. John Brown and his men; with some account of the roads they traveled to reach Harper's Ferry. town to embroil us underthe Fugitive Slave Law with theFederal authorities direct. Ihad carried him out of the townone night, before my first Topekadetail, and left him at a settlersnear the California road, whereJohn Browns party found andtook care of him. He made hisescape to Iowa. This episode issomething of a digression, Iknow, but its telling will beborne with, as it illustrates acondition of affairs in Kansasnow being actively denied and oliver brown. derided. To resume, however, during the sp
. John Brown and his men; with some account of the roads they traveled to reach Harper's Ferry. town to embroil us underthe Fugitive Slave Law with theFederal authorities direct. Ihad carried him out of the townone night, before my first Topekadetail, and left him at a settlersnear the California road, whereJohn Browns party found andtook care of him. He made hisescape to Iowa. This episode issomething of a digression, Iknow, but its telling will beborne with, as it illustrates acondition of affairs in Kansasnow being actively denied and oliver brown. derided. To resume, however, during the spring and summer of 1856, the pro-slavery people had occupied the Missouri River routeto Kansas, driving back during April, May, and Juneseveral parties of Northern emigrants. There were onthe road other parties, with one of which I was con-nected, and it was decided to make our way throughIowa and across Nebraska, entering Kansas on thenorth, and, if necessary, fight our way through to theKaw river. General Lane and other Tree-state lead-ers, who had escaped the general assault by Missouri. 54 JOHN BROWN. border ruffians and the Buford contingent from otherslave States, were raising emigrants in the NorthernStates. During the last week of July and the firstdays of August, 1856, about twelve hundred men wereencamped on Camp Creek, a few miles from NebraskaCity, Nebraska, near the preemption claim, then oc-cupied by the father and sister of John Henri Kagi,afterwards Browns chief confidant and assistant. The dispersal of the Topeka Legislature occurredon the 4th of July. Captain Brown, whose limitedmeans were nearly exhausted, decided to take hisseverely wounded son-in-law, Henry Thompson, andthe two crippled and hurt sons, Owen and Salmon—all of them injured at the Black Jack engagement onthe 2d of June—to western Iowa, and then return him-self to the field of action. The organized free-statemen set about blazing a road from the Kaw Riverat Topeka to the Nebraska line due no
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