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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, VII. Kansas and John Brown (search)
consideration of a debt, to our friend Stearns, who gave them to Brown on his own responsibility. Nearly a year now passed, during which I rarely heard from Brown, and thought that perhaps his whole project had been abandoned. A new effort to raise money was made at Boston in the spring of 1859, but I took little part in it. It had all begun to seem to me rather chimerical. The amount of $2000 was, nevertheless, raised for him at Boston, in June, 1859, and I find that Sanborn wrote to me (June 4), Brown has set out on his expedition; and then on October 6, The $300 desired has been made up and received. Four or five men will be on the ground next week from these regions and elsewhere. Brown's address was at this time at West Andover, Ohio, and the impression was that the foray would begin in that region, if at all. Nobody mentioned Harper's Ferry. Ten days later the blow came. I went into a newspaper shop in Worcester one morning, and heard some one remark casually, Old Osawa