The Rules of Ossawatamie.Austin, Texas, Texas Daily Gazette [Democratic](3 December 1859)
The Independence Mo., Messenger--a
paper of great candor and liberality of views
--corrects, with much emphasis of statement,
a one-sided account of the battle of
Ossawatamie, that lately appeared in the
New York Tribune, is which at is asserted
that "Old Brown," with 30 men, defeated
and put to route 300 Missourians, with a
loss to the Missourians, of 60 or 70, and a
loss to Brown's party of only 21. The
Messenger gives the following statement:
Not a single Missourian was killed in the
fight at Ossawatamie, and only two were
wounded--Larry Boyce in his hand, and a
resident of Fayette county, in the neck,
both of whom recovered from their injuries
speedily. The Missourians, under
command of Captain Reid, were in the open
prairie, while the abolitionists, under the
direction of "Old John Brown", were
posted in the timber. At the immense
disadvantage, which every one conversant
with the Plains well knows, the Missouri
boys drove the cunning forces of Brown
and his associates across the Marais des
Cygnes, and if they had followed up, as
they should have done, the victory -- we
should have heard nothing of Old Brown
at this late day, in connection with a servile
insurrection at Harper's Ferry.
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