Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-06-19

and withdrew from the more conspicuous service
of tho cause, still, even then, il was under bis ROOT
that Ellen Craft found rcIdge when the United
States officers, hounds OF an infamous slave hunt,
sought to lay hands on her as a fugitive. ZAP.
plause.)
To Ellis Gray Loring belongs the honor, one
which history will never forget, of having argued
the Ned case-the Sum0rsett case Of our struggle.
Shrinking from jury practice, with no taste Tor
the struggles Of courts, lie threw aside his dislike,
and, opposed by almast the whole Bar, led the
way in settling for Massachusetts and the North
the principle that q slave IiOUght here is irec.--
Friends, he leaves us to-day the legacy Of seeing
that no corrupt Judge Of any Bench makes vain
that glorious and hard won decision. ii 1867
could infuse 50 much justice into law, learn ct SO
bright an example, and see IL 1858 cannot llt 1t
up still higher, and make Massachusetts a safe shell
ter for the fugitive also. To he like our noble
predecessors, we must do not only What they dId'
Tut what they would have done.
The great merit of Mr.. Loring's Anti'Slavery
life was it seems to me, that he laid on the altar
of the slaves need all his peculiar tastes. Hetn'
cd, domestic, retiring, conteinplative, loving liter
allure, art, the culture and the grace Of literary
intellectual ease, he saw that there was no one
else to speak, therefore he was found in the van.
1t was the uttermost instance of self sacrifice
more than IN )ney, more than reputation though
he gavO both.
liz is gone. The second, third or fourth. | can.
not now recall which Of that little band, who met
10 lay the corner. stone Of this enterprise. They
say the circle is ANAL. The narrower 1t becomes,
let us draw the closer together 1t was my prlvi'
ledge to know him in days when we were so lew
we seemed but one family, and called each other
by our first names,-when persecution had driven
US 80 close together that there was no point OF dl
,isiUn between us. We have grown larger, and
some have PASSED inward, bot no one dies. y
man who links bis name with the wealth. the ma
tcrial grow IN of q country, we may forget him
.hou he Lnhu aanuns g., hold n SIGHT . INT one
who comes to us always when VIC think of some
great and living principle. ~ with US after lis body
is gone, as really as when it is present. lie lives
ms he always did, in loyalty TO truth. Call not BIZ
life short. His life is long that answers lite''
great end ; and who, in fifty years, has done more
than this man to redeem the community in whic'
he lives? Whoever writes its history must place
his name high on its pages as having labored earn
estly. devotedly, successfully to keep its lille, 1t
~soul-life, bright, vital, fresh. The man who lift
up his age belongs to the few that are not born t
die.
| stand here, as my friend Garrison did, I
thank him. 1t was from one living under hi
roof | received the first anti'slavery message tina
called me into anti-slavery being. IL was iron
his hand, marked with his now so familiar writing
that | received the first anti-slavery pamphlet, II
the record Of his appearance before the Senate t
protest against the attempt to punish meeting
like these with the State Prison. | thank him 70
his good service in the Thermopyl0 OF 1888 ant
lS40-thank hin for his example, always tn,
more devoted. the greater the need. | rejoice, a
his near friend, in the worthy distinction he ba
of having been among the very first to rally rounc
the banner Of the noblest moral movement OF oul
day. Ours may be a scanty eulogy, but coming
time will confirm and enlarge it. Ours is but a
feeble, though hearty blessing, but the gratitude
of the poor and the hunted whom he has helped
and sheltered will make all other blessing
needless.