Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-30

My fathers houses, always the abode
for an unstinted hospitality, became
q common hostelry for those heroic
men and women. There l met William
Lloyd Garrison, publisher Of the Lib
erato:, and one of its greatest advo-
Gates, both on the platform and in the
press. There met Abbie Kelley Fos-
ter, a woman whose thought and elo-
quence matched that of any of the
great leaders of the abolition move
ment. 1t was there first met Wendell
Phillips, the man who sacrificed wealth
and the highest political career an
American citizen might aspire to, to
advocate the cause of friendless and
despised race and by that advocacy
must always be rated one of the
greatest platform orators the world
has ever known.
Frederick Douglas.
"It was there, received as an hon
ored guest, I met Frederick Douglas,
the negro, born slave on a Maryland
plantation, reared in ignorance, who
had known his masters lash, who had
seen the husbands and wives of his
race, fathers and mothers, sold like
cattle and separated without a hope of
an earthly reunion of themselves or
their children, had seen their tears.
and heard their sobs and cries and in
his soul, as pictured by his face, those
sobs and cries seemed ever to be
echoing Like an inspired prophet
have seen him hold sway over cul-
tured audience and in choice and clas-
sic English pour out his soul
until his audience heard these
sobs and cries and wept in sympathy.
For days he was an inmate of our
home, great and stalwart man, as
gentle as child, man who ranked
as natures nobleman
At Baltimore Convention.
"I knew something of the history of
the underground railroad, and read
with bated breath of the raid, the trial
and execution OF John Brown, as a
current event. 1t was my fortune to
be at the Baltimore convention that
gave Abraham Lincoln his second
nomination and day or two after
this convention it was also my
pleasure to greet him at the White
House. 1t was in the dark days Of the
war, after little more than three
years of that struggle for national life
had passed, looked in those eyes
where melancholy seemed to have
taken I'D her abode. l saw him turn
aside to talk to a wounded soldier,
recently from one of the battles of the
Wilderness | saw his earnest hand
grasp and heard his tone of sympathy
which marked him a tender and low
ing friend to humanity
Problems of Future.
GAS we pass away from and beyond
these events they seem like little hill
locks in the distance, but seen in
their midst, they were mighty noun
tains and they will ever rank among
the great events of our national his
tory. 1 rejoice in the peace and pros
perity of the present. AS our present
is the logical sequence of our past so
our future will be the result of our
times. Thrilling questions are before
us. They are ever rising and demand
ing a solution and not infrequently
their solution demands grieyous sacri-
fees Republican institutions are still
subject to tests. 1t is my experience
that apparently little, clouds spread
and grow dark, and develop storms
and cyclones So it is in our political
life. Today the relations between la
Dor and capital, the legislative con.
| troll of great corporations, the prob