Team of Rivals

"For Chase, the situation presented particular problems.  Though he publicly denounced Brown's violation of law and order, his younger daughter, Nettie, later conceded that 'for a household accustomed to revere as friends of the family such men as Sumner, Garrison, Wendell, Phillips, Whittier, and Longfellow,' it was impossible not to sympathize with 'the truly good old man who was about to die for others.'  She and her friends built a small fort in the conservatory and 'raised a flag on which was painted... defiantly 'Freedom forever; slavery never.''  When friends warned Chase that such open support of Brown could not be countenanced, he had to explain to his daughter that 'a great wrong' could not be righted 'in the way poor old John Brown had attempted to do.'  The little fort was dismantled."  (228)