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put things right for me with his B,ston
friends. Having had offered 10 me the &C.

pat things right for me with his = ,stoD
friends. Having had offered 10 me the &C.
cupa,ion OF attending 10 q patent case al
Washington, seized hold Of The FRS, en-
ploynent which pres ented itself 10 me, and
left for that city about the Sd of March,
81. The very day CT my departure learn
ed that Captain B. had just come from the
East, and that he WAS going to put his plan
irto execution. saw clearly that the pro-
jsct which | supposed was dead had OILY
s!uIbered.
Suon after reaching Washington I saw
Dir. Simmer, who was so obliging as 10
write and enIeavOr to get his Boston friends
to make amends for their misconduct To
wards me- O,her gentlemen did the same
but 10 no purpose. Every day / was ex-
peciing TO here of Capt. Brown at Harper's
Ferry; the impression | had was lei him
try. its his own business. But on mature
reflections | thought differently. l saw
considerable force Of Marines in the bar
racks with railway communication and tel
egraph TO !Iarper's Ferry, all of which con-
WINGED me that Browns plan must end dis
astrou,ly, and consequently, consulted two
Abolitionists of very high standing, and one
OF them, DR.. Baily, Of the Era, became a.
harmed at the mischief which B. would
bring upon Abolirionism aud himself, Dr..
B consulted others, who urged enc TO STOP
Brown. Ny reply was. cannoi slap him;
for have 10 influence with his hackers:
step him yourselves. How are we TO stop
him? was lie natural question. Ob'ige his
hackers TO take their arms from him, ":
my reply, (iOr the arms were theirs rot
has } and then his pet scheme must drop.
In a letter (not publlshed) from myself
10 his Boston hackers, written 2Sth April,
1858, will The approval Of those Abolition
lists already alluded 10 dwell especially on
the certainty Of Browns failure. the CON-
sequences 10 the Tree cOlsred people, and
10 aboli,ionism. No words could be plain
er than the following: "7Heryfore erGd
that TIE arms, oiaei mGteriGly, and means TO
lie taken from John Brown.''
That the impression of ny earues:ness
might be laors islt, sent copies 10 all the
parties concerned, and by hammeriug nnd
hamnerirg on The same sno, did stop them
in their career of folly. Who beside DR..
Bailey aided me in this work am not very
sure, exceP, that one was gentleman OF
great influence Eastward, and with whom
| lad Two or three interviews. To him DR..
Bailey communicated the matter; did no,
tell him.
Ard the Tribune, with herd of little
bar&ers at its heels, has the im7udence TO
tell ne an teggGrman, because | ask
! FOR The pittance OF which The humanitarians
defraudeA my family, ard that my services
were worth nothing. | went 10 instruct
and organize The "cream of the Free State
men," ct the request q John Brown, who
came TO me in the name Of, and at the in
stance OF the committees.
Ii was their place 10 collect the men
mine 10 instruct them. II they neglected
/ their business, could not perform my part
srd it was small thing 10 save them and
their egen,, John Brown, from making a
fuol of himself and each Of them, to stop
1.-The sword of the Lord and of Gideon" once
and again second lime, and | should q
ihird time have stopped i; if bad not sup
posed that il had been dead and buried lcnc
ego.
Those men who have plundtred, be.
trayed and illuminated me, ought 10 have
felt the profoundest gratitude; but some
minds are so constituted as TO be incapable
Of such. a sentiment. They know that they
have wrOnsed me, and they hate me from
that very knowledge; let then, enjoy their
feelings if they can. And who are ihey
who have this day resuscIlated this wild
scheme; know not. But if they are the
same men whom | saved twice, then must
say with TIE proverbs: Though thou
shOuldest bray fool in a mortar, among
wheat with a pesllc, yet will not his fool 4
ishnsss depart from lin. Prev. xvii,
p.
SOEae may agree that 10 man should be
stopped in any foolish project. When The
project is hopeless, or the man incapable !
oil accomplishing il; and when failui G
would involve others in ruin; or would iso-
Pardlze great cause, then it is the duty
Of every friend 10 consult The best heads in |
that cause, and act in unison with them. =
Had not consulted leading Abolitionists
in 1853, and had not interiered, in unison
with them 10 stoP The "sword Of the Lord !
and Of Gideon from committing suicide al
EIarper's Ferry, or unnecessarily and un.
probably riskIng the lives of such superior
men as Kagi, then l should have been
b!ameable. As it is, did my duty, and |
do not choose 10 be made the scapegoat Of
The Tribune.
And how did I stop them from doing an
act Of folly? Not, as the Tribune basely
and malisiously stated, BY LetrayIng the
plot 10 the Secretary of War, bu, by appeal
ing 10 the good sense Of influential men o.
The Abolition cause. In that did my duty.
Did Mr.. Greeley do his?
have been basely Piundered, betrayed
and calumnisteG: | viii condescend 10 make
no reply beyond this present one, knowing
that have done right; care not straw
for The opinions or threats of any or ell OF
them. leave now lest be taken By the
State as witness; moi but that those who
have SO barbarousy i'll used my family and
have persecutcd me do not richly deserve
all that | might do against them, yet to pun
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