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cherish llH memory Ills heroic deeds shall not
bo forgotten in h!a conntry's history, nor hie
example fall to inspire ita patriotism and loya
of liborty. Pence las lts Victories no loss re-
nownod than war." LII tho language Of tho iri-
| mortal Sumner:
Scholarship, literature, jurisprudence, art, may
wear Their well.descryed ouurs Init u olterr!se ut
goodness doscrvea and will yet receive. higher palm
| slal tlusc.
ABOLITION NEWSPAPERS.
| Tho following, which is q portion OF SIr. East-
mau's paper on Doniamin Lundy, giving d liB'
tory Of tho succession Of carly Abolition pnpsra
In this country, IVES crowded out Of Thursdays
paper
| We will now follow;forla tino
| TIE CURRENT OF THE rIoNEER's 8 LIFE.
His first impressions II hostility to slavery
wofs formed ut Wheeling in 1903: lIavin.
learned his trade lie removed to Mount Ploasant,
whore ho llad visited and formed .acqnainta1aces
Wheeling, .whore ,ho iostablished himpoIl ii Ills
trade, remaining two yuars, during wlicI, time
ho married q noble young woman OF like spirit
aud principles Of ls own, by tho name of Esther
thon residing ut Mount Pleasant. aul WHO after-
wards removed to Illinois, aud aott]ol
mt Magnolia, Putnam County, and who
aoa oa but in tn 10" somC yeafs rons sEo ae
ground, whore thirty-!lve years ago tho body OF
benjamin L,1ndy was deposited. Whiio residing
horo ho published his first literary article
anonymously, in answer to q bachelor against
Clairsyiilo, 10 n,ilos wost Of Wheeling, and got
up the business OF Badd!or. Ilo had nothing
to begin With! but WITH Industry and prudence
lle accumulated a acompotonee Of 60. 600 in'fonr
ycnrs-naviug "a happy, comfortable homo, With
business prosperous and increasing. Athousana
to one Of the world will Bny, and especially tho
setlate Mr.. Worldly Wisenlan will enforce It !:
"..Why, Lnndy, you arc doing we'll enough.
Of lifo,-be not moved by strange fancios for tho
good Of others,-or amy wild yagnrea about theso
niggors: Pit money III your pockot!"
But the pledge nnlo to his soul at Wheeling,
upon him; it was u constant question, "Wlat
shall do Z" and
lie CONCLUDED he MUST ACT,
II ho did not see quite clearly what to do. Thore-
fore, ,ho ottogether fow friends atSt. Cairve,
overlooking the dark laul Of slavery boyond the
Ohio, and shoy formed an Anti-SlayerY society
which they cnilol the '.Union Humane Socioty."
Tho world does moye,. for Chairman Doriclson
iB n standing member in the Society in Chicago
called tho Humane sosiety-tilat might
mont. This I4undy Humane Society was
formed In 1876 ho being then rs yoars Of
age. Apublo address written by. him waa is
sued, and resulted in the formation of 4 large
that 125 woro organized from this movement.
Greeley says tho plau Of which the 81. Clairyile
Society Was the seed, Short and simple as 1t
WINS, 1t contained tho gorm Of tho entire Anti
newspaper was starsca .at Mount Pleasant by
Charles Osborne, he alao, think, G. Quaker. The
name, tic I'hilanat,upist (who docs not read It's
spirit and object In 1ts utle2) printed ut tho
lcr brother md roatiyaB then resided; md Lull-
dy wRB Invited to contribute to its columns,
which ho did mostly by Eolections finding the
SCISSORS, in his first experience, .safor, II not
mighticr, tllan the PEN 1t was successful trial,
and 'friond Charles iu fow months wrote to;
Friend Bonja.nin to .tako tho pon. uol
doubtod he ability, but said ho would Try, aud
tho second was also . successful trial. Though
living 10 miles OF,
He WitoTE REGULARLY
eaiorial articles for tho .Ihlantropisi md thoi
pleasant sensation of noeillg: oneself in prpt
that Byron knew, something like. that OF being
III tho looking-ElaBH WAS tho common export
ence Of Lnudy anor this. lilo WAS invited by'
Osborno. to join him in tho office aud ho made
calculation to close up his fua business to do Co.
nuke Tic transition moro rapidly und profitably.
he placed tho noutents Of lia shop Oh u tlul-boat
to convey tho1n to St. Louis for Balo. His pp-
prentlees worked Mt their trade on tho bout. while
lo, with rud1or Or oar, STORED the craft NJ it
tloated down tile c'1ront Of the Ohio Othor
distinguished men tllan Lincoln huya boon Aat-
bonsmon. Late i'll the fall of 1910
He ARRIVED At ST. LOUIS.
Tho discussion OF tito A1isHo,lri question
WIS tlon in full. hast. Ho was ready tor tic
contost: lie told me personally that llo encouu-
tered Tioialas II. Beutan in the debate iu tho
newspapers .Wot NIL know that hpro Luudy did
not como out Oh tho winning; side. Noithor was
llo moro successful in Ills business adventure,
Tho stagnation Of trado and tho loas OF about
two years timo nearly used up tho uice 1ittlo
property llo llad accumulated aH R slldlcr, aud
ho 1otl,rnou home to his wife ut. Mount Ploaaant
ponnlloss. Now comes in Mr.. Worldly Wisoma,l
again., aud says, "Friauul L,ntly, tIou should
have needed my wise adyico. Thou aoest NOW
tlou lRst no money IN thy pocket"
That was not tho end Of. tue encouragement.
oahorue had got tIrol md discouraged at tho
llfo OF an editor. lIo lad sold Aia I1alor sud
printing material to QUO Eisha Bates, mud it hud
gone Off to Tunnesaoe Tho bannor sign Of tho
PhiianA'ppist WAS down, but d more significant
u THE EalAEClpAToR,"
Which was issued IN conjunction with Elil,u
Lnbreo. We all know what Euaancipdior
eaus. Unloas this title ,n,cl, bellies its ohnrau-
ter, wo must iu'er that this was tile first dis
tlnclivo Abolition newspaper ever printed in this
country, rorhaps in tsio world aud TINT waa
once Heei copy Of this .tnewApapor. Embreo
uld not I've long. Lnndy contemplated folow-
Ing tho fortune Of this pnpor lo had promised
to osboruo Of tho. Pht!anthropist. but, ns llo
says. i}atos' iaon did not como up to l'iz. hs con
cludod to commence, a distinct journal Of his
avn. lie thon took up his pormauaat ahole III
Mount Pleasant, tho Aomo Of his wifo, ,aud thele
ho iBsued the
GENIUS OF UNIVERSAL, EMANCIPATION
in m Januusy, 1921; Tho Taancssee Eman,,
clp1tor published hla prospectus aud |
tho first number of tho paper. |
lie, for i1ne ad it printed at stoubenyil[o, O.,
to which p|ace lo travelol Oh foot, aud carried !
home tho edition OF lis paper on his back. Ihat
YNi tiknbk
my OF ua editors who canla altpr him III moro
recent tinloH. think tho ,uoBL that any Of III