The National Committee, at their meeting in New York, voted
to resign all claim to the rifles at Tabor to our committee; and Mr. Hurd is to
notify you of the fact officially. If, therefore, you have commenced any
proceedings to get possession of them from the National Committee, you may
suspend all action until you receive Mr. Hurd's letter, which will give you
full power in the premises. We learn that the rifles are at Tabor, in charge of
a certain Jonas Jones, and that they are properly stored and cared for. If this
should not be so, or if the Central Committee at Lawrence have interfered with
them at all, you may take measures to get immediate possession, as directed by
us. All matters at issue between our committee and the National Committee have
been satisfactorily settled, and we trust there will be no further
misunderstandings. Mr. Hurd has been in Boston and arranged all things. We have
been expecting a letter from you for some days. By the time this reaches you,
you will have been at Tabor, we presume. There write us a full account of your
proceedings, and also of the present condition of things in Kansas, the
position of the Central Committee, etc. Much business was done at the New York
meeting; but no final settlement of accounts could be made, by reason of the
absence of important persons and papers. Conway and Whitman are here, preparing
to appear before the legislative committee about a State appropriation.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of
John Brown, p. 369
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