Snap, snap, snap:

"[Abolitionist John] Brown was devoted to fund-raising and recruiting for his Southern invasion plan, which soon centered on the Federal Arsenal at Harpers Ferry. The plan was hardly well concealed; at some point, it was placed in the hands, through an anonymous letter, of the Secretary of War, John B. Floyd, who, in the great tradition of American counter-terrorism, shrugged and threw it aside."

--Adam Gopnik, in "John Brown's Body," The New Yorker, April 25, 2005