The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-26

Establishment and indignation and threat
to him. He could strike or be could earess,
and with either was very powerful"
You adhered to your anti-slaYery seni-
ment in the West%'
Yes, although l saw that to do so was ex-
ceedingly unpopular in Cincinnati; it would
ALLEVIATE everybody that | knew there, and
that, among other reasons, confirmed me in
my tendencies, because l have always had a
kind of irresistible impulse to defend the
weak. especially when / saw they were trod-
den down by men of influence and power; to
throw myself into the rescue of the wronged
was as strong in me as life itself. So when
the mob rose in Cincinnati and destroyed
DR. Bailey's newspaper-Bailey was after
ward editor OF the New Fra in Washington,
in which Mrs Stoves Uncle TOMS Cabin
appeared-when the mob rose and broke i'll
and scattered his type, dragged his press
down the main street and threw 1t into the
OHIO river; and once again the riotouS spirit
foamed over, and they threatened to shoot
down the colored people in Cincinnati, and
had got TO that point that the mayor called
for special policemen to protect the city and
the negro quarters. | was sworn in as
special policeman, and patroled the streets
Tor two nights, armed to the teeth, TO defend
the negroes. In the absence of its editor
who had gone to the General Assembly in
Philadelphia ] had taken the Cincinnati
Journal, the Presbyterian religious New
School paper and was editing it. In this
such vehemence that Charles Hammond put
the whole article into the Cincinnati Gazette
That was all along the same line of anti
slavery impulse. l then went to Lawrence
burg, twenty miles below Cincinnati which
mas this last winter been drowned out by the
terrific flood. There was a Presbyterian
church there that would seat $50 people;
there were twenty members, one man and
the rest women. With the exception of two
every one was dependent for her livelihood
on her industry"
What was your salary there?'
-Four hundred dollars. Two hundred and
fifty dollars was paid by the American Home
Missionary Society and the balance was raised
by people in my church,
THAT was the custom, for this society to
aid all feeble churches in the WestY'
An feeble churches would receive a
portion OF their salary IN that way. The
society was organized for that purpose | do
not believe there were in my synod ten min
listers that were not more or less assisted by
that society, and now all through the West
Il is the same thing to-day, away to the Pa
cific ocean"
The knot of reorganized abolitionists in
those days was so very small-Alr. Tappan,
Mr.. Garrison and Mr.. Wendell Phillips
that, suppose, all OF necessity were known
10 your
They were East, and went back into In-
diana asa missionary and was working among
the common people"
And you were on the field where the fight
had to come sooner or iater?'
Il was, and il may interest you to know
that among the lecturers was Henry B.
Stanton, who had studied theology under
my father. After staying for two years and
little over at Lawrenceburg / was called
to indianapolis. This was at the time when
the division took place. The Presbyterian
church split on the rock of slavery. The
oogy was the mere occasion and pretenSe
but the root of the matter was slavery. The
South was largely New School, but the New
School of the North was leavened with the
anti-slayery tendency to a very great extent
and the understanding was, as L heard my
father state it, that the New School ministers
OF the South said to the Princeton men:
We will sustain you as against the New
School of the North if you will see to 1t that
the Presbyterian church at large does not
NEEDLE with the question of slavery in the
South. 1t was q league; it was an under
stood thing, 1t carried out The
Southern Presbyterians all for the sake OF
slavery, consented TO uphold the hands of
the Old School Princeton, and the New
School OF the North was split off from
them and organized by themselves. and they
we're, especially in the West, very generally
anti-slavery. | don't know one man in the sy-
nod of Indiana who was not al open and
REowed ant-slavery man."
This was about when?"
About 1904. | went to indianapolis
tie brick academy which would not hold
much over a hundred people, while the
church was building. 1t is now owned by
Hon. W. H. English"
We'll, what then"'
after "a year we were directed by the
synod to preach once year on the duties Of
the church to tie enslaved."
Did you do itY
Eyes. l waited until the United States
Federal Court came here, with Judge Nc
Lean as the presiding judge, and when all
our State courts Supreme Court and Circuit
were in session and the Legislature was con-
yened-so that all lawyers and public Off
GERS, men of every kind. thronged the city
10 announce that / should preach on slavery
In the morning / discussed the nature of
Hebrew slavery and the way in which it
ceased In the afternoon | preached on
American slavery and the duty of the Ameri-
can church on that subject. Well. you may
depend it was bomb thrown, and they went
streaming back to the hotel, and when they
sat down TO dinner some one said Judge
Mclean, what do you think of thatT Well,
said he. think if every minister
in the United States would be
faithful it would be great
advance in settling this question: Well,
that settled it. II gave the cue; and the
lawyers, they, on the whole sympathized
too and the members of the Legislature. and
the consequence was that | had preached
two flaming sermons with no reaction by
judicious adaptation to times and eircum-
stances ! suppose that was the first anti
slavery sermon that was ever preached in the
capital of the State of Indiana"
HE COMES TO BROOKLYN.
ITO that circumstance you probably owe
the reputation which preceded you in New
York?n
Yes"
How did you come to leave Indiana for
New York?'
Being Lyman Beecher's son, and oecom-
ing to be known by some of these incidents