Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-04

| which their lack of sight imposes on
them.
His Unsuitable thirst for knowledge
led DR. Campbell to Harvard There
he married. But his apprenticeship
| u hard times was not yet over Tie
| lost all his savings. He returned 70
| Tennessee and became musical direc-
tor of a hourishing girls school At
| Harvard he had come under the nflu-
| ence OF Lloyd Garrison and ii was rs
an aboltionist that he returned to
Tennessee In those days--it was in
tS56--public feeling against abolition-
lists had reached that inilammatory
stage in which passion alone holds
sway and the ordinary rules Of iudg-
inent are suspended. DIR. Campbell
was not the man to hide his opinions.
1t soon became known that he was
an abolitionst To this offense q
worse one was ndded II was diaoov-
cred that he was teaching a negro &c
read.
THREATENED WITH LYNCHING.
deputation of prominent citizens
waited upon him to convince him of the
error of his ways The deputation fail
ed 10 convince him. He refused to
abandon his abolitionist sentiments; he
would not promise to give up teaching
negroes, Finally an ultimatum was
hiulliiHfh AAatlllSA Hlll. II ne hlu not
change his decision in "a hours he would
be swung into eternity from the near
est tree. DR. Campbell was left with
his young wife to look at life and death
through the hangman's moose. Prob
ably the committee never would have
gone to the length of executing it's
threat. Popular feeling, however excit-
ed. would not tolerate the lynching OF
a blind man. For the death sentence n
boycott was substituted. All his pupils
deserted HIM The necessity of earn
ing a livelihood compelled him to leave
his native state. The work required OF
him lay olscwcrc
SUCCESS IN BOSTON.
For time he had a hard struggle to
make both ends meet He made his
way 10 Boston aud there the Perkins
Institution gave him the chance which
put him ON his feet again He under
took To teach music for one term for
nothing and SO admirably did he sue
coed that he was installed as the head
OF the musical department. a position
which he held for IL years. II was In
Boston that he laid the foundations IN
theory of the system which he was III
timately To apply 80 successfully at
Norwood. That was the cultivation Of
the physical health and energy OF the
blind.
II was Inevitable that he should over
work himself In 1859 he was given
a years furlough TO rest. His idea Of
resting was making an exhaustive stu
dy OF the methods and appliances of
the best European Institutions for the
Instruction of the blind. Then with a
head packed full OF ideas for model
institution FOR the blind he turned his
face humewurd. he arrived In Lon
don on June %. 1871 He was booked
90 sail from Liverpool three days later
THE HAND or FATE
The great life work for which he had
undergone such u rigorous training lay
Close 40 hand bui he had not then the
faintest idea of H. II waa In the guisc
of an entire stranger that destiny in-
torvcned "a keep him iu England The
stranger was staying az the same hotel,
nud noting that Dr Campbell was blind
told him that he was going TO a tea
party for the blind next day and asked
him II he would like 10 attend, The
American said he would be very glad,
But for that casual meeting and inyi-