Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 11, 1874, Page 4

. THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: S ¥ aunoxation-of-Toxna plot, 1o also enconraged iho practico of -mastora paying tholr slaves for thelr Iabor, and throwing {hemn to' some oxtent on thelr nwh rosources, learhing tho axt of frea- dom Whilo under tho' control of the mastery aud havo thom feol that they woro motlug o8 1roemon, if nob legally freo; Socloly nnd laws frequontly Intorforod with this accommodating srrangement’ betwoon mnaster aud’ elava. Tho cesonco of slavory was, that the powor ‘of con- trnot was anmnlled, or wanting, botweon mastor auid ainvo, | A man even freo enunot itake & bar- pain with Lis horsg. ' Tho law Wil not’ always aflow him to turn hiw looso, Alr. Lundy concefved tha projact of procuring GRANTS OF LAND ol e from the Govarnment of Moxico, I 'the hon co= sendoticlos of that cotntry of tho State of Toxns l’ur tho purposo of , scttling thoroon colonies o omuncipated slayos from tho United States. I remombor woll tho statomont of Fathor James TF. Dickoy, of. Mr. Lundy's sontimonts on ths ninttor, at his funoral add rx]:su. ‘].lxo'mlfl: o i Me. Ty, deepty dopressed and atniost liopcless of e sl grinaing T udico of o Snito copls nainnt Lo duegeo, songlit o procuro for hit, o818 Legotintions witl: Bexico, a plnco of xefuge, Where, fréo from projudico, and contact with tio opprosshig evily o might hava's chiauco €0 rlay, with- oh Foprossing Influcncos, to tho holght of hiy capacl- flet; aud that tho raco might becomo b contralizing Jower fo enconrao voluninry einancipation smony Mlaveholdorw, This was 1ot exictly llke African coloitl- and noitlier was it urged for tho sumamotives, It was 1 desire to doliver tho viciims from tho Juws of tho tigrer o5 voon na possible, aud sottly tho tors of thy tger attorward. 'Ho mado two onrnoys o Moxico for thls purposo; n grant of fo o procured 3 bub - tho twar ° wilel broke out = frustrated tho emterpriso, Dub it vesulted dn_great good, o becanto familine th the men who wera oporating in’-tho Texan, Jiue, atud of telr pians, and of thelr design to_rob Mesico of bt torritory for tho purposo of sonoxing it Lo th United States, and makiug slave territory of 1.’ Ho traveied In dlrguise, aud toy little know thero was o . Wehicd nmang. thent tokin’ notesd” o returned to s country, published the facls, and whon Mr. ‘s smada b8 great npeeoh in Congrash, in Which o charged 1o plot upon tho Southru counpirators, Ty éawme forward pud furnishod him tho ovidenco, y whieh ho provad ft, und astenlelied the natlon, Tamdy sfterwards publivhed tho # War {n Toxas; & Tlot to Aunux that Territory for tho Purpose of Btrengthouing the Slava Power.” He was & grout admirer of Jobn 'Quinoy Adums, and wiile In tho cxcitoment on tho Toxus question he bad o remarkable dronm, which ho ofton_totd “with the “linprossion that it foreshndowod ovonts, which soomod to rolato to the death of Mr. Adams, which oscurred noar-. 1y uino yours attor tho deails of Lundy, aud to portray the ond of elavery in n bloody war. MR LUNDY NEVER RECEIVED ‘TE OREDST that was justly his duo for bis Inbors to ostab- lisl theso Mexas’ colonies, or’for ‘oxposing ' tho conspiracy to got up the war. Ihave spoken of. satlon, To hii his labors_ with Southor peoplo. It wag' Mr. Lundy's desire, ns long™ as ho could do s0, to ot dlrnutlr upon * the minds' of tho Bouthern peoplo and glave- liolors, fo maintained o strong inllucnco upolt thom for a long time, and it was not wholly: 163, up to tho day of his danth. At soro period o bindl 8 Jargo number, of slavolioldors as gub-. beribers to Lits pupor: “That class that hnve boon callod Anti-Slaveey sinvolioldors contribuled to his support, und furnished him with'monoy with which ho prosccated his schomes of sottlomonts in Toxas, and also in shippig froed slaves to Hiaytl, Lending politiclans of tho Bouth woro Teajlers ot his puper; thoso most inclming to sonio philanthropio tucasaro for tho sinve con- uulm{ with him, gove lim much-important in- formmntion, snd occasionally nided ~bim with funds. Henry Clay bas moro than' once 'helped Tiim; £0 iuyo membors of tho Marshall family; and similur plaveholders of T'enuossce and North Carolinn, Richurd M. Johnson, whose ‘family Tiopes scomed to )mnfi upon tho olovation of - tho durk side of tho lnimon raco, was a rogular. subgoriber, would send him - letters of oncour- ugement, apd gave him mouoy. Georgo D, Preutice, tho wit of tho Louisyillo Journal, Was hin fass© friond 5 often’ gave him' lindly notices undet tho gloss of ' plendantry, or a joko ut hig Quuker philantbropy. It was from a notico in tho Louisvillo_ Jownal that I first learnod the intontion of Liumdy to remove to Il- Jinois and sucecod the mmartyr Lovojoy in the ‘Tguication of am AbGlition’ Howspapor. 1t is SPasant forus to, record and' romomber that Shohtionists ovor found somo sympatby In the Bouth,—that nlwnys ihero was n hont and con- sciouco there, oven among hoso who hioid their Brothor-man in legal and civil clinins, Thoroe was ovor a klinde ofidivkuces over their minds, which came of edueation aud practices of tho genora- tons of their futhers, 1t is o greut pity it they wero onslaved” 1o ono another,—that in the society which thoy erented thoy could wob, fully poal their honest minds ono to anothor,—and Thiat {hey took so. little. purt in the discussion of that great matter of their concern, and had ga littlo to do ia shaping tho end of thow desti- ny, s ib grow out of the relations to the ‘bluclk niaw, planted in thele midst by thoe ovil impulscs of anenrly day. It was tho saddest of sl things that tho Novtiiern demagogue, through the Dem~ “pother them ocratic party, camg - to 5 and to huild up men of - straw o' fighten them; - oowd that the Lest men of the South wors compelled 1o swap off the friendstip of suel men a8 Henry Ward Boechor tor Isninly Kynders iu Now Yorls, and Willinm Lloyd Garrison or ' Charles Sumuor “for B. ¥, Butler, in*Mussuchusolts. Nol As bad » bargain ns thoy made in’_the swap, thuy nover lort Lo friondebip of Boecher, Qarrison, or Suwmuer, Lt thoy might havo had valus from Yt fricudship which they nover gob, . 1 DOLDLY §AY 1T, 1 the faco of all thoeo vetoraum, und thoso peo- 1 who ginuly ool on v, o clond of witnosses, tn Lus rounion of 1374, thut, under God, the best uiends tiezo slaveholders of our connlry ever Inud wero the Abolitionists ! 1 it sy rnplflle' o tlio of thin inturesting charicio Whila doiug this side work I havo’ spoken of, andd paarsng s pilgrun path alois, he' mot with his clrwe of close of the carcer IERSONAL OUTRAGE and the porils of mob atiention, Soon afler Ciarrison was imprisonod, Lo waa. knoclkod down in the streots of Baltimore. by o ruflinuly trader by tho nawe of Austin Woodfoll, and stumped upou by the hieal of his boot on hiy foco and bead, aud #o budly injured .as to doadon still woro his slveudy impuired bearing, and to bear marks upou him which ho carried to the grave, Luady, you know, was a Qualier,—houeverauvited a blow, or struck bacl, “I'his viilnin went bofore n Justico of tho Peace of his vwn morsl ypo, and was fined the oxemplary sum of 81, and Tamdy was told thut ho had been sorvod xight. Hhat was o kind of Justice often iueted out to mon fike him. Fho apposition epirit which had vent Garri- gon to prison, and had placed ity brand on Luudy's face, at lnst drove bim out of Baltimoro. To went to Washinglon and piaced himself in tho ndvocacy of liborty in a frou conntry, under 1ho protectivn of the National Government, In 1346 ho romoved lis journal to Philadelphia. 1lere o publishied a weoldy papor by tho namo of the National Inguirer, and Ahis was at lash merged iu the Pennsylvanic Freeman. COMING WEST, Ou tho Tth of Novembor, 1837, T.ovojoy was murdered ab Alton, in_this Stato, while-in de- tensg of hig prees agulnst tho mob. Tundy's elder murried” childron, My Wiarmun, “who, I undordtand, isalready ntthis rdinion, and Min, Griltothy, had some timo beforo thiv sottled nb Magnolin, in Putnmn County. Io” had before thistuno moditated upon romoving to Illinois, The death of Lovejoy determined for' him his conrse. 1o immedintoly sunounced lis dotar- minution 1o follow Lovojoy in printing an_Aboli- Lion papor here, or go 1o & bivody grave, if need De, contesting the right of froo printing. His Jittle properly, conu}uliugl mostly of booles, “papers, Quukor olothing, uud A complote flo of Rm Gening of Universal Emancipation, proparn- Lory to his dopurturo, wore stored in Lonnsylvu- e Inl], o bwlding which lad boon erected in Philadelphia, by the fiends of froodom, thab they might’ bavo u pluco in whicl thoy could moet nud freoly spealk, becauso in tho City of Brothorly Lovo, iu the land of Penn, whoso dootrine was peuaco and llbun{. thoy could huve 0o other—neithior church nor hall, “On tho 17th of May, 1848, tho wsun} torch of the opposition insuch cnses wns by the mob applicd to thiy Dbuilding, und it was burnt to the ground, all of puor Lundy'’s aceumnlation of property the fifteen yenrs hio had boew an oditor, and with it Lis brain-work, wont toashes! Ko will not porish his labos I' In July following, ho staried for Iihois, at that: time about forty-nine yours of ugo, and about sl thue Lundy: could ring with him, of worldly goods, to adil to the wenlth of thie Biate, weroihe clothos on his back antl his mothorlesy'oluldron. Ol {s thero gro .itude mnong tho clnldren of mon, or “iu thero ro- Ward for good Jabor 7 _Choro fs Yoward wo know not of ; but no gratitudo (to speak of) among tho ‘childyon of men! 1o urrived hero - Heptame hor, 1888, 1lo took humediuto stops to brlng ont his Genius of Universal I'.‘mancl{»allon, m»fi id it tatter its wings over tho ‘pralries of Ilji- wnin, 308 velatives, ehildron nud brothor of the wifo of his- youth, William T.owis, lived ¢ Magnolin, in Pnfunm Coanty, It wun aotural that & oman Sike -himo o who Tiud hoen et about on the tompost of 11fo at 49 phonll ke to sit down in its valo by the graen vino of his housohold, He sefented Honnopin an the phace for the B)l\m\cnflafl of h(nm'\on Tt was bo como ont under thd sanction of the Titi- pois Stnte Anti-Bluvery Hoclety, an orgamzation Jitulized by the,bloud "of Lovajoy. No town of auy Importance in this now_glorions State, thet thien beld u live Lincolu, 84 it doos now bis desd Ltyued body, -hoped somohow to male up. “olige againat time. WOULD TOLERATR TIE PUNLICATION of an Abolition paper in its midst. No ono at that timo would have prosumed to hava askad it of OChleago, or Doorls, ~or 'Qulnoy; or ‘| Springtield, Ifounopln, howaver, which™ wn3 but o ' little “town on o ‘ groen © hill {t'tho liond of the Hlinoid ivor, than o very ola- faaifionod town for a young Stato; ‘did'not rojoct: Iim, Ho thought ho ight mend his prospoots. By hking motlior locaion, 1o dhtod his bepor, ‘b 1onnopin, n ho had ‘advortised Lo do, ‘but ho printed it dontoihore ‘olsp, That' somowliero olso ¢ould then bo found, not upon the' map, as it probably cin now bo by onreful Ronrehing, bub itp tho Yormilion Ttiver, soutl of Obtawa, across; tha river from tho auclont towri known na'Vor-, mitionyille, and ith nimo 18 Lowoll, Thoro was then thoro n largo stone flourlng-mill-in procoss of orcetion,” and ' it builder i8 ‘now probably fu thigTonse. 1foro thoro woro in“this” town of Towll many villago lots {o soll and a Towto glvo mwny. ' Back on the peairie, sonth and goullicnst, way_ & largo strotch of grooir prairlo, bordoring on Lho timber of tho rivoy, whivh'was™ Inud b= Tonging to-the Govornmont, =By comig hero Tundy could geb land on which to sqmits and town lots wers ‘offored him, if ho' would -bub omo aud Tot the ligitt of his (feniua shino; o feather which turned tho sculo of his judgment was tho nssistance of theso frisuds ut Ldwoll, for tho aaka ol -having # NOWHpADEr, ‘Who purs! chased by thelr hotos an old pross eallod s half-, platon, which ptintors will roodguize ns an im- pmvm( Ramago; and old type, ny the phrato Is, wortt down'to tho nick. 4 A building nbont 12 feot sqilare was made of onk plauk standing np endwise, nnd covored with laned hardwood “siding, but not plastered. A Rulmhm of ono story, conlaining two rooms, Duult iu the sama style, stood o littlo south of It, and further baok from where o siroot ought ta Do, Horo in the front building tuis old typonud: proad woro placed. Hero was LUNDY'S DAST PRINTING-OFFICE. Horo ‘was Lundy's Inst dwelling-bonse in Iili- 1olg, bofora his frionds moved him Into tho still narrower ono. His younger twin-childron; about 12 yonts of ‘g0, woro witly him; tho “dauglitor, Lsther, wau lis littls housokeoper with ‘himuelf, and Tohjnmin, tho brother, had learncd tosot typo £ a littlo, wnd to statid ou o bot Lehind tho prows and roll ono pago at o time, whila”the prossman ulled twico to got a_one-gido -improssion of undy's little shoot. Hore fu tho fall bo com-. monced to print his paper. flo told mo his cx- perianco. 1Io got n journoyman or two, but thoy did not Inst, Ho wad somo waelos in'got {mg ont nnumber,’ Lundy and his son sot up tho type very ulu\v}y, but thay coutd not'run tho pross. * At longth Jotn Lovojoy, brother of the -martyr, ‘eame to bis roliof,—n’ young man who Tind t littla oxporlonce'in priuting, and ho could not fill the placo that was wanted. = Thus, up to'the spring of’ 1830, four or fivo num- bors woro issued, dated at Honnopin, whilo tho- oxchange. list, consistiuz of Dailoy's flourlshiug Philanthropist, tha clogant Emanci- palor, the Liberator with its_slave-anction, and ‘Goodoll's Friend of Alan, Rogors' Herald of Freedom, and somo others, wore rocoivod at tho Post-Ofico at Vorwmilionville, - Tt was dated at ono town in another county ; its mail receivod at “anotber, and the shoct printed at a third, ~ Cho -dntés of the papor wore far back of tho timo of its issue, ne friend Luudy hatod to loso time, and It was o opoless " TINS 18 °A BAMPLE of the paper and printing, tho'only ' fils probably in‘oxistonco of Litndy's paper printed in Linois: [Horo » bound volunie of about n-dozen nows- Ppers waszexhibited.] - Mr. Donaldson, of Cin- élunntt, gave the paper on whicl tho latter park *was printed. Such was thio stato of this enterprise when, in tlic spriug of 1889, T arrived i Dlinois, ' I did | not comg here of my ‘own impulse to print an ‘Abolition paper, and to succoad Lovojoy ot Lun- dy, thouglt whien I first henrd of the death of ‘ Tovejoy, theu in Vormont, I mado somo rockloss axprossion of dotormination to do sc,—purhnlm an o great miany “others, printor's Loys et the timo, or training thowmeolves for tho I)mrmxon of ‘journalism, a8 T was, might havo said so whon thoy thought of tho sncrod> right of tho pross. Buch a'roverence hind I for printers’ typo thut, when I wa told o man was murdored for atand- ings up for ftrights, that T folt s if the mob liad struck ab my divinity. It was always o wonder'to me that tho' Amorican press took thint ontrago’se indifferoutly. It belongs to tho printers of thisnation to put up that monument 0 the momory of Lovejoy which must gcon go up on tho bluils of tho nll«uiusipéai overlooking thie once siavo-lnnd that thirated for his blood. 1§ citcado, at tlio dinnor-tablo in the first Tremont Iouse, Theard of the * niggor,” ns lo was ealled, I uwalio from'n sleop iu Frink's atago-concit to hear tho horses tramp in thowater on tho way to Widow Barry's Point’; thon I ‘henrd somothing out Abolitionists. Emerging uvon the groon prairics at Lyons and grooting the bright morniug sun for the first time in Illinois, I henrd tho namo of Lundy montionod. Some travelors from Tutnam Oounty, one of them ‘nomed White, wero talking about Abolitionists, and “tollingwhat troublo Lundy hiad In gobtiug his papor printed, * Thero wore throo things thint ofton obtruded themselves upon mo, for soveral " yveoks, whild 1 went down on tho Military Tract # Niggor,” a8 polite circles ealled them, * Abo- Tioniwls,” mnd * Lundy.® Samue} 1I, Davis, of the Keqaler at Peorin, urged moe by ull meany togo up and ‘help Lundy. ‘Tho end of it I wont, Au interesting: porsoral episode in my own life T must pass over. WE ALL WORKED s in that littlo oftice for a fow waecks. Lundy soomod véry bhappy, 150 had somo confidentinl tall with me, ‘whon'I told'him it would becomo ' necessary for me soon to rokurn to the Lnst, 1Io spoko of dividing with mo his town-lots in Loy- ah. and of glving mo a share of the brond prairic on which Lo had squatted ; Lut the proposition did not seem flattering. o was taken ill o day or twoafter: lio wroto a sentonce g an apology for lncle'of editorinl, in which ho said, ** Wa shail soon ho botter.” e wont to Lis bod' at tho tav- ern the uoxt day, and tho day following, *abont 11 o'clock nt night, boing told by the physician that No way heer Lis end, stated that he felt Ffl_ fectly easy, nud in o fow moments fell into u swoot sloap, ‘that of a child pillowed upon its ‘mother’s bosom; but it ‘was hig- lnst #leep, Isaw that peaceful’ doath. I wroto the obituary notice that ayfpenrodlin the ‘same paper Awith'his lust editorial words*in which hio snid bo shonld soon bo botter. * His friends pluy, in tho simplo, plaitt stylo of their religions 1aith; carried him away, for burial. T suppose no tolored man in - this world knows whoro they 1aid him. Mr, Edgtmon aleo'read the following extraot from & private lotter'from Willism Lloyd Garri- sou ¢ Itrust that the memory and Iabors of Benjamin Lundy will bo specially remomiered snd honoved at tho retnion guthoring, Tolim1 owe my congection with tho cause of omanelpation, as ko way the st to call my attention (0t ¢ aud, by pressing Invitation tomoto join him in printing and editing tho @, of U, £, ut Baliiuore in 1828, Lo shuped my destiny for tho ramaiuder of my life, Mr. Olarko thon led in singing ¢ Tug LisErry Bars," {o the aic of *“ Rosin tho Bow ;" Come all yo trug frionds of the uation, * Attond to Luinnity's eall ; Como afd tho puor slave's beration, And rall on tha liberty hall— Ang roll ou tho Hberly ball— " Cowe ald the poor Glave'a liboration, Aud roll on the lberty bull, The Liberty hosts oro aidvancing— For freedom to all thoy docliro; “Tlio down-troddon millious aro slighing— Come, break up our gloom of duanalt 3 * Gomo break up our gloom of deapal, otd, And whon we have formed tho blest union Wo'll irmly march on, one sud sl Wl sl wiion wo nieet 1 comnuslon, Aud rolt on tho Hburty ball, " Aud rolt on th liverty How can you stand halting whilo virtuo Th eweatly apposling Lo ull 5 iien Lacti (o o stasdard of duty, “And roll ou the Hborty ball ¢ ‘And roll on tho Nberty ball, cto, Yo freomon attend to your otlng, Your ballots witl answoer tho oall 5 . And whilo others sttond to for-rolting, Wa'll xoll ot tho Hberty bull— ‘Wu'll roll ou tha liburty ball, ote, On motion of” Mr. Birnoy, of Michigan, tho Tan, Daniel Roborts. of Vormont: Willlnm 11, Brisbin and 8, D. Unstings, of Wisconsin, and the llou. Georgo W. Jullan, of Indisnn, and Wiltinm Mills, of Kansas, woro ndded to tho lise of Vice-Prosidonta, ——— 'JAMES H. OOLLINS. Thoe Mon, T 8, Williama thon read the follow- ing blographical skotch of James II, Collius, o well-known Anti-Blayory lawyoer of early Chi- oagos Ou & sultry oyoning In tho month of July, 1854, » fow friends gathored around the mortal romnine of Jmnes 1L, Qolllng to perform the burlat rites, Tfo had died that morning at Ottawa, wheyo ho had beon attondiug the torm of tho Buplemo Court, strickon down in a fow hours by that foll scourga tho cholorn, Tho tolegenphio annonnoe- meut ot his death: buat Hke o thundarbalt upon L, oo, thiy aiready torror-striokon oity. Four bocano panto ns tho nows New upon 'wings o2 thé wind, Citlzony in procipitato hasto dosorted thelr homes, #carca waitlug to bult the doors, Yo lviter miglt bo to eucounter the grim skoloton withont dis- " with his romorscless soytho, Railrond cnrs, ‘stoibonts, omuibusos,'darrlagos, toomod With aftrightod pasacngors,” Tw'n fow hours the eity was dopopulatad- by thouwhnds,' That wes no timg for long ' funeral ‘procossions, nor for tho ' pngeaniry © of * ‘otrow, Tho honored ‘and-' the' loved * ‘wero ‘connfgnod © to ' their gravau as soldlers ave burled afler wgtdat Lnttla, That was no timo for oulogy. A few lind words, - short prayer,' and tho noblest and .best ‘wora ' conimittod ** aust fo dust, sshes Lo ashos.” H ‘Civouty yonrs aro woll “tflgh'‘gono- sinca tha day, and ho who died g0 suddenly and wat burled #O uncaromoniusly lus Lad no public recugni= ‘tion of hit worth, 'Tho prosu bing mot follswod' “him'with its prafso. “No sérmon; no eulogy, liag ‘beon proncunced upou bin. i o-day, at your bidding, I am horo to- disx charge, ag bost I can, o duty which you foal hay ‘been too long poatponed, and which' youhave rosolved should bo Imporfdotly performed mehbq' than longor dolayod. 5 e Bub in this score of yoars how much that yorr ' would love to vo mio rocount hus pnssed into' oblivion. How many yemluisconcos: have' died with the frionds’ who lie Loneath tho groen: Illooks in onr gravoynrds, Iow many valupe: ablo lotters and papors of historic worlh went to food that fonrful flamo; whose Ilurid “glaro Cstill aftights- us - in” our’ dréamu. How many facts, onco writton upon the pago of moemory, are now elouded #o as to bo Hlogible. How.mnny have been burled boneatt-the rapidly- succoeding incidents of tho past twenty yonrs— & timo of rmore thrilling ovents than any slmllar period fn the world's history. o But I know {hat with many of you tho mem- ory of our dopartod friend 18 il greon’; thnk *through Lheso Jong yoars of eflanco your liourls havo foit what your cars have not hoard, nor Em“ 1ips spolton, I linow ‘that you huve beon . nppior and bottor, through nll theso yoars, from tho fact that you wero ‘onco pormitied to onjoy his’ convorso and friondship.” 1 o doed dons for God aid humanity is over lost; if evory noblo thought spokon awalkens ochoos’ which shall never dio; if ovory gonorous decd dong sota {1 moljon pplos which shall only, brodle npon tlio Mrthost shore of “time, thon I Luow that Jamos IL. Collivs lves to-iny, not only iu_your memorics but inyour ulfeations ;' Tivos not only in you, but of youi. ; As tha lonf and tha tree die and disappear o live ‘sgain in othor lonves ‘nud in othor trees, imperting’ to thom 4 ‘more’ luxuriout, growth sud richor verdure, s0° you layo ab-; Horbod & patt of bis ehractor and assiniilatod it with your own, and thuy hayo gained from him t 'mr‘slro gonifal lmumuuv and s more roln.m man-’ 0od. EATLY TAFE. . Our doconsod friond was born in tho Town of Cninbridge, Washliigton County, N. Y., In tlo Jast yoar of tho lnst contury. I Lkuow nob the clrcumstonces which sur- roundod him iu_his childkood snd boyhood, save that he was carly accustomod to o l{la of labor, Ho know what sovere, exhiaustivo " toil \was, ot morely by sceing it porformed by otiiora, not chiolly by looking upon or partici- ating in its fruits, but by n daily oxperionce of its burdon, For' Inbor—hard physfedl toil— malo light of it a8 wo will, is still a curso, It is only as 8pirit trininphs oyer maitor, ns tho vie- torious soul assorts its kingshiv, and lolds tho body os its vassal, sud compols It to subsorve Lie highor naturo, that tlio ourse is changod into a Ulessing. Then, aud theu only, can wo oxult in tho’ ondutance of tho onriuess ‘and sorrow ywhich aro born of Inbor, 'Miio_ norrow and pain of “Inbor,’ ke ait other forma of eufl‘uflu{{. may by o divine al~ chemy ba converted in tho alombic of the hu- ‘man goul into joy—n joy which moy radinte into other henrts “nnd cheor other lives. 8o from among tho briors which grow in his path, young Calling was evor culling the roses which choered him by their bloom aud dalighted him by thoir fragraneo. THROUGH EXPERIENCE OF PRIVATION AND(TOIN, hio Jonrned to sympathlzo with_tiio” othor ‘$ollors in lifo's hurvest fields. In middlo age, whion on- zaged in the arduous duties of his chosen pro- fespion, ho was wont to suy, *' Inever mako a chargo to a Inboring man for my sorvicos with- out rememboring_ tho hard labor it hns cost him to obtain tho dollnrs to pay mo,” And the Ihought quickly passed from tho activo braiu to the big hourt, nud the cliont ' wondered why the distinguishod lawyer domuuded o swall n feo for ko valuablo a Hervico, BIUDYING LAW. At tho ngo of 18, Mr. Collins commonced the atudy of faw. in Ution, N, Y., in the ollico of Greone O, Iironson, thon g prominent Iny nd subsequontly o distinguished jurigt in that State. In this oflico ho continued during bis wholo course of legal studies, and how well ho profited by the instructions of that losrned lawyor lis subsoquont carcor domoustratod. % Upon comploting bis courso of logal etudy in TUtica, Mr. Collins removed to Vernon, Oucida County, Now Yorl, and_ thera ontared upon tho practico of bis profession, Ilo was immediatoly recogmzed o8 o rising young lnwyor, ouo des- tinod to future eminence in his profession. The friondships thore formod Mr. Collivy ever re- . tained, and his momory is naw chorished by tho survivors, One of theso friends is tho noblo philantbropist and patriot of Peturboro, Of one 0 noar tho borders of the better Iuud; ono who, ut tho yipe agoe of 77, only lingers lero in constant oxpectation of tho sumwons, ¢ Come p Lighor,” it caunot bo amiss to speals justly. Gowit Smith was. thon & young umn, bub two or throo 'vears the sonior of Br. Collins. ‘But tho frivudship thus formed nover consed to oxort its influonce npou the youngor of the two. A charactor 50 unlilo that of nwst of his nsso- cintos posgcseod tor Mr. Collins v strango fasci- nution. Other friouds wora commonly seltish, genorous only from impulse; this friend was over gonarous. Othor, frionds lived cliclly to havo their Luppinoss’ coiitributed uuto; ' this friend Jived to contributo happinoss. Olher frionds lived to accumulute woulth § this friend lived to bestow it upon tho needy. What others toilod to wiu_he ns Inborlously toiled to give awny. A lifo devuled to princely Yonofleouce, & lifo going out in gonial and ofi- ciont sympathy to ovory sullersr of wwhatovor color, Insgungo, or creed; a lifa whoso contra und cireumferenco was ‘bonovolouco, could not fail Lo fmpress itself upon such o heart us that of Mr. Collins. = Such & lift, liio ‘s poran- nial stream, gladdons’' overy *shore along which {t glides. Tadoless . Verduro crowns ita banks, Whatovor it tonches ib vitulizos and Loantifios, and ndjoining flolds astest it vivifying pbwor. Iappy was our friond that nenr hiy life-fleld such n glad strenm flowod, and l.hnlt. the' soil of his hoart way moistoned by its waterd, . _TERSONAL NECOLLECTIONS, Anow dislinguished luwyer and jurist, who Decamne o student in the oflico of Mr, Colling, and an inmate of his fnmfle' whilo Iio rosided nb Vornon, {hus writos of iy first improssion of him at that tuno: T was vory fayorably Impressed with uls nppearance Wheh T T T conety Tiia diyoiDell. deportimout, Dis Luen blagk oye, und calm demseanor when b st o been undor tio strongeat_excllemont, conunatid- il my uctdration and Despoke traits of charaoler 1 desired to study and haitate, OVING WEST. | Aftor a fow 'i;uum' yesidence in Vernon, Mr, Coliins decided to removo to the Wost, ab that time rapidly sottling and produciug great Inducements” to enterprising young ' mon, In tho fall of tho yonr 18U3, no fivet arrived in Chicugo, having renchod this placo by the fitst slogo-conch that ever' eamo arouud the head af tho take. " ¥lo flrat mado an _oxcursion into tho country south of Qhicago, and, lkg almost ovory- ono who visitod tho ‘| ‘charniod with owr boautiful prairics, and wns tompted to roliuquish hiv chosen profossion for that of the agriculturist, 1lo spent severul months in the vicinity of olderman's Grove, in the presout County of Kondall, aud “thought' of mn\unk- that rogion his howe. T'he Indiuns had not thon entirely desorted their hunting-gronnds, und thelr huts wero still to bo #eon here and thore in our groves and upon our pralrien, and chely barlc canoos wore silently big Bwiftly glidiug -nlong onr rivors, ‘Iho grovos, througl which the fires ran gvery autumn, wero deatituto of il shrube and undergrowth, aud tho stntely onke caat thoir ghadows upon valloys and ‘Intlocks beautiful s cultivated Inwis, In tho wootlsand upou tho pral flowera grow everywhoro in profusion, while, in favored spots, their wild fuxnrianco gave tho appearanco of rardons in' tho midst of bonutitul mondowa, Wild anfmiats, wild fowl, and wild frult shounded overywhoro, | Tho fecinntions of o lifo amid suel snrroundings cannot bo approciated by any one who hink not beon fn such clroumstancos, But tho yonr is not all kumuier withits flowors, norail autimn with its froitago, Tho anow and fco of wintor camo in’ duo timo,” and iho' rudoe log-cabins of tho early sottlors afforded an in- mn:qnntu protagtion against the bittor blasts of Decawbor and Junuary, i . During tho month'of January, 1834, Nr, Col- lius voturnod to .Ohiengo, satisfled with his ex- perlones of country life. oity wos to bo hin Liomo, TUR WHOLE TAW-UUSINESS OF ONICAGO was thon in the bands of two young meu, ouo of them Qilos Hpring, ofterwards J Qook Uounty Conrl, aud the othor, Uaton, uulmurrmull for noarly &' quartor of a century Cironit anil Supremas Judyo' of this Btate, ” Mr, Collluy sud Ay Caton immsdiately Went nb thab time, way . formod n par nursh(V ntidot Collina & Caton, which™-dontinyed nutil July, 1835, whton, Mr, Unton lowving for: thid Tinsb, Mr. Collfns formed v partnrship Wit Hie'lnbo Jistin Battorfield, tho Intler partvarship .oxiating for about olght yoars, p 22Comiug to Ohieago In its_infanoy, ‘whilo ita- population eould be mumberod-only by hundrgds,* r. Colling nt onco | z % ¢ YOREHAW AND IREDIGTED 174 FUTURE, Among'all 146 barlior ronldontd of this eity, I' Linvo nover known ono \ho wne so conslantly and porsistontly prophosying its coming gront-i noss. Within & manth_sfter his arrival in tho. Stato of Illnols Lo lind writton to his family, ! -Lhoiy ot tho Enut 1 4 I cantiob bo mistnken in my: Judgniont - that 1t -(tho Btate of llinois) iy destined to bo :the gardon of :America. —It will be the granary of tho world,™ Tho Ao faith fio liad n bhie fuluee of Ohlcayo, andy i I the darkoest'dnyd of finnncial doprossion, con= Uuitod to'nusure “the despoudhg of her growth and prospority. % y And Lig did moro for tho city of Lia adoption | than moroly to oncourage hor cilizoun, -Ho idon- 1162 hin intorauts in ‘il rospects wilh this city and’ Stato. Tor minny months-=porhaps ‘ovon - yonrsi~lia coritinwtod to pitblish nrticlos fu'thd - “eity papors with o view of encournging tho 1 TIROSEOUTION OF INTEINAL INPROVEAIENTS and of promoting immigration to this Stato, - Tt ‘was in greab pact to his exortion” that tho Ohi+ ‘ongo Lyconm—tha fivst litorary socloty of'this:| ‘oity—+oves it oxistonco. ™ IIo wa for'a tlmo ity :présiding oflicor. - No ‘' man: labored moroenr- -nostly or persistently to, secure for this city: and “tho Northwest',tho first rallrond in thoe Blato—tho Qalonn & Ubiéago Unlon ‘Rallrond. Ho' did much to interost tho poople "of Chicago and tlio mitrounding country tn its ~‘commonco- mont, extonslou, and completton, - o was for: ity yours one of tho most oflictont of its Board Lof Maiiagors, and, os its attorney, porformed for It, throtigh o sorion of yoars, a [argor nniount of " valuablo™ Jognl ‘worvico ‘nt o less componsntion than hns probably ovar' beon porformed for any -corporation fu tho State, K A8 A TAWYER ha stood for many years, by universal accord, in ; tho first ranlc in s profosnion i thio Northwost, His roputation ns n lawyer reached far boyond tho onfinou of tho Stato. Mr. Colling possosdod a mind gtrong rathor- than: -cuto, talonts -solid _rather than brilliant, Ho wag pationt, thorough, Toarned, logienl, 1o camo to his couclusions, not " by rapld flights, but ‘by suro, caue tious, steady stepn,’- ITo always posscssoed - the ‘entiro gonlldencae of tho CQourt, for lie novor ad- vanced n proposition which ho did not Limsolf bolioye to Lo truo. is opinfons as o connsellor could, bo'doponded upon, for ‘thoy wore nover glven upon a mere impression, but aa the result of “thorough investigution. 1o novor advised tho bringing of n Bult unloss hosew vietory wall nigh cortain, or unless 5 compromiso wns im- passiblo, But, the sulb onco commenced, no ono could bo more true to lis cliont's Intorest. Evon 1t thero was no pay or prospect of pay the suib was prosecuted with persistont effort” until tho cauto was gained, or tho defent was irrotriovas bla. The poor man, who liad justico upou his sido, wns ns certsin of his most eflicient aud continued service, though not a cént could ho advance, 88 tho cliont who- could pay his . thousands, And, &s hioIabored on most indus- triously in his - profossion year aftor | year, gatuing not so much of this world's wenlih as of tho approvai of s own couacioico, and the respect and gratitudo of his follow-men, ONE INSTANGE OF PROFESSIONAL DEVOTION upon the part of the lawyer, and gratitude on tho part of tho vliont, is worthy of spocial no- tico, Oun ol tho early sottlors and lnrgo oporat- ors m Chicago had become groatly embarrassod, and bnd been put fnto bankruptey. For years My, Colling was his professional adviser, and did ol his legal business without auy, or, al most, o vory meagto, componsation. He lad ontire con- fidonco in his client’s intogrity, and balioved ho would pay whon he wasable. As tho circum- | stances of tlio aliont improved, ho discharged all the pecuniary obligation, go that none romained at fio timo of Mr. Colliug' death, ‘But the client was not satisfied thnt hio had dono atl thet govor~ oulty requived, nnd, after the grave had closed ahove s counsollor, he, out of the promptings of bis own heart, paid a large ‘sum’to his-widow 08 an oxpression of gratitude to' her docoased biiaband, ‘In the dischargo of his professional duties, Mr, Collins was not only faithtul but learless, Whilo lie always troated tho' Court with courtesy and Kindnesy, bo pormitted no Judge to tramplo upon Uis client's rights without an carnest and’ oner- gotle pratest, iuvolving at times porsonal hazard aud oven porsonal® sufforing to himself., Morc espeelally was this tho case when the' interosly il pafety of the dospised slave were'committod to liis keoping. " AB AN ATOLITIONIST. It was this intonso love of justice and hatrod ‘of wrong, joitied with porfect fonlessneas, wud wartiied Wwith a lindly sympathy for oll suffoxjng, thnt made Mr. Colliug an_Abolitioniet. - 1e'was not an Abolitionist from forco of circumstances ; o wouid o dono violenco to is own mental | and moral constitution if Lo had not beon one. Had be lived in anothor ago, or in anothor coun- ty, his love of justico and lis philanthropy might have had anothor and difforent develop- mout, but_in the nincteenth contury nnd in Amorica, Abolitionism was tho natursl and nece- ‘ary onigrowth of his churactor. In his time, ‘Blayory was tho great hydin which had closely. .coiled Heelf nround the body politie, It luy liko ahuge mountnin upon tho great polpitating heart of Lo nation, ITumanity, like Euee\m}\m. turned from side to sido, writhing aud groaning benonth tho fearful inenbus; ‘lecorated limby and bodics, quiyering flesh, sonsitive henrts lny ‘buried bondath it, T'hore woro other (I'Imlt wrongs o bo righted, othor frightful ivjurics to bo redresod, bub_ stout 'orms nud brave bearts woro gladly londing _themsolves to tho - work of roform and veliof in theso casos, Fow eared to'oulist thomwolvos in bohalf of tho “Qespised slavo. Tn this fighl of philanthropiv offort thero woro the fowest” wortkers aud tho Luedont work 3 here thors was tho most misory .and the least sympithy ; * hore tho tollors wore avsailed by sative und " sluandor, by hissings in- doors and hootings in the streots ; liers the only roward was an approving conscienco and tho .smile.of Hoavon, And for these very reasons ‘Jnwmes 11, Colling solected this ny tho life-field in which ho would Libyr. T thiy flold ho con- socrated his enorgies in‘the pride and strongth .ol hig carly manhood ; hers he inbored incossant- Iy and arduonsly duribg tho long summor day horo tho setting sun found lim weary sud worn, Dbut ot fuinting or faint-hearted, “"Bir, Collios ignored to an nhusunl dogres tho more social distinotions which divido socioty. o rospectod man as waon, Tt muitored not whother he had boen roddeucd by tho winds like thoIndian, or scorched by thownn iiko tho African, or blonchod by the frosta lilo tho Caucasian; it 1mattered not whiethor ho spoke in ono_lnngunge or another ; whothor he bad been brod in & pal- 20 or & hovel—it was cnougl ‘that ko was born in his Creator's imago and was an heir of fm- wortality, EYERY AN WAS 1118 BROTIER by virtne of a common origin and o common destiny, snd who tho earthly father and what the carthly homo mattered not, As illustrative of Mr Collins' regard for the dignity of mn, T will relato an fucident for whioh I min indobiod 1o the friemd who was » studont in his ofiive at Yoruon, and to whom I nave beforo alluded: While Mr. Oolling was practiving law iu that placo,and whiou as yot thero existod nonctivg Anti- Blavery-orgauization, an_sged nogro man, wom- an, and olld came into his ofliee for some pecu~ niaryuid. ; ‘Thoy woll knew that that wan the plage to obtain ik, 'Tho old man, mado eringing und cowardly” by abuso and oppression, bont low in tho prosonco of the dignified, woll-drassod stranger to whom ho spoke. As tho lutter ad- vancod fo meet him. the negro, his slouchod hut undor his arm and bis body still bent, addrossod Me, Oolling us * Mustor,” Inntnul\y tho tall form toweredabovo the. uegroin orcot dignity, Thoncoforth this | the doop blacik eyos flushed, whilo, pointing toward lils visitor, and spenking slowly and do- liberately, fu tones of minglod indiguation and pnthos, N oxclaimod: * Btop, sir! Call noman mnstar,” 4'ho narrator snys: * For moro than forty yoars. those _words have pung in my onw, and ovon mow I - henr thiom in thet deep, almost sopulohral -tono, so- companied by the ddopost onruostness uud tho profonndont sonsibility.” Trom carly mauhiood Mr, Coliine lay with his ear close to Eho groat sonsitivo Losom of Nuturo, and, liko tho Indian prostrato upon tho oarth, his quick ear heard distant footfalls which othors might not dlscern, Bo hojeanght tho ochoos of the footuteps of tho advanclng hosts of froedom ara thio yan of tho onemy had mado Heolt visible, and was a soldior in that invisiblo army, 1o be- oamo conncoted with * Y FIRST ANTI-RLAVERY ROCIETY organized in Chicago, and from thouceforth beé camo an active supporter of the cuuso o had ospoused, For twonty yoars. hio lont to it tho forcoof his trong will, lilo rosistless enorgy, bis ‘purso, his talents, and tho welght of his. pura orsonal olinyacters Evory ono knew that James 1, Colling hnd onlistod in’this servico from prine ?‘l”"‘ xu]ud Juot to subsoryo any personal and volf- 5112 onds, . 1 thoy ridiouled him asan enthusiast, or do- nouhood him as & fanutiv, thoy conld not dis- orodi the purlty of his motives™ on the disinter- estodnoud of hin conduct, Ile gave frooly of lis'money, his timo, 'und professional sorvice to the cause, but novor guined or dosired to gain péuqnlurl[y or politically from it, Aud the entiso at times roquired something moro than forco of loglo'und logat learuiug: It dowandoed -fertility of invontion, fonrlossnons and ‘quicknoess in ac. stlon. In somo of : thioso alavo-teinlo - brawn wag ovon of ‘mora valuy than brain. * In Moy, 1645, . TIE BOY I wan dolzod upon tho’suspiolon ‘that ho did- not: nwlu ‘hitnsolf; and brought bofore Justice Kerolil- ‘val. Torchival'was s “Kontuokinn; and ' whon' su-" aloutly pobor Lo hnve s 1ecollection ho gloried fn 'the motiory of n thno in the diny pet whon his: grandfather hnd ownod o mulatto’ ‘girl, Whis -hinppy ¢ ‘clreumstinco - had iven Kerchival * tho right to claim a doscont from ‘ono of - tho fitst families of Kon- tueky. In lohor of "his: pative ‘Hiato nnd his grandfathor, ho folt'bound to indulgo tho pre- umption that ovory runaway nogro bolotgod to -somo’ ‘Kontuoliny,—n . prosumptlon, - bowaver, £hnt might be rebutted by clenr proof .that ho holougod in-Missonrl, Jim hind beon arrosted by Houry' Rhiney; aud -the slavo-owner; - with n pirango’ disrognrd of tho” digaify of- tho Court, hntlod from Missouri, : Prosoiitly - Mr. Colilng put-in_his apposranco, “for tho nogro,and inalsted that tho.Conrt had no 1 juvindiction of the caso, and, if it hnd,.the pro- ‘sumptions woro in fayor of his froedom, and that, 1o proof hind hoon, or conld ‘be, producad thab ho -was o 8lavo, ‘Kaorohival was grontly Incoused that -the jutisdiction of -bis court shonld Lo deniod. ~rid {ts prosumptibng :lueuuuned, and ropeatodly’ threatoned 'to fine and'imprison -tho counsel for contampt of court, I * P'hroats mudo uo improssion upon tho counael, . and in‘aplto of them ho contitmod his spoach for' -mory thut 'nnhour, : In tho ‘meantimo a sumnor of prominent’Abolitionists had beon advisod: of what was teanspiving; und had gathored - among ‘tho erowd in'tho’ Justice’s ofilco. : hines wny doorkeopor; and was bonnd to mako all: submit to what ho know would bo tho-.declsion of:.the Court. Hin porson was adorned with a goodly Aupply of Inuloln.,whlch o touk no pains to con- cotl. ~ Oollins and big Abolition frionds know; ns woll ns Rhilnes, what would bo the declsion of tho Conrt, and had rosolved upon glvivg Jim n chango of vouue. I'ho length of Mr. Colling' nrpumentgave them tlio raquisito-timo to: pian -aud exccuto, The nogro had been instructed that when tiio door” wan opened to lob in Dan Devidson Do was. to' rush out, staying not upon the order of his* golug. ~ 1o exocuted'the érder vigorous ty i’ ‘not “ekilltally, “Of courso overybody wanted to catch tho-runaway, and no one wauted to hurt Rbines, bub somehow tho nouro could not bo oaught, und Rhincs (accldontally, of ounrao?, was run over,and crowded back, and - pitshod dow in tho goforal scramble, aud whon 0 ronchod tho bottoni-of tho wnirs, tho negro was in tho far distiinco, baving by midlake stume- Dlod upon'a droy ‘which was coiveying bim ot bronknock spood ho_knaw mot* whithior. “T'ho crowd was Jubilant, Rhines uttorly disconsplate and demoralized, and- Kerchival ‘chagrined and indignant. ‘fhey concluded to lot tho:crazy Sniggor alono, mnymuch ng ho kad no proper approclation of thoir honevolont offorts in bis bohalf." Jim shortly found himself, he know nat Loy, in the domimions of Her Gracious Blajesty. In the autumn of the samo year TWO OTHER COLORED MEN “waro atrested and brought before Ierchival, and Mr. Colling and tha Innionted Maniorre wore as- gociated in'thelr defenso. . Tho trial lnsted two days, and it was agaln known that tho only bopo was in changing tho vouo, Towards the conclusion of tho trial Korchival coutd not rosist a polito mvitation to tako o drink, oven if it otme from a hated Abo- litiomst. " Our friend Plnkerton that day was olgo soized with an unaccountable thirst, and his gouerous nature would not admit of his tnk~ ing & drink alone, Hao myited Kerchival to ac- company him, the negroes being in tho monn- tima snfely locked in the bnek room in the ronr of Kerchival's oflice, Onco in tho saloon bolow. tho oflice, n 8ccond drink seemed na mnecessary ‘ag the tirst, and . third more rofreshing than either, Pinkorton’s heart was ns blg thon as it fanow, and “his philanthropy compoiled him to : id and comfort not onlgpogroos, biit whito mon, How muéh he comforted®iorehival I cannot suy but, whilo ko was o ongaged, tho ludofati- gablo Dan Davidson was through o bnel alloy, sealing tho prigon-houso of tha negrocs, {unbolting thoir door and bidding thom go' frac. Korchival roturned to lis court-room ‘to find that the prisoners had flod—ho never know whither or how. - 1ia - feelings -can be -botter imagined than describod. Pinkorton snd David- son wero in utter ignorauce of any plan for their escapo. My allottod time forbids the dotail of the nu- morous artifices to which resort was had to eludo tho vigilanco of Unitod States Cowmissjouers aud United States Marshals when all hope of seouring tho negro's, freodom by logal means hnd boon abandoned,” Thoy were nob somuch “tho artifices of the lawyer “'as tho Abolitionist, who bolioved that the slave hed on inaliounbla right to hia freedom, and might rosort to any aud overy meaus to secure it JLOVEIOY'S CASE. Dut thoro woro othor cases, the defenso of which nvolved tho closd study of Lho® law- {ur‘ aud the hlghest offorts of tho advocate. n Octobor, 1843, tho causo of Tho Pooplo v, Owen Lovojoy cano on for trial in tho-Bureau Cireuit Court, the Hon. Johm D. Caton |)rnuiflm;i g Judge, Tho indictment nvorrod Lhak the snid Lovejoy had Ied, clothed, snd comforted wonegro slayes,ono named Agnes and tho other Naney, and thereby had harbored and sceroted themt contrary to tho statuto, nnd againse tho poaco and dignity of the pooplo of the Stato of Tiinois. Tlio cuso was tried on the purt of the prosecu- tion by B. F, Viridloy, Stuto's Abtornoy, nsswstod by Norman I Purplo, thon a lawyor of noto in this Statv. It was & cnso of more thuin usual i torost. Tho slaveholders and their sym- pathizers were determined i€ possible to sconre a conviction, 1I runaway slaves could escupo from thoir Southorn musters, | cand in tneir flight could bo fed, clothed, warmed, and comforted, and tho porpolrators of such crimoy go unwhipped of justice, thon tho koyptono of tho Lepublio Luod fallen, and tho wholo structure must ¥oon tumble. On- tho otber hand, tho Abolitionists wore ' qreatly moved. The indlctment wab for tho per- formanco of an act which they regarded a8 on-- joined by tho commands of God and tho dictalos of Lumenity. To add to the interewt, tho do- fondunt was n popniar clergyman i tho town in whioh the trinlwas had, Ho was nman of fasci- nating cloquonco, boloved by all the Abolitionists in thoe Stalo. ) 4 Tho triul lasted for three days, and during all that timo tha Coust-Houso was packod by o in- torested and nuxious. sudionco. Tho defond- out mado no deninl of tho alleged fooding nnd comforting _of tho mnogro women, but’ i . counsol ivslsted that thoro was no legal proof that thoy woro slavos. After tho proof was in, tho Stale’s Attornoy en- torad o nollo prosoqui as'to tho first count in the indictmont, which rolatod to the slave Agnos, aud in hig oponing argument vehemently urgod n conviction upon the second count, which re- lated to tho sluve Nuncy. It COLLINS ROSE TO REPLY, X and continued his nddrosy to the Court snd Jury for seven howrs, 'Eliero is 1o existing report of tlat speceh, but, by an oxamination of the writ- ton briof from whivh it wasnndo, and from my juthmato pequaintance with Mr. Colling' habits -the elavou and nrivetod thelr chalng, -hoon tho ‘roalize -subject of _ulavery, from tho Unitod Btate . Oflico, in the Senafo of sho Unitod Statos,” of thought and fooling, I sm enablod ncourately to detormino the acopo of tho argument. It was clogo, logical, forciblo upon tho polnt that there wis no legal proof that tho - women Nnnoy 'was or aver had -boon, a slavo, Then, growing in earnestnons, tho oloquont ud- yoeato oppenfod to - that ** Lighor luw™ which courts and jurios woro bound to regard. Quot- fng that muxim of the civil law, adopted into English and American jurisprudence : *‘Summn Tatio ost quu,pro roligiono facit,” ha urgod with su earnoscuces whioll resulted from futanse con- viction thas any statuto pagsed contrary to tho Divino law was void; that no humnn Iaw was of auy-binding obligation which was not bated upon tho two foundations of all Iaw,—tho law of na- turo and tho law of rovolution. Citing that ** higler lnw " us {t oxistod in Old | Teatuniant timos, nnd s It was ropeatod aud oti- forced by Olirist, and appoaling to that principle of u\mriti' swhioh $tho 1ifo of the Chiristian roligion and thegloryof avory Ohristionland, bocontrusted it with this statuto of mun's ouactmont, for ¢ho Lreach of which Lis elient was indioted. With his goul all aglow with rightoous indigna- tion, he donounced the stntute whigh mado cliar- 1ty a orimo, aud, like Julmur, Lurlod his rod-hot thunderbolts against all who. enucted or sought to onforco such a lsw, Tho leyin of his invoeo- tive dartod hithor nud thithor, blistering, singo- ing, and scorching whorover it foll, Tho prose- cutory found thomsolyes arraignod as ermiunly, uud, in the view of that biglor law, convioted, ho argumonts being closed, tho luw applion- bla to tha easo wad cloarly and umpartinlly given by the lxmnlding Judge. "No traco of tho proju- dico oxisting in the coust-room is to be found in tho publisliod chargo of tha Court, for atthat time tho Judgo was permitted to charge the jury generally, untramineled by writton instructions, "o jury retived, und soon raturnad with & vor- dict of © Not gullty.” _This was only ono of many eases in- which Mr. Collinw’ profossionnl sorvicos wore rondorad, and o oyory occasion, I botievo, witlout feo or roward, 1in logal lontning, his profossional Iabors, and his lifo, woro consgeratod to the adyyucomant of human treodom, No smount of obloquy could drive bim from this path of duty, His gonvio- tious woro cleur, and consclonco tho arbitor of Lis conduct. 1{o was mado of the samo mafe- 1inl nu tho ol prophoty, and, like thom, he lived aboyo and indepondont of tha populne notions of blv timos, Tk tho noblost ana dutest prophot of tho old disponsation hiy wus tho volos of ouo " of Abolitiou aru destined to {riumph, oryin, ' Proparo yo tho - poths--atraie.” In .no - orocked = way woul ho wallk, though : t8 monndoriugs woro In shaded grovos, nnd ovor volvat Jawns, and through bow- ors of ‘lmum-y and fragranco, Tor hilm tho only g wi wiy. of - tho" Lord,—mnko Ellll -Atralght path was that of rightcousncss, and in that path:justics’ and -mercy walkod hand jn hand,” - Tor of him; with nll his-lovo of 1nntlcu ond - blitor-Itrod of ts opposite, it could truly ho snid:, ;' The quality.of-morey I8 not steained; it droppoth 88 tho quutln do\vy from Tlenven upon tho pinco bononth.” Ilis hoart was gontle and tondor a8 & wowan's, .* 116 had a tear for pity, and a hand opon s day to molting charity.” Nob only wns his house opon . o tho - needy, but his - peraonnl services woro froely givon -ab «tho bod- sido of tho slok and wuioring. NE DIED in fho fullnoss of his nontal and physical viggr, in tho midat of nis groatout use- fulnoss,: +-1lo~ diod in - .tho florconess of -the'bnttlo ero victory had perchod upon the, stontlard ho bore, “But he diod with his nrmor .on, with his face Lo tho foo, -and with his. foot advanced, Aud o oned, for in tho distancs, tho oot of thoko hoaven-sont, thuudorbolts swhiloly shattered ol tho “walla of tho_prisou-houso of iy pro- qunrtar of p coutiy o, luvo “facts of tho last fourtoon distiony, nttored o yours, Tlo-day, a8 tho votorans of & thirty-vonrs' war moot to recount tha florco hottles of tho past, aud £o rojoico i tha accomplishod victory; ni with beaming facoa .and brilliant tones, tho) vnmly ‘tho warm grasp of tho hand. welcomo their Qiylng comrades to this Joytul rounion, thoy will - thinle sndly and “tonderly of tho loved nnd lost who for years fought with them -shouldor to slioulderin tho long and ofton soomingly dospor- nte. cammaign, -and of mnono of them will thoy think niore !lm.llf' and tondorly than of him who diod so suddonly, and was buried so hur- riedly ; of whom, 80 Jong a tonant of tho narrosr houso, you hisve now for the firat timo publicly oxprossed your hoartfolt appreciation ! M8 JULIA T, CODDING, o daughtor of ' Tchabod Codding, * reclted Whit- ' tior’s *' Linos, written ou the ndoption of Pinclk- noy's rosolutions in ‘tho IHouso of Rermunnm- tives, aud tho passage of Cnihoun's bill for ox- cludibg papors, wiitten or printed, tonching the b 'he poom wns recited with much warmth and onrnost- ness, which, with the locutionary noatness of tho delivery,’ and the oxtroma comoliness of tho " young lady, gained for hor tvarm adwiration and enthusinsiio upplauso. S st IOHABOD CODDING. Mr. Gboding, o stopson of Xchabod Codding, next read tho following sketch of tho Jifo of that distingnished agltator: Thoutterance of the, name of Tehabod Cod- ding to this aseombly will mwaken o thrill of docp omotion, for time canbot-offaco the purc in- fuenco of hLis lifo upon our individunl minds, any moro thau it cax oblitorate the rosults of his groat work for freedom in tho country. All who aro prossnt of the ** 01d Guard " know, and loved, and honored him. Doubtless many wko Hsten would Lo glad to spenk of the valua in'their own exporionco of the truths and impressions receiv- ed-from him during his lifo for iwonty-four yoars in tho Northwout. In thia" gathering of his fellow-laborers in the causo-of lhuman freedom to greet ono anothor with joy at the triumph of: the prin. ciplo, aud reeall tho gncrifices thoy gladly made, tho enthusiasm which kindled: in our bearts; dnd bound us to all who eharad in the Dlossed work, the memory of ‘this groat and noblo man, who wropght from tho earliest hour and bore the burden and Leat 'of tho day of por- sncution and toil, will ba lovingly and reverontly chorished. FARLY LIFE. JMr. Codding was born at DBristol, N, Y., in 1810, Mis fathor had died beforo the birth of the gon, whoso care thus dovolved upon his widowoed ‘mothor. Thoeir worldly poseesslons wero small, and “his early achool advanteges wore meagro, but tho tendor love snd care of his falthful motlier woro ample compousation for this, for oven while n boy lie seoms to have becomo im-. bued with tho spirit of philanthropy, and begitn Dbis noblo career as & roformer. At the ago of 17,; sociug tho evils of intomporance, though ignor- ant of tho groat temperanco movoment, ho drow up ® pledge of total sbstinence, sud won many of bis young comradoes to its support. i flrat tomporance lecture, giveu at this timo, i atill in tho posscesion of Lis family, In its’ dolivery ho evinced the begiuuing of thnt powor in the expreesion of moral truth-whiol so dis- tinctly marked lus life. Aglow with youthful ardor, ho went forth into the surrounding coun- try a young *‘opostlo of temporauco,” and bad iven o hundred tomperance lectures bofore ho' had reachied tho-ago of 21 years, In ono of theso curly tomperanco lecturay now eoxtant, ho took the radicu! ground thut intemporanco is o sin - ogainst God, gud must bo seon ay such and forsalicn: bofore any pormanont or ronl roform can ba effacted in the man; also, that the liquor traflio—being an ofticient catso of ultimpta ruin to the mind, body, nud goul of those wha par- tako in it, sapping tho foundation of moruls gud" ondungoring tho perpotuity of our institutions— Lias no rosl right to tho protection of law, whose object is tho welfaro of ail. - To this very lovel p‘opu\nr soutimeud i our country is now xapidly Tishig. Mb the ago of 20 yoars, when by the power of Diviue truth spiritusl lilo beenmo o cousoious renlity to him, it lofty claims wera Ho cordially accoptad, that he muda tlio most solf-sacriticing efforts to liva them out in the smatlost prootica wattors, linting bimyclf to the mont simplo and inoxpeative dress and ‘living, that bo might bo hfi:\ to his Lord and Muster, and lob his light shivo, AT COLLEGE, Soon aftor this time ho eutored tho acadomy at Conandaguis, where he taught in tho English deparfmont us & _means of payitg- bis way. Hero Stephon A. Douglas, was: also a pupil st the some timo, Throp years Iator Mr. :Codding entored Middle- bury College. It was horo thas tho sad story of the'American slave ronched his ear nod touched his hesrt, - Tho country was boginuing shake - with _oxaltemant - ou . tho aud he .could not hush tho throbbings of his manly sympathios and-bo: gitent. Accord- ingly Lo gained pormission from tho -collego autliorities duriug his Sophomoro year to go out. for o fow weoky, and pload the onuse of tho’ slave, This was his -initiation: into the dis- uinetive'work of hig lifo; his ontlisst consocra~ tion to the canyo of Liborty. - 1lo had entored collogo with the purpose of becoming a winistor of the Gospol, atid of going® to foreign lands ny a missionary; but whon Lo snw how tho wail of crushied and porishing mil- lions in our own dear lund was rogeived by the churchos of Christ—how men profossing to live ns followers of tha merciful Jesus grow palo with .rage or fearat the disclosuros, ovou ho, u youtl, Was nware of tho fuct that thoir influguco holped to rivet tho chaing of slavery upon thoir follow mon,—ho ehanged his purposo, 1o saw clencly his work wes at his door, higlifo work— for mover did he coase to plond the csuse of Froodowm in s highost souso, 1§ A LETTER 7O MIf BISTER, Mre. TL B, Mason, of Lookport, 1il,, dated Did- «dlebury, Vormont, Aug. 22; 1690, ho snys: T am enyaged to tho Ameriean _Anti-Siovery Socloly 8 o publiclecturor, 1feol that I win engaged . nobiv, u holy onterprizo, 1 really feel from tho heart uuwarthy (a plead tha causa of £,600,000 of my poor, downtroddon, fmbrated fofls m, Dat when tho auighty champlons of Israol do not dare go forth to neot this modern moroe than Gollath, 1f 1t pleas® the Alnighty o fur less than tho boy David, will tako: hijs sling and atony and go fortk to meot him, it tho- full asnraneo bt Lo wiio fispires s et wil diruct {t ta th mouster’s head, It s aninspiving subject 1 It Iv enough to entalent tho talentlens, towtvo lieart to tho Turtles, to tnwpiro the spiritiess, ' T oxpeet to moet with opposition : perbays o few mobs, Dut fa it not ood to ay to all Avise § for tho fareaken slsvoe? Upou your Gud for cousage eall, Audl fu Itis strougth go torth to save! ITo entered Intothis most holy, uannpulnrcnuga witlt nll tho ardor of his bolng,—turning a doaf car to thosohighin authority in the chureh, whourged Lim to pursue & courso more suited to his tal- cnts and thoir views, Bub his .soul was flred with livo conls from tho altar of 'ruth, and he must on, though tho way might lead to proserip. tion, or évon death. In a lotter, alio, to hiy sis- tor, in 1848, Lo suyns Tt ia neceasary uot only, but a ve) oat priviloge, ta'datend (o Yolackoto of uktatal sust Sigtie, wiioh are fust gaiulng ground i the North, Tho principles 1 don's kuow Low long the Tord will have mu labor n this particu- Iv vinoyard, ~ Tt muy bo thil overy yoke i broken, and tho opprosed go freal o ‘I'ho next yonr ko spent in Massachusolis, In Brighton, the first placo he lectured fy, 3 1L WAS HODHED ono fabbath aftornoon, Whou in the midst of. an opening prayor, two_of tho boldost of the wild mob outsido rushed to tho pulplt, selzod and dragged him futo tho aislo, aud wero only prevoutad from delivering hiut ito the brutal 1ob by two yoting mon of his auttionoo who lind kuowa biw ab cofl(oyn, who rolouged biw, aud H *| Trowbridgo and others, ‘but never N. Y., to propma for colleya, | to-| wubject, * compolled tho intrudors to liston to and“Antle Blavory locture, X Tu 1838 ho wont to Maine, and had the' of nddredning tho Togiblitura of tlmh"mn‘l‘:!}gi throo hours on tho **Loxas question,” 1t wng ano of his grontost spocolics; and rasulted In tho practleal couvorsion of moro than forty of ite mombori to tha ‘prificiplos ho-- ddvoonted. “In Bruvwwick Lo was mobbod, ! Tn Culain, wloro ho udyartinod Lo glvo s courso of Anti-Sinvory locturos, ‘tho mbro viplant of tho opposition entfed o muclluq of the peopla to warn him out of town. ..Mz Codding attended their mooting, domandod the right to bo hourd on thorosolution againht i, mot phd deféated exelt ong, and 60 wow'ipon the podple by his gollant aud - manly dofotud -that. ho';gave tho courso of leotafron to ntloutiva'avdlancos without molestation, BMr. Codding eatablishod and odit- cd tho tirst Anti-Sluvery journal fu Maino, and mmt tho foundation of iio Idborty- party in- that ato, - 1IN CONNECTIOUT. In 1879 ho nocopted o Iuvitation to. Conneoti- out, Ioro Lo réwained threo years, laboring for the coueo, wiuping, oa ko always did, tho warmost frionds ond most hoarty adinirers, Horoalso ho cstabifshod tho Chris- tian Frecman, nitorwards entlod the Republican, snd conducted by Mr. Burleigh, COMING WLET. In 1813 he camo’ to 'Illinola to viait rolativos, not Yllrpunhl to ‘romain, but did not seo Now Lngland again Lill 1854, whon Lio prased o fow mouths in Counceticat, _We quoto tho following from tho Free Wesl of-July-2u, 1854: i, conniva, “Thln 01d and favorile ndvoeato of freo principlos hin roturned to Iliuols, “Ifo Lino spent {he last winter and sprityt in Connocticut, whero ho afded matsrially, by Lis ecloguenca and counsol, tho success of tho Anti- Nebraska party, and the oloclion of #raucia Gillotto to thG_Unitdd Staew Honatd, ‘Counoctiout Lins* rocontly pussed a- bill for tho protection of fuglitvos upon her goll, ne well as resolutlons aud gt ropidintiug tho Nobraslin swindlo. Thess wore forwarded i thole uarly stages by theofferts of Mr. Coddlng while labor- ing in Now Havan, and adilresylig ou various oceasions meetingy composud of mombers of tho Leglslaturo, Thie follawlng by nu account of -ono of bis publi offorts Just botoro Lis loft to roturn to Ilinots, the Btato of his restdenco s . From the Har(ford Republican, 3K, CODDING UEFOIE TUF LEGIKLATURR, . & Nw HAVEN, Juto 6, 1854 “Mn, Eptron: Ourcity was fayored lnst ovel with an addrors ou thoslavery queation, from M, C ding, of Tlllnols, Ho apoko 1 thie Ttopresontativo Tall, Tha houka was crowded and many waro unablo to Aind seats, As ou orntor thoro are fow men who Burpans him.’ Tu power to tirill and stir nn nudienco thera hins been no man with us for o long tis who could compuro withs him, 1fis clarlon notes yot ring In qie carn: and will solonyy ue wo labor in tho causo for which they wore ttered, ITowovar tho most marked featuro In Mr, Codding's nddrass, was not hls_oratory Dbut the porfect mastory of tho subjoct which ho ox- Dibltod, *10 soomed ‘it dndeed” to - talk e Intors, ' Io first looked nt slavory ofhically ; thon at its growth as an Msbitution In our couniry, aud the 0303 of our fatlicrs Tospooting it. 1fo then touched upon tlo sccret of tho lava poiwer ; rforring it to tho urrogance which tho'sys~ tom ftself produces in tho owners und to tho framensa pocuniary futerests atstako ; aud, in coucluslon, dwolé ‘upon tho prescnt crisis, 4 Though bo touchod upon so'many phanes of the ‘aubfct, ho*trvated nouo, of thom . moagroly, .and T doubt i thioro was one In tho house whom L9. fuiled to convinco of tho truth of ovory proposition 119 auvo~ cated.” Whethor all tho votlug will* correspond is an- othier question, 4 fyoutd that wo ind moro men ke Codding! Mon who speak out boldly because God -has given them hearts that cannot_bo stiil in the presence of great wrongal Aud such men are to bear an fmportaut purt 1 the Jong struggle befora us, PERSONAL RECOLLECTTONS, As wo dosiro to bo moro oxplicit in speaking of the earcor of Mr. Codding in tho Northwest, wo are permitted to quoto freely from’a sketch wiltton for anotlicr purposs by dr. Z, Eastman, ontitled, ** Rocolleotions of Ichobod Cadrflng." Wo quoto : . \Iy frat ncquaintance with Mr, Codding was in lho wantlor of 1836, 1 was living {u Fayottovilie, Vt., nud had Just mado my ‘fivst boyisk atlumpt ot editing 8 nows oper, - Whila on a yisit to Jamaica, ou tho cust~ ernridaof tho Greon Mountains, loarnlug thatsn Antle8isvery lectarer wan to pireachi in thio ol villaga ‘meeting hotso T went, Tho ol autique church, with its squaro, bigh pows, wae Diled, was crowdedwiil tha ooDio of (eat mountain town. ' Tho man who cama into the pulplt with the venorable minfster, and wh fifled 1t thnt cay; was Tchabod Codding, T still have hin Distuzo disiiuctly in, mymind (uough itis noatly 40 years ogo) ua R0 atood {hero, his faco radiant with emilen, Bumor, and vivacity.s 1o took tha eual parta of the ministor in the pul- ity praying, roadfug tho bymua cliupter from tho iblo, nid tho sermon which followed. Tho subjuck was the “Diblo Arsuuient,” It was an attewpt, snd 110 fallure, to sliow thas tho Biblo wan againat slavery. I hinvo Leard many setnions from sitch mon og Dr. beforo * ono to prove that not tho first great slavo-holder, 2l his work. well, e brought out tho * Bible Argument” in a clear, logleal munnar, making quotation sftar quota= tion fo efiucls every nrgument, oud read thom fo all Licarors, - I was never g0 dntordsted in o sormon, Tiu sudience was held in porfoct coutrol by his clinin of ovidenconnud flitont utteranco, for evon at that early 1imo _of iy lifo ho manifestod that remarkable clo- auenca and power over an audionce, a4 au orator, that afteewards 8o often efrred tho pedplo of tho Dlinols rafris, 1 héard “him morning nad aftoruoon, aud d wotio convarsation with him, In waich Xlearned lio was 'a student of Middlobury Collego,~tlat hv was then nbsent, fecling it Lis duty to ronvo the peoplo "frum s letiargy thas iad failen upan (o nation un tho subjuct of slavory ; that thoro wus somo dscord Dotywesia him ond tio Colloge Faculty on this accannt, and that ho was about to accopt au agency from the Amerjean Auti-Slovery Soclety, In a weok or two bo cume to Tayottoville and there, with thio faithful few, Leld a County Conyention, Mauy of bis Jumalea Learers wero thoro. Oscar Ly Hhstler, now Chiof-Justico of tho Suprenis Qourt of Culiforuin, thona luw student undun’ ayowed Aboli- tloutst, was thoro, ‘Thio President of tho Couvention was tho vencrablo Ouarics Phelps, fatlior of Gen, Thelpu, who cume In collision with 1, T Butler fn tho ‘omancipatian business at Now Orleans. Amos Dresscr was there, aud told bis plory of bolug publicly whipped in tho Public Square at Nashville, Tenn., bocauso ‘Bomio Anti-Slavery papers wore found tn Lla {runk, und becanss Lo Gad boen st Louo Seminary, Mr; Codding ‘Tado {ho waln speech, It was not ‘a political one, Dut & portraitura of ‘slavery a8 ft- fs, tho um of ol wine—its crneltics, 1ta destructlon of natural aud clyil rights, snd the res sponsibility of tha North in tho miatter, Ho answerod o sueation !+ Wivy dowh you go soutls whoro slawory is, sud preach 2" Aluch of whiat bo uald 13 yot vivid in my mind, After this convention wo parted, e pursning his courso o8 o lecturer i Now Euglund, and I, lun year or Lwo, eamo to Tllinols, - 1 1843 I Lind located u Obicagn, and was publishing tha Western Citizen as tho sdvoeato of thu principles I tiad beard Godding preach and locture upon, which bad by that time bucomo a queation to voto on s well Wt 10 preachi abont, Wil L was DHutR (o fret Yolutuu of Usat daper, oarly i1 1815, worao purson sjoko 10 o of ono Codding, an Antl-Stavery lecturer fu Cone ucetiout, s Luviug relutions at_Lockport, TiL, who . might bb {nduced to como Lo the West sud ‘outer thix Lrosd fiold, Bafd It #Ifitls thio Ichabod Codiling who in Vormont mado thio first Abolition speock I aver Tieard, T hnye 1o hositation fu saysisg biuis Sust the mun for iho’ West.” 1thought wo lnd néed of him, altiough wo - had, 88 permanent leoturure, Aillfam F. Allou, Jolii Crons, und the Rev, Oliauncoy Cook. I wroto 10 Mr., Codding at Moriden, Conn., of th shoral fuld, the peojle, (Lo rosources, and thal wo wero to havo o Btato_ Gaivoution in Jio, sud ho should bo fu Chicago at that time it he would take th " tido at it ebb, i T fiud from the files of the Weatern Cittzen that ho was present at theaixth annivorsary of the Tinols Stat Anti-slavery Boclety; which was formed on tho ma tyrdom of Lovojoy, beld ou tho15th of June, 8%, After the adjouruisiont of this mooling, thor 'was & Guuvoution of the Liberty purty, for tlio Fourth Cou- greasionnl Distrlet (which then émbraced the northern fart of the Stato), which nominatod John A, Houder- 8o, n Tenpessouan, 0 o _candidate for Congress, i opyiosition to John Wentworlii, e, Codulug mado biv first sppoarance bofore tho Avolitioniats, Liborty purty men, and tho peopls of Jilinols at thess meetings, o Wway hitherio wholly uuknown, I' only .Lud " hoard i speak whon 1o was just from collego 58 o “tophomore, sud both of us but boys, 'L'lo report of tho meeting In the Weal- ern Gitizerh contuina tho followlug: “ Wile tho Com- ailieo wera out making up thoir_raport, the Convou- tlon was addressed in. & most. ululi\lnn[ ard soul-stire ch from Mr, Teliabod Coddiny, from Gonneo- ‘s wak tho bogluning of iy caror m tho Northwest 1o now remained i Chicago, and gave i pumber of lectures to crowded houses Tn the old loiig buillding of the First Preubytorlan Oburchi, Do- fore giving theso lectures, Lo took palus to inform ubmiclt i rogard to the ktate of purtiea and publio feeling, sud porsonal rvlations of publio mon to tha moveritent, Tl cunbled Lim o handle somo of thou without gloves, thoy ot knowing it wou thom- sul¥os Lo roprescutad, ¥ M oinion o gvo of tho conditio of publio mon, floatiug on e 1o of popula opinion,— of the Jive and duad fsh swhnming tho currout 3 4 Tho fish {hut moves 80 grracefully: and with such Wiigoity on fls. couray, leadod down stroaw,. tho ud= tulFution of oll belioldors i 8 deind finti ! Tho olhor that fluttors aud HY\UI' gos and spatters {hu watur abont {s a Hve flah 1 It takes n live fuh to move againet the streuns,” This igure will be 1wmembered by muny at an lusiration of Ll pungent iway of touchivg. bis wubjoct, On tho Bth of -Iul{.‘lm-’l, tho'Citizen” ane Dotaiced under tho buud of * Mr. Goadlug s * This Quvoted and talented locturer b bian ouge Tow weuk {0 all t0 the peoplo._ about Liorty 3 Inkwibom fool 1415 wortl sa mich now sa when Patrivk Heury sald ¢ Givo e Laberty orgive mddeatt,’ aud fa av Burd 10 Lo taxed millions'to. sipport slavery now, a8’ in 1770, 0 pay a fuw peiico on & pound of tes to support the Britsly Monsrchy,” To commoncad ot Bt, Quarlcs o the 1L of July. Ino uoticoof this meeting, of which the veusrable Ged . was Yoniig Codds Tuso Dreston (whoso © dnugbter . M. G ding subsoquently murried) © was ©_Obiatrman, 1t was ‘statod tht *tho meoting was nddvessed fu & 7ury lmprovsive mantor by Mr, Caddlug, and, after misklng its ugwinutions, adfournsd " Lilk evenlug to the Unlvorualist Churel, whore a vory-Jardo audioncs was again addrossed in's powerful ma uner by tho samo speakior,” , ho fact f, ho poople wion learnod not o Do tirod of Mr, Coddig s an oridor, o hove en- torod upon B first gongral courso of canvassing the Btato,” traveling from couuty to_county, visitiog ll fhe Targo towiue, separtiug. il prugeess fn 8 scice of interqating lotlors o the Citizen, Tero ho sovoral ties encountored oirr distingulihed Weatern Congressian, % Long Jshn ¥ Wontworth, und yory enytly dolingd ihs fsano yn o on the atump bes twoon Wiy and Domocratio vators, us followss A “rovenus taritt for protootion (Svo Ninth e u tha one bido, or