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Charles Robinson to Edward Everett Hale
Creator: Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894
Date: April 7, 1857
Charles Robinson wrote from Lawrence, Kansas Territory to Edward Everett Hale, a member of the New England Emigrant Aid Company's Executive Committee. Robinson complained about the lack of respect he had received from New England Emigrant Aid Company leaders. He was particularly upset about criticisms of his financial ability. Robinson expressed anger at what he perceived as Eli Thayer's and the New England Emigrant Aid Company's opposition to the development of the town of Quindaro. Robinson included excerpts from a letter he received from James Redpath outlining Thayer's criticisms of Robinson's involvement with Quindaro.
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James Hanway to James Redpath
Date: March 12, 1860
James Hanway, a friend and follower of John Brown during the Kansas troubles, writes James Redpath from Shermansville in Franklin County, Kansas Territory, about a book Redpath had written entitled "The Public Life of John Brown," which was published by "Thayer & Eldridge" in 1860. Hanway reports that he'd enjoyed the book, thought it was, "on the whole... a correct life of the old man," but wished to state "the facts" Redpath had missed especially as regards the Pottawatomie Massacre of May, 1856. In this lengthy, detailed letter, Hanway, who was with John Brown, Jr. and some others who were not at the Pottawatomie Creek when the killings took place, argues that the action was fully justified under the circumstances and that Brown gave the orders, even though he personally killed none of the victims.
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James Redpath
Date: Between 1856 and 1860
James Redpath came to Kansas Territory as a reporter for the "New York Tribune," but he soon became a participant in the free state cause. He was involved with abolitionist John Brown and wrote a biography of Brown ("The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, by James Redpath, with an Auto-Biography of His Childhood and Youth by John") that was published in 1860. Redpath reported on the free state movement in Topeka, Kansas Territory.
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James Redpath
Creator: Packard
Date: Between January 01, 1870 and December 31, 1890
Portrait of James Redpath, who came to Kansas Territory as a reporter for the New York Tribune, but he soon became a participant in the free state cause. He was involved with John Brown and wrote a biography on him that was published in 1860. He reported on the free state movement in Topeka.
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James Redpath to Thomas W. Higginson
Creator: Redpath, James, 1833-1891
Date: February 5, 1857
James Redpath, a journalist who had spent some time in Kansas Territory, writes this letter to Reverend Thomas W. Higginson, an abolitionist and agent of the Massachusetts State Kansas Committee. Redpath begins the letter with a vehement denouncement of Mr. Cutter, who has allowed the Missouri ruffians to arrest him peacefully. Redpath is appalled that Cutter did not even fire a shot. Redpath is obviously distraught and seeks advice from Higginson on how he should proceed.
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Order No. 1, from the Headquarters of the Kansas Volunteers for the Protection of the Ballot Box
Creator: Whitman, E. B. (Edmund Burke), 1812-1883
Date: August 3, 1857
E.B. Whitman, Quarter-Master General of the Kansas Volunteers, issued this formal order in response to the Topeka Legislature's adoption of James Lane's resolution to organize the people in protection of the ballot boxes during the next elections. Whitman, who had just been appointed as Quarter-Master General by Lane under the Ballot Box resolution, requested that each Company of the Volunteers elect their own Quarter-Master to take an inventory of firearms held by their own Company.
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Paul Shepherd to James Redpath
Creator: Shepherd, Paul
Date: January 3, 1860
From Dover, Michigan, Paul Shepherd--formerly of Kansas Territory--writes James Redpath to pass along "some useful information, in repect to John H. Kagi." Of most interest, perhaps, is Shepherd's account of the "shoot out" at Tecumseh, Kansas Territory, between Kagi and Judge Rush Elmore, who Kagi had accused of "being a prime mover in the murderous attack upon him" at Lecompton, Kansas Territory, in mid-January, 1857.
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Samuel F. Tappan to Thomas W. Higginson
Creator: Tappan, S. F. (Samuel Forster), -1913
Date: June 24, 1860
Samuel Tappan writes this letter from Lawrence, Kansas Territory, to Reverend Thomas W. Higginson of Worcester, Massachusetts. Tappan is leaving for Colorado in a week or two, presumably to meet some family members who are working the gold fields there. He mentions Theodore Parker, a supporter of John Brown, who had a terminal illness and passed away while in Italy. Tappan also writes of James Redpath's biography of John Brown, including a portion of the book that discusses a mail coach robbery in the summer of 1856.
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Thomas J. Marsh to George L. Stearns
Creator: Marsh, Thomas J.
Date: September 28, 1857
The following is a letter dated September 28, 1857, from Thomas J. Marsh to George L. Stearns that attempts to convince Stearns that the territorial judges will rule in favor of the Free State party. Marsh also mentioned the territorial elections and the voter fraud in which Missourians would most likely engage. Marsh also discussed encroachment on the Delaware Indian reservations by Missourians, who were attempting to stake land claims before the reservation was legally open to settlement.
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William F. Creitz to James Redpath
Creator: Creitz, William F.
Date: December 17, 1859
William F. Creitz of Holton, who had served under Aaron Stevens as captain of a Kansas militia company, wrote Redpath regarding "the particulars of 'Old John Brown's' final departure from this territory." Brown and company, which included "eleven fugitives," reached Holton on January 27, 1859, and Creitz described the events that followed, to which he was an "eyewitness" and participant, including the Battle of the Spurs. Creitz's "article" was prepared "to assist you [Redpath] in your praiseworthy undertaking that of publishing the lives of those heroic men." Redpath published "Echoes of Harpers Ferry" in 1860, and Richard J. Hinton used this material in his "John Brown and His Men (1894).
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William Handy to Thomas W. Higginson
Creator: Handy, William
Date: April 3, 1860
This letter, written in Boston by William Handy, was addressed to Reverend Thomas W. Higginson, an abolitionist minister from Worcester, Massachusetts. In this letter, Handy proposes strategies to deal with the potential arrest of James Redpath in the aftermath of Harpers Ferry. Higginson and Redpath had both supported John Brown's raid on the arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1859. After John Brown's execution, some of his followers had fled the country, but Higginson and Redpath had both remained in the United States. Handy fearsthat Redpath would be arrested, and he wants to figure out the best way to protect Redpath's rights.
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