...tation to meet John Brown with Sanborn and others at Peterborough, New Hampshire. Not being able to do this, Mr. Higginson met Brown in Boston in March. The impression made on him as described in Cheerful Yesterdays was that of simply a high-minded, unselfish, belated Covenanter. The plan which Brown proposed was to get together bands of fugitive slaves in Virginia and either colonize them in the mountain fa...