My voice is against any attempt at rescue.

It would inevitably, I fear, lead to bloodshed which could not compensate nor be compensated.

If the people dare murder their victim, as they are determined to do, and in the name of law, he dares and is prepared to die and the moral effect of the execution will be without a parallel since the scenes on Calvary eighteen hundred years ago, and the halter that day sanctified shall be the cord to draw millions to salvation.
[Autograph: Parker Pillsbury] Miss Anthony found that beyond the little band of Abolitionists not a person dared give her any assistance.

Her diary says: "Not one man of prominence in religion or politics will publicly identify himself with the John Brown meeting." She went from door to door selling tickets and collecting money.

Samuel D.Porter, a prominent member of the Liberty party, assisted her, as did that circle of staunch Quaker friends who never failed her in any undertaking; Frederick Douglass had been obliged to flee to England.