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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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ers. His wife is now in an insane hospital. Her husbands bodvwas brutally hacked by the ruffians, and tobacco juice was ejected in his face as helay writhing on the ground. They carried the body of the still gasping man to thehouse of his wife. As she wept piteously over it, one of the ruffians insulted her. G. W. Brown had his press—the Herald of Freedom —destroyed by a mobfrom Missouri, who were acting in the capacity of posse comitatus. He himself wasarrested and imprisoned in the camp before Lecompton, on the charge of hio-htreason. There is another Brown, a peaceable gentleman, who lives at Osawattie, and whosoproperty has been repeatedly destroyed by the invaders of Kansas. He was amember of the Topeka Constitutional Convention. He took no part iu the ware,Hit brought out some colonics of settlers from New York. ^ -r^^^=—^ ■ii •!■ Ill mm mm- ^^i;^ jj ;;ffli.;iip;i.MiU;. ;i; 1 ii 1 i l • ffi 1? i! If\ ■ ■;;\ ,t i ) il-i iII rl HHIi ■ 1 KlFniMi 111 r A.-^wiu Ii
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