The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-14

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lighted match! He was In the very furna'
of fire-eaters and needed salamander
lmperviousness TO heat. He was prompt
"warned" by ominous letters, and dive
documents bris,ling with awful threa
showered In upon him. "lIis coming the'
was piece of unparalleled impudence
the slave holders said. In the first place
his advent was a direct insult TO "the CHI
airy" and In the second, his fearful denur
citation of their pet institution were unbea
able. On one occasion two able. bodie
champions Of slavery, who could no longe
endure the attacks of the Genius, concludes
to suppress It, and petrify or annihilate o
exterminate Its audacious editor. The.
came; invited Mr.. Lundy into room TO
conference, shut the door, locked II, ant
demanded retractions of what he had writ
ten unexpectedly of the "Diyine lnstitu-
ton" and the request was fatty and firmly
refused! Could 1t be? A lsnk, long. haired
white faced young stripping, to come
South and beard the lion In his den? The
two mighty men then flourished theil
pistols and knives, when their high words
attracted the owner of the house, who
burst In and he and Mr. Lundy, In a mo-
ment cleared the room of these ferCciou>
visitors!
HIS DOMESTIC AFFAIRS.
We should have previously mentioned
that Mr.. Lundy, when about 81 years old
was united in marriage, at Mt. Pleasant
with Miss Lewis, an aunt of Hon. Samuel
II. Lewis, of La Sale Co, and that she was
lady of remarkable intellect, ability and
of indomitable energy and tirmness. A
Quakeress by birth, she was naturally a
philanthrops', and, having been brought
up a true Friend" she could never bear
the thought of man as slave. She was
vigorous and industrious writer ald spent
her life in the emancipation cause. Mr..
Lundy derived vast assistance from her
ready pen and clear head, and she 1t was
whose helping hand, courage and devotion
kept him firm In his faith and sustained
him when, without her aid, he would have
fallen by the way.side Finding his bust
ness prosperous at Jonesboro, he sent for
her. and she came at once, and here they
lived and labored for three years They did
yeoman service in the great cause and often
provoked the wrath of their enemies be-
You'd endurance; and while she was not
personally in danger of any personal or
bodily injury, because, though outspoken
In her convictions on the one prominent
subject, she was charitable and kind to a
fault, and all were forced to respect her,
yet with him II was different, and he was
often the subject OF insult In hi. office or
on the streets and even personal assaults;
but his physical courage, like his moral
bravery, never failed him, and his well.
aimed fists rarely failed to get where they
would do the most good, but never else than
In selfdefense and yet he fought on
steadily for his principles and never let up
his batteries. but kept them CALAMITY pour
Ing red-hot sho: into the enemy's workS.
There was here and there an emancipation
LIST in the South, just enough to be called,
when united, corporals squad, and Of
these Mr.. Lundy was chosen, and went, the
first delegate to an abolition convention,
from any portion of the country, so far
south as Tennessee He made this trip %
horseback, distance OF six hundred miles,
to Philadelphia, In 1889, and at his own ex
pense. "The Genius of Universal Eman-
,ipation'' had by this lme made.a big rep.
ltation and attained an extensive circula
lion. 1t was the only anti-slavery news
paper then published in the United States,
BY this tine he discovered that to create
enough public sentiment In the South, to
effect n voluntary manumlssion of slavery
by its owners, was impossible. The insti
tuition had grown too deeply into the soil
Of the South to be eradicated else than by
a constitutional provision enforced by law
and backed by the executive power Of the
nation. AS public sentiment to accomplish
this end could never be generated in the
South 1t must be made in the North, and
In the North must be his field of labor, He
to transfer his paper to one of
great Atlantic cities, where he might IL
crease its circulation and extend its power.
LUNDY AS A LECTURER.
In pursuance of this plan, leaving his
spunky and talented wife to conduct the
paper, he shouldered his knapsack and set
out on foot for Baltimore, in the summer of
1924 On his way he delivered his first
public lecture on the subject of slavery at
Deep Creek, North Carolina. So we'll were
the people pleased with this the first pub
lie address they had ever heard on this
topic, (many of the community happening
to be Quakers) that they appointed a second
meeting, where he again spoke, browning
his efforts thereby by organizing an anti
slavery society," At another place he went