The Portland daily press., 1895-08-03
THE IOyEJOY MONUMENT.
Illinois Honors the Memory of a Mar
tyr given Her by Maine.

Iesislatnre Appropriates nyon.n c., u,,
rre,,~.,.1 S.orv - Az LIS
3D.
The Lovejoy brothers were among the
most famous of the early abolit;onists
nho,. ,,,oro horn in N.;no :, -.
Ihey were DORM Ia MAINE, IN the town
OF Albion near 0he beautiful pond that
to this day bears the name Of their
family Elijah Parish Tove;ov Az So.
was Iorn in 1902. and was umo 49, otal
from WatoryiIle. now Colby in t%e c1s .o ss
of 1896 owen lioveioy was horn in 1911
and went to Bowdoin, but did not gradu -
Ate, owen was present when his brotber
was murdered. and the event tIIrred him hin,
to the anti-slayery cause with an inon, ,i.n
that lasted II the end of his iifa NJ, +ho
strmn and in Congress he was one of the tl'e
most eloouent. COURAGEOUS and deter,
mined of the anti-slayery leaders
Speaking of the monument which is to
he erected. the Chicago Tribune has The
following account of Elijah Parish Love
iov.
illinois furnished the first martv,.
to the cause of abolition If
slavery. The man and his
deeds and the manner of his death lie
too far back for the present generation to
remember and the fall of the first soldier
in the advance guard has been we'll I' nigh
forgotten ia the terrible carnage of Ire
civil war Travellers over the railroad or
yoyagers in the river boats on the Mississ-
ippi may we'll ask the occasion of the
erection Of a beautiful monument on the
bluff in Alton cemetery, that commands
a view of wide stretches of country in
Missouri an eo1 limos nos pou r,,,., p.,.
lToveinv was murdered nv moh in A iton
for asserting and maintaining in reli-
glous weekly. publlctlon-the Observer
the right OF free speech ana free press
He accorded all men the right to differ
from the opinion ne expressed on the instl-
tuition OF slavery, ptb the right to express
that opinion was guaranteed him by the
constitution OF the United states.
In defense OF 5hls and OF MS press ne
lell, pierced py dozen puliets, lnto the
arms OF friends, VINO were helplng MN,
with the autnorluy OF une mayor OF the
cltyi TO guard MS proper1y. Inc next DAY
through mud ana drizziing ram, mis- pody
was born past the hooing' nrinmpha aht
top OF the beautiful bluff.
There ne lay nearly quarter OF cen
| fury before John Brown took up his
march to Harper's Ferry, the mississippi
washing the feet or his iofGy grass grown
grave NO stone marked the spot After
the beginning OF the war. personal friends
and relatives placed a plain slab, SO that
the grave might not be obliterated. Now,
after another generation, the legislature
OF illinois has voted to appropriate $25, :
QUO to erect a monument, with the pro-
viso that half as much more be raised by
popular subscription.
/ FIRST TALK OF EMANCIPATION
W., NJ T,o;o,, I,o,,, = III g u.
-. os0Jo' n0s"n " 0aiA VI 'iie
emancipation oil the slave John Quincy
| Adams was President, and Andrew Jack
| son tha arhiter of tba fate IF tho nation
The Missouri comnromise had raised the
question Int the MaTican MAR ,nas. ' -
intarvena hetwan the tive and tie freo
soil movement in Kansas wendell phi.
ms had NOT made his maiden sneecb nor
| William Ilovd Garrison lifted hiS cIarion
voice In q small town in 0hio Tob,,
Brown was nathering b;s brood I' o Jo a;x
4 ro,,nrr 49, Pa 60 i, -. - - ooL y etA
knees for morning and eyani,,e rp ,,rayo mss
| mission All over tbis land thera ,.as 10y
a voice that nnh,icIv da,onr-od m rrha, nuo
black man was called q chattal "iion
| In 1S33 M Iova;ov horinr hoa,,
ordained n minister ~ The Pras5vter;a n
creed ret,,rned from princaton oy ~ .ei t "a
T,onis where he had won some distin NJ Is
az v;gorons IaaGer ,yr;tar ~, ~ 81
T,onisTisnes a Wbi@ organ Rv his traiy,; nv,
he decided that he couIi nreach the aos,a1
by the press BETTER Than IN the nminif and
tIe editorshin If tho e. louis Obbsa,,,,a 49,
the ORGAN If tbo PrashvtarianS IN ri.
inois and Missouri having been offered
him. he began at once the nrnnaganda
that he sent forth With every iss,1a IF hie
paper until his death fonr years Iatar at
the early age of IS. :
IL was a Jlme OF singular unrest in poll.
ri~bts was ran,nant. g. LUIS 81 i svaCes
STRONGHOLD of French Catholics was torn
by religious controversy by the arrival
OF large numbers OF New england Frotes-
oaac :. elhlgran1s inuo missouri ana Illinois,
a nd y S was ssiso .he lesoro river gangs
anu nau n 1eooine an Lmportano slave
aast for +ha a,,st H. pop , p .lIn ene
ts's ~ lor ;te urse lilly, Were prougho lace
70 aaG 70, Will G p urai ~ IN human beings
anu slavery pecalne one question OF the
iG uho h;++ouaa aa
io us l niusornoss eigenuereu Y Mr. Love
10y n loaau ahat 40 ncG I Ior ne
n aboiitionist in 1Ssa and 1sso eeI ~ o',ie ;a
. an a .i.1 n aoos anu looo re dld
Ho0 1HlhH ~ el1ier Wlso or pfuuenb TO