Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-06-13
REPUBLICANIsM IN CANTON.

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to publish accounts of outrages upon humanity Of
the most discreditable nature. Nearly every issue
OF your paper adds still another link to the great
chain OF crime and outrage. However sensitive
you and your readers may be to wrong the cause
OF truth and the demands of justice require that
all violation Of moral principle should be set forth
to tho public in as clear q light re possible. am
now seated at my table at the request of some Of
our warmest hearted abolitionists for the purpose
of recording one of the most inluman acts ever
perpetrated by man. Not an act however that
public sentiment scorns, but one which stamps in.
delably upon the character of its perpetrator q
blot that is erased neither by time nor in eternity.
/ will give you some of the particulars and by
this means you can form q judgement of your own
as to the moral character of those who will be
referred to in this article.
l left home yesterday morning in company
with Jehu Holiday for the town of Can ton, and
just before arriving there, the gu estion arose be-
tween us which was the best place to stop for
dinner, l left it entirely to him, and he prefsrrsdi
going to W. 1. Ellison's, as he was somewhat
acquainted with him and wholly unacquainted
with the rest. Before proceeding farther, 1 will
simply state that Mr., Holiday is a colored man.
He is a close neighbor and a very respectable cit
izen. AS we came up to the tavern we were re-
cieved as gentlemen and both passed boldly into
the bar-room, feeling that we were actually men.
We arrived at the hotel about one hour before
the dinner bell rang. We spent the time very
agreeably until a moment after our arrival at the
dinner table. We both walked in together very
unsuspectingly and seated ourselves at the table.
After being seated q moment / looked around
amongst those seated at the table to see if l could
discover any signs of dissatisfaction on account of
Holidays presence. Every countenance seemed
to indicate perfect satisfaction except the one right
behind me. This was the Landlord. He looked
as though he had just read the finishing sentence
that doomed him to swallow sun-fsh tail foremost,
for his regular food for the next twenty years.
The first sound that attracted my attention was
the words "get up" l turned my eyes to Mr..
Holiday, and MIR. Ellison was pulling his chair
from the table. Mr.. Ellison spoke to Mr.. Holiday
three or four times in a very commanding way
telling him to leave the table. Mr.. Holiday in
sisted on getting his dinner first; but the Repub-
Ilican spirit Of Mr.. Ellison overruled, and with the
aid of John Hatcher (son of William Hatcher, the
Republican Representative of Stark county,, and
others, he succeeded in t~umbling the poor hungry
man into the street. Whilst passing through the
hall toward the street door, the ostler of Mr.. Ellison
Q came in with a dirk drawn, with all seeming in
%tention to stab the poor victim to the heart, but
was prevented by being unable to strike the death
J blow without endangering Messrs. Ellison, Hatcher
and others. MIR. Holiday had no weapons upon
. his person at the time, but as soon as he found
d himself free from the grasp of the humane Repub-
licans he proceeded in search of something with
I which he cUuld penetrate the skull Of q ~hypocrit-
ical Republican. His idea of the thickness of the
d skull OF a Republican must have been formed very
correctly if in his selection Of weapons be intend
! ed to proportion their size to that thickness for his
J weapon was a stone, I should think from four to
six inches in thickness. While proceeding toward
t the scene of trouble with his weapon in his hand
5 and vengeance in his coun tenance, be was met BY
Hon. 3. +. Letter. Mr.. Letter attem 2ted to COM
e for. him, but he was like Rachel weeping for her
e children because they were not. He walked bold
D ly up into the crowd and commenced pleading his
D own cause, but was too much excited to exhibit
his accustomed talent. By this time there were
probably a hundred persons gathered around to
f witness the scene. Several times Mr.. Holiday
e was ordered to stop speaking, but without effect.
The excitement increased in the rabble around
: him, until mob law seemed to be the
It result to which it pointed. Mr.. Letter
IdSalu WeHl " uur. llOllluuy, anu ADVISED MIN
i of his danger, and insisted that he should
g leave, if he wished to escape in safety. Neither
Mr.. Holiday nor my self ate q mouthful at that
r place.
y Feeling that my companion was deeply wrongsd,
Q we concluded to ask counsel, and went to Mr..
John G. Morss. of Limaville then in town., and
asked him if there was no law by which such
scoundrels as Ellison could be punished. His
d answer was that there was not. He stated that
s the law allowed the proprietors Of hotels the
t privilege Of making their own rules and that it
: would be decided by the bar and the court that
: the exclusion of negroes was but one Of those
rules.
Mr.. Ellison's house is the grand centre in Old
: Canton to which these kind hearted and exceed
o inglJ benevolent Republicans rush. They arc as
n a general thing SO deeply inspired with the love
t of God and water baptism that no other house in
: the place is sufficiently sanctifed to preserve their
e morals.
This is the house where our big Representative
stops. When l say big l do not refer to moral or
I intellectual Developments. But little over two
years ago, if my memory is right, Mr.. W. P. Eli
g son was baptized in the Disciples Church. How
u it is that u man can belong to a church that pro-
fesses to love God and his fellow man, and then
u drag a poor hungry man from his table because he
; is what God made him, is q problem which would
D probably require the ingenuity of the most hid
u eous demons of the internal regions to solve.
All the slaveholding religion of the land in con-
cert with the Republican party, are busily en-
gagged in assailing the old bunker Democracy but
after searching throughout the Democratic party,
we find nothing to exceed in infamy that little.
transaction at the Ellison House yesterday. How
t. do such politics and christianity harmonic with.
n the precept and example of Jesus. The religion
= OF Jesus says, feed the hungry; and the religion
e at the. Ellison House says, drag the hungry from
the table. The man who skulks under the cloak
e OF water baptism for the purpose of accommodating
dollars and cents or a reputation in the ranks Of
= ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ia nnlu trI.sI;nn 10 n Oh alLa.II.a.al