How does Frederick Douglass feel about John Brown and his raid?

Frederick Douglass was in awe.  He had dinner with John
Brown on a couple of occasions, and was utterly impressed with the fact a white man
would go to such lengths to fight black slavery.  When he was sentenced to death for
treason against Virginia, and sent to the gallows to be hung, he still used his trial
and hanging as opportunities to speak out against
slavery.

In his newspaper, The North Star,
Douglass wrote of John Brown after his
death:

His
zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine.  Mine is as the
candlelight, his was as the burning sun.  I could live for the
slaves.  John Brown could die for
them.

It's a good example of
how polarizing a figure John Brown was.  Southerners despised him, and thought him an
example of what all northerners believed and were like.  (A southern newspaper
in Georgia had an editorial which stated: "An undivided South says let him
hang") Northern abolitionists saw him as a heroic figure who had fired the
first shot in the final battle against slavery.