The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1860-04-26
"You Shed the Blood of my Brother
Twenty Years ago, and I am here to
Speak the truth"
From the Cleveland Herald.


From the Cleveland Herald.
If the spirit Of the murdered roams
without restuntil the''deep damnation
of his taking off" is revenged, then, in
deed, can the soul of Elijah P. Love
joy now find repose. One can fancy
that from the spirit land that slain mar
ter looked down upon the scene III the
House of Representatives on Thurs
day the 5th, and saw the flashing eye,
and the clenched fist of his brother
as, he hurled defiant truth at the Slave
ry propagandists; telling them to their
teeth that he "would hold up to the ret
ribution of public sentiment, slayeIlold-
ing in all its atrocity and hideousness.
and thus seeing the final triumph Of
free speech, that spirit laid itself ,iown
to blissful, eternal rest.
On the fifth day of Novmber, 1887,
the Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy-brother to
Owen Lovejoy, now member Of Con.
gress from Illinois-shed his life's blood
IN defense offree speech and that, too,
IN the free state of Illinois. But the
blood OF martyrs is the seed Of the
church. The blood of Loveioy has been
crying from the ground until the peo-
pie of that same State have sent Owen
Loyejoy to Congress, there in the face
Of the world, to defy slavery brutality,
and to tell it's advocates that although
that butchered brother is dead, yet he
speaketh. On the floor of the House
MIR. Lovejoy called up the ghost Of his
murdered brother, and it frightened the
mlnions. of slavery from their propriety
as did the ghost of Banquo scare the
guilty Macbeth. That was q guest not
invited to the feast, and yet there he
sat, while slavery propagandists raved
and stormed.
"----the times have been,
That when the brains were cut, the man would die,
And there an end; but now, they rise again,
With twenty mortal murders on their cre WIS.
! And push us from our stools
1t is well to revive few of the Incl
dents connected with the murder of Mir
Lovejoy, if our readers would feel the
full force OF the bearing and the langua-
sc of his brother The Rev-Eliiah 2.
Lovejoy was the editor of the Alton
Observer, an anti. slavery paper, printed
at Alton, Illinois, right over the river
from Missouri.
The press Of the Observer was three
TINS destroyed by mob, the last time
in November 18th, 1887, at which time
Mr.. Loyejoy was killed. On the night
ofthe 18th, mob collected around the
warehouse in which the press vast
having arrived by river the day before
and threatend violence if it was not
delivered up to them. Mr.. Loyeiov
and number Of friends were in the
warehouse and prepared to defend the
press. The mob were told from the
warehouse that the press would not be |
given up, and the mob commenced an
attack.
A shotfired from the building took fatal |
effectupon one of the mob, named Lyman |
Bishop, and the mob for time with.
drew. They, however rallied again
with an increased force and set the |
warehouse on fire. Then to escape
death by burning, the inmates were
forced to leave, and in doing so the Rev
MIR Love.joy, at the door of the build
ing, received four balls in the breast,
and fell a corpse. The mob then brought
out the press, and, having smashed it,
threw the pieces into the river.
That is the outline of the affair. The
mob was from the Missouri side and
the whole outrage perpetrated under
the lead and direction of slavery. The
thrilling effect of Mr.. Owen Loveioy's
remark to Mr.. Clark, of Missouri, can
be better seen in full glare of the his
tory OF that Alton outrage and hence
we have looked up and revived the inn
portant facts.
The blood of Lovejoy stained the
name of Alton for many years-for its
authorities were powerless
before the demand OF slavery,-and that
clty,to this day, has not recovered from
the blow the death Of that man gave
her.