Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-04-20
Special corrsspendsnes Of the CINCINNATI Gazette
Congressional HOBOrs to owes
LOVejOy.
A Companion Piece for the Picture.


Ii was a striking and historic scene IN
the House and Senate, yesterday ana To-
day, but to appreciate 1t properly, one
must look also at its companion piece.
On the night of the 7th OF November,
1887. mob was bowling about the walls
of solidly-built warehouse IN western
border village, on the Mississippi. They
had caught there an upright minister OF
the Gospel, of the Presbyterian Church,
with few of his friends and, after
hours of Intellectual attack were frantic
ally shouting, "Fife the building" Burn
'em out" Shoot every id Abolition
ist as he leaves"
This minister, against whose character
no word of reproach had ever been utter
ed, whose relations with all men were a.
pure and honorable as became his Office,
and, years before, at the invitation Of the
brethren of his Church, established re-
ieious newspaper in st. Louis, which came
after time, as the subject naturally arose,
to speak of Slavery, Is an evil, good men
should strive TO mitigate, and ultimately
eradicate. He was. not an Aboitionist,
as the term was understood he express
" urged that nothing should interfere
with the legal rights of shareholders, but
that measures should be begun looking TO
the extinction of the evil at such distant
period as might be thought expedient;
and he only referred to it as a religious
journalist might and should in animad-
verting upon the evils of the day. and
he did this, not at distance, with the
end of stirring up strifeS but in mild, and
charitable, and Christian spirit, in the
midst of the shareholders whom the ques-
ton concerned.
But it would not do; and in spite of his
blameless life, and his mild treatment OF
the offensive subject, his Office was mob
bed, and he had found it necessary to
cross the river, and establish his press on
what was supposed to be ffee=soil, at
Alton. Illinois. He had here continued
the same manly but temperate course
but the prosecutions had increased.
Three several times his Office had been
mobbed and his press destroyed, for no
other reason than his refusal, as rehg-
ious editor, to maintain profound silence
on the subject of Slavery he had him
self been more than once mobbed IN the
street, and the rioters had, on at least one
occasion, violated the sanetity Of his
home, and sought to drag him from the
midst of his family.
And now, the fourth press, bought for
him by his religious friends, in and about
his home, who deplored while they could
not adequately prevent the prosecutions
to which he was subjected, had arrived,
and been stored in this warehouse for safe
keeping. Thirty or forty citizens had vol
unteered to defend it, and had waited
through the evening, till the village SEEM
ed profoundly quiet, and all danger was
supposed. to be passed. A dozen, howev-
err had stiIl remained, with the minister,
TO watch out the night.
These men the mob, emerging from
grog-shops in the dead of night had
caught IN the warehouse, and OF them
had demanded the surrender OF the press.
Il was of course refused; and after ind
ing all other modes of attack useless, the
mob raised ladders against the building
and began to fire its roof. The lmprlson-
nd men sailed out to extinguish the IRE:
As they were retiring again, the minister
fingered behind moment when riot
ar. concealed behind pile Of lumber,
took deliberate aim at him, and the poor
nan fell pierced by FIVE balls. The mur-
lerer was never punished or molested.
It was in the year of our Lord, eighteen
hundred and thirty-seven, IN the State OF
TIlinios. that this deed was DONE Next
law thew buried him, and bending over
MS grave, the surviving brother, Owen
T.oveiov. vowed a solemn VOW that he
Vonld wage q lifelong warfare against the
,ccurSed cause of that sad martyrdom.-
HOW well he kept thatvow, let the Nations
history, and his own proud place IN 1t, at
est.
A quarter of q century later, both
Houses of Congress turned aside from the
oreesing work Of the hour, to pay the
iast sad tokens of respect of an hopored
,Saoc;ate 1t was not their eloquence that
nada the scene memorable, for there was
ittIe of it. But in the body where he
bad served SO long and struggled so herce-
h among the men who had witnessed
bis Interest contests, and many OF whom
had felt the weight of his trenehant blows
tbare came up from all sides hearty,
testimony TO his worth, tnst
,bovxad how surely he had taken hold
mon their respect and honor. This maE
z5ss the most outspoken and radical an
taeonist the present Opposition mas mad
vei among the foremost mourners was
Ierez q Allen, of Illinois; snd the most
generous and graceful tribute to the mem
9rv of the departed Aboitionist, came
Trou Geo. II. Pendleton, OF Cincinnati
II was worth something to see that
.ight Here were the representatives OF
ne Nation from all sides Fastening to
o;ve honor and reverence to the brother
9f the murdered minister of Alton. Tru-
10 ssaboye the scaffold stood the Lord still
keepine watch upon his own.
Tba denarted member had been fore
most in uisny bitter war of words; he
hSJ fonght the warfare he had vowed to
tight, unrelently and persistensly ana
now, after twenty-six years OF contest
during which he had never hesatste9 pc
because the Right WAS unpopular, anu an
ti-Slsyery was in hopeless minority, ou5
ing which he had never chosen soIt Wor1s
that they might make his course less ool-
ous to his enemies, and had never snrunA
from the boldest maintenance OF ms
views because he might lose trlends oy
1T is found that this very manly single
uess of aim and honest tanaticism OF IN
swerying effort, has won Tor him the hign-
est respect of his bitterest foes. 80
Well did Senator Trumbun say, to-day
that Hannibal kept his famous oath WITH
no more faithful strictness than did Owen
LoyeioY his. He nignt nave aooeo LA
nowhere was Hannibal 50 thoroughly
esteemed as in imperial Rome;
So IL is ever. The despised Abolition
ist of 1887, in danger of the MOD, even
beside his brothers grave. ls To-Day
mourned by the representatives OF al
sections. in the Capital of the Nation, ana
borne 20 his grave by q committee OF C0h-
oress. sent with sll solenanity to do the
last loving honors to his remains wnle
friends and foes with each other N testi-
fyine to the historic place his IeSrleSs
course has secured his nsms.
Alien and Odeil, bear chaplets for Love-
lows grave but it is not better spprecia-
tad when we remember the other Love-
lows death and burial, twenty-six years
sgoH
Argument in company is generally the
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