Boston, Mass., Dec. 22, 1851.
Dear Mary, — . . . There is an unusual amount of very
interesting things happening in this and other countries at present, and no one
can foresee what is yet to follow. The great excitement produced by the coming
of Kossuth, and the last news of a new revolution in France, with the prospect
that all Europe will soon again be in a blaze, seems to have taken all by
surprise. I have only to say in regard to those things, I rejoice in them, from
the full belief that God is carrying out his eternal purpose in them all. I hope
the boys will be particularly careful to have no waste of feed of any kind, for
I am strongly impressed with the idea that a long, severe winter is before us.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of
John Brown, p. 146
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