Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-08-01


Tho telegraph yesterday announced the
death Of SAMUEL LEWIS, and to-day the intel
lgcnce is confirmed by the Cincinnati GoSstte,
which states that he died at his residence, in
Green Township, near Cincinnati, on Friday
last, 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 the confidence ard gratitude
Of his fellow-citizens. Woodward College and
the Hughes School are substantial monuments
of his intelligent zeal in that cause; while the
lawe Of Ohio for the establishment and reguia-
ton Of common schools, which hc was accus-
toned to call g the Peoples Colleges" will bear
to posterity the impress Of his liberal wisdom
and humane patriotism.
In l84l, Mr.. LEWIS took an active part in
the orgaaization Of the Liberty Party Of Ohio,
and was ever a true and faithful friend of hui
man freedom. He was deeply impressed with
the great wrong and evil Of Slavery, and this
conviction was the primary spring of his POI
litical action. He believed slaveholdng 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 tho
fundamental idea of the Liberty Party, name.
ly: 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, Mr.. LEWIS was nominated by the
Liberty Party as its candidate for Governor Of
Ohio, and received a vote beyond its numerical
strength. In 1852, he was again nominated as
a candidate by the Free Soil Convention,
though against his own earnestly expressed re-
moDstrances; and in 1853 he was again pre-
vailed on to allow his name to be proposed for
the same cffico, by the Independent Democra-
cy 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 oharacterizes 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
mencng life as the cabin-boy Of Massachu-
sets coasting vessel, and passing through vari-
GUS employments until he became highly re-
spected 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
local preacher of the Church Of his childhood,
and died in its communion.
We regret that we cannot, in this sketch, do
mere 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 a proper
memoir will 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 phiianthropist and the
Christian.