...is thought of embarking in the adventure of which he was one of the few uncaptured survivors. Garrison first met John Brown, to know him, and face to face, one Sunday evening in January, 1857, in Theodore Parker 's parlors. He saw in the famous Kansas chieftain a tall, spare, farmer-like man, with head disproportionately small, and that inflexible mouth which as yet no beard concealed. They discussed p...