Gentlemen, —
Inclosed please find twenty-five dollars toward the fund for the brave Captain
John Brown, who may appropriately be called the “Miles Standish” of Kansas. Few
persons know the character of this man, or his services; and he is the last one
to proclaim his merits. His severe simplicity of habits, his determined energy,
his heroic courage in the time of trial, all based on a deep religious faith,
make him a true representative of the Puritanic warrior. I knew him before he
went to Kansas, and have known more of him since, and should esteem the loss of
his services, from poverty, or any other cause, almost irreparable. Perhaps
there are those who would come forward and support his family while he gives
his time to completing and keeping up the military organization of the Free
State men. It would afford me pleasure to be one of ten, or a smaller number,
to pay a thousand dollars per annum till the admission of Kansas into the
Union, for this purpose.
A. A. L.
SOURCE: William Lawrence, Life of Amos A. Lawrence:
With Extracts from His Diary and Correspondence, p. 125; Reprinted from the
Boston Telegraph and published in The Kansas Tribune, Lawrence, Kansas,
Monday, March 30, 1857.
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