329.
[Sidenote] Redpath, "Life of John Brown," p.

206.
[Sidenote] Sanborn in "Atlantic," July, 1872, p.

52.
This, if we supply continuity and arrangement to his vagaries, must have been approximately what he felt or dreamily saw, and outlined in vigorous words to his auditors.

His listening friends were dumfounded at the audacity as well as heart-sick at the hopelessness of such an attempt.

They pointed out the almost certainty of failure and destruction, and attempted to dissuade him from the mad scheme; but to no purpose.