After reading “A Plea for Captain John Brown”, I find it hard to decide which side to take. Knowing a little history about the subject, I originally sided against the Captain, but by reading Thoreau’s essay, I am swayed the other way. He makes a very strong argument for John Brown and probably persuaded many people at the time of his writing. I look at what John Brown did and the first thing that …showed first 75 words of 517 total…

…showed last 75 words of 517 total…situation where their morals conflict with someone else’s. His only difference is that he can write persuasively enough that he might convert you, this and he is immovably strong in his beliefs so as not to follow anyone else. After reading this composition I noticed that it was written more than ten years after “Civil Disobedience,” and it shows. Sadly, by this time, Thoreau has become more of a slavery-hating fanatic than a philosopher.