John Brown’s attempt to scare the Proslavery side out of Kansas only angered them, and inflamed the border war between the free-soilers and proslavery forces. Even though Brown had a good reason to be angry, he had no right to murder settlers that had nothing to do with the sack of Lawrence. According to Tony Horwitz, Brown was motivated to attack the proslavery settlers because of the sack of Lawrence, which was perpetrated by Missourian border ruffians, not the settlers he attacked and because not even one abolitionist fought back against the looters; after the pillaging, in the free-soiler camp, according to Horwitz;
As the free-state men made camp and deliberated over what to do, Jason Brown overheard his father talking to two men about their proslavery neighbors back at Dutch henry’s crossing, on Pottawatomie creek. “Now something must be done’, Brown said. ‘Something is going to be done now.’ (Horwitz, 2011, p. 48-49)
This was a premeditated act, something given thought to, not an unplanned outburst of rage. Andrew …show more content…
on was a senator and representative from Tennessee, and he would become Lincoln’s vice president and after Lincoln’s death he became his successor, and according to Andrew Johnson’s speech, John Brown attacked the proslavery settlers at night, dragging them out of their beds, and sliced them up, with little to no provocation, and that provocation was from border