The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-10-02
Potter was one of Motifs professor, A.

AHu W6us W sooooiEk couOOl IN Yer.
mont. With abuus Gve hupdrad
dollars he started Tor New York Oitv
where Erastus D Culver, q Consrsss''
man who had just lost bis spat, had
law otsice. and With him Arthur h.
gan 70 study Law. Arthur soon CON
cluded to 60 west and establish sim.
self in some satisfactory town, ana
be picked . young man namsd
Gardiner TO be bis Law partner.
They looked et several towns in
growing parts OF the west, but Thought
their opportunities would not be A.
good as II they came back o the CITY -
New York. Arthur was good luok,nr
and he became acquainted with ISs
widow and daughter OF Lieutenant
Herndop, OF the American nav
Virgins people.
William Lewis HeIndon had he.v
drowned in 1857. at the age OF tortv-
four, OH tAe ship Central Amsrjcs
which he commanded. He wss horn
in the town where General Wssb,no.
tone mother died, and in the yicinitv
OF which Washington was RAISED
fredericksburg. and was the uroshey,
in-lAw of Lieutenant Maury, the
Virginia rebel and scientific man
Herndon explored the Amazon rlyer
and had high reputation, when the
O ntra lAmericS sank coming from
Havana to New York, with 824
passengers and nearly ons hundred
sailors and 81, 600. 0O0 In gold tres.nrs
HerndOn Wss cool a. a May morujn0
and when the few who surviveu aaT
tue ship 90 down he was standing ON
the wheel house, some say, with
cigar between his teeth, issuino
orders. For many years, or until the
rebellion broke out. he was the ponn-
lar hero of the United States The
Herndon family IS one of the bes. in
Virginia. BY Miss Herndon whom
ne married. General Art ur bas q
son, fully grown. His wife died onIv
about one year before he became
vlce-president. Although a staIwart
republican In almost every sense.
General arthur, through bis wife, has
tie best southern connection He
ought to be national precedent,
II has been SAID, with good reason,
That General Arthur CON Je!ied the
@ III e.sons OF the street railroad
cars, tor c0lored people to ride
The Fourth Avenue street railroad,
NV York. which belongs TO tee
Harlem steam railroad cumpaDy,
undertook one day to put black
woman of 1t was done With violence.
and she applied TO Arthur, who
brought suis and got verdict OF 500
against me company. TIE next day
after this v6Tdic: AT order Was posted
up 10 tbs cars allowing c. lGreG PEI pie
TO riie. Pew lusly, thcnughous the
lmmeose leDg'h OF New York Slam,
only one railroad allowed blacE peC-
Pile 20 be passengers, and then only
10 particular Cars.
William 8. Seward, in 1889, was
10 his first slave care, that
which turned his attention to the
poiitIcs of sAnii-slavary, A requis ton
from Virginia was made upon Cover
nor Leonard in that year tor three
3olOred eeamen who had concealeo g
slave in their vessel, and brought the
slave 10 New York. The slave bad
been surrendered; the lgneb!e blood
hounds now demanded bis fellow
negroes and friends. The recorder
d New York city would mt homer
he requisitioD OF the small Virginia
Pharaoh. This chap then impudently
,slled or the Governor OF New YORK
10 override the recorder and Judge in
be lsw. Seward made the grand
that requisiloEs, under tbs
constitution, must be made
or real crimes against civilization,
lot crimes made arbitrary by petty
portion OF mankind, such ~ rescuins
! brJtnsr from slavery. No Virgin
an could pursue the human race
User declaring a portion OF II In deT-
'liction. A debt prisoner could not
We persued into New YORK from
Why. then, should g
lsve-deliVer4r be pursued into New
York from Virginia All that Vir-
Inis did by Pursuing the Case with
Ter sprIgs of lawyer poltitions was to
1ake Seward great personsge He
etred awhile from Office, only to be-
ONE, after r6appesrlDg, phenOme-
90.
General Arthur's connection with
be Lennon case, in 1857, was very
1uch Iike Stewards posi.,0D eighteen
ears earlier. Il involved the right
I masters to ship slaves from border
Iates through the free port OF New
FORK. He was the associate of Will
am NJ. EvarIs, opposing Charles
l'Uonor Tor the slaVe-shIpper. But
will not dwell on this case.
His semi-political connections ssa
awyer bad passed out OF tbs public
nind when Chester A. Arthur
ecame involved IN dispute With the
administration of Hayes and Sher-
Da0. Yet Arthur's political record
vas by no meanes SCOTT or scsnty.
lie vas not exactly a .ouUder Of the
epublican party in New York, bat
Gss one OF the younger men who
ssisted to form it.
In 1854, when the Nebraska policy