 Many abolitionists in the North viewed Brown as a martyr, sacrificed for the sins of the nation.Immediately after the raid, William Lloyd Garrison published a column in "The Liberator", judging Brown's raid "well-intended but sadly misguided" and "wild and futile".But he defended Brown's character from detractors in the Northern and Southern press and argued that those who supported the principles of the American Revolution could not consistently oppose Brown's raid.