 |
Back
to The Raid
F.B.
Sanborn to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, June 4, 1859
Source:
Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown, 1800 1859: A Biography Fifty
Years After (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1910), p.
396.
Brown has set out on his expedition, having got some $800 from
all sources except from Mr. Steams, and from him the balance of
$2000; Mr. Steams being a man who "having put his hand to
the plough turneth not back." B. left Boston for Springfield
and New York on Wednesday morning at 81/2 and Mr. Steams has probably
gone to N. Y. today to make final arrangements for him. He means
to be on the ground as soon as he can perhaps so as to be¬gin
by the 4th July. He could not say where he shall be for a few
weeks but a letter addressed to him under cover to his son John
Jr. West Andover, Ashtabula Co. Ohio would reach him. This point
is not far from where B. will begin, and his son will communicate
with him. Two of his sons will go with him. He is desirous of
getting someone to go to Canada and collect recruits for him among
the fugitives, with H. Tubman, or alone, as the case may be, &
urged me to go, but my school will not let me. Last year he engaged
some persons & heard of others, but he does not want to lose
time by going there himself now. I suggested you to him . . .
. Now is the time to help in the movement, if ever, for within
the next two months the experiment will be made.
|
|
