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    A Plea for Captain John Brown
    A Plea for Captain John Brown
    A Plea for Captain John Brown
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    A Plea for Captain John Brown

    By Henry David Thoreau

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    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American philosopher and naturalist best known for writing Walden and Civil Disobedience.This version of Thoreaus A Plea for Captain John Brown includes a table of contents.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781629216461
    A Plea for Captain John Brown
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    Henry David Thoreau

    Henry Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1817, and attended Concord Academy and Harvard. After a short time spent as a teacher, he worked as a surveyor and a handyman, sometimes employed by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Between 1845 and 1847 Thoreau lived in a house he had made himself on Emerson's property near to Walden Pond. During this period he completed A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and wrote the first draft of Walden, the book that is generally judged to be his masterpiece. He died of tuberculosis in 1862, and much of his writing was published posthumously.

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      A Plea for Captain John Brown - Henry David Thoreau

      A Plea for Captain John Brown

      I TRUST that you will pardon me for being here. I do not wish to

      force my thoughts upon you, but I feel forced myself. Little as I know

      of Captain Brown, I would fain do my part to correct the tone and

      the statements of the newspapers, and of my countrymen generally,

      respecting his character and actions. It costs us nothing to be

      just. We can at least express our sympathy with, and admiration of,

      him and his companions, and that is what I now propose to do.

       First, as to his history. I will endeavor to omit, as much as

      possible, what you have already read. I need not describe his person

      to you, for probably most of you have seen and will not soon forget

      him. I am told that his grandfather, John Brown, was an officer in the

      Revolution; that he himself was born in Connecticut about the

      beginning of this century, but early went with his father to Ohio. I

      heard him say that his father was a contractor who furnished beef to

      the army there, in the War of 1812; that he accompanied him to the

      camp, and assisted him in that employment, seeing a good deal of

      military life- more, perhaps, than if he had been a soldier; for he

      was often present at the councils of the officers. Especially, he

      learned by experience how armies are supplied and maintained in the

      field- a work which, he observed, requires at least as much experience

      and skill as to lead them in battle. He said that few persons had

      any conception of the cost, even the pecuniary cost, of firing a

      single bullet in war. He saw enough, at any rate, to disgust him

      with a military life; indeed, to excite in him a great abhorrence of

      it; so much so, that though he was tempted by the offer of some

      petty office in the army, when he was about eighteen, he not only

      declined that, but he also refused to train when warned, and was fined

      for it. He then resolved that he would never have anything to do

      with any war, unless it were a war for liberty.

       When the troubles in Kansas began, he sent several of his sons

      thither to strengthen the party of the Free State men, fitting them

      out with such weapons as he had; telling them that if the troubles

      should increase, and there should be need of him, he would follow,

      to assist them with his hand and counsel. This, as you all know, he

      soon after did; and it was through his agency, far

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