St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-07-05
GaIeduuia1r,
THE MARTYR ERA IN THE TEN
PERANCE REFORM.
a 70 h Rou. b. ID.

Pgree of self-sacrifice that Is ready fOI
be consequences. At such a crisis the
hti slavery cause found its proto- mar
r in Elijah p. Lovejoy. Temperance
as a twin reform, born of the same
IA of revivals. But, as the other
use was the more exigent, this one
Ad to give way for a time; and now
has come on to the crown of martyr
em. | write in the city of one of its
ssartyTs, Geo. G.. Haddock. He doubt
Bs felt that if the discharge of duty
ould lead to that result he was
Worth more to die than to live" even
did old John Brown. Nothing else
Ihs given such an impulse to- the tenn
erance movement. In the city of that
laTtyrdOm / now find that there is no
beE place for the sale of liquor. One
the two bTeweries which figured SO
huch in the trial of the assassins, has
zen closed up, and the Citizens
league is about to receive the capitu-
ton of the other ArensdOrf, the re-
lIted murderer, with the mark of Cain
pom his forehead, though cleared by
DC mysterious ruling and verdict of
#ndge and jury, retires to the other
DE of the Missouri, where from Ne
faska, taking advantage of the last
ecisiOD of the United States Supreme
sOurt, he can run n saloon and supply
IOux City in part by parcels unbrok-
N. But that Is a surTeptitlOus bust
less, and he may yet get caught at it..
hblic sentiment here has had a Won
Arful tOning up. The WOman's Chris
iAn Temperance Union has been on
De alert. On Saturday night l had
le privilege of lecturing under its au-
Pices, using the stereOpticon, among
eher chapters, to represent the martyr
n in this work.
Dr. NOrthrup, in Ohio, was another
aartyT, not for his state alone, but for
"a whole land. The policeman in
onnecticut and the constable in Des
fDines, Ia, fell in the discharge of du-
by shots from the rum fiend. Young
ambrell, the editor at Jackson, Miss,
lring to expose the whisky ring of
e capital, was shot by night at spot
tn which | am quite familiar. My
fOrmants on the ground, and Mrs.
Aapin, of Charleston, who had the
ersOnal acquaintance of the family
La father being a prominent Baptist
inister-all agree in making it clear
ase of martyrdOm.
And now the South, along with the
birth, takes a second baptism of blood
H the assassination of Prof. G.. w.
lawrence at JellicO, Tenn. | was
here when the town was just starting
the state line, bordering on Ken
ucky, and on the newly finished rail-
bad running over the mountains from
souisville to Knoxville. "Pine Noun
in," made SO famous by Charles Egg
BRIT CraddOck, is just back of the
awn. That was six years ago. L
ave been there repeatedly since upon
" round of supervising of the work
f the American Missionary Associa
on.
In his first year there Prof. Lawrence
occurred the displeasure of the saloon
It's by joining his brOther-in-law, Rev.
i. A. Myers, the general missionary of
be American Missionary Association,
ID active measures to secure the incOr-
OratiOn of his school so as to avail it.
elf of the "four-mile law" of Tennes-
ZEE. One of the salOOnkeepers at that
line sent a dupe to the woods to get
wO hickory clubs, one to use upon his
brOther-in-law, the other on "the little
chOOlmaster" The former was laid
p for several days by the beating, but
he professor escaped for the time.
ext the citizens of the baser sort
tent to work and got the village itself
hartered, which would exempt it from
he operation of the "fOur-mile law"
3ut still Mr.. Lawrence and his wife, it
las well known, were doing Band of
IOpe work among the children and
Outh, and in other ways promoting
temperance sentiment. And last fall,
hen the prohibition amendment was
lending in Tennessee, the professor
nd Mr.. Myers did all they could for it.
The assassin, Chandler, had been at
hree saloons that morning whetting
be spirit of murder. And when, soon
fter, the firing was heard there, and
De question asked, what's that 2 the
oh, that's Chandler doing up Law
ence.n They seemed to understand
After the firing the murderer, re-
nrning to his own place-One of the
AlOOns-was met by one of it's deni-
ift of ten dollars. And later, when
r. Myers was down among the lOung
pg crowds of the saloons, he said to
Aem, '"That's the work your saloons
Re doing you'll have every body kill
eeper retOrted: "When we get rid of
pu, old man, then We'll have peace"
In six years there have been sixty
hree murders in that place. Only a
geek before we were there, last De
ember, for a series of half a dozen
IedicatiOns, there had been five men
killed in n saloon broil in Jellico.
When Chandler had called Lawrence
liIt of the school, and the teacher had
aid, as to the tuition bill, you can set
e that with Mr.. Myers, he said: "rll
bttle it here" drawing his pistol.
lawrence fed into the church fused
lso for school room), and told the
children to run out. The desperate
Beloved him in, aud from behind the
nllpit fired the four savage shots.
5nly last December DIR. Beard, Supt
ayder and myself had stood in that
hme sacred desk assisting Mr.. Myers
defeating that house as a sanctuary
IF the Lord. At my last account, May
the professor was yet in an ex-
Femely critical condition, with little
prospect of recovery, suffering excru-
atingly. Even if his good constitu
ion and his absolutely temperate life
nall carry him through, still the gull;
q murder will rest upon not only the
assassin, but upon the internal saloon
representation.
And what do the spirits of these
Dartyrs require of us who survive in
his fight of reform They require tina
BE shall see to it that they shall no
ave died in vain that we take III
nd carry along the work in which
hey sacrificed their lives. No surren-
Ter. No compromise. The saloons
ust go. Down with these breeding