Show ONOR JOHN BROWN i celebration of the proposed of the battle annlversllry Kan Augustan tat t retails osawatomle August-an interesting and 156 history of which John 11 bIt of central figure Osa Oilar the J l the home of tho liar U i Itlonl811111d geralle his fllllllly In 18GG solhlonist thither by the de ntlracted ytlof to ahl till free state imrty i IN r 1 I r I gy m Qjvr arm ar-m P z IM + xf t A r 4i fi ywv ffl ti TOim iMAi a Vsu > < J LY ieIN pion N MONfMENT es Ojinntoinli Hattie Grouml yFenlyelght rears Ago elorts to keep the territory I kcomtng a pro slavery state Brown haul l years before antislavery cause un In sd I the la his boyhood having influ rim strongly In that direction where ho was stop read U same house woe itor there was a slave boy al n seeing this boy Tiny fis own age and her Jdeven l beaten as ho declares and C iron fire shovel he became most determined words a cadc a urn tUrtt I Dist and was led to declare atine thaa a eternal war with slavery daU 1 loben he moved to Osawatomlo din jstotlong before he and his sons thtse enrolled In the Kansas mllltla ridtl oral epee state party and the con Iltn4 111 Osawatomie was one of the I Anal episodes of those days of unrd ° em te and bloodshed I jps i the most stirring event of I uler the lircl 1 I John Browns career was look I ary punishment meted out to I eased trill tel of the proslavery party in 1 retribution for tho assasulna usual ail dire of tho free state men and i as the Pottawatomlo mas rui NQt It was Intended to echo far i Kansas as It did and to an tto the slaveholding commun it list Hood for blood would henco ll exacted In case of any further = a i of rights It undoubtedly M elect and though some even In Kansas regarded It with disap I proval It Is certain that leading cit izens of the territory such I as Toy Robinson themselves justified It at I the time Robinson wrote as lato as February 1878 I never hall much doubt that Cnpt Brown was the au I thor of the hluw at 1ottawatomlc for the reason that he was the only man i who comprehended the situation and saw the absolute necessity of omo such blow and had nerve to strike IL That Kansas reveres the memory of lohn Drown was attested 28 years ago when the monument orectmi nt OfMwatomle to his honor was dedicated dedi-cated John T Insulin making the speech of tho occasion Tills monument monu-ment Is of plain white marblp and I not more than 12 feet high It cost I about IOO the money being ountitb rated by the early setters of Osawat limit and vicinity There arc Inscrip duns on the four widen hut this one I tells the story I In roiniiipmoriilinn nf tin1 hoiolstn of j CAPTAIN JOHN HltOWN ho comniatiiluil nt the Imttle of Osa I wntomlp AtiK III l 30 IVtf Vlio clleil amt omiutroil on limo walTold nt IltuikHton Virginia ember 2 1W9 I The plans for limo rclomatlnn I at Osowatomlo next August includo Vice I President Charles W Kalibanks as the principal speaker of the occasion and I Gov Hoch of Kansas and Gov Folk of i j Missouri representing tho two states I whose citizens participated in the I fight at Osawatonile will also deliver addresses I A most Interesting feature of tho occasion will he the presence of an I old pioneer of the state who remem i hers tho battle of Osawatonile and who will read a letter written by I j John Brown to his sisters from tho I Jail In rimrlestown on the Sunday before ho was executed This letter Is the property of the Kansas Historical Histor-ical society and bears data of November Novem-ber 27 1S59 and is as follows Oh my friends can you deem It possible that that scaffold has no terrors ter-rors for your poor old unworthy brother I thank God thrnuirh Jesus Christ my Lord mnn It is even so I am 1 now shedding tears but they aro not I tears of grief and sorrow I trust I I am nearly done with those I am I weeping with joy and gratitude I can In no other way express I am waitIng wait-Ing cheerfully tho days of my appointed I appoint-ed time fully believing that for mo now to die will be to me of infinite I gain and of untold benefit to the causo we love The only survivor of the John Drown raids Is W J Clark |