The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-02-09


suckle and cIenlatis. These were occupied by
Doctor Beecher aud the Professors. There are
other residences more pretending in appearance,
occupied by bankers, merchants, and mon of for
tune. The little village thus formed is called Wal
nut Hills, and is of the prettiest in the env-
rons of Cincinnati.
For several years after her removal to this place,
Harriet Beecher continued to teach in connection
with her sister. She did so until her marriage
bical Literature in the Seminary of which her
father was President. This gentleman was al
ready of the most distinguished ecclesiastical
savans in America. After graduating with honor
at Bowdoin College, Maine, and taking his theo-
logical degree at Andover, he had been appointed
Professor at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire,
whence he had been called to Lane Seminary.
Mrs Stoves married life has been of that equabe
| and sober happiness common in the families OF
Yankee clergymeE. 1t has been blessed with
| numerous offspring, of whom five still living.
Mrs. Stowe has known the latigues of watching
the sick bed, and her heart has felt that grief
which eciipses all others-tliat of bereaVed moth
or. Much of her time has been devoted to the
bold cares have devo.ved on friend or distant re-
! lative, who has always resided with her. She
employed her leisure in contributing occasional
pieces, tales, and nove'etes to the magazines and
newspapers. Her writings were Of high moral
tone, and deservedly popular. Only small por-
ton of them are comprised in the volume-st The
Mayfower ''-aready mentioned. This part Of
Mrs. Stoves lie, spent in literary pleasures,
family uys and cares, and the society of the pious
and intelligent, would have been of as unaiIoyed
/ happiness as nortaIs can expect, had it not been
darkened at every instant by the baleful shadow
of slavery.
| The =" peculiar institution :" was destined TO
thwart the grand project in tho life of Mrs. Stoves
father and husband. When ti,ey reIinquished their
excellent positions in the east, in order to build up
the great Prosby terrain Seminary for the Ohio and
Mississippi valley, they did with every prospect
of success. Never did literary institution start
under finer auspices. The number and repota-
ton of the professors had drawn together several
hundred students from all parts of the United
States; not sickiy cellar plants of boys sent by
wealthy parents, but hardy Intelligent young men,
most of whom, fired by the ambition Of converting
the world to Christ, winning their way,
through prvations and toll, to education and minis
terial orders. They were the stuff out of which
foreign missionaries and revival preachers are
made. Some of them were known to the public
as lecturers: Theodore d. Weld was an orator.
cal celebrity For year all went well. Lane
Seminary was the pride and hope of the church
, Alas for the hope of Messrs. Beecher aud Stowe
| All NJ,
The French Revolution of 1880, tho agitation
ir England for reform, and against colonial slavery
the fine AID Imprisonment by American courts o
JUSTICE of citizens who dared to attack the slave
TRADE carried on under the federal flag, had begur
( to direct the attention Of a few American philau
tIlropists to the evils of slavery Some years be
fore. society had been formed for the onisins
. free blacks on the coast of Africa. It had bee.
patronised by Intelligent shareholders, who feares
the contact of free blacks with their human chat
!; tells; and by feeble or ignorant persons in ths
north, whose conscieuces inpeed them to act OIL
slavery in some way, and whose prudence or ig
d uorance of the question led them to accept tn
= plan favored by shareholders. However useful {
Africa the emigration its shores of iatslligen,
o and euterprisng blacks may be, 1t is now univer
! sally admitted that colonization, as means of ex
tnguishing slavery, is a driveIling absurdity.-
These were the views OF the abolition convention
which met Philadelphia in 1888, and set o.
It foot the agitation WHICH has since couvulsed ti
:, Union.
ii The President Of that convention, Mr. Arlhu
: Tappau, was one of the most liberal donors @
1t Lane Seminary. He forwarded its address t
}, tho studeotss aud a few weeks afterwards tn,
i whole subject was up for discussion amongst then
r At first there was little interest. But soon tn
IS fire began to burn Many Of The students had tras
eed OF taught school in the slave States: guodl
q number were sons OF shareholders, and some wer
), owners of slaves. They had seen slavery and ha
n facts to relate, many of WHICH made the blood ru
chill with horror. These spread out the page
n Of .s Uncle Toms Cabin" reader, and which you
Q swelling heart and overaowiug eyes would nc
q let yoa read aloud, are cold in comparison. Th
discussion was soon ended, for all were of one &C
e cord; but the meetings for the relation of facl
Is were continued night after night, aud week afte
n week. What was at once sensibiiiiy grew int
TO enthusiasm; tho feeble fame had become cor
} fagration. The s.aveowuers among the student
gave liberty to their slaves; the idea OF going o
at foreign missions WIS secuted at, because ther
to were heathen at home; some left their studies
collected the colored population of Cincinnati n'
,g churches, aud preached to them; others gathere
I'd the young men into evening schools, aud the chi
I'd dl'en into day schuols and devoted themselves
le teaching them; others organized benevolent Sc
id cieliss for aiding ton and orphan asyiums for ii
of destitute aud abandoned chideea, ard other
t again. left all to aid (ustivcs on their way TO Car
le ada Or to lecture the evils of slavery. The &
s. uatcism was sublime; every student felt hin,se
a Peter the Hermit, and acted as f the abol
ton of slavery depended on his individual exc
- tious.
it At frat, the discussion had boec urged by u
a President aud Professors; but when they saw