The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-08-10
DEATH OF SAMUEL LEWIS.

The telegraph has announced the death OF
SAMUEL LEWIS, and the intelligence is con-
frmed by tho Cincinnati Gazette, which states
that he died at his residence in Green Town
ship, near Cincinnati, on Friday, July 2Sth,
at half past twelve, afternoon.
This news, though not unexpected, will fill
many thousand hearts with sadness.
Long known as an earnest and devoted
friend of popular education, MIR. Lewis had
large claims upon tho confidence and gratitude
of his fellow-citizens. Woodward College and
the Hughes School are substantial monuments
of his intelligent zeal in that cause; while tho
laws of Ohio for the establishment and reguls-
ton of common schools, which he was accus-
toned to call the Peoples Colleges" will bear
to posterity the impress of his liberal wisdom
and humane patriotism.
In 184I, MIR. LEWIS took an active part in
the organization of the Liberty Party Of Ohio,
and was ever a true and faithful friend of hu-
man freedom. He was deeply impressed with
the great wrong and evil of Slavery, and this
conviction was the primary spring of his po-
litical action. He believed slaveholding to be
a crime, and all who sustained it by legislation,
either directly as lawmakers, or indirectly as
electors of lawmakers, to be partakers in the
guilt. He therefore embraced heartily the
fundamental idea of the Liberty Party, name
Iy: the divorce Of the General Government
from Slavery, by repeal of all national laws
through which it is upheld, and by such posi-
tive legislation as may be needed to effect the
object.
In 1916. MIR. LEWIS was nominated by the
Liberty Party as its candidate for Governor of
Ohio, and received vote beyond its numerical
strength. In 1852, he was again nominased as
a candidate by the Free Soil Convention,
though against his own earnestly expressed re-
monstrances; and in 1853 he was again pre-
vailed on to allow his name to be proposed for
the same Office, by the Independent Democra-
CIV; and, on the last occasion, received over fifty
thousand votes. Few men have contributed SO
much, in speech and writing, to deepen and
strengthen the intelligent and earnest Anti
Slavery sentiment which charscterizes the
people of Ohio.
AS friend of Temperance, Mr.. LEWIS was
also distinguished. He espoused the cause
when its friends were few and was wise
jealous, and active friend of it, as long as he
lived.
In religion, Mr.. LEWIS was devout MEM
Der of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Com
mencing life as the cabin-boy of Massachu-
sets coasting vessel, and passing through vari-
GUS employments until he became highly re-
speeted member of the Cincinnati bar, he was
ever distinguished by fidelity to early religious
convictions; and when he retired from the
bar, after few years practice, he became q
local preacher of the Church of his childhood,
and died in its communion.
We regret that we cannot, in this sketch, do
more ample justice to the merits of the emil
nent citizen whose loss we deplore But we
are obliged to write from general recollection,
and have neither time nor materials for that
full account which we should be glad to give
of so instructive life. We hope that proper
memoir viii be prepared and published, and
that In the mean time this brief notice will be
accepted as some evidence of our true appreci.
alton of the man, the philanthropist, and the
Christian.