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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XI: John Brown and the call to arms (search)
roject 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 certain Hugh Forbes, who had drilled John Brown and his men in guerrilla warfare, threatened to expose his plans unless unreasonable demands for money could be met. Thereupon, the majority of Brown's Boston advisers advocated postponing the whole affair until thel 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 because those who held the purse insisted. Afterwards
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
113. Emerson, George B., asks Higginson to write youthful history of United States, 284, 285; success of history, 286-88. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 68, 129, 193; anecdote about, 87; described, 96, 130; at Anti-Slavery meeting, 201; visit to, 266; influence of, 270; Concord celebration for, 390. Epictetus, 263, 329, 365, 369, 409. Faneuil Hall. meetings at, 144. Farragut, Admiral, 260, 261. Fayal and the Portuguese, 164, 408. Fields, James T., 229, 275, 280; letter to, 277. Forbes, Hugh, threatens Brown's plans, 191, 200. Francis, Dr., 78. Free Religious Association, 398; Higginson's address at, 164; his activity in, 268; similar English organization, 336, 337. Free Soil Party, 89-91, 115. Frothingham, O. B., 78; on Higginson's style, 156. Froude, J. A., 323. Fugitive Slave Law, 111, 114, 144, 148. Future Life, The, in In After Days, 254, 428. Galatea Collection founded by Higginson at Boston Public Library, 284. Galton, Francis, and Higginson, 328