April 18.
Brown left on Thursday the 14th, and was to be at North Elba
to-morrow the 19th. Thence he goes “in a few days” to you.1 He says
he must not be trifled with, and shall hold Boston and New Haven to their word.
New Haven advises him to forfeit five hundred dollars he has paid on a certain contract,
and drop it. He will not. From here he went in good spirits, and appeared
better than ever to us, barring an affection of the right side of his head. I
hope he will meet hearty encouragement elsewhere. Mr. Smith gave him four
hundred dollars, I twenty-five, and we took some ten dollars at the little
meeting. . . . “L’expérience
démontre, avec toute l'evidence possible, que c'est la société que prépare le
crime, et que le coupable n'est que l'instrument que l'exécute.” Do you believe
Quetelet?
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1 He actually reached [Sanborn’s] house in
Concord, Saturday, May 7, and spent half his last birthday with me.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of
John Brown, p. 467-8
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