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"As to Capt. Brown, all who know him personally are united in the conviction that a more honest, conscientious, truthful, brave, disinterested man, (however misguided or unfortunate,) does not exist [...] And by the same logic and the same principles, every slave-holder has forfeited his right to live, if his destruction be necessary to enable his victims to break the yoke of bondage."

Garrison was a pacifist; the editorial condemns the method ('sadly misguided effort', 'wild and futile') while defending Brown's character. Fragments joined with [...].

Read it in the original — The Liberator, Oct 28, 1859 ↗

"I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which both these things would be by me unavoidable. [...] I think that for once the Sharp's rifles and the revolvers were employed in a righteous cause. The tools were in the hands of one who could use them."

Delivered at Concord Town Hall while Brown stood trial — the first major Northern intellectual defense of the raid as righteous violence. Fragments from the same address joined with [...].

Read it in the original — A Plea for Captain John Brown, Project Gutenberg ↗