In the evening Brown and Kagi addressed a large meeting in a public hall.

Brown gave a lurid account of experiences in Kansas, justified his raid into Missouri by saying the slaves were to be sold for shipment to the South, and gave notice that his surplus horses would be offered for sale on Monday.

"What title can you give ?" was the question that came from the audience.

"The best--the affidavit that they were taken by black men from land they had cleared and tilled; taken in part payment for labor which is kept back." Brown again addressed a large meeting on Sunday evening at which each of the three clergymen present invoked the divine blessing upon Brown and his labors.

The present writer was told by an eye-witness that one of the ministers prayed for forgiveness for any wrongful acts which their guest may have committed.