Year: 1865

OF which the following Is ar extracts IL do not deserve
the sentence for never advised took part in any
insurreotiou. AL I ever did was to recommend the
people who complained to seek redress IN legitimate
way; and if in this have erred or have been nsrepre
sented do not think deserve the extreme sentence
1t is. however the will Of my Heavenly Father that
shoud thus suffer in obeying His command to rehe'e
the poor and needy and to protect as TAR as was aoe
the oppressed. And glory be to His name, thank Him
that suffer in such cause. / can say, 1t is great
honor thus TO suffer for the servant cannot be greater
than his Lord. say with Paul the aged the
hour my departure is al hand and am ready to DC
offered up have fought good fight have kept the
faith and henceiorth there is laid up for me crown oi
Righteousness which the Lord, the righteous Judge
shall give me-"


The letter has ring" about if that bespeaks metal
of tie genuine stamp Gordon met his death with true
heroism. All honor TO his memory No mere accident
Of shame attending the mauner OF hs death can tarns
the ustor of his truly noble martyrdom.


The Jamaica martyr was a man of remarkable ability
and energy and great decision OF character lie pos
sessed an intellect Of common order. and his eo
Quence-for a speaker he Tas eloquent-thouGu
rough and unpublished. of most effective KIND, as
his opponents frequently found to their cost He vas
man Of warm heart and generous impulses a sincere
Christian patriot and philnnhropis ever ready 'c as
sist every work OF beneyolence. He was of the Zap
tist pesuaon. bnt not clergyman as has soen repre-
sented although he occasionally preached we cannot
conclude this sketch than by giving tho following
testimony to Lis worth borne. since his death, by the
Rev. DIR. King the eminent Presbyterian minister oil
the City of Glasgow who visited Jamaica many
years ago and was Mr.. Gordous guest during a por'
ton Of the time he spent in that island Through the
reverSes OF the colony the father Is W. Gordon) from
being very rich came to lose all and the colored son
bought his estate not however 10 deprive him oi H.
but 10 leave him occupancy surrounded by
the comforts he had been accustomed to ENJOY 90
acted the son of the bondwoman when the feelings oi
the fathers white wife and her children would mol
allow him to enter the paernal abode Yet he always
spoke 10 with dccrentia regard for his father, and
never uttered diuespectfal word regarding Mrs.
Gordon. He was tendery sensitive. One day. ms we
walking together he became pensye and absorbed
and after eeasing for little TO speak or Listen, be re
quesie3 me to step aside with him. He stopped before
sgh. elevation Of the grass, and said to nc, with
much emotion: Ny mother Is buried there she was
negro and slave: but she a kind mother TO me.
and l loved her dearly. As he uttered these words.
his tears trcklcd down upon her grave The Efforts OF
tho son could make the impoverished iatheF happy
in Jamaica where he had long held high position. aud
i; was arranged that Mr.. Gordon with his family
should leave for the mother country, chiefly or e1
cusvely. by the aid which Georges hlial munhcence
prov ded When the day Of departure at hand, the
son said to me- You know hat am not permitted to
give my father valedctory attentions have promised
him that YOU will do 30 ior me, and will accompany him
and his white family TO the ship"


These affecting reu.iniscenees Of Dr. Kings show
what manner OF man Gordon was. and tend 10 deepen
our regret at bis untmely end Untimely We say but
ony TO human vision. ioI, being dead be YET
speaketh"