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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, VII. Kansas and John Brown (search)
hile, one of the few of his band who had escaped had come to my door one day in Worcester. When he reached my house, he appeared utterly demented after the danger and privations of his flight through the mountains. He could not speak two coherent sentences, and I was grateful when, after twenty-four hours, I could send him to his friends in Boston. Another and far abler refugee from Harper's Ferry was Charles Plummer Tidd, one of our Worcester emigrants,--afterwards well known as Sergeant Charles Plummer of the Twenty-First Massachusetts,--who told me, in an interview on February 10, 1860, of which I still preserve the written record, All the boys opposed Harper's Ferry, the younger Browns most of all. In September it nearly broke up the camp. He himself [Tidd] left, almost quarreling with Brown. Finally, when they consented, it was with the agreement that men should be sent in each direction to burn bridges; which was not done, however. Tidd pronounced the Harper's Ferry attack