Boston, Dec. 18, 1856.
E. B. Whitman, Esq.
Dear Sir, —We
have to-day written to H. B. Hurd, Esq., asking for permission for an
examination of his committee's doings and accounts by you. We have endeavored
from time to time to get from them definite information of their operations;
and now, when grave charges are brought in our newspapers by Kansas men against
them and their agents (the Central Committee in Kansas), we are entirely
without the means of contradicting these assertions, and can only oppose our
general knowledge of their good character and belief in their wise conduct to
the positive statements now daily current. We therefore wish you to inform
yourself as fully as possible of all their operations from the commencement to
the present time, taking such minutes of your researches as will enable you to
give a full and close account to us, and also before our legislature, should
you be called upon for that purpose. We want to know the disposition made of
the money we have sent to them (about $21,600, and two hundred rifles), an
account of which you have enclosed. We hope soon to see you in good health, and
are
Truly your friends,
George L. Stearns,
Chairman M. S. K. Committee.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of
John Brown, p. 357
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