Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-08-25

The people become lnSf1nct vain The vital nre OF
manhood-whereyer the bombs echo can come
over the sea as nations battle for tie right. LET
our sympafhics be with them--and may our
Republic always stand pillar of cloud and a
pillar of fire leading nations from the exodus Of
the Egyptian bandage Of ages.
An Kntercstins Episode Of Ohio
| History. - - =,
| At the recent commencement of Mari
letta College, Rev. s. P. Hildreth Of Dres-
den. son Of the well known Dr.. Hildreth,
author of aPion, er History," and of many
biographical sketches of early settlers, de-
livered the annual Alumni Address. His
topic was .The Alumni" He sketched
graphically the early history and late sue
cess of the college, giving as he proceeded
interesting particulars of active and PROM
inent graduates. So, 10
/ Wehope the address viii be published.
As specimen of its historical interest, we
quote the following account of early anti
slavery movements at the Plymouth Of the
West: ss- 80 -
In the summer of 1886, Marietta vas
visited by Theodore Wei. q student who
had left the Theological school nj Lane
Seminary, and was trarersing Ohio as a
lecturer against slavery. Elsewhere he
had been received with mobs, and showers
of stones and rotten eggs. A good deacon
passed through the community at Marietta,
and said, "Do not mob him; but all of you
stay away and let him lecture TO empty
benches" This advice was followed. The
empty benches of the Library Hall con-
tanned no audience excepting fifteen or
twenty young men from the College Ut
tering no word of complaint, Theodore
Weld delivered sixteen lectures to tliis lit
lie handful, with power of argument, and
pathetic eloquence, such as those young
men had never heard before. That there
might be no interference with the regular
routine Of college duty, Weld lectured one
hour before sunset, and when his course
was over, every one of those young men
had become convert to the anti-slavery
cause.
Soon after the departure of Theodore
Weld, an anti-slavery prayer meeting, ap-
pointed for the fourth Monday evening of
each month, was established by the stu
dents in Point Harrnar. Samuel Hall was
leading spirit in this movement. The
new enterprise was soon noised abroad in
community, and excited great indignation
among the lewd fellows of the baser sort.
1t was not to be endured. The post-mas-
ter collected mob in Marietta, and cross
ing the Muskingum river, united with a
body of like minded men in Point Harmar.
They congregated in a grocery, and drank
confusion to the anti-slarery prayer meet
ing. When their spirits were sufficiently
elevated, with the grocery-keeper at their
head, they marched with yells and hooting
to the prayer meeting. and rushed in at
the door. As they entered Samnel Hall
stepped into the aisle, and elevating his
tall form TO its utmost height, silently pre-
sented pistol at the advancing rioters
They paused, and recoiled. sSeize him !"
cried the groccry-keeper, stopping behind
two or three of the largest men in the
crowd. "Seizs himl Take away his pis
lolP' But Halls ferocious attitude over
awed them. No one dared approach.-
Meantime the members Of the prayer meet
ing quietly escaped. At length pushing
each other onward from behind, they ad-
vanced so closely upon Hall that he sur
rendered his pistol, explaining TO the alarm
ed grocery-keeper, that it was not loaded,
he leaped from a window, and made good
his escape.
The mob were infuriated. They had
taken no captives.. Hall must be tarred
and feathered that night as warning to
all abolitionists. A detachment hastened
TO the ferry for the purpose of intercept
ing bis flight. At this hour a meeting,
held in the lecture room of the Congrega-
tional Church, then the Library Hall was
dismissed. as the audience were return
ing to their homes, they heard outcries in
Point Harmar, which al first excited the
apprehension that building had taken
fire. But no smoke or fame was visible.
The dispensing congregation paused. The
moon shone clear over head; the broad
commons sparkled with their covering of
show, and across the river came cries and
yells that curdled the blood, sounding as
if all the lions and hyenas of menagerie
had been turned loose, and were tearing
limb from limb. About midnight Samuel
Hall reached bis room in College with ici-
eles covering his. clothes. But the brown
cloak lined with crimson which he custom
arily wore, was never seen again. Finding
his passage to the ferry intercepted, Hall
waited till late in The night and then trust
ing to his unrivalled skill as swimmer,
plunged into the Muskingum, and made
for the opposite shore. The cold water
chilled him through and through; the
cloak impeded the free movement Of his
limbs; halfway across the river bis strength
was becoming exhausted; turning upon his
back, and unclasping the cloak, Hall left it
in the current and swan weariiy to the
shore. . ga > se
4 ~ -. -. e 81.
News Items.
The Catholic Telegraph Of last week,
says: ave are directed by the Ulost Rev.
Archbishop to state, that the prayers fo'
peace, which God has most mercifully