Popular expression of support for Brown was widespread in the North (the best remembered of which is Henry David Thoreau's "Plea for Captain John Brown") before he was hanged on December 2, 1859.

在1859年12月2日布朗受刑之前，公众对他的支持态度在北方蔓延开来（其中最为人熟知的是梭罗的《为约翰·布朗队长请愿》）。

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Gangel's auction has a third part, a general consignment sale that includes a revolver once owned by Western legend Wyatt Earp, and the rifle Virginia Governor Henry Alexander Wise used to send famed abolitionist John Brown to the gallows in 1859.

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It has been reported Mr Brown suggested a visit could coincide with the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman - a famous British convert to Catholicism, who died in 1890 - expected within the next two years.

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