let's start with ralph waldo emerson. from his home in concord, massachusetts, just west of boston. emerson now brown personally. emerson had deaned with brown, hosted brown, had brown stay with him. emerson did not see brown in the same way that the new york lerld and chicago tib yuan did. emerson would write that john brown is, and i quote, a pure idealist of artless goodness. louisa may also cot, his neighbor also knew john brown. shen and her father had dined with him, stayed with him, communed with him. louisa may would write john brown is, quote, st. john the just. william lloyd garrison, the quintessential abolitionist, william lloyd garrison compared brown's effort at revolution at harper's ferry with that of the fight for independence, american independence from the british. garrison would proclaim was john brown justified in his attempt? yes, by god, if washington wasn't his. and wendell phillips, an outspoken menster in boston also alluded to the revolution of '76 when he preached that, and i quote, harper's ferry is the lexington of today. perhaps henry david thoreau sum