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Thomas Wentworth Higginson (search for this): chapter 11
ho were interested in the Kansas struggle, Mr. Higginson's first interview with him was in the wintt important undertaking of my whole life. Mr. Higginson asked if this project was connected with tNew Hampshire. Not being able to do this, Mr. Higginson met Brown in Boston in March. The impress or guide them to Canada. In this project Mr. Higginson and his friends were willing to cooperate inter or spring. This proposed delay made Mr. Higginson very impatient, and he wrote to Brown, Mayurging them not to give up the ship. When Mr. Higginson talked this matter over with Brown, meetinion to delay, and said, to quote a letter of Higginson's describing the interview, If he [Brown] hanxious about future operations, and asked if Higginson could do anything for him before the followi859, and again in April, Sanborn appealed to Higginson for more funds; and May 1, the latter wrote urope to avoid threatened prosecution, but Mr. Higginson stood his ground, declaring it a duty to a[3 more...]
James Montgomery (search for this): chapter 11
ue, and Mr. Higginson sent a messenger to Kansas to enlist Captain James Montgomery as leader of the enterprise, the rallying-point being Harrigginson arrived there under the name of Charles P. Carter. When Montgomery came with a few valuable recruits,—called in letters and telegramnd followed by a retreat with prisoners and wounded by daylight. Montgomery, however, insisted on first exploring, with but one companion, th 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 at both authorities and the community were on the alert, converted Montgomery to the same opinion. Thus the bold scheme of rescuing the two domight 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 Engashington, Mr. Higginson conceived the daring scheme of recalling Montgomery and his men from Kansas and going with them into the mountains of
R. W. Emerson (search for this): chapter 11
l meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society:— This week has been given over to mobs; I have been one of the captains of the fifties spoken of in Scripture; that is we had sixty men armed and organized, under my direction, to protect the platform and Wendell Phillips. Part were Germans and part English; this was done prior to the Sunday meeting at Music Hall, but there was no danger then; before the end of the convention it grew rather formidable. It was worth it all to see Mr. Emerson addressing the meeting and interrupted with all kinds of insults and he so utterly undisturbed,— not stooping even to control and put it down, which might perhaps 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 <
Albert Hazlett (search for this): chapter 11
rself to be a friend in need. After Brown's execution a project was formed by the most daring of his friends to 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 watchnability to do anything for John Brown. Not that I grudged him his happy death—but it seemed terrible to yield him to Virginia. The effort to rescue Stevens and Hazlett—undertaken on my sole responsibility—restored my self-respect. It did not fail like the Burns rescue through the timidity of others—but simply through the impracn from Kansas, because 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
Samuel Gridley Howe (search for this): chapter 11
d started . . . . If you see I have enlisted don't believe it yet, but I am trying to get means for equipping a picked Company for John Brown, Jr.—to be used on the Pennsylvania border. How much I may have to do with the undertaking if it ever comes to anything—the future course of events must determine. I want at least to get the name of John Brown rumored on the border and then the whole party may come back and go to bed—they will frighten Virginia into fits all the same. With Dr. S. G. Howe's help, he raised money for this purpose and consulted Governor Andrew, who gave him a letter of introduction to Governor Curtin of Pennsylvania. This letter Mr. Higginson took in person to Harrisburg. Some doubts arose in Governor Andrew's mind after sending the letter and he wrote another to the Pennsylvania governor advising caution. In this second letter the Massachusetts governor said of Mr. Higginson: He is a man capable of facing great perils, of gallant and ardent spirit, and <
Curtin (search for this): chapter 11
and then the whole party may come back and go to bed—they will frighten Virginia into fits all the same. With Dr. S. G. Howe's help, he raised money for this purpose and consulted Governor Andrew, who gave him a letter of introduction to Governor Curtin of Pennsylvania. This letter Mr. Higginson took in person to Harrisburg. Some doubts arose in Governor Andrew's mind after sending the letter and he wrote another to the Pennsylvania governor advising caution. In this second letter the Maof Mr. Higginson: He is a man capable of facing great perils, of gallant and ardent spirit, and one whose plans I would not endorse in blank or in advance. You may find on enquiry that he proposes some scheme not only courageous, but wise. Governor Curtin, after talking with his eager visitor and reflecting upon his plans, wrote to Governor Andrew that such a move would precipitate a border war, and that the time for such warfare had not yet arrived. He also said that if Mr. Higginson shoul
John Wilson (search for this): chapter 11
ble to yield him to Virginia. The effort to rescue Stevens and Hazlett—undertaken on my sole responsibility—restored my self-respect. It did not fail like the Burns rescue through 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 assurance. Certainly I should have told them all I knew—and whether that would have done good or harm, I cannot now say. So far as John Brown is concerned, I should like this for an epitaph, The only one of John Brown's friends and advisers who was not frightened by the silly threats of Hugh Forbes into desiring that year's delay which ruined the enterprise. I had the old man's own assurance that in his secret soul he regarded this delay as an act of timidity—and acted on it only
Andrew (search for this): chapter 11
le at first—and took W. P. home afterward, with quite a crowd around,—so that all went well. Gov. Andrew brought a good deal of pressure to bear on the Mayor and he sent police after all—but not in ll the same. With Dr. S. G. Howe's help, he raised money for this purpose and consulted Governor Andrew, who gave him a letter of introduction to Governor Curtin of Pennsylvania. This letter Mr. Higginson took in person to Harrisburg. Some doubts arose in Governor Andrew's mind after sending the letter and he wrote another to the Pennsylvania governor advising caution. In this second letternor Curtin, after talking with his eager visitor and reflecting upon his plans, wrote to Governor Andrew that such a move would precipitate a border war, and that the time for such warfare had notenly dispelled in the autumn of 1861. He wrote to his mother:— I have authority from Governor Andrew to take preliminary steps toward raising a regiment, which when formed will be placed unde
Salmon Brown (search for this): chapter 11
ay, How much sunshine you brought into our desolate homes is left only for us to tell. In his own account of the visit, Mr. Higginson records that he spoke to Salmon Brown about the sacrifices of their family. He looked up in a quiet, manly way, which I shall never forget, and said briefly, I sometimes think that is what we camethy the society I had been permitted to enter who did not come forth from it a wiser and a better man. The next scheme to enlist Mr. Higginson's interest, after Brown's sentence had been pronounced, was a plan of revenge formed by a Boston abolitionist, Lysander Spooner, to kidnap the governor of Virginia and keep him as hostage for the safety of Brown. A scrap of paper exists on which Mr. Higginson had written, November 14, 1859, Would it not be practicable for a party of men to go in a steamboat to kidnap in the night——and hold him as a hostage for the safety of——. Spooner wrote Higginson, November 20, that the men, a pilot, and a boat could be furn
Stevens (search for this): chapter 11
r. Higginson wrote in his journal:— Last year at this time I was worn and restless with inability to do anything for John Brown. Not that I grudged him his happy death—but it seemed terrible to yield him to Virginia. The effort to rescue Stevens and Hazlett—undertaken on my sole responsibility—restored my self-respect. It did not fail like the Burns rescue through the timidity of others—but simply through the impracticability of the thing. I would not have accepted any one's assuranceought 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 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
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