Dine with Sanborn. He suggests that I should go to Virginia
and get access to Brown if I can, and Governor Wise; thinks I have some
advantages to fit me for the adventure. I might ascertain whether Brown would
accept a rescue from any company we might raise. Ricketson, from New Bedford,
arrives. He and Thoreau take supper with us. Thoreau talks freely and enthusiastically
about Brown, denouncing the Union, the President, the States, and Virginia
particularly; wishes to publish his late speech, and has seen Boston
publishers, but failed to find any to print it for him.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of
John Brown, p. 506-7
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