...hat you say, sir? John Brown is one of the most extraordinary men of this age and nation. Henry D. Thoreau styled him a true transcendentalist. Mr. Stearns, an active and generous friend of Kansas , tells two incidents of John Brown's visit to Boston at this time, which are exceedingly characteristic of the old Puritan. Shortly after his introduction to him, Mr. Stearns said, one day, half ...