. John Brown and his men; with some account of the roads they traveled to reach Harper's Ferry. as dear to them as yours are to you. Donot, therefore, take the life of any one if you canpossibly avoid it; but if it is necessary to take life w THE ORDER OF MARCH. in order to save your own, then make sure workof it. The several parties had been chosen. John H. Kagibeing second in command, the capture and holdingof Halls Rifle Works was naturally assigned to Aaron D. Stevens was assigned the capture ofseveral prominent slaveholders. He selected for hisassistants Charles P. Tidd, John E. Co
. John Brown and his men; with some account of the roads they traveled to reach Harper's Ferry. as dear to them as yours are to you. Donot, therefore, take the life of any one if you canpossibly avoid it; but if it is necessary to take life w THE ORDER OF MARCH. in order to save your own, then make sure workof it. The several parties had been chosen. John H. Kagibeing second in command, the capture and holdingof Halls Rifle Works was naturally assigned to Aaron D. Stevens was assigned the capture ofseveral prominent slaveholders. He selected for hisassistants Charles P. Tidd, John E. Cook, Osborne , Lewis Sherrard Leary, and John A. Cope-land. Stevens was to send over from Virginia toOwen Brown at the farm a wagon with negro help for the removal ofthe pikes and guns, etc., stored atthe farm. Captain Cook hadseveral times traveled thus alongthe Valley turnpike and collectedinformation needed. He thuslearned of Lewis Washingtonspossession of the historic arms ofFrederick the Great and GeneralLafayette that were It would hardly be necessary to. repeat the startling story, except to dauphin adolphus Thompson. bring out the actions of the party as a whole and as individuals. One thing must be realized from the first moment: not one faltered, quailed, or failed. From the two country lads, who had not yet crossed the path of manhood, Dauphin Thompson and Barclay Coppoc, neither of whom had 1 The Lafayette pistol or pistols were afterwards restored byOwen Brawn; the sword was retaken from Captain Brown, 284 JOHN BROWN. reached his twentieth year, to Kagi and Stevens andCook—the three whose experience of the world hadmost assuredly given some mental maturity, fittedthem to understand as they did, the desperate chancesof their startling venture—all the associates at Har-pers Ferry failed not in obedience, courage, andcombat, to their veteran and idealistic leader. Fromthe outset, intelligently and intellectually—sen-timentally and b
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