Tanner
    3. The Shepherd
    4. In Kansas
    5. The Abolitionist
    6. The Harper’s Ferry Raid
  5. CHAPTER I AFRICA AND AMERICA
  6. CHAPTER II THE MAKING OF THE MAN
  7. CHAPTER III THE WANDERJAHRE
  8. CHAPTER IV THE SHEPHERD OF THE SHEEP
  9. CHAPTER V THE VISION OF THE DAMNED
  10. CHAPTER VI THE CALL OF KANSAS
  11. CHAPTER VII THE SWAMP OF THE SWAN
  12. CHAPTER VIII THE GREAT PLAN
  13. CHAPTER IX THE BLACK PHALANX
  14. CHAPTER X THE GREAT BLACK WAY
  15. CHAPTER XI THE BLOW
  16. CHAPTER XII THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX
  17. CHAPTER XIII THE LEGACY OF JOHN BROWN
  18. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  19. INDEX
  20. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE

INDEX

  • Abolitionists, 86, 91, 93, 96, 125, 341–342.
  • Adams, John Quincy, 49.
  • Adirondack farm, the, 12, 199.
  • Alcott, A. Bronson, 210, 290–291.
  • Alleghany Mountains, 48, 106, 127, 275, 279, 299.
  • Anderson, Jeremiah, 258, 282–283, 324, 325, 336.
  • Anderson, John, 282.
  • Anderson, Osborne Perry, 280, 305, 334, 336.
  • Atchison, Senator, 134, 175.
  • Black Jack, battle of, 166–169, 221.
  • Brown, Anne, 286, 300, 301.
  • Brown, Edward, 145.
  • Brown, Frederick (the brother), 95.
  • Brown, Frederick (the son), 128, 152, 155, 166, 167, 178.
  • Brown, Jason, 87, 128, 146, 149, 159, 160, 186.
  • Brown, John, Jr., 127, 146, 147, 159, 186.
  • Brown, John, ancestry of, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20;
    • boyhood and youth of, 21–23, 25, 31;
    • as tanner, 31;
    • marriage of, 32;
    • occupations of, 32;
    • family life of, 33–37;
    • second marriage of, 38;
    • in panic of 1837, 41;
    • as shepherd, 52–60;
    • as wool merchant, 61–68;
    • in England, 68–71;
    • lawsuits of, 71–74;
    • and fugitive slaves, 84, 85;
    • first plan against slavery, 87–88;
    • and Negroes in, 89–91;
    • and mobs, 91;
    • and oath vs. slavery, 92, 93;
    • and Abolitionists, 91–94;
    • and settlement in Virginia, 95;
    • and black men, 97–121;
    • and Frederick Douglass, 102–109;
    • in the Adirondacks, 111–113;
    • in Kansas, 126–134, 139–140, 143–144, 145–197;
    • developing plans of, 198–206;
    • trip eastward of, 197, 207–218;
    • meets Forbes, 216;
    • return westward, 218;
    • securing arms and men, 218–225;
    • second trip eastward, 225–251;
    • at Douglass’ home, 225–227;
    • revelation of, 229–231;
    • trip to Canada of, 15, 248–251;
    • meets Harriet Tubman, 249–251;
    • return to Iowa of, 251–253;
    • third trip eastward of, 252;
    • return to Canada, 252;
    • Chatham convention, 253–266;
    • betrayal of, by Forbes, 266–269;
    • in New England and New York, 268–270;
    • third return westward, 270–272;
    • Harper’s Ferry plans of, 274–277;
    • financial resources of, 277–278;
    • military organizations of, 106, 116, 149, 160–169, 175–179, 181–182, 188–189, 191, 226–227, 278–279;
    • Negro companions of, 280–283;
    • white companions
  • of, 283–287;
    • health of, 288;
    • seventh trip eastward, 288–291;
    • starts South, 291;
    • arrives at Harper’s Ferry, 292;
    • perfecting arrangements, 293–307;
    • meets Douglass, 295–297;
    • life at Kennedy Farm, 298–302;
    • betrayal of plans of, 302–303;
    • raid of, at Harper’s Ferry, 308–337;
    • capture of, 333–334;
    • fate of companions of, 336;
    • results, 338;
    • trial of, 356–364;
    • execution of, 363–364;
    • last letters of, 365–373;
    • and present Negro problem, 373–396;
    • character of, 15, 16, 22–23, 26–47, 300–301, 338–358;
    • descriptions of, 21, 28, 73, 74, 92, 104, 173–174, 197, 287;
    • family of, 31–39, 42, 44, 45, 58, 71, 73, 74, 87, 88, 89, 92, 95, 102–104, 112, 119, 120, 121;
    • letters of, 42–46, 53–60, 62–63, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72, 74, 87–88, 113, 118, 132, 146–149, 151, 152, 159, 166–169, 178, 179, 182, 186, 187, 188–189, 218, 220, 227, 228, 232–234, 248, 249, 257, 266, 267, 270, 271, 304, 357, 365–373;
    • reading of, 40;
    • religion of, 23, 25, 40–41, 42, 47, 365–373;
    • speeches of, 132, 150, 180–182, 213–214;
    • song of, 334.
  • Brown, Oliver, 133, 146, 149, 152, 155, 283.
  • Brown, Owen, 19, 20, 77, 78, 128, 147, 152, 155, 186, 252, 259, 272, 283, 319, 329, 335, 336.
  • Brown, Peter, 19.
  • Brown, Salmon, 128, 137, 152–168, 186.
  • Brown, Watson, 155, 283.
  • Buchanan, President, 142, 214.
  • Burns, Anthony, 72.
  • Canada, the Negroes in, 236–238, 253–254, 270.
  • Caste and the Negro, 76–78, 81, 235–247, 377–380, 387, 388, 391–393.
  • Catchers, slave, 97.
  • Charleston, Va. (W. Va.), 13.
  • Committee, National Kansas, New York meeting of, 13, 207.
  • Constitution, articles of Brown’s, 265, 266.
  • Constitution, pro-slavery, of Kansas, 136.
  • Constitution, Lecompton of Kansas, 143, 187, 224.
  • Contact of races, 380, 382.
  • Convention, address of Philadelphia, 236–238.
  • Convention, Big Springs, Kansas, 12.
  • Convention, Chatham, 203, 257, 267.
  • Convention, Syracuse, of Abolitionists, 12, 132, 133.
  • Cook, John E., 219, 220, 252, 259, 315, 316, 318, 319, 324, 331, 336.
  • Copeland, John A., 281–305, 325, 336.
  • Coppoc, Barclay, 223, 319, 336.
  • Coppoc, Edwin, 223, 336.
  • Coronado, 16, 123.
  • Covenant and by-laws of John Brown’s followers, 160–161.
  • Crandall, Prudence, 87.
  • Daingerfield, Captain, 326.
  • Daniels, Jim, 192.
  • Davis, Jefferson, 124, 391–393.
  • Day, Mary Ann, 11, 38, 241.
  • Decision, Dred Scott, 142, 213.
  • Delaney, Martin R., 245–246, 248, 254, 258.
  • Diary, John Brown’s, 278.
  • Douglass, Frederick, 7, 12, 13, 15, 47, 101, 102–109, 121, 122, 131, 132, 214, 225, 241, 247, 258, 342, 344–346, 353.
  • Douglas, Stephen A., 126.
  • Dutch Henry’s Crossing, 134, 154.
  • Emancipation, 386–387.
  • Engine-house at Harper’s Ferry, 326, 334.
  • Fight at Harper’s Ferry, 322–326.
  • Floyd, John, Secretary of War, 124.
  • Forbes, Hugh, 73;
    • meets Brown, 216–217;
    • goes West, 218–219;
    • returns East, 219;
    • betrays plans, 225;
    • complaints of, 266, 268.
  • Franklin, Kansas, attack on, 175–176.
  • Freedom, League of, 244.
  • Free Soilers, 131.
  • Fugitive Slave Law, 12, 236.
  • Fugitive slaves, 82, 84, 85, 88, 94, 106–108, 203–204, 241.
  • Gabriel, 11, 83, 127.
  • Garnet, H. H., 98, 102, 240, 243, 248, 258.
  • Garrison, William Lloyd, 15, 93, 342.
  • Geary, Governor of Kansas, 13, 141–180, 183–184.
  • Giddings, Joshua, 152, 391–392.
  • Gill, George B., 223, 259.
  • Gloucester, Negro minister, 98, 248, 258.
  • Great Black Way, the, 273.
  • Greeley, Horace, 130, 266.
  • Green, Shields, 280, 323, 334, 336, 343–347.
  • Hall, Pennsylvania, 91.
  • Hamilton’s massacre, 188, 192–194.
  • Harper’s Ferry raid:
    • the place 273–274;
    • plans of, 274–276;
    • financial resources of, 277–278;
    • military organizations of, 278–280;
    • participants of, 280–288;
    • depot at Chambersburg, 291–292;
    • preparations, 293–307;
    • beginning of foray, 308;
    • capture of armory, 310;
    • capture of town, 311;
    • capture of Colonel Washington, 311–312;
    • halting of train, 313;
    • bringing up the arms, 314–316;
    • further plans, 317–319;
    • gathering of militia, 320–322;
    • dislodging of Kagi, 324–325;
    • retreat of engine-house, 326;
    • killing of Brown’s men, 327–329;
    • arrival of Lee, 331;
    • parleying, 330–333;
    • capture of Brown, 333–334;
    • capture and escape of others, 334–336.
  • Harper, Samuel, 194–195.
  • Hayti, 75, 97.
  • Hazlett, Albert, 334, 336.
  • Henson, Josiah, 241, 253.
  • Hinton, R. J., 7, 173, 181, 189, 204, 207, 222, 258, 277, 284.
  • Holden, Isaac, 257, 258, 277, 284.
  • Howe, Dr. S. G., 210, 231, 267, 341, 343.
  • Hunter, Andrew, 352, 353, 356.
  • Independence, Chatham Declaration of, 272.
  • Insurrection, Cumberland region, 97.
  • Insurrection in Virginia, 81.
  • Insurrection of slaves, 79, 80, 83, 85, 97, 105–106.
  • Insurrection, proposed Negro, 166.
  • Intermarriage of races, 382, 384, 385.
  • Isaac, insurrection of, 97.
  • Jackson, President, 50.
  • Jamaica, 79, 97.
  • Jones, Henry, 241.
  • Jones, John, 248.
  • Jones, J. M., 256, 258.
  • Jones, Ottawa, 178.
  • Journal, Freedom’s, 239.
  • Kagi, J. H., 13, 196, 199, 200, 201, 202, 252, 259, 317, 318, 324, 325.
  • Kansas, 123;
    • Brown’s sons in, 127–131;
    • and slavery, 126, 134, 138, 144;
    • John Brown and, 125, 126–127, 131–134, 139, 143–197.
  • Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 13, 135, 136, 219–221.
  • Kennedy Farm, 319.
  • Lane, General James, 134, 141, 173–176, 186.
  • Lane’s Army, 13, 173–176.
  • Lane College, 95.
  • Langston brothers, 241, 258.
  • Law, Fugitive Slave, 12, 113, 119.
  • Lawrence, Kansas, 12, 167, 170;
    • sacking of, 153–154;
    • last attack on, 180–184.
  • League, Liberty, 244.
  • League of Gileadites, 12, 114.
  • Leary, Lewis Sherrard, 282–305.
  • Lee, Robert E., 13, 331, 332.
  • Leeman, William H., 221, 252, 259, 325, 336.
  • Liberator, The, 94, 239.
  • Liberty Hall, 158.
  • Loudoun Heights, at Harper’s Ferry, 275, 318.
  • L’Ouverture, Toussaint, 75, 216.
  • Lovejoy, 91, 115.
  • Lusk, Dianthe, 11, 32, 38.
  • Marlborough Chapel, 91.
  • Massacre at Dutch Henry’s Crossing, 139–140, 143–144, 154–159.
  • Maxon farm, Iowa, 252.
  • Merriam, F. J., 286, 305, 336.
  • Middle Creek, Kansas, 158.
  • Military organization of Brown’s men, 106, 146, 149, 160–169, 175–179, 181–182, 188–189, 191, 226–227, 278–279.
  • Mills, Peter, 19.
  • Missouri slave raid, 191–197.
  • Mobs, abolition, 91.
  • Mobs against Negroes, 235.
  • Moffett, Charles W., 221, 252, 259.
  • Montgomery, Captain, 188, 189, 190, 191.
  • “Morgan, Shubel,” 189.
  • Mulattoes, 77.
  • Mysteries, American, 244.
  • Negro character, 17.
  • Negro conventions, 236, 237, 238, 239, 242, 244, 245–246.
  • Negro emigration, 245–246.
  • Negro insurgents, 318, 353–354.
  • Negro insurrections, 79–80, 83, 85, 97, 105–106.
  • Negro leaders, 97, 98, 101, 102, 110, 240, 241–243, 246, 258, 259, 294, 295.
  • Negro, Northern, 235.
  • Negro organizations, 203–204, 244.
  • Negro progress, 1830–1840, 235;
    • 1840–1850, 240;
    • 1850–1860, 243.
  • Negro slavery, 76–84.
  • Negroes, 12, 16.
  • Negroes in America, 16, 17;
    • in Canada, 236–238.
  • Negroes, increase of, in ten years, 243.
  • Negroes and John Brown, 343, 344, 347.
  • Negroes of Springfield, 98, 99.
  • Negroes, present condition of, 389.
  • Newby, Dangerfield, 281, 323.
  • North Elba, New York, 12.
  • North Star, 101, 242.
  • Oberlin College, 11, 53, 55, 95, 258, 281, 283.
  • Oberlin College lands in Virginia, 53–55, 95.
  • Odd Fellows, Negro, 240.
  • Osawatomie, Kansas, 12, 128, 142, 147, 152, 159, 162, 166, 177, 224.
  • Owen, John, 19.
  • Panic of 1837, 11, 50, 55, 91.
  • Parker, Theodore, 210, 227, 231.
  • Parsons, L. L., 220–221, 252, 259.
  • Perkins, Simon, 58, 68.
  • Perkins and Brown, wool-merchants, 62, 67.
  • Pierce, President, 151.
  • Plans at Harper’s Ferry, 101, 318, 319, 324, 326.
  • Plans of John Brown, 106–107, 260, 276.
  • Pottawatomie Creek, 12, 157, 158, 162.
  • Purvis, Robert, 241, 246.
  • Raid at Harper’s Ferry, see Harper’s Ferry.
  • Realf, Richard, 215–220, 252, 259.
  • Redpath, James, 7, 72, 99, 132, 147, 181, 246.
  • Reeder, Governor of Kansas, 215.
  • Reynolds, G. J., 208, 258, 260.
  • Richardson, Richard, 221, 252, 258.
  • Robinson, Charles, Governor of Kansas, 134, 150, 184, 207, 341, 342.
  • Rochester, N. Y., state convention, 244–245.
  • Ross, Dr. A. M., 251, 257.
  • Routes, Fugitive Slave, 97.
  • “Sambo’s Mistakes,” 99.
  • Sanborn, Frank B., 7, 13, 210, 228, 267.
  • Schools for Negroes, 87, 94, 95.
  • Shannon, Governor of Kansas, 141, 149, 150, 176.
  • Shore, Captain, 167–168.
  • “Shubel Morgan’s” Company, 189.
  • Slave insurrections, 79–80, 83, 85, 97, 105–106.
  • Slavery, 75–89, 124–126, 235.
  • Smith, Gerrit, 12, 53, 131, 132, 133, 207, 226, 303, 341.
  • Smith, J. McCune, 98, 131, 132, 225, 240, 267.
  • Smith, Stephen, 241, 248, 258.
  • Societies, Phœnix, 239.
  • Society, American Anti-slavery, 246.
  • Society, American Moral Reform, 238.
  • Society, New England Emigrant Aid, 136, 145.
  • Song of “John Brown’s Body,” 374.
  • Southern bands in Kansas, 152, 166, 188.
  • Spell of Africa, 121.
  • Springdale, Iowa, John Brown in, 221–224.
  • Stephens, Aaron D., 173, 194, 195–222, 252, 259, 336.
  • Stearns, George L., 208–210, 226, 228, 277, 341.
  • Still, William, 241, 248.
  • Stuart, J. E. B., 332, 333.
  • “Subterranean Pass Way,” 214.
  • Sumner, Colonel, 15, 137, 139, 168–169, 225, 266.
  • Survey of Virginia lands, 53–55.
  • Swamp, Dismal, 86.
  • Swamp of the Swan, 134, 145, 177, 188, 288.
  • Sword of Gideon, 96.
  • Tariff and wool, 61.
  • Tariff of 1846, the, 65.
  • Taylor, Stewart, 223, 259.
  • Thayer, Eli, 126, 214.
  • Thomas, John A., 258.
  • Thomas, Thomas, 101, 247.
  • Thompson, Henry, 113, 155–168.
  • Thompson, William, 77, 173, 315, 316, 319, 324, 328, 329.
  • Tidd, C. P., 221, 252, 259, 315, 316, 319, 324, 331, 335, 336.
  • Tubman, Harriet, 204, 241, 249, 251, 293.
  • Turner, Nat, 11, 85, 97, 127, 239.
  • Underground Railroad, 94, 101, 107, 110, 198, 243, 263.
  • University, Western Reserve, 86.
  • Vesey, Denmark, 83, 97.
  • Virginia, 16.
  • Wakarusa war and treaty, 151.
  • War, Civil, 48, 142.
  • War in Kansas, 140, 142.
  • War of 1812, 25, 48–49.
  • Ward, Samuel Ringgold, 242, 243.
  • Wars, Seminole, 84.
  • Washington, Colonel Lewis, 317, 322.
  • Wilberforce University, 236, 253.
  • Wilson, Senator, 225, 226.
  • Wise, Governor of Virginia, 336, 355.
  • Woodson, Governor of Missouri, 180, 241.
  • Wool-growers’ convention, 62.

1. Redpath, Public Life of Captain John Brown, p. 25.

2. Autobiography of Owen Brown in Sanborn, Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 7.

3. The quotations in this chapter are from John Brown’s Autobiography, Sanborn, Life and Letters of John Brown, pp. 12–17.

4. John Brown’s Autobiography, Sanborn, p. 16.

5. Heman Hallock, in the New York Journal of Commerce, quoted in Sanborn, p. 32.

6. John Brown’s Autobiography, Sanborn, p. 16.

7. John Brown’s Autobiography, Sanborn, pp. 16, 17.

8. John Brown, Jr., in Sanborn, p. 34.

9. Ruth Brown in Sanborn, pp. 37–39.

10. John Brown, Jr., in Sanborn, pp. 91–93.

11. Ruth Brown in Sanborn, pp. 93–94.

12. Ibid., p. 104.

13. Ruth Brown in Sanborn, p. 44.

14. Letter to John Brown, Jr., 1841, in Sanborn, p. 139.

15. Letter to his wife, 1844, in Sanborn, p. 61.

16. Ruth Brown in Sanborn, pp. 38–39.

17. Letter to his wife, 1839, in Sanborn, p. 69.

18. Letter to his wife, 1851, in Sanborn, p. 146.

19. Letter to his wife, 1846, in Sanborn, p. 142.

20. Letter to his daughter, 1847, in Sanborn, p. 142.

21. Letter to his wife, 1844, in Sanborn, pp. 60–61.

22. Letter to his father, 1846, in Sanborn, pp. 21, 22.

23. Letter to his daughter, 1852, in Sanborn, p. 45.

24. Letter to John Brown, Jr., 1852, and to his children, 1853, in Sanborn, pp. 151 and 155.

25. Letter to his wife, 1839, in Sanborn, p. 68.

26. Sanborn, p. 58.

27. Records of Oberlin College, quoted in Sanborn, pp. 134–135.

28. Levi Burnell to Owen Brown, 1840, in Sanborn, p. 135.

29. Letter to his family, 1840, in Sanborn, p. 134.

30. MS. Diary, Boston Public Library. Vol. I. p. 65.

31. Records of the Board of Trustees, Oberlin College, Aug. 28, 1840, quoted in Sanborn, p. 135.

32. John Brown, Jr., in Sanborn, p 87.

33. Agreement quoted in Sanborn, pp. 55–56.

34. Letter to George Kellogg, 1844, in Sanborn, p. 56.

35. Letter to John Brown, Jr., 1843, in Sanborn, p. 58.

36. Letter to John Brown, Jr., 1843, in Sanborn, pp. 58–59.

37. Ibid., p. 59.

38. Ibid., p. 59.

39. Letter to John Brown, Jr., 1844, in Sanborn, pp. 59–60.

40. Ibid., p. 61.

41. Ruth Brown in Sanborn, p. 95.

42. Letter to John Brown, Jr., 1846, in Sanborn, p. 62.

43. Circular issued in 1846, quoted in Sanborn, p. 63.

44. Letter to Owen Brown, 1846, in Sanborn, p. 22.

45. Letter to John Brown, Jr., 1847, in Sanborn, p. 143.

46. E. C. Leonard in Sanborn, p. 65.

47. Letter to Owen Brown, 1847, in Sanborn, pp. 23–24.

48. Letter to Owen Brown, 1849, in Sanborn, p. 25.

49. Ibid.

50. Memoranda by John Brown, in Sanborn, p. 65; Redpath, p. 56

51. Sanborn, pp. 67–68.

52. Letter to John Brown, Jr., 1849, Sanborn, p. 73.

53. E. C. Leonard, in Sanborn, pp. 67–68.

54. Letter to his wife, 1850, in Sanborn, p. 107.

55. Letter to his children, 1850, in Sanborn, pp. 75–76.

56. Redpath, p. 58.

57. Letter to his son, in Sanborn, p. 145.

58. Letter to his children, 1854, in Sanborn, p. 155.

59. R. H. Dana, in the Atlantic Monthly, 1871.

60. Owen Brown, in Sanborn, pp. 10–11.

61. John Brown, Jr., in Sanborn, p. 35.

62. Sanborn, p. 34.

63. Letter to his brother Frederick, 1834, in Sanborn, pp. 40–41.

64. Ruth Brown, in Sanborn, p. 37.

65. John Brown, Jr., in Sanborn, pp. 52–53.

66. Redpath, p. 65.

67. Redpath, pp. 53–54.

68. Redpath, pp. 59–60.

69. From “Sambo’s Mistakes,” published in the Ram’s Horn and printed in Sanborn, p. 130.

70. Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892), Chap. 8, Part II, pp. 337–342.

71. Sanborn, p. 97.

72. Redpath, p. 61.

73. Ruth Brown, in Sanborn. p. 100.

74. Redpath, p. 62.

75. Letter to his wife, 1850, in Sanborn, pp. 106–107.

76. Letter of instructions, agreement and resolutions, as given in Sanborn, pp. 124–127.

77. Letter of instructions, agreement and resolutions, as given in Sanborn, pp. 124–127.

78. Letter of instructions, agreement and resolutions, as given in Sanborn, pp. 124–127.

79. Sanborn, p. 132.

80. Ruth Brown, in Sanborn, pp. 131–132.

81. Letter to his wife, 1852, in Sanborn, pp. 108–109.

82. Ruth Brown, in Sunburn, p. 104.

83. Letters to his children, 1852–1853, in Sanborn, pp. 110 and 148.

84. Compare the American Anthropologist, Vol. 4, No. 2, April-June, 1902.

85. Letter to John Brown, Jr., 1854, in Sanborn, p. 191.

86. John Brown, Jr., in Sanborn, pp. 188–190.

87. Letter to his children, 1854, in Sanborn, pp. 110–111.

88. Redpath, p. 81.

89. Letter to his wife, 1855, in Sanborn, pp. 193–194.

90. John Brown, Jr., in Sanborn, pp. 190–191.

91. Ruth Thompson, in Sanborn, p. 105.

92. Farewell address of Governor Geary, Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, Vol. IV, p. 739.

93. Letters to his family, 1855, in Sanborn, pp. 201 and 205.

94. Redpath, pp. 103–104.

95. Letter to his family, 1855, in Sanborn, pp. 217–221.

96. Letter to his wife, 1855, in Sanborn, pp. 217–221.

97. G. W. Brown, Reminiscences of Old John Brown, p. 8; Phillips, History of Kansas, quoted in Redpath, p. 90.

98. Letter to his family, 1855, in Sanborn, pp. 217–221.

99. Letter to his family, 1856, in Sanborn, p. 223.

100. Letter of Giddings to John Brown, 1856, in Sanborn, p. 224.

101. D. W. Wilder, in the Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, Vol. 6, p. 337.

102. E. A. Coleman, in Sanborn, p. 260.

103. James Hanway, in Hinton, John Brown and His Men, p. 695.

104. Bondi in Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, Vol. 8, p. 279; Spring, Kansas, p. 143.

105. Jason Brown, in Sanborn, p. 273.

106. E. A. Coleman, in Sanborn, p. 259.

107. John Brown, Jr., in Sanborn, p. 278.

108. Letter to his family, 1856, in Sanborn, pp. 236–241.

109. Sanborn, pp. 287–288.

110. Sanborn, pp. 288–290.

111. Redpath, pp. 112–114.

112. Bondi in the Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, Vol. 8, pp. 282–284.

113. Bondi in the Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, Vol. 8, p. 285.

114. Ibid., p. 284.

115. Bondi in the Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, Vol. 8, p. 286; John Brown to his family, 1856, in Sanborn, pp. 236–241.

116. W. A. Phillips, in Sanborn, pp. 306–308.

117. Hinton, pp. 201–204.

118. Samuel Walker in Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, Vol. 6, p. 267.

119. Appeal to the citizens of Lafayette County, Mo., Sanborn, p. 309.

120. Samuel Walker in Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, Vol. 6, pp. 272–273.

121. Quoted in Sanborn, p. 321.

122. John Brown to his family, 1856, Sanborn, pp. 317–318.

123. Charles Robinson to John Brown, 1856, in Sanborn, pp. 330–331.

124. Speech of John Brown, Redpath, pp. 163–164.

125. Redpath, pp. 164–165.

126. Paper by John Brown, Sanborn, pp. 332–333.

127. Executive minutes of Governor Geary in Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, Vol. 4, p. 537.

128. Letter to Augustus Wattles, 1857, in Sanborn, p. 391.

129. Correspondence of Lane and Brown, in Sanborn, pp. 401–402.

130. Letter to F. B. Sanborn and others, 1858, in Sanborn, pp. 474–477.

131. Ibid.

132. Hinton in Redpath, pp. 199–206.

133. George B. Gill in Hinton, p. 218.

134. Sanborn, pp. 481–483.

135. Hamilton, John Brown in Canada, pp. 4–5.

136. Sanborn, p. 491.

137. Redpath, p. 48.

138. Redpath, p. 71.

139. Hinton in Redpath, pp. 203–205.

140. Reminiscences of George B. Gill, Hinton, pp. 732–733.

141. Hinton, pp. 171–172.

142. Notes by John Brown, in Sanborn, p. 244.

143. Paper by John Brown, in Sanborn, pp. 241–242.

144. Letter from Gerrit Smith to John Brown, in Sanborn, p. 364.

145. Jeremiah Brown in Redpath, pp. 174–175.

146. Reminiscences of Mrs. Mary E. Stearns, in Hinton, pp. 719–727.

147. Sanborn, John Brown and his Friends, p. 8.

148. Letter of H. B. Hurd to John Brown, 1857, in Sanborn, p. 367.

149. Sanborn, pp. 375–376.

150. Speech of John Brown, Sanborn. p. 379.

151. Letter to Eli Thayer, 1857, in Sanborn, p. 382.

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