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It was Redpath who found him by a campfire after inadvertently stumbling into his encampment deep in the Kansas woods.

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Thoreau had read the newspapers immediately following the news of Brown's capture (specifically the New York Herald) as he claimed he did, then he would've come across the gruesome accounts of the murders at Pottawatomie Creek.

No doubt he felt assured and motivated after the successful reception two days earlier.

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His ceaseless crusade to loosen the chokehold of America's tolerance of enforced slavery was increased significantly by his chance meeting with John Brown.

His insight into the events of Harpers Ferry became public knowledge and subsequently he was asked to testify before the Senate during Brown's trial.

Partially, it was the sensational newsworthiness, for its timing coincided with Brown's incarceration and trial.

The future biographer of John Brown after his execution, Redpath chronicled and heralded the feats of the notorious abolitionist to the New York Tribune.

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He did not recognize unjust human laws, but resisted them, as he was bid; and now he is called insane by all who cannot appreciate such magnanimity.

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At once, he began to prepare a lecture to inform his fellow citizens.

His intention, he assured the court, was never to destroy life or property.

Under duress, Brown sent one of his sons to negotiate with the civil militia under the waving banner of a white flag.

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Two Boston newspapers, the Boston Daily Evening Traveller and the Boston Daily Evening Transcript, advertised the lecture at short notice.

It was to Thoreau (and Emerson) that Redpath dedicated his biography of Brown.

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Driven by an uncommon display of emotion, Thoreau commenced filling his journal pages with an unusually high degree of emotion.

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In Thoreau's view, America, the same that was foresworn to protect the inalienable rights of its citizens, had violated its sacred credo to ensure its citizens of those rights.

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He was formally charged with murder, insurrection, and treason against the state of Virginia.

Thoreau's eradication of the violent exploits of Pottawatomie, Ossawatomie, and his appreciation for Brown's disastrous siege upon Harper's Ferry become evident in his journal.

Since Brown was perceived in the press and on the streets as a traitor and zealot, he had yet to garner his countrymen's respect.

The day before the lecture, Douglass had somehow contacted Slack to notify him of the cancellation.

Slack expressed dissatisfaction that their original speaker had fled to Canada.

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Over the ensuing nights, he kept his journal by his bedside and wrote even more.

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Immediately, the militia shot and killed him.

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In 1857, he brought him to Concord to help raise money for Brown's cause.

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As Thoreau and Bronson Alcott visited Emerson at his home, the news of John Brown's raid reached Concord.

The reputation of Brown as a ruthless cutthroat either eluded Thoreau's notice or he evaded it by simply choosing not to believe or even to acknowledge it.

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The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest which he has observed, he does not observe.

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Sanborn refused and was arrested.

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Brown was gravely wounded.

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Having physically reported for the Tribune from Kansas in 1856, Redpath's accounts were undoubtedly biased.

Judge Ebeneezer Rockwood Hoar prepared a writ of habeas corpus and presented it to Sanborn's captors who, then, departed Concord.

It was, in a way, the most successful lecture of his career.

One such sympathizer, James Redpath, a New York Tribune correspondent, boldly questioned the validity of the newspaper's claims.

The sooner the better.

The only government that I recognize is that power that establishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.

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Fraternity Course's lectures tended to attract a significant audience and, for Thoreau, it was no different.

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Following the indictments for the Harpers Ferry raid, Frederick Douglass had abandoned all of his commitments in order to elude arrest by the Federal Marshall.