Show JOHN BROWN f 1 = C s p O32s rtyrliood Question Call on l Senator In alls i XJLTFBENCE Kan February 14thThe C inBcnssion whether John Brown was a t i gjesalne martyr has broken out with I 1j 1 i wed virulence and there is a loud < SBsand for Senator Ingalls to write an I i I t air magazine article on the question t SirGovernor Robinson the first free I J t State Governor of Kansas who first < 2i22npioned Brown now claims that j oh eatesquent s facts compel him to reverse 1 i i i 3 batteries and change his convictions 1 it 2s a long letter published in this even I P 1 lnga HeraldTribune the Governor says I If H It is a sufficient answer to Sanborn I I I I > that I with others was deceived until I k 9 siter the time referred to by him when I 1 > l the Pettawatomie massacre occurred I J 5 had been absent from the Territory and a prisoner some two weeks ana I i knew nothing whatever of the situation i I r in the Pottawatomie region I was told that the proslavery men there had inaugurated 1 in-augurated war of extermination of the 1 j t Ii free State settlers and that this massa I ere had put a stop to it This was un I i a contradicted and I had every reason to j t sappose there was some foundation in i 1 xfact for such statements as were made V I Sid that view proved correct my apologies apol-ogies for Brown would have continued i 2jat unfortunately it has a foundation in fact and the conclusion is inevitable I J I ttmtjobn Brown by act intended to I involve the sections in war and not to I protect free statesmen My view now I if f I after investigation is that not a man I Slid been killed south of Douglas County tap to that date that the men killed by 11 drown had committed no crime and 1 1 threatened to commit none and tha I I 1 J Brown was ready to kill any proslavery I i man he could fine simply because he I proslavery It is unnecessary to 1 szy that this change of view of the sit il nation has completely changed my view I i of Brown and the Pottawatomie affair i I The Governor quotes from Mr Towns icy an eyewitness whose testimony Ir i is unimpeached and unimpeachable I t After my team was fed and the party I had taken supper John Brown told me for the first time what he proposed to I II j < de He said he wanted me to pilot the company up to the forks of the creek some five or six miles above into the I neighborhood where I lived and show i them where all the proslavery men resided I re-sided that he proposed to sweep the i creek as he came down of all the pro 1 slavery men living on it I most positively I posi-tively refused to do it The old man I Doyle and two sons were called out and I i marched some distance from the house I t towards Dutch Henrys in the road where a halt was made John Brown I drew his revolver and shot the old man i S i Doyle in the forehead and Browns two t youngest sons immediately fell upon i I the younger Doyles with short two I edged swords I The Governor closes as follows I If history furnishes a parallel to the coldbloodedunblushmg persistent and I unscrupulous lying of John Brown his I family and friends I have not discovered I t discover-ed it Yet it is of such men some peo pie make heroes t s f to I |