Mr. George Lunt, of Boston, in his work, _The Origin of the Late War_,
writes:
"It thus appears that an active and alarming system of aggression
against the South was in operation at the North thirty years ago,
threatening to excite servile insurrection, to imperil union, to
stir up civil war. This fact rests upon testimony which cannot but
be considered impartial and conclusive."[261]
Again the same author, referring to the attempt of John Brown and his
associates, writes:
"Nothing was here wanting to insure a more widespread scene of
horror and desolation than the world perhaps had ever before
witnessed, except a totally different relation between the masters
and their servants in the South than that falsely imagined by the
conspirators and by those in sympathy with them either before or
after the fact."[262]