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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Dedication. (search)
Dedication.
To Wendell Phillips, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry D. Thoreau, defenders of the faithful, who, when the mob shouted, madman!
said, Saint!
I humbly and gratefully dedicate this book.
James Redpath
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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 8 : the conquest of Kansas complete. (search)
Chapter 6: making ready.
From the 16th of March, when John Brown was in Canada, up to the 16th of October, when he conquered Virginia,--a period of eight months,--it would neither be prudent nor just to trace his movements too minutely; and I do not propose to do so now. From the 20th to the 30th of March, he was at Cleveland, with Kagi.
An incident of this residence is thus related by Wendell Phillips:
Prudence, skill, courage, thrift, knowledge of his time, knowledge of his opponents, undaunted daring in the face of the nation,--all these he had. He was the man who could leave Kansas and go into Missouri, and take eleven men and give them to liberty, and bring them off on the horses which he carried with him, and two which he took as tribute from their masters in order to facilitate escape.
Then, when he had passed his human proteges from the vulture of the United States to the safe shelter of the English lion,--this is the brave, frank, and sublime truster in God's rig