Father's brother, Elijah, who kept the store at Weston, was known to be a pro-slavery man, and for a time it was taken for granted that father held the same views.

But he was never at any pains to hide his own opinions, being a man who was afraid of nothing.

John Brown of Ossawatomie, later hanged, for the Harper's Ferry raid, at Charlestown, Va., was his friend.

So were Colonel Jim Lane and many other Abolitionists.

He went to their houses openly, and they came to his.