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National Kansas Committee agent Whitman wrote to Sanborn from Lawrence with disturbing news about "John Brown's proceedings." Brown had been accused by Democrats during the previous legislative session of "subsisting upon the proceeds of notes given for seeds and clothing," and initially Whitman defended Brown against these charges--to Whitman's dismay, he later found them to be true. Whitman seemed sincere in his desire not to believe the worst about the man he had aided for several years, but he was at a loss for an adequate explanation for Brown's action under the guise of an agent of the National Kansas Committee.
Creator: Whitman, E. B. (Edmund Burke), 1812-1883
Date: February 26, 1859
Item Number: 5270
Call Number: John Brown Coll. #299 Box 2 Folder 1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 5270
Agriculture - Crops
Collections - Manuscript - Brown, John
Date - 1854-1860 - 1859
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Congress
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Democrat
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery - Abolition
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Legislatures
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Political parties - Free State
Home and Family - Clothing
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable People - Brown, John, 1800-1859
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Counties - Douglas
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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