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now was to rescue Brown from prison, but the latter absolutely prohibited any such attempt. Thinking that perhaps Mrs. Brown could shake her husband's determination and ultimately help in his rescue, Mr. Higginson travelled to the mountains of North Elba, New York, to take her to visit him in prison. This visit to Brown's home the author has described in a paper called John Brown's Household included in his Contemporaries. In this article he says:— It had been my privilege to live in th . . . It is for you in Boston to say go or stay. But owing to the impossibility of raising funds the plan was abandoned. John Brown wrote a letter of farewell to Mr. Higginson, November 22, 1859, expressing deep gratitude for his visit to North Elba, thanking him for sending his family money and newspapers, especially the latter, and adding, Truly you have proved yourself to be a friend in need. After Brown's execution a project was formed by the most daring of his friends to rescue the
Harrisburg, Pa. (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
rescue the two members of his party—Stevens and Hazlett—who still awaited trial. While this scheme was maturing, the journalist, James Redpath, wrote to Higginson that he had reason to believe the clergyman was watched by spies, and warning him that letters must be written and received with great caution. Funds were raised for the proposed rescue, and Mr. Higginson sent a messenger to Kansas to enlist Captain James Montgomery as leader of the enterprise, the rallying-point being Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In February, 1860, Mr. Higginson arrived there under the name of Charles P. Carter. When Montgomery came with a few valuable recruits,—called in letters and telegrams machines,—Mr. Higginson jotted down on paper, which can still be seen, a list of the lions in the way. The Kansas leader was not dismayed by this array of difficulties, which included a week's journey through a mountainous country by night, carrying arms, blankets, and provisions; attacking a building—the Charles
Worcester (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
in-law, aged 20 and 16, need help greatly. Meetings were held in Boston and Worcester, in which Mr. Higginson took part, to plead for help for Brown's family. An souri. This project was therefore abandoned. On Mr. Higginson's return to Worcester, he was offered a position as major of the fourth battalion of infantry. Thise this philosophy in the face of such experiences as the following:— Worcester, Aug. 1861. We had Col. Leonard's regiment on their way to the war also, as called out and the irrepressible ex-clergyman opened a recruiting office in Worcester. He wrote, March 3, 1862:— The day after the call for 9 months troops ised slowly here, and I decided that I never could hold up my head again, in Worcester or even elsewhere, if I did not vindicate my past words by actions though tarwith a sweet curiosity. To his mother, he wrote:— Lincoln House, Worcester, Sept. 7, 1862. I have my commission and we go into barracks when they are<
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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 fastnesses or guide them to Canada. In this project Mr. Higginson and his friends were willing to cooperate and to help raise the needed money. I am always ready, Higginson wrote to John Brown, to invest money in treason, but at present have none to invest. At this juncture a 4, he again wrote, beseeching him to raise fifty dollars if possible. After the sudden defeat of Brown's enterprise, followed by his arrest and imprisonment, most of the friends who had been active in assisting his project went temporarily to Canada or to Europe to avoid threatened prosecution, but Mr. Higginson stood his ground, declaring it a duty to at least give him [Brown] their moral support on the witness stand. The next step was the attempt to provide able counsel for Brown and hi
Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
mittee had put some $500 in gold into his [Brown] hands and all the arms with only the understanding that he should go to Kansas and then be left to his own discretion. He went off in good spirits. In October, 1858, Sanborn wrote to the Worcesterritten and received with great caution. Funds were raised for the proposed rescue, and Mr. Higginson sent a messenger to Kansas to enlist Captain James Montgomery as leader of the enterprise, the rallying-point being Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In Fe a letter which I thought might be the last I should ever write to you, when I had sent for Montgomery and seven men from Kansas, because I could find nobody in New England, and we lay in wait a fortnight in Harrisburg hoping vainly to penetrate Virg alarm about the safety of Washington, Mr. Higginson conceived the daring scheme of recalling Montgomery and his men from Kansas and going with them into the mountains of Virginia to divert the attention of the Confederacy from the national capital.
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s absent on this secret errand Mr. Higginson went as far west as Ohio to lecture, returning in time to hear the disappointing verdict. On reaching Charlestown, Montgomery's associate, Soule, feigned intoxication, and being confined in the same jail, obtained an interview with Brown's confederates. Villard's John Brown. The priough the timidity of others—but simply through the impracticability of the thing. I would not have accepted any one's assurance of that impracticability except Montgomery's. I think it was a disappointment to me not to be summoned to testify before the [Senate] Committee, nor do I know why I was passed over, after Wilson's asslonel Higginson went to Charlestown, Virginia, to see this very prison. When he looked at the high and apparently impregnable wall he felt fully convinced that Montgomery's judgment was sound. After the tragic death of Brown, there came a renewal of the old conflict in Boston between the Pro-Slavery men and the Antis. Wendell
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ith but one companion, the region to be traversed. In the midst of these plottings, Mr. Higginson wrote to his wife:— I was so amused this morning. When Mr. Winkle has been in the mud [in Pickwick ] the hostler brushes him down, shooing him and soothing him with a gentle noise all the time as if currying a horse. My pantaloons were deluged with mud from Broadway [New York] and the Irish waiter did precisely that to me. And a little later, he wrote:— I shall be back from Yellow Springs a week from to-morrow night. If he [Montgomery] is not back then, and if the ground is still covered with snow, I shall probably not wait for him, but go home and be on call. . . . Give me credit for wisdom in not throwing up the whole Western trip and going with him. While Montgomery was absent on this secret errand Mr. Higginson went as far west as Ohio to lecture, returning in time to hear the disappointing verdict. On reaching Charlestown, Montgomery's associate, Soule, feigned int
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e, stating that he should need from five to eight hundred dollars within sixty days, for the perfecting of by far the most important undertaking of my whole life. Mr. Higginson asked if this project was connected with the underground railway and received this reply: Rail-Road business on a somewhat extended scale is the identical object for which I am trying to get means. This letter, dated February 12, contained an urgent invitation 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 fastnesses or guide them to Canada. In this project Mr. Higginson and his friends were willing to cooperate and to help raise the needed money. I am a
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use I could find nobody in New England, and we lay in wait a fortnight in Harrisburg hoping vainly to penetrate Virginia and rescue Stevens and Hazlett—I remember then telling you how I had always held to a Mohammedan proverb that no prophet is called of God till he has reached the age of 40—and to-day I am only 39, so I don't think my time has come yet to do the thing I was born for—but certainly I never enjoyed anything more. Many years later, in 1879, Colonel Higginson went to Charlestown, Virginia, to see this very prison. When he looked at the high and apparently impregnable wall he felt fully convinced that Montgomery's judgment was sound. After the tragic death of Brown, there came a renewal of the old conflict in Boston between the Pro-Slavery men and the Antis. Wendell Phillips spoke once a month on Sunday at Music Hall and it was necessary to guard the building to prevent the meetings from being broken up by riotous young men. Mr. Higginson described this new duty i<
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s just then have been done—but rising above it by sheer dignity. Wendell Phillips never was so buoyant and charming as through it all. Many have always had the impression that he was not personally courageous because he had not the sort of boyish courage that I and many others get credit for: but his is far higher, not a Puritan courage like John Brown's either, but a sort of highborn chivalrous courage, careless of danger, despising it too utterly to give it a thought—such as one fancies Montrose for instance might have had. We who were with him in the midst of great danger, possible and even actual, were all equally struck with this. We had to control him, he was reckless of danger not from adventurousness nor from ignorance but because he really could not stoop to keep it in mind. In an estimate of the radical leaders of the day, found in his journal for 1857, Mr. Higginson said of William Lloyd Garrison:— Of all the heroes of ancient or modern days, that man stands mos<
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