Jan 31, 2017
Answer Promptly to Avoid Being Shot Josiah Miller beat his rap for treason against the state of South Carolina, the place of his birth.
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Answer Promptly to Avoid Being Shot Josiah Miller beat his rap for treason against the state of South Carolina, the place of his birth.
"We know our rights and intend to have them" The Return of Pardee Butler, Part Six
“We know our rights and intend to have them” The Return of Pardee Butler, Part Six
Pardee Butler
Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Robert S. Kelley’s lynch mob of South Carolinians did not shoot Pardee Butler, as some had wished. Nor did they hang him, as more had hoped. Their kangaroo court pronounced upon him, for daring come back to his family after having once suffered mob violence, tar, feathers, and thirty-nine lashes of the whip. On further consideration, the court struck out the…
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"It was a cold, bleak day." The Return of Pardee Butler, Part Five
“It was a cold, bleak day.” The Return of Pardee Butler, Part Five
Pardee Butler
Parts 1, 2, 3, 4
We left Pardee Butler having a bad day. He came back to Atchison, months after his previous near-murder, hoping to make a quick stop and get on to his claim and his family. The mob which had taken him proposed shooting and hanging, the ringleader had other plans. Robert S. Kelley, now on his second proslavery, anti-Butler mob, preferred to humiliate and torture…
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"We will tar and feather you" The Return of Pardee Butler, Part Four
“We will tar and feather you” The Return of Pardee Butler, Part Four
Pardee Butler
Parts 1, 2, 3
We left Pardee Butler, freshly returned to Atchison, in the hands of a mob led by Robert S. Kelley for the second time in less than a year. They hauled him into a saloon and one of the mob tried to convince the minister to try for a duel. Others wanted to hang him then and there. A Virginia-born Missourian slaveholder, Judge Tutt, stood up in Butler’s defense. He…
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"They were going to hang me" The Return of Pardee Butler, Part Three
“They were going to hang me” The Return of Pardee Butler, Part Three
Pardee Butler
Parts 1, 2
At the end of April, 1856, Pardee Butler returned to Kansas. He still had a claim and family in the territory and had promised on the occasion of his near-lynchingthat he would come back. A brief visit in November had the minister pass through Atchison, the sight of his previous travail, with no difficulty. This time around, a contingent of newly-arrived South…
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"Kill him! Kill him!" The Return of Pardee Butler, Part Two
“Kill him! Kill him!” The Return of Pardee Butler, Part Two
Pardee Butler
We have the election today, Gentle Readers. I hope you will cast your ballots, however you cast them, untroubled by any forceful echoes of the history we deal with here.
Into the presently brewing Kansas strife returned Pardee Butler. He had followed the news out of Kansas since departing the territory in the fall of 1855, but come April he returned all the same. The minister had a…
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The Return of Pardee Butler, Part One
The Return of Pardee Butler, Part One
Pardee Butler
According to the Squatter Sovereign, the news of Samuel Jones’ shooting by an antislavery man in Lawrence had set Atchison’s proslavery men to readying their arms. Some new arrivals from South Carolina formed a military company, one of two then extant. The paper itself, believing Jones dead, demanded bloody revenge. One of their own, a trusty, violent proslavery manhad caught a…
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"The fiendish spirit by which they are governed" The Maltreatment of Reverend William C. Clark
“The fiendish spirit by which they are governed” The Maltreatment of Reverend William C. Clark
Pardee Butler
We left the Reverend William C. Clark giving the Herald of Freedomhis opinion of his late ordeal. The good Reverend had suffered at the hands of proslavery men, possibly including some members of the Kansas legislature. Like most of us who have had a rough handling, he liked it not one bit. Never in his life had he experienced such treatment, despite enjoying the company of everyone…
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