God has honored but comparatively a very small part of mankind with any possible chance for such mighty and soul-satisfying rewards ...

I expect nothing but to endure hardness, but I expect to effect a mighty conquest, even though it be like the last victory of Samson." [Sidenote] Realf, Testimony, Mason Report, p.

99.
Nine days later Brown went to Boston, where the conspiracy was enlarged and strengthened by the promises and encouragements of a little coterie of radical abolitionists.[3] Within the next two months the funds he desired were contributed and sent him.

Meanwhile Brown returned West, and moved his company of recruits from Iowa, by way of Chicago and Detroit, to the town of Chatham, in Canada West, arriving there about the 1st of May.

By written invitations, Brown here called together what is described as "a quiet convention of the friends of freedom," to perfect his organization.