Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-07-11
Communications
THE REPOSITORY AND THE HOLIDAY
OUTRAGE,

THE REPOSITORY AND THE HOLIDAY
OUTRAGE,
FRIEND MARIus 1t is always an unpleasant
task to perform q job Of work the second time
before it will answer the desired end. l this lay
read an article in the Ohio Repository denying
emphatically every truth that was contained
in my previous communication which related to
the fracus at Canton between j. Holiday and WI
P. Ellison. am proud to say that / entertain too
high a respect for my friend Holiday to witness
such an ingenious display of falsehood as is exhib-
tied not only in that article but in other current
reports. The light in which Holiday is represent
ed in the Repository brings him before the public
with q character so low, so degraded, that not even
the farthest sunk inmates of would
be willing to exchange their dignity for his. read
the article in Holidays presence and no made no
hesitate in pronouncing it an outrageous mis'ep-
resentAtion Of the facts. l cannot attribute this
gross misrepresentation of .he plain truth to the
editor, for I have no idea that he was q witness to
the scene, but the wrong lies somewhere, and the
probability is that this tale has been reported to
the editor BY some conservative Republican who
feared that his chances for nomination for once
would te overshadowej With doubt if the plain
ruth should be laid before the public. But yeN
although the truth may throw into political con-
domination some poor owl-eyed office seeker 1t If no
reason why private character should be 81 omitted
to all the insults which flow from the inexhaust-
able fountains of corrupt society,
/ am glad to learn that our representative Ito
Hatchery condemns Ellison's act in pitching Holi.
day into the street. lie condemns it here. Does
he do it in Can ton or other places where Republic
anism does rot mean Abolitionism. Let the future
answer. He does not nor cannot represent repub-
licanism as it exists here in our locality unless he
condemnsEllison's act as an outrage upon humanity
but the great misfortune is abolitionism and re-
publicauism ir combination are local in their ma
ture and therefore who ever enlis,s under the ban
ner of republicanism with the expectation of be-
ing promoted TO ONCE must necessarily respect the
views Of some whoss opinions srs - dsxsss S6tas
onism with others belonging - che same
party. But again to the article in the Repository.
It reads thus: Holiday came to the Franklin
House and when the dinner bell rang, he marched
into the dining room and took a chair which hat
been turned up to the table,. 1t further says tina
one Of the guests remarked to him that that sea
was veserved for a lady; he answered that he wa
as good as any lady. 1t further states that all tn
3 guests were determined that he should not onl
D relinauish that seat bat that he should not sit a
the table. It also says that this scene brought il
s Mr.. Ellison, the landlord.
e To make the matter short, Mr.. Holiday denie
it all as q contemplate falsehood. l sat at tn
table and witnessed the whole transaction. Holi
day seated himself near the door of the dinin
room very near one end Of tho table and what ID
J;as tb ara oh rho fol1a uore naar the nthp
- end and | would remark further that l never fa'
n a lady sitting at that end where Holiday sat n
Of though that house has always been my stol
ping place. AS to the guests raising n furry wit
Holiday previous to Ellison's entrance into th
room, l would soy that it must have been carrie
on very secretly for l neither heard nor saw an
signs of dissatisfaction until Ellison commando
Holiday to leave the table. The article referred
states that the manner in which Ellison addresse
Holiday was of a mild and concilistory characte
and that the gentle manner in which he was trea
ed seemed only to exasperate him. All / have to 50
,e in regard to that is, if the editor of the Repositor
knows the facts in the case and then pronounce
Ellison's conduct of q mild and conciliatory cha
acter I should not trust him to judge Of such ma
i. ters for me. His conduct was boisterous and h
o WOrQ5 COmnduulubs WEutu II uo COuutoudut
and oaths upon his lips. There are several oth'
/; points in the article which might be referred t
but it is useless. 1t closes with a dab on its neigl
Dor Democrat for saddling the act upon the repu
lican party. 1t says"nice men these editors ofitl
Democrat; whenever they get q Niger into the
hands they like to torture him. No doubt thu
rs would like to burn q negro or two so that the
q might stand high with Buchanan. JEFF. Davi
Toombs and others. land l think they might ha'
s. added Judge Mclean, Spaulding and others of Il
be republican ranks). How the truth can |
q, twisted up; turned inside out and presented to Ii
~ public with "a complete counterfeit face. 1t
certainly w~ronging Holiday enough to drag hir
Mt from the table whilst hungry without beaping ter
fold greater insults upon him by rerorting to ur
truth to describe the transaction. Holiday is q ma
o. hat bears a good reputation where ever he is know
,r- and l as well az others who know him will receiy
or an assertion from him for truth, as quick as from
the best men in Canton or elsewbere,t to say nothint
OF Of those who sink lower in the scale OF moral ee
'r- walton. Here in our neighborhood we believe q
truth from a black man just as soen as though il
n, passed through the lips of some slick tongued
be white aristocrat. Bot the world is vet toe
ty young to acknowledge that humanity, and all thu
noble attributes of the soul peculiar phite folk.
can exist under the cover Of a dark skin. Goo
speed the day when all the sons and daughters o
men will be recognised as,human beings, and treat
ed as such, regardless of the hue with which Coz
has seen fit 10 clothe them.
% j. d. JOHNSTON.
LIxAvILLE, July 4th, 1857.
hereby certify that the above article is ~stristl.
true, and that in the Repository is false.
JEHU HOLIDAY.