There was some effort made in the early summer of 1859 to enlist the support of the Canadian Negroes,[21] the mission being in charge of John Brown, Jr., who was assisted by Rev. J. W. Loguen, a well-known Negro preacher and anti-slavery worker. Together they visited Hamilton, St. Catharines, Chatham, London, Buxton and Windsor, helping also to organize branches of the League of Liberty among the Negroes. The letters of John Brown, Jr., show that there was little enthusiasm for the cause, which, indeed, could only have been presented in an indefinite way. There was more interest at Chatham than elsewhere, as might be expected, but even there it was not sufficiently substantial to bring the men that were needed. Against this rather dismal picture should be placed some evidence that there were a few Canadians on the way South when the end came.[22] FRED LANDON. FOOTNOTES: [1] Longfellow, _Life of Longfellow_, vol. II, p. 347. [2] Thoreau, _A Plea for Capt. John Brown, read at Concord, October 30, 1859_. [3] _Toronto Weekly Globe_, Nov. 25, 1859. [4] _Ibid._, Dec. 9, 1859, and Dec. 16, 1859. [5] _Toronto Weekly Globe_, Dec. 12, 1859. [6] "There is no country in the world so much hated by slaveholders as Canada," Ward, _Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro_, London, 1855, p. 158. [7] _Journal of the Senate of Virginia_, 1859, see pp. 9-25. [8] _The Toronto Weekly Globe_ of Dec. 6, 1859, reported Governor Wise as saying: "One most irritating feature of this predatory war is that it has its seat in the British provinces which furnish asylum for our fugitives and send them and their hired outlaws upon us from depots and rendezvous in the bordering states." [9] _Toronto Weekly Globe_, Dec. 28, 1859. [10] _Toronto Weekly Globe_, Dec. 28, 1859. [11] _Ibid._, Dec. 23, 1859. [12] _Ibid._, July 20, 1860. [13] _Harper's Ferry Invasion, Report of Senatorial Committee_, pp. 2 and 7. [14] _Harper's Ferry Invasion, Report of Senatorial Committee_, p. 99. [15] Hinton, _John Brown and His Men_, pp. 504-507. [16] _Ibid._, appendix, p. 704. See also report of Senatorial Committee, p. 97. [17] Hinton, _John Brown and His Men_, pp. 171-172. [18] _Ibid._, p. 175. [19] _Report of Senatorial Committee_, p. 97. [20] Sanborn, _Life and Letters of John Brown_, pp. 457-8. [21] Sanborn, _Life and Letters of John Brown_, pp. 536-538, 547. [22] Hinton, _John Brown and His Men_, pp. 261-263. THE NEGRO AND THE SPANISH PIONEER IN THE NEW WORLD