Melville said this abolitionist who was hanged in Charlestown, Va. in 1859 was "the meteor of the war"
JACKIE... [DOC] [TLE] John Brown's Raid - Essential Civil War Curriculum [PAR] That calling was abolition, which had become a national movement with .... son 
had written, when I say that while the interest of despotism has secured to its 
cause .... from their beds, marched them out to the woods, and brutally executed 
them ... eight Kansas volunteers remained committed to the Virginia project in 
1859,... [DOC] [TLE] John Brown in Poetry - Trans-Video.Net [PAR] Stedman first gained notoriety as a poet in 1859 when he penned satirical verses 
... Slipt off into Virginia, where the statesmen all are born, ... Old Brown was said 
to muster his ten thousand grenadiers.