The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-28

, was active in prison reform move
ment. His whole life was wholly
devoted to the cause of humanity
Foremost in the realm of merchan-
dize IT, unquestionably the name
OF n. H. Macy. merchant prince
Of New York, name familiar to
all.
We are greatly indebted to Judge
Allin Coffin of Nantucket for the
published life and genealogy of
iristram Cofnn, cotemporary OF
Thomas Macy and a Joint owner of
Nantucket Island This work Is In
valuable to all descendants of the
Macys and Collins az they are
closely related as the genealogy OF
| ludge coffin shows who Is des-
cendapt or Thomas Macy through
four lines of descent, three OF which
are from his maternal line. lie mas
p,,ed the Office of Chief Magistrate
of Nantucket Island for many year
| ne did his progenitor Thomas Mao,
the history of his country throus,' ~,
| uc ia thoroughly conversant WIN
the history of his country 'hro"e"
n,o onnoology Of his family
lie Is lecturer, historian anu
,cnperanoe advocate: has peen non-
ored with the nomination lor "o,
| or,nr of Massachusctt9. Like ms
nroeeuitor, he Is Prohiptio'''s''
rrom 1879 to the year 177l, a per-
,od longer than has been gwen W Ine
ldeve,opment of ohio--the pionee'S .
and theirposterity lived IN co''pai-
ative exclusion, yet their mihds were
,i,vo IN the needs of humanity-thelr
spitit in unison with their Goa 4,
Tbeir intercourse with the world
woa necessarily and voluntarily re-
stricted. Intermarriage was pron'p-
l,ory. Practically, this offense was
without an atonement. we may con-
slider this period of more thah u
century as "a tarrying in Jerusalem.
I'm the year 177i. there came tryihs
hor TO the ISLANDERS. They ahtlcl-
mated what actually occurred the de-
vastation of their island homes py
ritish fleets.
The exodus began in 177l and con-
tinued for four years
I Many descendants of Thomas
Macy and his contemporaries accepted
the hospitality of the sea and found
an asylum in the heart of the South.
settling in Gulford county North
Carolina. In memory of their island
home. they named their new settle
ment, New Garden. Here they Duilt
a meeting house--a landmark upon
the plane of humanity to man. In
this meeting house. they organized
the first sabbath School in all the
South. This occurred in 1873 In
1921, they organized the frsts Sab
bath School for negros in the United
States, so far as known at least. This
institution was suppressed. being in
violation Of law. The reason given
was that it created discomfort
among the slaves. ut unquestion-
ably did among the slave holders }
Here was organized Manumission
Society, the first in the South among
the earliest in the United States.
In the same year, 1921, there was
established an abolisitionist paper at
the county seat. Greensboro. 1t Is
generally known that Garris1n estab-
lished the Liberator in Boston in
1881. II is not generally known that
prior to this date, three aholtlpnisi
apers had been establishd one'in n
border county. two in the heart of
the South. The first abolitiOnist pa
per in America was established in
Belmont county. Ohio The second,
in Eastern Tennessee; the third above
mentioned. The Liberator was
fourth but Il was the first. however,
whose editor was mobbed. There was
no prejudice in the South. not even
In time of the Rebellion against the
Bostonian. The term Yankee did not
apply to him. Why should the South
have been prejudiced against the
Hub? Boston was the birthplace of
the Jim-Crow car
These csiles in The South lived
unto themselves as exclusively among
the Suckers-for-the- e-Puritan. with the
same discipline as they had main
'tiiNu ah'hG 'ii' iNIiNuhS WI ANtN
England. 1t was capital Offense
in North Carolina to give a cup of
cold water or point 10 him the North
Star. Abolitionlsm was never II
fad in the South, but the& is feel
ing sense recognized by the descend
ants of aboitionlsts generally that
the balls" that flew i'm the South
were no harder than those that flew
in the North.
We ask our readers 10 compare
the descendants of these Southern
Exlles with the descendants of the
Puritans. The atrocious crimes of
the Purltans began with the second
generation and continued through the
third and into the fourth. Nothing
more serious than pilfering and
and trickery is recorded against
those of the first generation.
In this Southern oasis was born
that immortal spirit, Levi Coffin,
reputed president of the underground
railroad. His life was devoted to the
cause of abolition. He made frequent
trips into the South from Cincinnati,