The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-04-04

a long, full beard, strong face ana flash
ing eyes, standing in the middle Of tn
room. He seemed TO have been ad
dressing the company, as the other
were in the attitude of attention to him
NO, was not frightened. They al
looked respectable, and never though
of their doing me any harm.
"Well after they had inspected me
asked numerous questions, and ] haC
answered them all, and assured then
there was nobody with me but wo'
man. they seemed satisfied and taking
some tools, etc, one OF their number
went with me to the place where hac
left my aunt. The carriage was soor
repaired, and, after thanking the man
who decidedly refused any more sub
stantial compensation, we drove en-, and
soon arrived at cur destination.
/ "A few days after that John Brown
was hanged at CharlestoWn, Va, and
the good people of Ashtabula, O., held
| funeral services in the court house, at
which the whole county seemed to be
present. I was there, and the first man
A., noticed, sitting in the most prominent
place ON the platform, was the large
man with the big whiskers, whom had
seen in the cabin of the woods only the
week previous
:" Who Is the big man, up there? I
asked Of a bystander.
That, he said, with a queer drawl
WY. thet is John Brown, il, tina son
NV tina old 'un we air honerln; an over
there in tha audience is United States
with a Init t1s lya r.
rant In his pocket, come to rest him.
My boylsh heart beat q big tattoo,
for somehow did not want to see this
manipulating fellow utterly extln-
guished. Just then John Brown, Jr..
arose, and slowly, reverently, but with
a sort Of massive dignity that J. have
never forgotten. He spoke:
I have come here to help pay the
last respects Of earth to my honored
father and / mean to do It. / know
that there are those here for the pur-
pose Of arrestipg me, but do not in
tend to be arrested. I might as well die
here, and now, as some place else later
on. and If | am arrested I know they
will treat me no better than the Others
So and here he quietly drew revolt
Yer out of his pocket T have come pre-
pared, and the man who attempts to
arrest me I will not hesitate to shoot
He was not arrested, and Is proba-
bly, living to-day; he was living not
long ago And I was told that the sad
faced woman whom saw at the cabin
that night was the wife Of Osawatomie
Brown"
Another interesting relic of the aboli-
ton sentiment of those old times,
though even farther back in the past,
was presented to me by Miss Susan +.
Anthony. 1t Is certificate of member
ship in a society whose object was to
help the runaway slave in making his
escape to freedom, and whose members
had established means Of communioa-
tion with each other and hiding places
for the fugitive along the route which
enabled them to make his escape pos
sible
This copy Of their certificate of mem,
bership is an eight by ten inch sheet of
stiff, white, parchment like paper, orna-
mented by border At the top Of 1t Is
the figure of ragged, shaclzled. knsel-
ing negro, with the question:: Am I
not man and brother?" printed in
small capitals above his head, but mi
nus the Interrogation point. At his |
right is quoted: "Thou shalt not deliv- |
ar unto hts master the servant which |
has escaped from his master unto thee"
lDeut., xxiii:15). On the left of the fig |
ire is another quotation from Holy |
Writ: Therefore, all thingswha tsoev-
sr We would that men should do to you, |
10 We even so to them" MAT, vi:12). |
The latter text, however, is capable |
n this instance, of two very different |
according to the point |
rom which it is viewed. If seen from |
he masters standpoint, this command |
would make 1t seem their Christian |
iuty to restore to him what he regarded |
Is his property. But looking upon |
themselves as justified by the most I'M
.quivocal command printed upon the
light hand SIDE they would feel war;
'anted in still operating their under
ground railroad.
Below this flgurehead Is printed the
flank of the certificate all in ornamen-
al letters except the names of the |
resident and secretary, which are In
,old-face type. The name Of the holder
# the certificate and the date are, ,of
curse, in the handwriting Of the sec
etary, the whole reading:
'This lis to certify that William Still
S member Of the vigilant committee.
"ROBERT PURvIS, President.
JACOB c. WHITE. Secretary.
philadelphia, Pa, 1899"
"Crozet, printer rnodestly places his
anne and occupation, half concealed,
\ the border.
This quaint document was handed to
Iiss Anthony by a grandson of the
hove Robert Purvis, as plemento of
he humble tranway Of those primi-
we days, when no one dreamed of what
he future held in the way Of elevated
always, double electric motors smooth
INNING rubber tires etc, with accom-
1odatlons for whole race instead of
alf a dozen at a time.
At the treasury department 7 was al
WED to take in my hand, most rever- |
ntly, I assure you, another SOUVENIR Of
&c dead century, this one appealing
OF to single race or class but to the
hole world. 1t was the bond given
y John Howard Payne, upon his APP
ointment in 1S4i as consul to Tuns,
here he died in 1852.
1T Is an old-fasliioned document, With
,e signature written i'll somewhat
,ded ink, by the hand that won inn :
brtality in the sweetest song that