FOOTNOTES:
[1] Redpath, Roving Editor, 300.
[2] Atlantic Monthly. March, 1860.
[3] Atlantic Monthly.
[4] Panegyrics or eulogies on Brown would more accurately describe these writings.
[5] Villard, 170.
[6] Sanborn, 236.
[7] Villard, vii.
[8] Sanborn, 230.
[9] Villard, 673.
[10] Villard, 148.
[11] Ibid.
[12] Sanborn, 240.
[13] Villard, 335.
[14] Hinton, John Brown and His Men, 66.
[15] Villard, 10.
[16] Villard, 591, note 6.
[17] Villard, 26.
[18] Ibid.
[19] Villard, 28.
[20] Villard, 38.
[21] For a full account of this, see Villard, 37-41.
[22] Sanborn, 69.
[23] Villard, 37.
[24] Villard, 30.
[25] Villard, 30.
[26] Sanborn, 55.
[27] Sanborn, 56.
[28] Villard, 31.
[29] Now in Doddridge and Tyler Counties, West Virginia.
[30] Villard, 31.
[31] Villard, 32-33.
[32] Villard, 34.
[33] Sanborn, 64.
[34] For an interesting account of this transaction, see Sanborn, 67-68.
[35] Villard, 63.
[36] Villard, 64-66.
[37] Sanborn, 78.
[38] Villard, 36-37.
[39] Villard, 84.
[40] Villard, 76.
[41] Brown relates: "From fifteen to twenty years old, he spent most of his time at the Tanner & Currier's trade keeping Bachelor's hall; & he officiating as Cook; & for most of the time as foreman of the establishment under his Father. During this time he found much trouble with some of the bad habits I have mentioned:... but his close attention to business; & success in its management; together with the way he got along with a company of men & boys made him quite a favorite;... From Fifteen years and upward he felt a good deal of anxiety to learn; but could only read & study a little; both for want of time; & on account of inflamation of the eyes. He however managed by the help of books to make himself tolerably well acquainted with common Arithmetic; & Surveying: which he practiced more or less after he was Twenty years old."—Appendix. IV.
[42] Villard, 299.
[43] Sanborn, 614.
[44] Sanborn, 46.
[45] Villard, 236.
[46] Mason Report, 72. Testimony of Wm. F. Arny.
[47] Villard, 18, and Sanborn, 35.
[48] Villard, 45.
[49] Ibid.
[50] Villard, 45.
[51] Villard, 43-44.
[52] Villard, 659-661.
[53] Sanborn, 127.
[54] Sanborn, 124-125.
[55] Sanborn, 132.
[56] Villard, 48.
[57] Redpath, 64.
[58] Sanborn, 134.
[59] Villard, 48.
[60] Schouler, vol. iv, 251.
[61] Burgess, 302.
[62] McMaster, vol. vi, 481.
[63] Burgess, 290.
[64] Twenty Years of Congress, vol. ii, 50.
[65] Von Holst, vol. iii, 479.
[66] Douglas's Speech at Cincinnati, September 9, 1859.
[67] W. W. Corcoran sent Mr. Webster a check for $10,000 as an expression of thanks and recognition for his speech on this occasion.—Von Holst, vol. iii, 503.
[68] Congressional Globe. 31st Cong., 1 Sen., 28.
[69] Von Holst, vol. iii, 472.
[70] Von Holst, vol. iii, 482.
[71] Rhodes, vol. i, 217.
[72] Rhodes, vol. ii, 33.
[73] Rhodes, vol. ii, 37.
[74] Von Holst, vol. iv, 61.
[75] Von Holst, vol. iv, 322.
[76] The passing off of this obscuration was "hastened and secured" by the initiative of Eli Thayer and Charles Robinson. Under the able leadership of the latter, the political control of Kansas Territory passed into the hands of the Free-State men at the elections in October, 1857.
[77] Thayer, Kansas Crusade, 232.
[78] Burgess, Middle Period, 471-472.
[79] Sanborn, 248.
[80] New York Weekly Tribune, February 22, 1856.
[81] De Bow's Review, August, 1856.
[82] South Carolina Courier, July 5, 1856.
[83] Charleston (S. C.) Mercury. August 5, 1856.
[84] Ibid., January, 1858.
[85] New York Herald, January, 1858.
[86] Kansas Crusade, 110.
[87] Sanborn, 157.
[88] Villard, 83.
[89] Villard, 83-84.
[90] Villard, 85.
[91] Villard, 88.
[92] Villard, 108.
[93] Redpath, 81-82.
[94] Villard, 77.
[95] Sanborn, 198.
[96] Sanborn's Recollections of Seventy Years, 152.
[97] Mason Report, 86. Testimony of Wm. F. Arny.
[98] Mason Report, 225. Testimony of Augustus Wattles.
[99] Mason Report, 75.
[100] Sanborn, 397.
[101] Sanborn, 203.
[102] Sanborn, 217.
[103] Villard, 123.
[104] Copy in possession of Mr. Paul Brooks, Lawrence, Kansas.
[105] Redpath, 103.
[106] Redpath, 104.
[107] Herald of Freedom, December 15, 1855.
[108] Villard, 127.
[109] Ibid.
[110] Sanborn, 222.
[111] Villard, 31.
[112] Villard, 136.
[113] Sanborn, 237, note 3.
[114] Villard, 158.
[115] Villard, 159.
[116] Villard, 545.
[117] L. W. Spring in his History of Kansas says of him on page 138: "Whatever else may be laid to his charge—whatever rashness, unwisdom, equivocation, bloodiness—no faintest trace of self-seeking stains his Kansas life."
[118] Howard Report, 1175.
[119] Howard Report, 1179.
[120] Howard Report, 1177.
[121] Villard, 171.
[122] Sanborn, 373, and Redpath, 184.
[123] Von Holst, 301.
[124] Sanborn, 236.
[125] Italicised by the author.
[126] "In the original something has been effaced and this note seems to have been appended: 'There are but very few who wish the real facts about these matters to go out.' Then is inserted the date 'June 26' as below."—Sanborn, 237.
[127] Sanborn, 275.
[128] Sanborn, 271.
[129] Villard, 175.
[130] Sanborn, 241.
[131] Villard, 338.
[132] Sanborn, 296, note 2.
[133] Salmon Brown died in California during the fall of 1912.
[134] Villard, 158.
[135] Sanborn, 272.
[136] Kansas farmers usually own from twelve to forty head of horse stock.
[137] Villard, 168.
[138] Villard, 610, note, 54.
[139] Kansas Historical Collections, vol. xii, 345.
[140] Villard, 156.
[141] Ante, note 90.
[142] Post, page 138.
[143] Sanborn, 261.
[144] Villard, 170.
[145] Villard, 176.
[146] Sanborn, 237.
[147] Villard, 153.
[148] Villard, 152.
[149] Villard, 151.
[150] Ibid.
[151] It has heretofore been supposed that John Brown's career of violence began with the tragedies on the Pottawatomie.
[152] Villard, 153.
[153] Villard, 165.
[154] Villard, 185-188.
[155] Sanborn, 388.
[156] Kansas Historical Society, Hinton Papers.
[157] Sanborn, 293.
[158] Sanborn, 298.
[159] Howard Report. Testimony of Thomas S. Hamilton.
[160] Howard Report, 1178.
[161] Redpath received the information, probably, from either John E. Cook or Charles Lenhart.
[162] Redpath, 112.
[163] The character of Salmon's wound and the nature of the exploit on which he was engaged when he received it, have not been made public.
[164] Villard, 210.
[165] Villard, 167.
[166] Villard, 210.
[167] Villard, 220.
[168] Villard, 222.
[169] Villard, 222.
[170] Villard, 673.
[171] Villard, 222.
[172] Villard, 616, note 68.
[173] Sanborn, 336.
[174] Villard, 228.
[175] Villard, 235.
[176] Villard, 616, note 64.
[177] Sanborn, 336.
[178] Sanborn, 314.
[179] Villard, 673.
[180] Villard, 231.
[181] Sanborn, 308.
[182] Villard, 231.