Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-05-31

brought down on itself the he of those |
in slavery, and one day Wool |
folk, man we'll known then as one of
the largest slave dealers, knocked Lundy |
down in the street and beat him unmercl- |
fully. This brutal treatment / cannot
say 81 fired the northern heart,' but 1t
was felt by the friends of libery to DO an
outrage which, IL it went unpublished,
would prove but the first of series of
open acts by an INSCRIPTIONS oligarchy
to crush out all liberty Of speech aud Of
the press.
About this time VIM. Lloyd Garrison, a
young printer from Boston, Joined with
Lundy in the publication Of his paper,
and his sharp cutting robukes to slave
holding soon got him immured in the
wells Of Jail.
"The blood of she martyrs is the seed
Of the church." Men and women began
TO ask each other, "Why is this so z"
The subject OF slavery was all the more
agltated because of these acts to silence
discussion. Garrison in time got out Of
prison, aud by no means convinced of
the error of his doctrines, went to Boston
and started The Libsrdtor, a paper which
gave no uncertain sound, but denounced
slavery, the pet of the nation, 1.-THE
Heaven-ordalned Institution, as nearly
all the churches acknowledged it to be,
as crime, and demanded its immediate
abolition.
The effect was like that caused In the
North by The firing on Sumter. Slavery
was rampant. II had never been so
grossly insulted before. The apathy with
which both church and State Ia the
North had viewed the ''institutlon" was
broken. The South fumed and ragged.
II demanded the instant suppression of
the paper and reward of $4,000 was
offered for The head of its editor. The
politicians saw that the existing party
lines were threatened and ayr ed th It
the agitation must be stopped The bust
ness men likewise demanded that the
agitation Of the slavery question should
cease. The merchants aud ship eis ~ no
bought the cotton, rice and tOb eco of
the South, or transported them, aud
the manufacturer who sold his cloths.
tools, etc., to the Southern painters,
cried out that this agitati IN would divide
the Union and ruin their trade. The
church, too, reereant TO its high and holy
mission, bowed its knee to the dark spirit
OF slavery, and many of the northern
cleIgymen poured out their walls of wrath
on the heads of the impious abolitionists.
who dared question the wisdom of an
institution established by God himself
from the earliest ages.
Do you suppose this terrible outbreak
of passion, prejudice and bitter luminosity
stopped the publication of the Libsrdfoy
or quelled the utterances of the devoted
meu aud women who saw with grief aud
anguish the lecreancy of many they had
locked to as models of honesty and truth.
Oh, no Truth and error had grappled
Tor a death struggle, and there could be
no drawing back.
Although discouragements would arts.
and we would feel sick at heart ovel
some new development of tyrannica
power, still we were cheered and strength
ened by the help of some of the grandes
minds, some OF tue nobest and worthless
moral heroes, both men and women, ou
time has produced
Among the foremost of these was Lu
cretia Mott. Neither danger, nor diff
culties, nor labors, nor censlre, no
obloquy, could prevent her from walknl
In the path Of duty. Many of you ma,
remember some time after the Nationa
Anti Slavery Association (Of which sh
was from the first n member) was formed
in 1882, she paid a religious visit h
Friends and others down this Peninsula
Daniel Neal, a dear and valued Friend
was her travelling companion. One nigh
Il after meeting at Smyrna, a mob visitel
the house where they were staying
i dragged Old Friend Neal out doors. rod
him on a rail and otherwise subjected hin
to the vilest indignities, Lucretia mean
VIII lie entreatlng them to wreak thei
Vengeance on her as it was she who ha,
, done the speaking. The mob FINAL
ordered them both to leave the place.
But perhaps the greatest trials som
Of us bad to bear were the Sights anl
sneers and social ostracism to which W
We're subjected in our religious society
, Is ii not strange that friends should eve
= have SO far forgotten their principles a
I to unite with the oppresser against tn
/ advocates of freedom yet so 1t was and
well remember seeing Stephen 5. Foste
. dragged ont Of the Western Quarlerl
4 Meetiugat London Grove, Chester county
for attempting to call their attention I
the duty they owed Humanity and relie
g ion to bear faithful testimony agalns
slavery l remember, too, the eloqneu
words of danes Fulton Jr. then a youn
q man in which he rang out a prote.
:
= | can scarcely realize, now, myself IN
+ strong and better opposition we encour
! tered and the unjust eensure We eudnreI
.
. ! do not like to relate personal inc
dents, though could mention not fe'
y in which | bore part, but my frienC
Lea Pussy, will remember a meelin
! which we called at Brandywine Spring
I school house, in this county, and Invite
l. Z. Z. Burleigh to lecture for us. We tw
:, were the only abolilionists theve. LIE
;, was at that time young man, and ha
= not the restraining influence, Of the fea
!, OF leaving widow TO mourn his losl
for we were In dangerous neighhorhoo
at the time. The meeting, though anal
assembled, and In the midst Of ne lectnr,
large fence rail was pushed in the dot
4 and laid it's length on the floor as an /,
a timation of the agreeable exercise
. store for us when we went out, Notbin
4 serious occurred, however, though
a think Lea had the lynch-pln taken fro,
a one wheel of his carriage,
: The name ! was chi ay known bv I,
r twenty years by certain class, thong
I. not very elegant, classic or euphonloni
2 was full of meaning, Il was UNIpgel
. Man" That term In the slave voesb n,
4 larry was we'll understood.
A stalwsrt epl0fed man who lived
a an old dilapldated house on ston, batter
q came to me one morning and laid h
= gflefs before me. His house had bee
! attacked the night before BY three rough
4 looking men who demanded admittaur
/ on tha plea that they had warrant Il
/. hin, for debt. He said he owed no mar
and that II they entered Do would shoe
them dead. Amer many efforts 10 raj
admission they left, but returned d
e next night with reinforeements. Bat ID
> colured man had also Obtained help. an
. the kidnappeIs. FIR such they uhdoubI
s eddy were, went of curslng and thrsater
r Ing that they would get enough help 1
4 take all the inmates Of the house. dea
4 or alive. The next mornlng the ma
= and bis family Ned, leaving their hous,
hold goods behind them, aud hope &c
! to some safer place.
, could 60 on rehearsng facts aud inc
/ deuts until your patience was exhausted
| following the history Of the long ttrup
, gle betwten freedom and slavery until
eliminated 10 the hanging of that gran
J old hero John Brown, whose soul wen
! marching on till the demon Of SLAYER
was swept from our country.
"A hin = miie or 30 yes, Of Hzndywiu