Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-01-07

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seven years later. At Belair. six years
later, a fugitive actor settled in the
woods, J. B. Booth, there to beget John
Wilkes Booth. The representative CT
the man who admitted Stevens to the
bar was lately an inmate of the Mary
land penitentiary, Stevenson Archer.
The bar at York which passed a res
olution that no man should be admit
ted to the bar who while a student
followed any other business, after
wards luxuriated in the possession of
Jerry Black and his son, Chauncey,
critics of Lincoln and Stanton At
Gettysburg, Stevens, avoided, poor,
with his mothers brood dependent up
on him, known as the club-focted at
torney, had practice poor and unprof-
liable but rich in human nature for
clients, till, poorest of all, negro
murderer was thrown at him to de-
fend. A hopeless case, but his effort
to do mercy and not justice aston
ished the boorish county, and he
stepped into the best business, and be-
gan to manufacture iron and open
railways to the Potomac He defend
ed fugitive slaves and allied himself
with the John Quincy Adams men, and
when Andrew Jackson's physical pop
ularity in Pennsylvania threw him
back into the minority he took hold of
anti-MaSOnry as the lever to break the
Southern thrall, and stood beside Sew
ard at the Baltimore convention Of
1881, which nominated William Writ.
of Maryland. The convention was as
tonished at his eloquence.
In 1888 he went to the state legis-
lature from Gettysburg, and took ZIP
the championship of the newly made
and already imperiled public schools
Instructed to vote for their repeal, he
defied his constituency. A born lead
er, he faced General Patterson, who
afterwards led the first army down the
valley in a struggle against troops for
the legislature, and expelled, he was
elected from Gettysburg, and sat till
1S41, when he moved to the rich town
of Lancaster, and became the greatest
jury lawyer there, and in 1S4S the
Wings sent him to congress, where ne
opened the attack on slavery, VITA
Howell Cobb in the chair. He was
rich, unwedded, fearless-a rich man
not afraid of his property. 81 honor
the courageous South" he cried. "All
her sons are faithful to human bond
age because it is their cause Do you
believe that the North, tame as she is.
when so often trodden upon. will new
er turn? And if the issue be made, the
result cannot be doubtful. You will
never vindicate yourselves by a sepa-
rate confederacy." Such was the voice
from Gettysburg in 1850.
Buchanan, from Lancaster, had been
in the cabinet and senate when Ste
yens withdrew from congress for SIX
years, and reappeared there in 1859,
sixty-seven years old, but the leader.
Buchanan in the White House was his
constituent; they never spoke as they
passed by.
1T is a libel on Pennsylvania" he
cried in the most opposite spirit to his
townsman president, ito say that she
will purchase peace by unprincipled
concessions to armed insurgents. If 1
thought such was her character I
would expatriate myself. would leave
the land where | have spent my life
from early manhood to declining age
and would seek some spot untainted by
the coward breath of servility and
'neanness. To her pleasant valleys 1
would prefer the rugged. bold state Of