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Updated: June 12, 2025
"Harness your team of grays and take our party to Pottawattomie." "All right." The old man found a grindstone and ordered the ugly cutlasses which he had brought from Ohio to be sharpened. He stood over the stone and watched it turned until each edge was as keen as a butcher's blade.
Harris was ordered back to bed, and a new guard was placed inside until the ceremony with Sherman should be ended. It was brief. Brown had no questions to ask this man. He was the brother of Henry Sherman, the most hated member of the settlement. Brown called Thompson and Weiner and spoke in tones of quick command. "Take him down to the Pottawattomie Creek.
Surely you have no present intention to leave the Fort, in face Of that savage mob out yonder?" "'T is the orders of General Hull," was the low; and somewhat hesitating response, "and the Pottawattomie chiefs have pledged us escort around the head of the lake. But this is no place to discuss the matter. As soon as possible I would speak with you more fully in my office."
Wendell Phillips, believing Judge Russell's report of Brown's denial of the Pottawattomie murders, declared to the thousands who crowded Cooper Union that John Brown was a Saint that he was not on the Pottawattomie Creek on that fateful night, that he was not within twenty-five miles of the spot!
When the day dawned a new man was found to act as second in command. Walker had deserted his queer chieftain. The old man entered the camp at dawn, the light of determination in his eyes and a new set to his jaw. His first plan of the Pottawattomie was right. The turn toward Lawrence had been a waste of time.
"You will not betray me to my enemies?" "I can't do that. You're my father." He turned to Frederick. "Nor you?" The tears were streaming down the boy's face. He was hysterical from the strain of the fight. "You heard me, sir," the father stormed. "What did you say?" Frederick stammered. Oliver explained. "He asked if you were going to betray his plans to those people on the Pottawattomie."
His relations with these savages who dwell near the Great Lake, and especially those of the Pottawattomie and Wyandot tribes, are so friendly that he has felt safe to remain with his family unguarded in his own home. They have always called him Shaw-nee-aw-kee, the Silver-man, and trust him as much as he trusts them.
"Wau-mee-nuk great brave," he said, sullenly, in broken English, using Wells's Indian name, "but him big fool come here now. Why not stay with Big Turtle? He tell him Pottawattomie not want him here."
So it was that my restless mind dwelt rather upon other matters more directly personal. I could not put away the thought of the half-seen girl flitting about amid the dusk of the Pottawattomie camp, especially as Captain Heald had declared her to be Elsa Matherson.
They shut the gates now to keep Indian on outside. No trade, no rum, no powder, just lies. But they no keep back our young men much longer." His face grew dark, and his eyes angry. "Why you bring them?" he asked hotly, designating our escort of Miamis, already shrinking from the taunts of the gathering braves. "They dog Indians, bad medicine; they run fast when Pottawattomie come."
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