Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-03-26

From the Painsyille (0hio) Telegraph.
In 1886 the Ohio Anti Slavery So
ciety met in Sandusky, and was cons
PEELED to resort to barn. Among
it's resolutions the following was
passed unanimously
sResolved, That the thanks of this
society be respectfully rendered to
Ashly Bancroft for the use Of bis barn
on this occasion
We find the above in the Memphis
Post. The statement is correct ex-
cept that the occurrence took place
at Granville, Ohio, instead of San~
dusky. 1t furnishes very good
mark to show the progress of anti
slavery. We remember that our at.
tention was. first called to the subject
OF slavery by the abolition meeting"
thenthe most unpopular gathering
known. Who, then, expected to see
emancipated slaves admitted to the
poles at Washington, or negroes ads
mitted to the bar Of the Supreme
Court p Toledo Commercial.
In 1885, Gen. Jas. III. Paine, now of
Milwaukee, but then resident of
Painsville, was engaged to lecture at
an anti-slavery meeting in Chardon,
at that time the county seat of what
is now Lake and Geauga countless
The Aboitionists met in the brick
school house, only twelve or fifteen
in number. There was, however, a
large atten dance Of conservatives"
Ger. Paine had spoken but a few
words, when a conservative blast
from twenty tin horns prevented him
being heard further. One of the Alb
olitionits now residing in Cleveland
proposed to adjourn to building
owned by himself, where they would
have a right to exclude the disturb
ers from the meeting. As they
emerged from the school house the
horns were blown in their faces, and
they were followed across the public
square by the mob to the new place
OF meeting. By this time several
drums were on the ground, and when
Gen. Paine again commenced speak
ing, the big bass drum was held
near broken window and beaten flu
riously. A rash Abolitionist inside
reached out and gashed the drum
head fatally. The meeting was brok-
en- up by the noise and confusion
that followed Gen Paine was not al
lowed to speak, and the man who cut
the drum head was arrested and fined
three dollars, by DR.. Perham, JUS
tice Of the Peace in the village
Deacon Rider and Franklin Paine,
two Of the most obnoxious Abolition
lists Of Chardon who participated in
the meeting, were compelled to seek
temporary refuge from the mob in
the court house.
Franklin Paine is still living, and is
now a resident Of Painsville. When
Lincoln, the President of additions
lists, called for $4,000 men, April Is,
1851, be. was too old to 60, but
Franklin Paine, jr., who was born
1885, and who probably first heard
the drum beat at the abolition meets
ing, volunteered April is, 1861, and
went into camp at Cleveland next
week, a private in the 18th Oho.-
Sickness compelled him to leave the
service before the expiration OF his
time, being then in command of the
Oberlin company in the 18th regiment.
But having regained his health, he
volunteered private in the Ohio
Sharp Shooters in 1864, and entered
Petersburg in command of his CONS
pany April 3, 1865, having participa-
ted in the entire siege Of that city,
the capture OF which resulted in the
capture Of Richmond and Lees
army, and the complete suppression
Of the rebellion. Gen. Jas. III. Paine
also had son in the army, in com
mand of a Washington regiment
when the war ended. Without the
success of the Union arms, Licoln's
Emancipation, Proclamation would
have been nudity, and thus these
men have lived to see the abolition
Of slavery accomplished by the aid Of
their sons in arms, with the appro-
baton Of the whole civilized world,
for desiring which thirty years be-
fore, they were mobed in a smell vii
Ilage of the Western Reserve, and in
| a county the townships of which
gave, in 1864, as test vote on the
Emancipation Proclamation, 2, 26O
votes for Brough, to 632 for Vallan-
digham, being majority Of 1928,
and more than eight to onein favor
Of abolition.
Who then expected to see such a
"growth Of sentiment" in the Geau-
ga county and the whole North with>
in thirty years
GREAT MEN.--Home W as beggar !;
Platius turned mill; Terence was q
slave; Boethius died in jail; Paul
Borghese had fourteen pounds trades,
| yet he starved with them all; Tasso
was often distressed for a few shill~
ings; Cervantes died of hunger !;
[Camoens, the writero of the "Lusiad 3
tended his days in an. aims house, and
Vangelas left his body to the sur
geons to help pay his debts. In Eng
land Bacon lived a life of meanness
and distress Sir Walter Raleigh died
on the scaffold Spencer died in want !;
Milton sold his copyright ofssParadise
LOST Tor G15 and died in obscurity !;
Dryden lived in poverty and dis
tress; Otway persisted ofhunger; Lee
died in the streets Steele was in per.
petual warfare with the bailiffs Gold
lsmith's Vicar of Wakefield was sold