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and unscrupulous disposition, he endeavored to extort money 
from Brown’s eastern friends. Failing in this, he informed 
Senators Wilson, Sumner, Seward, and other prominent per- 
sons of the scheme. They promptly interposed such objec- 
tions to it that any further thought of it was out of the ques- 
tion.^2 
On June 25, 1858, John Brown was in Lawrence, Kan., 
again. Formerly smooth shaven, he now wore a long, white, 
patriarchal beard which served as a partial disguise. He 
assumed the name of Shubel Morgan and soon had another 
small company of men enlisted and armed for further fight- 
ing.^^ 
In December of that year a negro appeared at the cabin 
door of one of the followers of “Osawatomie” Brown, as he 
had now come to be known from the name of the town where 
one of his battles had been fought. The negro belonged to a 
Missouri slave-owner, who was about to sell him. He begged 
for assistance to escape. Brown immediately responded. 
With two companies he marched into Missouri, liberated 
eleven slaves, seized numerous horses belonging to the owners 
of the negroes, and returned to Kansas. He and a few of his 
followers conducted the slaves safely thru Nebraska, Iowa, 
Illinois, and Michigan to Windsor in Canada. While on the 
way he was given much assistance and encouragement by 
Quaker and abolition friends and admirers. The governor of 
Missouri offered a reward of $3,000 for the capture and re- 
turn of Brown to that state. To this President Buchanan 
offered an additional reward of $250. Brown replied with a 
printed handbill offering the sum of $2.50 for the capture and 
delivery at Trading Post of James Buchanan “well tied”.^^ 
Kansas saw no more of Osawatomie Brown, but he had 
never given up the idea of striking a blow at slavery in Vir- 
ginia. He was not the kind of a man to give up such an 
enterprise after having fully decided to undertake it. To his 
abolition friends and admirers in New England and elsewhere, 
he was a hero whose career was well worthy to be encouraged. 
They now aided him with money and arms and did not ask 
too many questions. His equipment of arms consisted of 
Ihid., 338, 339 : Sanborn, <yp. cit., 427 ff. 
Brown to his son John Brown, Jr., August 9, 1858, in Villard, op. cit., 354, 355; 
Redpath, op. cit., 199 ff. 
William E. Connelley, John Broivn, 324-327 ; Villard, op. cit., 379 ff. 
