Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1885-01-29

who after the war received for his vile
services from the abolitionists $780,
900. 1t is not improbable that Whit
tier gave the price Of one Of his billy
dilly poems. His estimate of Garri-
son, notwithstanding his expressed
difference with him, was immense.
Speaking of his success in his aoou-
mulated villa;nies in bringing about
discord and war, he, Whittier, de-
clares, "its garland should be the AL
pine flower that symbolizes noble pu-
rity." n
This man Whittier was the great
admirer and friend Of that murderer,
John Brown, and l have no doubt
knew of his intended raid on Virgin
ia, and ] should not be surprised to
learn that he gave him pecuniary aid.
His bosom friends and associates did
give, as the testimony of one of them,
F. B. Sanborn, clearly proves. The
testimony Of Sanborn is worth quo
ting in full, but l only quote the fol-
lowing:
Browns plan Of action in Virginia
was wholly his own, as he more than
once declared and it was not until
he had long formed and matured it
that he made it known ESQ far as an
attack on slavery in Virginia was
concerned) to the few friends who
shared his confidence in that matter.
cannot say how numerous these
we're; but beyond his own family and
the armed followers who accompanied
him, | have never supposed that his
Virginia plan was known to fifty per.
sons. Even to those few it was not
fully communicated, though they
knew that he meant to fortify him
self somewhere in the mountains Of
Virginia or Tennessee, and from that
fastness, with his band of soldiers,
sally out and liberate slaves by force
His plan to this extent was known,
early in 1858, by Frederick Douglass,
Gerrit Smith lat whose house and in
whose presence | FIRST heard Brown
declare it), Theodore Parker, DIR. s..
G, Howe, George L. Stearns, I. w.
Higginson, and myself, and we oil
raised money to aid Brown in carry
ing this plan forward. | know this,
because some of the money and nearly
all the correspondence relating to the
contributions passed through my hands
in 1889, | talked more than once
in those years with all the persons
above named, concerning Browns
Virginia plan, and had letters from
lell exeept Douglass. u regard to i.
Gr0 -. ssral purpose 81 attacking
wnsfe, was'a RfUwf- -toor7>i -s-a-.alaA-.
w. Emerson, A. Bronson Alcott,
Henry Thoreau. Wendell Phillips,
Thomas Russell, John A. Andrew, and
others of the anti-slavery men Of
Massac husettss, none Of whom dis
countInanced it, while most Of them,
in my hearing, distinctly approved
it,"
In the above notorious crowd OF
murderous towards we find the name
of the then Governor Of Massachusetts,,
John A. Andrew, and when the wit
ness adds "otherS of the anti-slavery
men of Massachusetts" az countenan-
cling and approving this villainy, !
cannot but think our poet might have
had hand in the work That he
was an enthusiastic admrer Of Brown,
though what for except for his MUIR
derous promises and acts, | think ID
clear, but must appear more 80 when
we quote this letter:
DAEvERs, 8 mo-, 10, 1882.
MY DEAR FRIEND; Thy portrait Of John
Brown is by far the best have ever seen
II Is the man---not only tho physical man
but his inner self also. II is him at hit
best and truest.
Thanking thee for tho picture, am
Very truly thy friend,
JOHN G.. WHITTIER.
To Selden j. Woodman.
] had more to say but fear have
already occupied too much of your
space in exposing this and other tur'
bulent and criminal wretches. =
BENZ, G. HARRIS.