Melville said this abolitionist who was hanged in Charlestown, Va. in 1859 was "the meteor of the war"
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for the ... On Oct. 16,1859, abolitionist John Brown led the attack on the arsenal at 
...... John Brown - Herman Melville called him the "meteor of the war".