Identifier: lifetrialexecuti00dewi (find matches)
Title: The life, trial, and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Brown of Ossawatomie" : with a full account of the attempted insurrection at Harper's Ferry : compiled from official and authentic sources, including Cooke's confession, and all the incidents of the execution
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: De Witt, R. M. (Robert M.), 1827-1877, publisher Virginia. Circuit Court (Jefferson Co.)
Subjects: Brown, John, 1800-1859 Brown, John, 1800-1859 Cook, John E. (John Edwin), 1830-1859 Trials (Murder) Trials (Treason) Slave insurrections Abolitionists
Publisher: New York : R.M. DeWitt
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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ed on by the whisky and the bacon, and a large portion of the others had gone under the compulsion of public opinion and proscription, and because they feared being denounced as abolitionists if they refused? His taste in this matter was very near being gratified. A vanguard of 300 men rodenp from Franklin and made a bravado demonstration on Lawrence, in order, as they supposed, to alarm the Free State men, and ascertain how far they could go. Brown eagerly hurried out with 100 men to give them fight on the open prairie, but the enemy retired, and declined the contest, to Browns great disappointment and disgust. His conduct at the sack of Ossawatomie is well known. John Reid, a prominent lawyer of Jackson County, and a member of the Missouri Legislature, marched upon that town with 300 men and two pieces of artillery. The inhabitants were taken by surprise, and Brown had barely time to get into the timber, which lines the Osage River, with thirty men, and a limited supply of ammunition, when the
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