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He left his disciples to drill and returned East to get the money. In Boston his success was genuine, although the large amount which he asked was slow in coming. The old man succeeded in deceiving his New England friends completely as to the Pottawattomie murders. On this event he early became a cheerful, consistent and successful liar.
The frontiersmen were crossing the boundary lines years before Congress formally opened them for settlement. After a brief stop in West Tennessee the Doyles had succeeded in reaching Miami County, just beyond the Missouri border, in 1853. They had settled on a fertile quarter section on the Pottawattomie Creek in a small group of people of Southern feeling.
What mattered the shadow that was slowly moving across the sunlit earth? It was the morning of life! The eight men engaged in the remarkable enterprise on the Pottawattomie, led by their indomitable Captain, mounted their stolen horses and boldly rode to the camp of the military company commanded by John Brown, Jr.
"You mean the sister who interposed to save you?" I asked. "She was as truly alive as either of us. Think you she is not a stranger?" He groaned, as if the confession was wrung from him by the terror of eternal torment. "Mon Dieu! She is my wife!" "Your wife?" "Ay, my wife, Marie Faneuf, of Montreal." "But how comes she here, Monsieur, living in the Pottawattomie camp?
See!" and he held up both empty hands before the Indian's eyes, "we are both unarmed, because of our trust in the good faith of your people." Little Sauk uttered a low grunt of disapproval, and made no motion to lower his threatening rifle. "Ugh! You talk strong! Did any Pottawattomie send to White Chief to come to council?" "No," admitted Heald.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, ignorant of the truth of Pottawattomie, hailed Brown as "the new Saint, than whom none purer or more brave was ever led by love of men into conflict and death the new Saint who has achieved his martyrdom and will make the gallows glorious as the cross." One great spirit among the anti-slavery forces refused to be swept in the current of insanity.
Owen, Salmon, Henry Thompson, Theodore Weiner and John Brown each buckled a loaded revolver about his waist, and seized a rifle and cutlass. Weiner mounted his pony as an outpost rider and the others climbed into the wagon. Oliver and Frederick agreed to follow on foot. The expedition moved toward the Southern settlement on Pottawattomie Creek.
"Brothers," he said gravely, "this squaw is Pottawattomie. She was adopted by our people and lives in our lodges. Pottawattomies are friends to Frenchmen; there is no war between us. Why should Wyandots and Sacs wish to burn a Frenchman?"
Through hours of agonizing prayer the new plan, based squarely on the vision that sent him to Pottawattomie, began to fix itself in his soul. This time he would chose his disciples from the elect. Only men tried in the fires of Action could be trusted. Of five men he was sure. His son, Owen, he knew could be depended on without the shadow of turning. Yet Oliver was the second disciple chosen.
You may be sure they are not ignorant of the contents of your despatch, and must resent the destruction of property they consider their own." "'Twas done upon the advice of two of their leading chiefs." "Indeed! Which two?" "Topenebe and Little Sauk." "The two biggest devils in that whole Pottawattomie camp, and the head and front of their war-party!
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