Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1869-01-22
TEEE LATE TlHADDEUa sTE.'
WINS.
n Radical and Religious Defence
OF .Efscegenntion.

The Rev. Blanchard, president Of Whea.
ton college, Illinois, contributes the fellow
ing, under the head ef personal recollec.
ticrs Of Thaddsus Stsycns,n to the Cincin.
nati Cdzstte Of Jan. ..
IL begin this article On Mr.. Stevens (the
last may ever write Of him) with precise
ly that point in his life nm which two or
three religious papers assailed his memo
nv, and in which his southern enemies
most Sssembled, and, at the came time.
their relations. The cslpred Bishop Payne,
Q shrswd and picus man, who had the
m cans Of knowing said to me: "He lived
with q colored woman ~ bis wife that
VAS all there was about that" And l Sup
pose il vas true. once in Cincianasi.
married man Of preminsnt family In Al
shams 70 bic brunette slave; while three
BRIGHT children stood up By their mother,
the bride His whole mind and soul. heart
and life, sssmsd absorbed and coscsnirs.
ted 10 the one thought Of saving that
mother and children from the block Of the
auctionssr, and the living hell beyond il,
after hs should be dead. For this he run
the gauntlet Of his relatives, who had di
vined his purpose. and come up from Ala
bama 10 Ohis. Mr.. Stevens, last winter,
reminded me Of the Albanian. by his de-
determined zeal that his bones should not
le in death in burial ground from which
castossspurned the cslored race. will not
profaus the memory Of MIR. Stevens BY
apologizing for his fidelity TO the woman
whom law and custom, stronger than Law,
for babe him to marry nor by reminding
tho reader that he differed from Henry
Clay and the mass of seuthsrns only in the
fact Of that fidelity. will do much Dol
der thing. viii remind those TECHNICALLY
religious sdissrs that Gsd himself once
commanded an inspired prophet saying
go take thse . vile Of whorsdoms. and
children Of whofsdoms." (iIoses. !. - !
remind them that he did this for the very
purpose reaching and ssolaiuing the
land whose general debauchery bad de-
graded the woman whom HE prophet mar
r'sd. a. his Inauguration to his prophetic
author And IL We suppose that Ge3.
Who works by prscept or BY providence. ~
lie 1pleass pssvidentially connected Mr..
Stevens with the mysterious, - He con.
nectsd Hosea, by precspt, with degraded
caste in his his day, and for like pur
pose, viz to repeal and reverse the degrs-
dation BY wiping out the crime that caused
It. We shall only be supposing what hap
psned in fact. And this suppositlon will
give 10 the key 10 the contradictions Of Mr..
stevens character. Elrlv poverty, pride,
and club foot may have prevented his
marriage with the beauty and brilliant cul-
ture he was 20 formed to relish and snjsy.
Hotel life and human passions may have
chosen for his companion the bright eyed
brunette whom saw last winter agreea-
be In spite OF old age--at once his house
keeper and presiding genius, and whose
talents made her at the same time the mis-
trsss OF his business and his earthly desti
nv. Shut OIL by Circumstances such as
Il e,e from that honorable domestic life
which has saved all that VAS saved Of such
men as Prsntiss, eff Mississippi Benton, Of
Missouri and a host OF their peers de-
pising religion that would wink at slave
hosdlng cohabitation. while Mortified with
fidelity il concubinage retaining enough
Of his mothers religion to make him dc
.pisc himself, strong as the tabled giants
yet IN religion AZ blind Polyphemus. their
chicf hold, fearing nothing but God, and
really tearing Him, loving justice, Loving
truth. apd Christ because, as he said, "He
was the truth" In these elsmem,s you
ave the great and wonderful man who mas
ust left the stage "a modsrn sampson
Agonstes; abhcrrng slavery abhorring
wee. YET laying his head on her lap till the
locks OF his strength were shorn. Like
Ssmp.on, he prayed ard cried TO God
ike Sampson. too. he was connected and
counted with siaves-at once the champi-
on Of the true God and the violatsr Of His
laws even in his gaza. he heaved at the
pillars Of our nation idolstry with a
strength above human and, like Sampson.
sunk into to daath with the ruins Of that
temple tumbiing about bis head
''Ne further seek his merts to disclose,
Nor craw his fralities froa their dread above
There they alike ia trembling hope rsposs
The bosom OF h e father and his God"
TINS worthless ruins of Fert Lafayette, q
New York. which was lately seriously dam
aged by fire, are to be torn down and the
site Of the Qualifications abs ndoned for the
present.