Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-08-07
TRIALS OF AN INVENTOR,


THERE is something very touching in the ae4 Mt
of Good years rutferlngs while struggling tV +
feet his Iudil Rubber experiments:
From the first moment that the conception
ed his mind until his complete success-eJ
ing Il period OF from sixteen to seventeen
he applied himself increasingly aud enth,
ally To its protection and to its introduction
IN every form that his fruitful genius coul
So intensely were his faculties consentrai
1t that he seems 10 have been incapable OF
or of action upon any other subject. lie
other occupation, was inspired by no 9th
no other ambition. He carried
ally about his person q piece of India RUN
into the ears OF all via would listen he p
cessantly the story OF his experiments
glowing language of his prophecies. Hd
cO;ding to the witnesses, completely abs0
it, both by day and night, pur, uing it wit
ing energy and almost sunerhuman perseN
Not only were the powers OF his mind an
thus ardeutly devoted to the invention and d
ductiou into use, but every dollar be posse
could, command through the resources OF his
or the influence of friendship, was uncalcula
cast INFO that soething cauldron OF expert at
which was allowed no repOse. The very bj o.
which his wife slept and the linen that covert hi
table, were seized and sold to pay his board, 40,
we see him with his stricken household following
the funeral OF his child On foot because no had n
means with which to hire a carriage. His tamil
had to endure privatiOns almost surprising belize
being frequently with out an article Of food in thel
house, or fuel ia the coolest weather-and indee
it is saidthat they could not have lived through I'll
wiuter of 1889 but for the kind offices of a fe
charitable friends. They are represented as gath
ering sticks IN the woods and on the edges OF Oh
highway with which to cook their meals, and di.
ging the potatoes in their littIe garden before the
were half grown, while ore Of his hungry chllGre
in a spirit worthy u his father, is heard EXPIRE
ing his thanks that this much had been spared
them.
We often find him arrested and incarcerated
the debtors prisOn, but even amid its gloom h
vision of the future never grew dim, his faith
his Intimate ttiumph never faltere9. Undismayt
by disc0mGtores and sorrows which might We
have broken the stoutest spirit, his lungua,
ever where. and under all circumstances, was tn
OF encouragement and profound conviction Of fin
success. Not only in the United States did he tn
exert himself to establish aud 10 apply 80 evel
possible use his invention, but in England, Fran
and other countries Of Europe, he 2ealously pu
sued the same career
Ia 1855 he appeared at the Worlds Fair in Par
and the golden medal and the Grand Cross Of ii
Legion OF Honor were awarded 10 him as the re
1resentative of his c%Ountry's Inventive genius.
Fortune. however. while thus cares.iug him wi
enc hand, was at the same moment shifting h.
with the other; for We learn from the te.timoi
that these brilliant memorials passed from (
Emperor and reached their honoreC recipient th
the 0eeu pant ui a debtors prison among stPsng {
and in \ forei "a iand-thus adding yet another
that long, sad catalogue Of public Degefacturs "
have stood R~egieeted and impe Serished ia I
/, midst Of tho waving harvest ot blessings they b
bestowed upon their race.