Identifier: presidentssoldie02hard (find matches)
Title: Presidents, soldiers, statesmen... with a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hardesty, Hiram H., 1834-1898, pub. 2n
Subjects: United States
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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were ofNational prominence, such as General Atchison and Colonel Stringfellowof Virginia; the entire crowd armed with weapons from United Statesarsenals. The pillage was intended to be the downfall of the free-soilcause west of the Missouri. On the same day the eloquence of Sumnerwas denouncing, on the floor of the United States Senate, The CrimeAgainst Kansas, though neither he nor any of his listeners could con-ceive a crime against the spirit of American institutions so great as wasat that hour being executed. When it was known through the countrythat Lawrence was laid waste iu Kansas, and Sumner was struck down inWashington, there were many who felt, as the venerable Josiah Quincy.who wrote (May 27th) to his friend Judge Hoar: I can thinkaud speakof nothing but the outrages of slaveholders in Kansasand the outrages ofslaveholders at Washington—our liberties are but a name, and our Unionproves a curse. The palsy of death rests on the spirit of freedom iu theso-called Free States.
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520 PRESIDENTS, SOLDIERS, STATESMEN. But even before this was written a blow had been struck in Kansasthat warned the lawless that blood must recompense Mood. In the .-ixmonths preceding the Pottawatomie tragedy, live free-soil settlers hadbeen murdered in Kansas for their opinions, their names, Dow, Barber,Brown, Stewart and Jones. On one night the lives of five pro-slaverymen were taken, a terrible reprisal, and one no lover of liberty and jus-tice will attempt to justify. These men, whose homes were upon Potta-watomie creek, were Henry Sherman, one Wilkinson, a man namedDoyle and his two sons. They had been guilty of many outrages upontheir free-soil neighbors, they had repeatedly threatened the lives of theBrowns, they were iguorant and depraved, but when they were takenfrom their beds and sabred by midnight executors, the deed was a horri-ble one. Did John Brown kill these men, or cause them to be killed ?There can hardly be a question of the fact. He left his eons camp witheight

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