New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-25
CALVIN FAIRBANK ON OLIVER JOHNSON.
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To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir Oliver Johnson gone beyond the gates! DuNng
than forty years | have been familiar with tho
status and labor of that apostle Of human rights and
though not engaged the Inc of Labor wrought
in harmony shoulder shoulder, battling against te
National monster, the scOulge and curse OF America
When TO take the side Of the black was to throw
down the gauntlet challenge TO public sentiment.
TO bid defiance large majority Of the people in and
out of the church and in both political partes-thOush
the old Wing party always more or less suscepuoo
Of anti-savery impressions, while tie Democracy "ee
always committed to slavery, nearly 10 man-and to
accept ostracism in advance, this hero OF the anu
slavery crusade passing up his credentials for moro
popular and lucrative well as an easier WORK OK
Christian civilization, joined william Lloyd Garrison.
John G.. Whittier Elzur Wright, Francis Jackson
Ellis Gray Lorin, Robert Purvis and others In de-
fence OF the hfricoAmerican in and ont OF bonds I'd
share years risk Of poverty, toll and the oooquy
OF the mass Of the people. Men and women calico
decent respectable, refined, persons in mgh places,
wrote ont their Ostracism, and so dd
the Christian Church TO large extent; the Churcn
even of nv own choice had written out in advance
the condemnation of any and all who might dare 10
ioin in the holy against the Divine INSTITUTION
of the brethren Of the SOUTH
The time WAS from lo32 to 1913, and even much
later when a gentleman from the most southern OF
slave States COun come lltD oul ''h'Ni'N'''' ~
freeze ont every element Of liberty, if any, with the
announcement =. | am a Southcrne",' and mould the
Motley Of the party to his own suitlng. But ""e's
was Oliver Johnson foundl n the heid' Oh u''
platform in the pulpit, when he conld seD !" 10 :"
tho editors chair writing ont fats against nluSuce-
the verdict of the people forty years III ADVANCE A"'
people hurled anathemaS w@' cared he'
/ had adopted an anti-,laNery platform Deioro y
reached nv majority and before | had struck hahds
,ri,b oliver Johnson In LAS / had smitten the III
stItution in the face thirty eight tines hao tahcl
II upon myself without consulting Knowing ho'"H5
Of anti-savery creeds-twenty-two tunes 10 oApo,'
myself to the wrath Of the south by hOera'ln5 "'o
slaves whenever could feel confident oil htheS' III
the uerson for liberty and probable security III INC
o,,empt All this time Mr. Johnson was hitting the
public for the impending crisis. nis' M ~
Nesopotamia Ohio, early in l,i}, III INC .'p iory.
Professor Keep, who gave a lecture on the slavery
question and closed with the question, Ian ui
North be rousedl' Mr.. Giddlnss had DGea ~ tSs
In his seat i'm Congress, had been punched Ds ua
elbow OF Bourbon; In Response 70 Nr, hep ro,Scd
ton rose and aid Yes! de Nol ch o the ribs
hi, brought Mr.: Johnson over TO my H. ~, dv
c,1led me out before that audience sIhcc 'iaD u@y
-, tho day that the chief OF the apostles Went uOM'
never lost sight Of him as leader IN the cause oi
,1n month has gone since he disappeared from
e,rth0from frleuds-frOm family ~ nc i. hV Q
.d lie has inst gone ont of tie tabernacle TO ms
G d,erL,l home But the stroke comes close % ne
Nr Johnson was only seven years oiuef Iish ny I'll
When these heroe, iai shudder because IL Sp"e1 ~
other peoplc go out. BIT when the Od ,''aI -
hut treIble. There are bG; few now Ieii; NM
lanes G. Jackson Parker Pillsbury, Laura : iaVllalu
lame, Fairchild and James Monroe Oh Ooerln, anu -
precious other few scattered through Ile c0ahtl2;
/ seem the Youngest Of them all; and when me car
comes so close-One drops then anotner-Wih NY
turn come next When the conrlde' 'ilal an ulpp
,Tray who will rise up make new war on the ANY
old chronic rebellion. every day eAihbuns nS Tit
i'm a heaf henisu i'm the utlmcd SOufh nOt WIN
iebind The hcathenism OF NahOmctan ArdbaF 10
seems that if the old guards could RE up we cout.
,ise Storm aboat the ears Of government mat Wout
Loon break up that OWLS nest OF dc-pOusm III tlo
south. A., - .,,.i.. ro;.e,
slotlfnl In business crvcnt ~ 'Wrt, serVlng mo
Lord and now shares his eternal reward WIN hhNcn
coodau Gorrit smith Gree ,.y. and all that heroic
host Of saints who felt that "ooc with God !,
majority Ny tenderest strongest, hottest ,NhptIy
goes ont after the dear ones Of his domestic cree,
whom he ha- left this side the curtain thai haS luss
fallen-just shut ont the pure spirit from me a,socs-
lions of earth CALVIN FAIRBANk.
Angelica, y. Y, Jan. TO- 1880.