An African lion hunter, when questioned, "Is it not fine sport to hunt lions ?" replied, "Yes, it is fine sport to hunt lions, but if the lion hunts you it is not so fine." H.Clay Pate went to hunt the lion, and found the lion was hunting him.

John Brown attacked Pate with an inferior force, dispersed his command, and took him prisoner, together with twenty-eight of his men, and kept them in an inaccessible fastness which he made his hiding place.

A number of Pro-slavery men fled from the Territory, telling everywhere a blood-curdling story of hard and cruel treatment.

The people of the State of Missouri were filled with rage and horror, and its presses groaned with frantic appeals to the people to rise in their might and avenge the blood of their murdered brethren.

Hitherto they had witnessed with perfect composure the savage butchery of the Free State men, and the outrage of Free State families; but now the case was bravely altered.