Curse of Cannan - The New Ensign

ebellions in the South, but this expensive propaganda had very little effect. As Day and other
observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic failed,
it became obvious to the conspirators that an actual military invasion was the only solution to
their campaign. The merchant bankers of New England, who were directly controlled by the
Rothschilds, were now instructed to finance a military attack against the South. Their
instrumentality was the already well-known terrorist, John Brown. He was financed by a group
famed as "the Secret Six," which was composed of "Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Rev.
Theodore Parker, Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe (married to Julia Ward, from a wealthy banking
family who later wrote "Battle Hymn of the Republic"), Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, George
Luther Stearns, and Gerrit Smith. Smith had been John Brown's first financial angel. He was the
son of the business partner of John Jacob Astor (East India. Company, the opium trade, and
British Intelligence). His mother was a Livingston; he was related to the Masonic leaders, Edward
and Robert Livingston. Smith was the largest landowner in the State of New York, holding a
million acres, which included land he had given to John Brown in 1848. Smith's total contribution
to John Brown's military raids and other radical causes came to more than eight million dollars,
a tremendous' sum in those days. Rev. Theodore Parker typified the "religious" inspiration of
the abolitionist movement; his mother was a Stearns, and he married into the Cabot family. He
was educated at the Harvard Divinity School, and he became a leading Transcendentalist and
Congregationalist minister. He was always an "activist" in the Masonic tradition. In 1854, he
had been indicted by a grand jury for inciting an attack on a courthouse where a runaway slave
was being detained. He was an active member of the Vigilance Committee, and he was the
principal organizer of the Secret Six to finance John Brown's raid. He later became an expatriate,
living in Europe. He died in Florence (birthplace of secular humanism).
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, of the leading New England banking family, was from
Newburyport, Massachusetts, the birthplace of Albert Pike, who became the national leader of
American Masonry. Higginson actively assisted Rev. Parker in the attack on the courthouse and
engaged in many other illegal and nefarious activities. His cousin married Theodore Roosevelt.
Samuel Gridley Howe and his wife, Julia, founded and edited a fiery anti-slavery newspaper,
"The Commonwealth." Like so many of the Canaanite agitators in the United States, Gridley
was descended from Calvinist revolutionaries; his ancestor was an officer in Cromwell's army,
John Ward of Gloucester, who later fled to the United States to avoid punishment for the atrocities
he committed under the banner of Cromwell. Franklin Benjamin Sanborn was a leading disciple
of Rev. Parker and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The Senate ordered his arrest in 1860. He had been the principal agent for John Brown in New
York since 1857. George Luther Stearns married into the Train family. He was the leader of the
Free Soilers, the anti-slavery agitators in the state of Kansas; their depredations gave rise to the
term "Bloody Kansas." He donated large sums to John Brown and bought a farm for the terrorist
and his family. The chief agent for Stearns in Kansas was Martin Conway. Originally from
Baltimore, Conway was sent to Kansas to lead the Free State forces there; he later became the
first Congressman from Kansas. On October 11, 1873, he fired three shots at Senator Pomeroy,
wounding him. Conway was taken to St. Elizabeth's Hospital, where he was judged hopelessly
insane. He later died there.
Other leading New Englanders deeply involved in the planning of uprisings in the South included
Samuel Cabot; he paid for $4000 worth of rifles which were sent to John Brown's forces in
Kansas. The guns were used to massacre entire families during John Brown's orgy of terrorism.
The Cabot Bank later provided $57,000 for John Brown's military expenses. There is no record
that it was ever repaid, or that any attempt was made to collect it. It was a donation to the cause
of terrorism, a familiar technique of bankers. Other financial supporters of John Brown included
John Murray Forbes, a wealthy railroad builder (his mother was a Perkins), who served on the
Republican National Committee.
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