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THE ABOLITIONISTS. Proceedings of the Third Day of the Convention. Life of Owen Lovejoy by the Hon. B. C. Cook. Sketch of James G. Birney by His Sony Judgo Birneys ~ Personal Reminiscences of Lin- coln, A Paper on Dr, Gamaliel Ba.ilely by Dr. Brisbane, The Labors of William Xloyd Garri~ son by Oliver Johnson, Porsonal Recollections of the Murder of Elijah P. Lovejoy. Paper on Joshua R: Giddings by the Hon. A. G. Riddle. . Miscellaneous Business. » MORNING SESSION, Tho Anti-Slavery Rounion Convontion reas- eombled yosterday morning, in the Union Park Congregational Church, the Hoo. R. P, Derick- son in tho Chair. Tho sossion was ogoned with prayor by the Roy. Mr. Bnscomb, AT DOWSE, of Oborlln, said ho was formorly connocted with & church in Hndson, O., of which John Brown syns & membor, and whero ho often spoka on tho subject of the wrongs of the slave. ME. 8, W. BICIE, nf Indiann, gave somo reminisconces of John rown, of whose lifo ha know many incidents. When captured in Virginis, he had faith that he wonld nover dio on the gallows. The spenker bolloved Lie had soen Brown ascend to heavon. BB, CHILDH, of Oneida, TIL., spoko of the Rev. Hiram Wilson, tho Buperintonavut of the Undorground Rail- road at the Toronto torminus. Whon Birney ran for President the speakor waa in Canads, ot tho house of Mr. Wilson, baving gone into that country a8 & toacher. Goods and money were wont them by the Now York Stato poople. Thero was great joy when thoro camo across the oconn the fidings that n colored man was rogarded a8 & British subjoct as soon as ho sot foot on Canadian soil. The speaker character- fzod Mr. Wilson as & powerful pronchor, and s mun of great bonevolonce. TIE VENERAILE 18AAC TRESTON, fathor-in-law of Icbabod Codding, was called upon for some recollections. Ie said ho on- listod forty-five yoars ngo in tho Anti-Blavery war. Aftor tho Missourf Compromise ho bacamo convinoed that the reign of violenco then begun would not ceaso until the nogro had his liberty, and the}right to voto. Ho was n mom. ber of the Convention at which was formed the first Anti-Slavory Socioty in tho Fox River Val- ley, and was for some time a conduotor on the *Undorground Railrond, froquently employing tugitives on his farm. It wae tho duty of the people and the Church to help educnto the froed- men, and no honest Abolitionist.should conse to Iabor until the nagro had beon taught tho rudi- ments of an English education. THE REV. MI. FOOTE related tho circumstances of an uprising of plaven ot the Furnnces in Kentucky. One night that winter there came to his houre in Wiscon- gin a negro who acknowledged having beou one of tho Kentucky rioters, 1fo took him to tasl for the violence committed there, but the man eaidl that they had.been for weeks obtaining arms, and it was denth for any man to opposs their march to the Canadian frontier. He was suspected of complicity in tho riot, and ran away to oscape the threats of death against him. A song to the air of **Old Dan Tucker"” was then aung, Mr. Clarko leading. The Rev. Jr, Hammond continued tho read- ing of the Goodell papors, but before he lad finished ho wos intorrupted by a proposition that Mr. Goodoll give, in porson, some remiuiscences of Abraliara Lincoln, which motion pr?‘vlflad‘ ——— ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Mr. Goodoll read as follows: My first porsounl interviow with Presidont Lincoln wns ot the White House in Fobruary, 1862—n dark ond doubtful dsy in our national snnals. Tao obol army was at Mannssas, The question was, whother it would como to Wash- jugton or not. TFrom Arlington Hoights a shot might have reached Pouusylvania avonue; our dofentes wero meagre. Intercourso betwoen Now York City and the aeat of Government had boon opened, but the continuance of it was considered doubtful. Car tickots wero givon only to Baltimore, At tho ticket office there, my tonder of = Now York City bank bill wos augrily thrust back with, * None of your foreign bills here” A sirangor kindly beckonod mo aside, exchanged my monoy for me, then 6topped to the offico and bought n tickot for mo, On my arrlval at Washington I found tho Presidont in a ihoughtful mood. Neithor then nor aftorward did I witness any of that lightness aud morriment which was roported of him in bis intoroourso with many others. Imm ediately ho began tho conversation him- gelf, lamentiag the doplorable and eritical con- dition of tho country, regretting that tho heavy burden of responsibility had fallon upon bis unaccustomed shoulders; “while,” aid he, the g rent men of the nntion, to whom the poo- ple have 8o loug looked up for guidance, have now paceed off the stage,” slluding, as I under- stood him, to the thon rocent demiso of Calhoun, Webstor, aud Clay. ¥ Nr, Prosidont,” said T, * thogroat mon of the nation, in whom the people have confided, ara the very men whose subserviency {o the slave~ lmwor has brought this righteous retribution of Tenven upon ns. , Providontislly, thoy are now romoved, und you, sir, aro ralsed up in thoir pluco to delivor the nation, by a roverasl of thoir policy, unobstructed by their influenco, The n&pothn iu now prosonted to you, Tho timo 18 now fully come, Bhrink not from tho responsibility. Diutrust not your lack of ubility, Great, oceanlons promply improved make great meu. DOUNT AND HESITATION. 5 Intorruptions by callers nnd by & telogram from somo military post ocourred lero, but the conversation was resumod, L'he Presideut's hos- itaucy arogo chiefly from the foar that a procla- mation of emancipation would not bo sustained at the North! Xiven Secrotary Ohiaee, a8 I found, at thot time was painfully Aprmhcunlvn thnt through an ap) pn\l to the negro hatred of North- orn people by Northern disloyalists their support of emancipation might fail, My last interview with tho Prosident wae on tho EVENING DETORE THE. THOCLAMATION of froedom, in company with threo othors, as a sub-committee appointed for the purposo, Hev- eral'committoes from citizons of Now York City and elsewhere bad visitod the Presidont fn the autumn of 1804, in spaclal roforencoe to his pro- poned Proclamution of Emaucipation on the 1t ‘of January,1868, unlous tho llcbatlion should have beon proviously terminated by the submlesion of the Robels or (a8 was understood) by somo 1m- tual sottloment of oxisting difioultios, woveral projoots of puification having beon proposed in yarious quarters yeb without siccess. An tho thno drow noar, the ayitation, the aux- 1aty, and tho gurponge bommue Inteusined, enpus m!f: au b wrae kuown that oyery powsivle mllu- 5 | THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1874, ) onco wan [nocasantly at srork to draw or drive tho Prenident from his purposo, or to delny or cauontinlly to-modify his proposed notlon. A'ho elnima of "the ro-callod loyal Btates to exemptinn wero confldently pronsed, on tho scoro of thoir loyalty, and yot it was dircovorad that thoy woro nnmulll{alutout on goouring tho snme immunity for tho Rabol Btates, woll knowing that, If thoir slnvon waro sot froo, thoir own slaves could not long Do retainod in bondrgo. Of those Anti-Slavory committeos from Now York City (and, indood, from tha wholo country), tho last to obtain a hearing was one appointed by publio mooting of ministors and Chrlnunnu,'nn- pecially charged with tho mission of prossing upon tho Presidont the commauds of God's word, and to " ot the orproucd go {reo; topro- claim lbory througliont all tho land, to all the inhabitanta” thoreof,” without oxcoption or dis- | crimination, By the Committeo thers appointed, o sub-com- mittoo of threo, namely, Dr. Goorge B, Clicovor, Dr. Nathan Brown (edltor of the Amertcan Bap- tist), aud mysolt woro doputiod to visit tho Pros- ident in porson, Wo arrived, ss intended, in uoasbh to have AN INTERVIEW WITH THE PRESIDENT, on tho ovening of tho 81t of Decomber, 1862, Just provious to the morning of Jan, 1, 1803, which was to witnoss, na wo bolioved, ofthor the doliverauco of tho siavos or the ruln of tho nation. But wo woro not the only committeo in Ytumnt ottondanco. Tho Pro-Blavery Comunit- e hind onterod tho Whito Houre boforo us; and after a long intorviow thoy went out, doubtloss awith the comfortablo impresslon that thoy had had tho lust word with the Presideut. Butas they passed out wo paeacd in, attor § o'clock, and romninod tll o late hour. Our address, writien aud read by Dr. Choover, waa liatencd to by the Drosident with fixod and solomn attention, A deop-drawn sigh now and then attested, his omotion, and once or twico an aundible gronn oacapod him, A long, frco, and sorious con- versation followed, in which the varions topics brought to. our attontion by iho President lofc us in no_doubt as to tho lino of nrgumont to which he hnd just boon listening from the elaveholders, A ‘moro charactoristic nnd oxhaustive plea on that aida of the question could not_onsily bo imoginod. While tho ful- orum of tho nrgument rested on the olaima of the ‘‘loyal * Slave Btatos, tho lover wan made to bear againet cmaucipation in any of the States, 'This gave us a good opportunity, in answering, to rovorso tho process, making & fulerum of the obrious nocessity, and the Iresidont's promiss to emanclpate tho slavos In tho Slave States, and thence urging Lho necesnity and duty of omanci- pating nll the slivea ovarywhore. Tho most influ- outial of their arguments, howaver, was that not even tho pooplo of tho North would sustain s pruulnmnl“on of owmancipation. The burden of our argumont was THE EXPLIOIT COMMANDS OF GOD, in His word ; an argument for which the Prosi- dent found no answar. Having delivered our mossaga, we roso to take our loave. The Presidont politoly roso also, We bnd put on our cloaks, when the Presidont nm'prluog us by suddenly rencwing tho conversa- tion in the most familiar siyle. Ho had scom- ingly rallied todofond his position, and briskly rllod us with ingonious questions and nnecdotes, "ho colloquy, ns wo all continucd standing, was quite prolonged. Our uttorancos wero ofton ropotitions of appropriate Heriptures; till, ot lougth, straighteni “fi up bimself : **Gontlomen,” enid he, "I thiuk this is tho firat Ltimo I ovor hiad tho honor of recelving & dolcgation from the Almighty." « Premdent Lincoln,” suid I, *beliovent thou tho prophets? I know that thou balievest|” 'This clozed the colloquy. . ‘Phe Prevident stood musing, for & moment; whop, & HT0-MORROW, AT NOOX," aaid he, “you shull knosw—and the country will lmow—my decision.” As wo passed out, wo wero surrounded by numbers of nowapaper-reportors, from all quar- 1ors, who lmew of opr having gono in, and had waited to inquire of us tho prospocts. All wo could eny was to repeat the promiso of the Pres- idont: “You shall all know to-morrow b noon.” This, ns o telegram, nppeared in tho morning papers of our principal citics. At the lotels in Washington the samo tale woa told. On tha morrow, great was the suspenso, the anxioty, the spoculation. Botting was rife, nnd wagers wore decided ot noon. Among politicians thore wers many joyous facos, and many wero sullen and snd. Yot such was the anuuuro,broughl to boar upon the President that, althongh tho rl’oclu— mation was at onco published to tho public, yob it_could not be officially communicatod to tho officors of tho army, whero it wan most necdod, and whoro it had to bo ignored for wooks, until it was_entisfnotorily ascortained that the North would sustain the proclammation of froe- dom. LETTERS, A LETTER FROX ENGLAND. Mr. Eastman then road tho following letter, written in response to an invilation to the mom- DLers of the British Anti-Slavory Socloty: ExETER HALL, WALTHAMSTON, ENGEAND, May 9, 1674, To the Anti-Slavery Reunion of Chicagn: The Secrotary of the British and Foroign Anti- Blavery Soctaty will have informed you that, ow- ing to tho shortness of the notice nud other cir- cumstances, it has not boon practicablo to re- spond to your ovliging invitation, to sond dolo- gates to your ronnion. But though this is tho case, wo would regard with peculiar interost tho proposed.-mooting to- gother of so many who in past times wore united in tho long and arduous atruggle for thoabolition of slavery in your land. It 1s impossible to recur, withont deep and thrilling interest, to the zeal, tho faithfulness, and the self-sacrificing labors of those who still live to meot together on the proposed stirring occasion, . But, whilst ontering Into your feclings, I can- not belp expressing & most enrnost desiro that your rounion may bo the commencement of a movoement on behalf of thoso still hold in slavo- 7y in other parts of tho world. There ore now no bounds to the influence of tho Unitod Statos. 1lar peoplo ate known evary- whoro, in evory part of the world whora slavery oxists, Hor ibtluonce should, theroforo, be n )m:lm.‘ for goad on bebalf of the lave in avery aud. T.ooking back more than fifty yoars, whon Clarkson aud Wilberforce wore atill living, I thinke it may be eaid that British Abolitionists havo nover limited their intorest in this causo to their own country, but have always gought op- portunities for sorvice in proparing tho way for univorsal freedom. Thoy have in various waya f,rently promotod tho nbolition of slavery by most of thosa nations in Europo who formorly hield slaves, as woll s in some of thoso countries in other parts of tho world whore tho Christinn roligion is unknown. With Spain, however, #ud espeolaily with Brac zil, thoir endenvora have met with only very par- {inl success, and thoy, in thoir efforts, had the co-operntion nndintlucuce of the Abnlitionists of the Middle States. Tho result in Brazil might havo boen vory difforent. Bany of the Brazil- ian people desifed omancipation, and they wero chioered by tho warmly-expressod sympathy of the frionds of fresdom both in Lugiand and Trance ; but, unhappily, your people wore sliont: during thoe struggle, ‘Iho Abolition party in the Cortes was dofented, tho pro-slayory party camo into power, and, to provent & bottor mensure from being pussed, thoy carried on ncb under tho operation of which slavery mny bo continued for fifty yonrs to come. Tho Iaborlng population are not cmanci- poted, and the children, though nominally free, ara in the power and undor the control of the masater till tho ago of 21, 1f tho act bo allowed to continuo, the effect will bo ruluous to Brazil, but we hopo your pooplo will nnito with the Bra® zilian Abolitionsts, and with thoso of othor na- 1ions, in soeking to obtain eutire cmancipation, Thou'ns to tho aato of Africa, your aid and aympathy aro greatly noedsd. .Tlio slave-trade will never bo abolislied, and the' gront continent of Afrien gained to the world till nlmflh“vl {s abol- ished in Turkey, Egypt, Persis, and tho other” Muhommedan countries where nepgro slavery ox- ists. 1tia tho demnud in those countries which croates an enormounly profiteblo sluve-trade, Bo long an this demuud ‘continuos, all efforts to put down tho traflic by . forco will prove unavailing. ‘Wo thereforo enrnesily seok tho entiroabolition of elavery in thosn countries as iu every other. Now, your countrymon have grest iutluence in '1‘uxll(‘og sud Egyphi; will you induce them to use It your noble gathoring bo mado the starting point for & vigorous and porsavoring agitation, Tor the univorsal sholition of glavery and tho slava-trado throuehout tho world, it will form n Dright pago in Amorican history, Tho membors of tha Ubicago Rounion will earn for themsolves lasting honor, and frosh lustro will be added to your great Ropublio. Dut, above and beyond oll, tho blossings of the Mont High rest upon your Inbors, With cordial estoom, I 'am very respectfully yourw, ¢ Joseeu Coores, Onoof tho Ifonorablo Bocretarlos of tho Autl-Binvery Hocloty, This lottor met with & hoarty rocoption. It was followed by ono from Mr. A, M. EDEEHOL, Wronan Hoxx, ix Tiie Town oF FALD, Rives, } UL G0, 1, JHDY 9, 1874, Tineun Lauxatan o A givow e plosbure to kuow that you are having a fiuml timo, andI ‘wonld bo qzul to bo with you, but wo oaunot all bo there who would onjoy your mooting. When I was n boy, sud you wore in Lowall, publishing tho Genfus'of Liberly, Dr. J. Halch' took mo to your oflico. I beeamo & subroribor to your pn-, por, and evor sinco I linvo bind 1it, amd through' God T hiavo baon onnbled to do, I hopo, much for tho cause, Lookiug up and down the uuder- Rround rallrond I knos only ono man besido my-~ Bolf (8. R, Lowls) who livos in thoso parts, “who was nctivo eithor as hrakesman, conduotor, or onginoor. Tho soed which yon* and Lundy scattorod in thoso parts will bonr fruit for yenra to como. Otiawa hias a fow old-lino Abolitionists loft—TReddlol, Stout, and Hapaoh, and perhapa o fow othors, mn;hu AOMO of them are with gu. Tho “station” agont at Lowoll, weat, and Dewoy's Grovo, onat, aro elthor doad or hove romoved £o othor parts, 0, my brothar, I hnl:fkm that _you havo with Efl“ m{dnm- friond Codding, 0. Lovejoy, Luudy, . P, Love]oy, Duiloy, Sumiior, and_othiors, and thiolr aplrita 1wili glvo diguity and intorost to your rounion, What was bogun in wonknoss, though in groat earnost, lins remlled o great triumph and com- pleto victory, Rospoctfully aud fratornaily, A: M. EDERSOL. OIARLES A, WIHEATON, The lagt was from Charlos A, Whonton, for- merly of Syracuso, N. Y., who was known in tho onrly days na o foithful, valuablo, and notive supporter of the cause of fresdom. Z'0 the Convention to assembls at Chicago the Oth inst., called a ** Rows of theold Abolitioniala™ of Our Ceuntry, areeting : Dran Faizaps: Icannot bo with yon in por- son, but I will in aplrit and nympnuxéy. I began to bo an Abolitionist in 1836, and bo- :%u tully enlisted snd {dontiflod with' them in As a rominisconce whish mny intorest some of you, let mo give ono fact which led mo to take my stand with the hnted Abolitiouist. A cnll waa ispued in tho fall of tho yenr 1837, |nvmn( all who folt any interost in the guestion of Anti-Slavery to meot 1n Syracuse, N. Y., on an appointed day to organize an Anti-Blavory so- cioty for Onondaga County. ¥ When it becamo kuown, soveral of tho loading citizons of Byrncuso, siyling thomsolves tho frionds of lnw-tnd-ordor, izsusd a call for & moot~ iog to bo held in & large room in the Byracuso Houso, Lo dovise ways aud moans to provout tho Introduction of any such disturbing olement in thoir midnt. Thin is substantinlly what the call stated, and reitorated to the meoting which assembled pur- suant to the cull. Of courso I attonded. After the moeting wad organizod, and tho objoot stated, & large commitice wns appointed to preparo rosolutions exprossive of the menso of the mooting, sud to roport a8 soon a8_posdible, V. W. Smith, editor of tho Sfmcusu Journal, B.W.Leavenworth, Jo- siah Wright, 3L W. Van Buron, and others whoso names I do nat rocollect, and mysolf, wors of this Committee. Iir. Smith had roady for the occasion a meries of resolutions sovorely de- nouncing any attompt to organizo suc & society a8 tho few Anti-Slavery mon coutomplated. My ¢ gpirit was atirred within mo” at any such at- tempt to provont freo speoch, and Idid my utmost, in committeo, to {Al‘uvfillt the adoption (of tho resolutions, or, if I could not do that, to socuro such © modification ss to render them harmloss. Tho “odds™ woro too much agaings mo, and I resolvod upon making a mi- nority roport, and did go; and I well remembor the scornful epithets and’ snooring looks of my frionds at my mmnri[liy in attempting to stom the curront of prejudico and hnte which ex- ALilbited themuolves ‘on that ovor-to-bo-remem- bored cccasion. s From that bour I was branded a fanatical Abo~ litionist. (Buthorolat mo say, paronthetically, thut I Liave Jived to soe tho *‘curgo removed; " and also to seo most of those nBw living con- vortexd to the dootrines, yos, snd mors radical dootrines than wero hold by the Ahnlmanhu.& This attompt of theso ‘“friends of lasw an order,” so-called, did nob nuccoed in_ proventing the gathoring of the friends of freodom on the ) of the eventn In jhls lifo which havo molded an framed his nhnrw{)!ur botome rovonled, i X am to spealt (0 you, by request, of Owen Lovejoy, who ns.8 TOE [ RECOUNIZED LEADER of tho Abolitioniints of Illinols for many yonrs, and to whoso ; {)orlomfl influonce and potwor to influonce tho jitd gments and move the honrts of mon s owlng, 1noro than to any othor slngle cnuo, tho surp tising.change in” tho viows and foolings of mon' who camo within tho aphore of hin influonce up on tho quoation of tho right or ‘wroug of humuw a slayery. In gpeaking 'of ono Who was so admired nnd lovad by tho /intl-Slavory mon nnd women of Northorn Illitiofs, I canuot hopa to rolate incl- dents in his Fatory or to quote from hin raylngs snything thot s nob Jorteotly familia o you all, or “to isponk words of culogy that will not seom tamo and lfolesr in com- parison with those you lhave alrondy upoken to yoursolyes, and, aa the briof timenlloi- tod moe wili not permit any attempt to prosont a full pietune of the life of n man so full of actlvi- tley, I shull sock only to presont 1 bring out “olenly, it T onny & and ring out clently, can, those mark: traits which made bim » loader fh tho great pris fliot of opinion, and o thoroughly fitted him for Iis work; and in stating his views and opinions I uhiall confine mysolf to his own words, I knew Mr. Jovojoy intimately and woll, and_want to present himas ho scomed Lo me first and chiofest a6 & nan of faith, belteving withont question in the triumph of the tight. bocause God loyed tho rightaous cause, aud aided thoso who upheld it, Ananof courago, so truo that he could not ba intimitntod, yot of most gentle, and kindly, ana forgiving epirit, of so grand a montal and moral coustltution o to find his hl(i;hnut gratification in tho defenso of tho right nud the truth against tho strongest_oppyosition, and in sucooring the woalt and _defousplens intho mdst of the re- proach and scorn of smallorsouls, A mnn whose roro intellest und, porsunsive eloquence posuline- ly fitted him for thoe contest in which his lifo wns spent,—a contost against tho selfishnons and prefudices of men, by au appeal to thoir hoarts and cemscionges; n cantost botwoon wan's Inw of forco and God's Inw of right, Tbavoe Aaid ot be was A MAN OF FAITR AND COURAGE. Bofors X proczeed to illustrate this statemont by roferance to his own ncts' and words, I may uny that the stock from which ho sprung—tho old Purltan ntsck of Now En?nud—would almost of Iiselt givo assurance of feith and courago. Ilmow tlrat to many, New England Puritanism ‘has becor:yo only o synonym for narrownens, big- otry, aud. illiberality, and yot I think that, to the candid a'nd unprejudiced student of the history of this ‘country from its first sottlemont until now, New England Purltanism mcauds as tho graudost exponent of faith in God, of tho most devoto:l courngo, aud tho noblest achiovomonts among men. ~ Nor: do I doem it possiblo tooverestimnto those ?‘unlil les of faith and courngo in fitting Mr, ovaijoy for the work which was glvon bim fo do, Tho ranrncstness nnd self-devotion that springs fromw. tho conviction of God’s authority in the ai- fairts of mon, His presenco and helpfulnoss, have slways made men strong both to work and to sui¥or, and this man could not have borne up agningt tho forco op&ofllllon that met him during nlmost tho whole of his activelifo if hiscourage had not been of proof. A weaker man would hove fled or fallon in such a struggle, and his work would hiave bson undone mg s victory unwon. EARLY LIFE, Owen Lovejoy wus born 1n Albicm, in the 8tate ot Maino, Jan, 7, 1811, He was the son of n Congregational miuister, nnd was taught from his cradlo that tho highest trait:s of humAn char~ acter wore fear of God svd tho love of { right. Mo recoived his cducation in tho common schools of Now England until the ugo of 21, when ho_entorod/Bowdoin Uollsge, where ho romained for thies yoars, and thers cntered upon tho study of tHoology. In 1838 he camo to tho State of Ilhncin, probably with no anticipation _of what the groat work of his life waa to bo. Inclining to thio form of worship of dz;a.ppoiutu A The moeting assembled in the Baptist Ohurch {n tho foranoon, swid groat oxcitemont. Gorrit Smith, Willism_Goodoll, a Mr. Stewart (not Alva_ Btuart), Dorinh Greon (tho great man who foll in the harness, o fow dnys sioco, at the ripo ngo of B0), aud ono or two others, wora thoro to eponl for tho trath, the right, aud the alavo. And tho opposors wero thore too,—Judgo Dratt, tho Hon. Jobn Wilkinson, and othory, Who, ' with “their ntmoat vigor, 'opposed tho object of tha meoting. 'The oxcitcmont was so groat, tho fienaml aspesst g0 throatoning, tunt it was docided not to hold a meeting in the ovon- ing. ‘This wag tho first organized conflict and vieto- Ty for Anti-Slavery in & city which aftorwards threatoned to pullup thio railroad track to pro- vent slavo-cateher from coming for, or leaving with, his prey. . “*From boing n very atrong pro-slavery city in thoso. enrly days, Syrricnso aftorwards bedamo provorbial Tor her Khilm ithropy and Anti-Slavery charactor, Hero that naible philanthropist, Sam- uel J. May, dovoted to this causo many of tho Dbest yenrs of lis life. Hero at an enrly day William Loyd Gnrrison was mobbed, and afterwards Fredorick Douglags; and bere, too, later, ‘*Jerry,” arunnway slave, afterar- reat, examination and delivery to his claimant, was reecuod by an Indignaut populace, aud, maimed and bruised, ho wos sont oo tenderly to Cannds, despoiling tho captor of bis victim; tho anniversnry of which triumph of liberty was celobrated for mauy yoars thoreafter. But these ovents aro familiar to tho grena- diors, tho vaterans 1n the cause, and it may have ihe Protestant Lipiscopal Church, ho applied to the Bishop for ordination, and now it scems as it his speclul training Yor iho ministries of lifo which wero given hirato fulflll began. I give tho statement in his cwn words, writton to his ‘brothor June 15, 1836, Ho says : Tuttendod the Slaks Convenflon of tho Epfscopal Church with the expectation of belng ordained, I piwsed through all my examinations with approbation, aul was rocommendrad by tha Stauding Gomunltico to bo ordnined aud 3 “ niace fixed ! upon (Jacksonville), Tho Convention mot at Ruskisille, but on tho day boe fore it wua to take pls ca Iiis Reverenco the Blshop sent moa pledgo to uign ¢ aat I would not discuss tho mub. Juct of Abolition, - knieh pledgo, av you mny guess, T rofuncd {o sign, and , ia conscquence ho dofurred my ordiuntion untl he ‘conld conault his brotlior Bishops, I have beon Lesitr ting what to do, whether 10 wait for thelr deofafon, w"aich 8 not till August, o to fake my namo off at or.ce and accopt Parson Graves' offor of belng ordaived 15y the Presbylory hore, You muat col- loct a council of; all, from mother down to the young~ ost, and ndvite. ‘mo, I had already recelved Informal application ¢ prozch t this placo (Alton) and nt Jack~ sonvilo. P vill all como . xight, Ihope it will make o thinfr, nora of serring Godsnd loss of self-interaat, I nsl, you to mark one fact, that hero is no con- sidor? tion of the question ns to whether ho had not Fstter give the required pledgo, and so suf- fer 1lmsolf to bo Lound in 2 matter of con- weic nco, Al the plaus of his lifo wero to bo ovi/rthrown, he was to bo shut out from his cbi/osen work, his very means of support wero to brh takon away, but tho quostion whothor ho ghould sign this plodge was nevor submitted to l;h;g family council or oven cousiderod by him- ‘velf. 118 BROTHER'S DEATIT, Dut there was au ordisntion for his Mife-work awsitiug him which Lo thon little anticipated. beon n wante of your time for mo.to havo called them to your attention. It would bo o great plonsuro to mo if I could Do with you to grasp the hand of the old soldiers, and to feol the vibration of those sym- pathetio chords which biud honrts togothar, Doubtloss, somo of you have sacrificel! some of your sons on tho altar ot freedom ira our lato warfaro with slavery, wheoso blood ha's beon freely given m vindication of tho caurss which their fathors brouglht to tlie culmination, Dut, frionis, I must not weary ;you, The cvir- ront of the agos flows on, and e who bogon onrly our labors in this causo ¢f God and - manity sball soon bo gono ; but I trust noueiof us over hiave, or will now, regvot uny effort woe Iave put forlls to purge thenation of this gigan- tic imquity. Our- eyes have seon the plory Of the comiug of ths Lord, and wo know that ‘‘His truth is marching on.” I havo henard that Georgzo W, Clarke was to be at this mooting. If hois presont, toll him I have one of Lils old. * Liberty Minatrols,” which ron- dered good ‘service fn thoss trying times, and intoud tokooep it whilo Lllve, and thon let it descond to my obildren, Whatover may bo thought of the charactor or quality of the musie, it1s fllled with noble and inspiring sentiments from tho great Poot of Froodom, John G, Whit- tior, and others, Lot Mr. Clarke, ny & romindor, sing *'Frocdom's Gathoring,” and *Ia this the 1and onr fathors loved 2 etc. And here (if it hos not been done beforo) Tot' mo intraduce to {on my friond, the Rov. Austin Willoy, who will roprosont Northiield and thes Northwest in your gathoring. Ho wnsin ut the birth of this Anti-Slivory movement, and wit. nessed tho death of slavory. Mo huns laborad long and faithfally, wielding n vory vigorous o nd facilo pon an & jouranlist, and comos to you w ith anoble and richly-deserved tributo to the mism- oryof thatable statenman, John P, Halo. I recommend him to yous warmost regnrd, That your mooting may bo all that you o onld wish, reslizing sour fondost anticipations, j s the oornest wish of yours, fratornally, C. A, Wiza Tox, NonTurmep, Mion,, June 0, 1874, P A OWEN LOV.EJOY, The Mon, B. 0. Cook thou read thie fallawing ‘paper : As the nurviving voterans of an army; gather afler tho close of somo long and weary and -danbtful contost, when the victory he hoen de- «cinivoly nchieved and the noiseof 1be batilo “hinu forover paused away, to tulk over ! tho inel- donts aud porlls, tho hopea and fears of ! tho timo of tho conflict, to show the banners takon, to tell their Luttlos won, and tonderly to rocall the memory of those who have falton in tl 1o tleld, so we meot to-day. ‘Tho trlumph which hos been achic :ved in tho contost with tho slavo power so largel v exceeds in the lmportauce of its rosulls, auci in it in- fluenco upon tho dostinies of mery, any mere triminph of physical force, and has x2e 1 go largo- 1y duc to influonces which have boan "brought to boar upon the hearts and minds of vaiin, and hay Dbeen to Bo groat &u oxtent a triumply of spiritual rather than of matorial forcos, that an inquiry into tho charactor, hablta of thought, nnd aotion of those by whoso porsonal influenizes and ox- ertions this groat rosult has boou a ccomplishod Tiecomos & mattor of tho most profor und intorast, It hos bocomo an axiom that me'n ure nlways rnised up In tho ordor of Divine ] 2rovidenco to moot gront emorgencies ; that, wk ien the » eocs- sily for nloador amoug men he's 1undo itsolf thoroughly approcialed, the min wleps ot in wdyanos of bis follows, fully Su'enlabod for tho work sppofuted biw, and tue ius syifionnce He had o baptism to be baptizod with of far dif- foront import to him thnn the imposition of riostly hands, Fe remained with his brother, ho Rov. Blijah P. Lovejov, until 1837, when that brother foll tho firat martyr in this Stato to t:m couso of free speech and negro emancipa- tion. ‘To understand the effoct produced upon him by this event, T ask you o look at him as ho was in the vigor and onthusinsm of his oarly man- hood, rearcd under tho influences of New En- gland piety and froe thought and spooch, fearing God and kunwinfi no other foar,—a man of pow- erful intellect nnd oontrolling will, s lover of free- dom of education and conviction, yet never hav- ing hed lus mind and henrt cspeciatly interosted in the exomination of {be charactor and spirit of Americau sigvory. Tha rovelntion of its na- ture came to him liks tho lightniug's flash, illu- minating, but ronding aud crusbing all things in its course, Ho saw his brother, a young man of noblo promiso and most gonial Duturo, who had boen to him couvscllor, guide, aud friend, as well as brothor, stricken down, lylug in Lis blood, not for any wroug, but loving righteonsness and Dhatiug iniquity. Now ho bas found bis work and racoived his ordination. I give the same in Xiis own words, spoken in 1842 Tinsldo the prostrato Lody of that murdered brother, while the frenh blood was cozing from hin perforated hrenst, ou my koos, while alone with the doad and arith God, T yowed ndver fo forauke tho cauzo thit Was sprinkled with his blood, The osth was written in Blood; ftmunt stand, Am I alone in this matter? I thunk'God that Tam'not, X ses by tho tearful eye und tho compressed lip that thoro ure otlers boro into whowo multed heartu the fixed resolution fa now eek- 1ng to obuy God rathior than mun, who will do or dio, No words of mine ¢nn add to tho tragic fn- terest of that scone. Thin was hie ordination as an apostle of froodom aud humunity. I meod mot sy to you that o conviction born through Auffoving is fixed and unchongeablo; the truth that is wronght into the soul by sufforing is clently seen and can novor bo obscured. As the rough diumond takon from tho sands must be subjected to tho grinding and wasting in the hands of the lapida- ry before its brilliance and beauty uro rovealod still, whoro the prossuro has been heaviest an hardost, thero lics forovermoro revealed tho glo- Ty of tho sunlight, Iu tho light of this dny, and in view of the ravelations which timo hat made, wo_can judge the wisdom of those men, who 1n endeavoriug to uphold aud perpotuste Amarican sinvery, seut n man like Owon Lovojoy, with wll his raro gifts and powors, and with such o vow npon him, and with such purpose in his hourt, into the * Irro- prossible Confliot" that wan imponding. RELIGIOUS TABORS. TIn Octobor, 1818, Mr. Lovojoy loft Jaokson- villg, haviug boon invited to tako chuigro of tho Congrogationn! Churoh at. Prineotou wnd also of the church at Gonesoo, but bnd not decidod~ which of the mvitations to necopt, After leav- ing Pooria and arrlving ut tho point whoro the roads lending to Princoton und Genesco dividod, “Dolng still undelormiued, hs inid the roins upon tho ool of his horse, which, unguided, tool the road to Lrincoton, whare, in 180, ho was ore dained pastor of tho immpshiro Coluny Congro- gational Chureh, of which he romalned tho pas- tor nearly sovontaon yonrs, In adhoring to my purposo of sletehingthe autling of Mr. Lovojoy's charactor from his own words and ucts, I quata {rom & Hormon dolivored by liim In January, 1843, from the words Wroughit to obny God " rathor than men." Actn 6, 61 * Itisthaduty of a miuistor, T supposo, to regard Lho wants ynther than the wishos of his peoplo; ho must have rogard to what they noed, not 10 what they de- uiro, Tho sontiment which I doduco from the wordn of tho text s this : ¢ Theright and dut of violating human laws when thoy contlict wit) tho divino.'" ‘Fakonn fustance, ‘Thoro fa on sagod Satnt whom Obriut bath redecmod with his own bleod, Hho welghed down with tha wulght uf 60 sears, Hhe i claiiod s & ploca of propurty, sid waile to work fn tho fold abwolutely withuut clolbiug, On® cortain oucation Kexr DEolonded marter COUMARdN bar to dy gmg thing, hor mistroas another, Glo ennnot ohey Doth, and doen thnt which Lior misiers requires, Tha manter flies nto o passion, ties hor with » rope sround tho wlnt toa_{ree, and beats hor with » hiickory polo, much an ozen aro driven with, till it is broken to whirtvors, and Ul tho suffering viclim, faint fromn loss of blood aud pnin, alnks upon the ropo, The mastor thon oalle upon Lis wifs to bring the razor and the glmblot that ho may paro aff tha solod of hor fegt and boro dnito the bone to prevent hor eazape, Butin the Trovidenco of God phie ix aaved thin lait onteage, and gots away, With falgned infirmittos nddod to (hone that ara real, hobbling nlong bent aver the top of hor ol 0 makes lior way from the Iand of whive nud chaltis, Sl han alapt out undur the opon lieavens— ondured tho peltings of thostorm, and lived for wecks on tho wild grapo and the hawthorn, Bhe comos to your door emnciatod, ragged, shivering, nud saka your meroy, Will you turn lier Away? Will you shut your door in hor faca, or will you nholtor, foed, olotho, and comfort ior? Sy, will you give the old "womati up? Will you bowray'thie waudoter? Will you, or wiil you not, * bida tho outeast”? Wil you oboy God, or o statutes of Illinoja? Ttemomber,”the violation of oo law nublocia you to fine and suprisoniiont in tho County Jaii—that of the other to etornal damua~ tlon, Who will you obey? I will not Lolieve that there fa n sivglo jiorson fn this houso who would nof, coutrary {0 tho accursed statutes of Illinols, harbor, necreto, foed, clotliv, and help ou thoir way,'the poor Tugitivos, No, blewtings on tho Liead of {hoso who hielp Clod's antesatr, Woll, if it 16 rigbf and n duty to disrepard ono hu- mnn law whicl conflicts witli {o Divine, why not nuother, nnother, aud another 7 And where will you stop 7 you caunot stop tll you avo tramplod under fool ovory Inw which ronuires you Lo violate God's Inw, Bit nomo ono will haply start up bere with this taying— {liorots n_poualty, a penolty I—if you violate litiman lawo you muat abido the ponnlty, Well, let thiom bring forward tholr nonalifen— their ines and imprisonments, - Lut them lieat thele furuncen soven Limes hottor thinn 1s their wont ; let them starve thoir lions—open thelr amphitheatren of wild beasis—pro. paro thuir thumb-nerew and other instruments of tor- iuro to mako ua tell whore (ho fugtiires ifo cancenled ; let them eroot their cromses, and net up tholr gilote nnd praparo tholr galloge, and whot thefr guillotines | What thon ? can thoy Jitat » furnace a% hotan tho Iaka which burns_with firo ond brimatono? Cou they Idudlo apy flsmea (it never go out? Have oy any gudylng worm to prey upun the soul forevar 2, \¥iom then ought wo to fear? Uim that can kill the body and after that hath no moro thut he can do; or Ifim who, after Lio hatl killed, can dustroy Doy du dioll 7 Hinth nok Ohuset ol ¥ Yea, Ty unto you, fear Him 77 That if wo aro fluod 2 Shall we be the first Chrls- tiaus that were over apolled of tholr goods? Did you never liear of any who took ko © spoiling of their goods JosTully¥?” Whntif wodo dio s violent death ? Thus the Lord Josus Ghirist diod—thus Poter, Taul, and other Aposties died—iliue tho glorioun company of Marlyrs died—thus Graniner, Lutinier, and Rogora diod—tiiuw Hampden, Sldney, and Emmet_died—tlius Llijah Parish Lovejoy died, and thus, God's grace helping Lim, will Owen Lovojoy dio, rather thon fuld abediorles Lo human law wilch coutiets with tho vine, The slave woman doacribed in this oxtract was no horoiue of romancs, it was no h\n? sketch ; thia woman camo to his door emaciated, regged, and shivoring, and asked Lis moray. S TS TRIAL, Tho noxt aot in tho dramn wae : The Graud Jurors cliogen, solected and sworn, in and for the County of Bursatl, in the nume and by tho authority of tha peoplo of the Biute of Iliinols, upon thelr onths prosout that Owen Lovejoy, Inte of tho snid County of Bureau, on tho firat duy of Murch, in tha yeur of our Lord, ono thousand olght hundred and forty-tiro, at and within the Connty of Bureau—A certain negro womnn and person of color, called ~Agnos.” Bhe tho sail * Agues,” then and thoro belug o slave and_owing service, fnd labor to some annun, to tho jurara sforesald unknown, within the imits and under tho jurisdfetion of tho United State, thou o thers, by keeping the sald * Agnoa " in lix awellig-liousc, foading, clothiag, wud comyorting her, tho sald * Agiies,” ho tho said Owen Lovojoy, thui and there tho sald Agnes xo being & slsvo and owing® service as nforesald, unlawfuily and willfully did bar- hor aud secrate contrary to tho“form of ktatute in such caves mude and provided, and sgainst the peace and dignity of tho same peoplo of the Btate of Iilinols, And the jurors aforesaid, upon thelr oaths pronent in the namio aud by tho nuthority of tho people afore- nuid, do further present, that Owen Lovejoy, Iate of the suid County, ou the firat dny of Fobriary, in the yoarof onr Lurd, one thousaud olght hundred and forty-threo, at and within the County of Buresu, aforesaid; a certain nigro woman and parson of culor called ** Nancy," Bho the sald Nancy, then and there, belug o alave, and_owiug sorvice and Iabor to Bome porsou, to the jurors aforesaid, unknowi, resiu- ing within sume Stito or Terrilory o District, o the Jurors nforcsld, unknown, witliin the limifs and under tho jurisdiction of the Tnited States ; then and there by kéeping the sald Nancy in his dwelling-house, conveylvg her from_place to jlnce, aid by feeding, clothing, sud comforting her, tho pild Naney, Lo the sald Owen Lovojoy, theu and therothe anid Nunvy, so being o alave, and owlug servico_aforcid, unlawiully and willfully'did harbor oud secreto, contrary to the form of the statute, in such cases nndo aud provided, and againat tho peaco and diguity of the same people of the Stuto of Iilinois, Tho trinl of this indletment was at tho Octo- bor torm, 1843, I was proscut at the trinl, Jnmes H, Colliny, Eeq., of this city, was counsol for Mr. Lovojoy, ‘Lo trial excited cxtraor- dinary interest both among the Abolitionists aud thelr oppononts. For mysolf, in watohing tho trial with my warmost sympatbios enlisted for the defondant ns I hoard tho indictment ro- peated : “That the said Owen Lovejoy then and_thero, by keoping the snid Ayeres in hin dwalling hongo, feeding, and clothing, and com- forting hor, did unlawfully and wilifully harbor and secrote lLior contrary to the form of the statnto and againat the lpum:p and dignity of the imapln of the Btate of 1lileols,” the conclusion 0 which I arrived was, if this bo true, thon the only inferonce is that to have por- mitted this poor womsn to have porsh- ed in tho flolds from cold and starvation was tho way to have maintained tho peaco nnd dignity of the pooplo of the State of Illinols. What a diguity wo had in thoss days ! ruo sho was ** o niggor,” and inferior, but how did that help tho matter? 1f it did, then to allow o orso or dog to die of starvation would so, much tho more muintain our ponco and dignity. I NEXT TRIAL, Mr. Lovejoy wus ncquitted, but thig was by no means tho end of his experienco oy o defendant in court. On tholst of August, 1843, as Mr. Lovojoy nnd Ichabod Codding wereon their way to attond au_ Anti-Slavery meeting ab La- moille, thoy met & colored man who was alleged to bo o fugitivo slave. Two rosidents of tho town undertook to arreat him ; they took him into custody and one waout to procure & warrant while the othor remained ns guard. Tho news quickly sprond and othors gatherod, Somoono fold tlio negro what was boing dono, und_urged Jim to fly ; but tho man gunrding him drow & knife and, brandishing it, threatoned doath to any ono who sbould holp the negro eacape. Just ilen Lo wae svized, thrown to the ground, nud his arms pinjoned while tho knife was takon from him. He was then sob nb liborty, but the nogro had gono and was mnevor found, Mr, TLovojoy, Soth Clapp, Coleb Cook, and Bortram Tockwood wore arrvsted and tried bofore n Jus- tico of tho Pence, who roudered the following Judgment : After hearing all the proofs and allogations it is considered thut tho defendunt i guilty cf the moat onragoons and sgyravated assuult aud battery evor commiitted in any community among civilizod peoplo § it In therefors ndjudged thut tho defoudant pay a flns of 350nd coats, From this judgmont, which yet remain of record a8 n Jogu! and hitarary curiosity, an appeal was talen, ond in tho Circult Court the suit was dismissed, On tho trisl before tho Justico, one of tho reasons urged by the attornoy who conducted tho prosccution why » heavy fino should boim- osed was, if it was not done, Mr. Lovejoy wounld e mobbed. 1n the samo month a warranb was jssued agninst Mr, Lovnjoy aud olbora for rob, grow- it out of Uhis affale. Thoy were hold 1o bnl, ard at tho October term, 1843, of the Circuit Court, sn indiotmont was found ngainst thom, upon which n Lrinl was had at tho Octobor torm, 1844, and the dofendauts wero aoquitted, TIE NEXT CASE. In Boptomibor, 1849, two mon from Missonrl noized n colored man, who was at work for a furmer, noy.r Princeton, while he way mowing iu tho flold, ‘bound him, placed him in a wagon, and oarrind him to Princoton. Hero thoy wore nrreatod uipon a charge of kidunpping, and taken boforo o ngistrate, holding the nogro still bound, ‘Tho Gourt-lfouso wns toon orowded with Iulorested urflututnru. Counsel for the Blissonrinny moved for u chango of veno bofore anothar magistrale, While this wes belug ar- guad, o warrant wus prooured from anothor magistrate for tho arrest of tho negro asa fugitive slave, and placod in tho hands of o spocinl Constablo to oxoento. This Constablo was 1 noluy, impulsive, and very intomperato man, I omit his newme; ho is not living now. Whilo lie way cndeavoring ta seizo the negro, tho yops which bouud tho man wau out, snd ho mado his escupe, having boon pasted through a wandow of the Court-House, found n horae be- longing to Mr. Tiovejoy near by, mounted Lim, and rode to Mr, Lovejoy's houso, n mile dintant from Lhe Court-House, whero honrrivod nosrly ex- Tnustod from fright sud excitement, ‘I'lho crowd at onco followed, and congrogatod in tho stroet in front of the houso, 'The apocial coustable on- douvoring to paus thronglh the gato, was_csught botween 1ho gato und tho post,~—Mr, Lovejoy bemg intant uponnhutting his gato just thou,— and thero he was Lokl until he was glad to es- copo on tho othor slde. In the meautime, the orowd, nbout 400 in nwmbor, determinod to wateh tho house and capture the mau, Ife, with no dieguiso except his Lint dvawn down ovor his 1ace und n buckoet in ench hnud, passed from tho voar of tho honen to the Larn, distant about 200 feol from (ho houso, was placed Inun empty wagon, and, lying down in tho wagon-box, was drivon _away, passing within 100°feos of the crowd who wora seoking him, Iie mado his o8- cape to_tho llmlonfr_uunfl railvond, but disd of cholorn bofore renching Canada, Soon uftor tho nogro hud left, & man without o hat way soen In o flold o quartor of i mllo off, mnking desporato offorts to inorunte the dintance botwoes himeell and the oruwd, while apparoutly ondanvoring s ol o poveiblo, thoughy wikk Littlp augoeus, to hoth *soul and forowarnaid us, avold being soon, 'Tho ory wan ralsed : * Thoro goos tho nigger.” T'ho crowd at onco atartod in purauit, ond, after a dosporato race, cnught the fugltivo, bt ‘wora dirgunted Lo find that ho was ouly n whito man after all. I havo not time to dwoll longer upon evonts like thoso in tho bis tory of Mr. Lovojoy. I only sesk to shiow that io ondured during thoso years the opposition, tha lntred, tho unjust projudices of a lnrgs mn uri&y of the poople among whom ho llve and "t Wo “Wan > anviog this simb ono long and conataut — mblf-gacrifice, most_unwolcome to a man like Mr. Lovojoy, who was of a gonial and kindly nature, and do- lighted in tho eateom and followehip of thoze with whom ho ‘vame in contact. 1could spesk of the opposition of many within bLis church; of tho withdrawal of some, and tho formatlon of nuathor church that ronultod 3 of the Luhit of abnging him which had_bocome nimost a socond naturo with so mnn{. I havo soen mon of #o avil hablt that charity ftsolf could discoyer noth~ ing about thom that dil not doserve rebuke aud rapronch, who noemed to fool and think that, in noma way, thoy could ropair their own ruined charaotors by curslng Lovejoy, but time forbids. Tonly rofor to this now to palut the contrast bo- twoen this aud a later timo, whon prejudice wns conquored, and_his kindness, gontionoss, and Delpfulness lind overcome alf old hatred, and lie hnd become the most populsr mnan by far, not only in his own county, but in the ontire dis- trict which he reprosontod. HIS FIRST NOMINATION, In 1844, Mr. Lovojoy was the candidate of the Liborty party for Qongress, roceiving only tho small voto of that party. In June, 1847, ho was » candidate for tho Coustitutional Convention, nnd came within twenty-six votos of bolug oleat od. July 4, 1864, a convention of Auti-Nebraska men was held in I'rincoton, whon resolutions woro ndopted favoring tho uniting of all poraous opposod to tho oxtansion of slavory, irrospociiva of past party afilliatons. TFrom this time, Mr. Lovejoy nnd'mysoit nctod politically in concert. M. Lovojoy was nominntod and elocted 1o the Logislature, whora wo wore thrown together. I thon represcntod tho distriot in which he resided in the Bonato. IN TNE LEQIRLATURE, In n spoech made by him iu tho Legislaturo of this Btate fn_Fobruary, 1865, in support of & rosolution offored by him to Instruct our Seun- tora and requost onr Ropresentatives to vote for tho admission of.no more Slave Btatea and for tho repoal or modification of the Fugitive-Slave law, which made & profound sousation in that Dbody at the timo, ho waa arguing that tho Conatitution of ths Unlted States wns an instru- mont of frecdom, and did not sanction human slavery, aud quoting adison in support of this praposition, when s member zsked what did Jofforson say. 'Cho roply was instant and oon- clusive. *That ho (romblod for his country when hio romemberad that Clod was just, aud that his justico would not sleep forsver. That o hod not one attribute thet would talke tho part of the master againat tho slave in cnsc of & sorvilo war: that tho litlle finger of Amorican slavory was thicker thau the loius of Brilish duspolism.” I well romembor the scone and the offect produced by the speech, After it wes concluded, two old Domacrate wore passing out of tha Stale-Touss, nnd ono said to tho others 1 guoas that is about all thore is of it.” Then snid the othor, **Woell, thon, I've boen an Aboli- tioniut for twenty yonts and wos such & d—d fool 1 did not know it.” Dir, Lovejoy waa ELECTED TO GONUNESS in 1856 by n vory Jargo majority, given in great part by the vory men who had 8t ono timo or another opposod and roproactied Lim, o was twice re-olooted from that dintrict. In redis- tricting tho State in 1801 bo was piaced in o now and oloso district. A dotermined offort to dofeat hin oloction was mado by men in his own party, but ho was re-olocted. 1f the voters of the conntry saw him aud heard him, thoy would vote for bim. I waa foarfal that in'this” contost ho would bo overborne, and, 1n talking with him after Lhe oloction about the triumph hie had won, 1o told me, with an _exprossion of pride au lonsure, that to liis daughtor 1o owed more for Blu succeys than to any ono clse ; thnt she had ‘beon his most trustod counsellor, had writton his correspondence, and kopt him advised of the do- tails of il political movoments while he was away from home upon tho stump. IN CONGRERS. 1 can only so far alludo to his esreer in Con- gross an to prosent dofinitely the vutline sketch of his chaucter to which I am limited, Tan, 27, 1858, Mr. Dnvis, of Missiesippl, 1n & spocch of tho bitterest denunciation of Abolitionists and Free-Soilers, mado a dircet personal attnak upon Mr. Lovejoy, und sout to the Clerk's desk a lot~ tov written by ono E. H. Lombard to 3r, Love- joy, in which ho nocusok hit of entiving away & Blaye named Mose, and, this charge of negro- stonling having boen ropoated by Sir. Biugleton and others, Mr. Lovojoy replied In these words : A slngle word s to this chargs of negro-stealing, 1 auppoww 1 havea right to spoak on this subject, bay- ing been mnde thia abject of this allegation, _Bo far ag nny persoun! abus is congerned, it may go for what it ia wworth, If tho object is to ascortain whother I auslst fugitive 3laves who.come to any door sud askit, the matter is easily disposed of, I march right up fo the confoesionul, and may, J do, I racolloct the cuse of o young womi, who came ta my house, who had not slugle traco of African descent aithor in featuro or cownploxion, Accurding to hor own atory, sha was Dotrothed toa msn_of her taco, thongh not of her color, and was, before her marriago, soid to a libertine from tho South, ho belng iu BE. Touis, Slo e3- caped, and, in her fight Srom a lifo of infumy and s fato worso than death, shy came and implored nid? Wue I torefusaft? Wus I tobowray tho wauderer? Vg 1 o detain her, and givo hier up a proy to the in- carnato flend who liad selccted hor s a Victim to otfor up ou thoaltar of sensualisim 7 ‘Who would Joit? Iwould not, @i not. No hu- ‘man bolug, black or while, bond or free, nativo or forelgn, intidol o Chrixtian, ever camo to my door, and asked for food and helier, in tho unmo of & _cota- mon hiumanity, or of a pitying Clirlat, who did not re- colveit. This'I have done, This Intoan todo, us Joug ag God lets ma livo, - I shisll nover “ bawray him that wandercil” I shall nover Lecomo a Hlave- catober, Anyone who chooses mny trausform himself futo u blood-houpd—kuutl, and scent, aud Lowl, along the track of tho fugitive—joll aut his tongue, and lap p tho dirty water that stands in tho muddy’ pool by tli waysido—ovortako thu rifle-acatred and Jarh-oxeo- riated Wlave (a mother, it may be, with her infant, tho Iova of whom has nerved her for ihe flight,) thrust’ his canino teeth {nto tho quiveriny flesl, brace ont his for feet, and hold tho_ caplive till' tha Xidunpper comes, with fetiors and Landenfls, to load down ankles nnd wrist, and then receive, a8 n reward of Lhis Drutiani, a pat of the head from tlio slava-catclier, and the plaudit, “ Good dog, Bose." Sir, I nover will da this, Inovor will degrade my ‘mantioad, and stifo tho sympathies of human natura. 1t 48 au dnsult {o claim it,” L wivh L had nothing worse to meet at the judgmieut doy than that, I would not have ihie guilt of cousing that wail of maw’s despair, or that wild sbriek of woman's ngony, as the onv or {he other i captured, for all the diadoms of all tho stars in heaven, Tn it denired to call attention to this fgct, Proclaim 1t theu upon thn house-tops, Write it on” overy leaf that trombles fu the forest, fuake it blaze from tlio sun &t high noou, and slime forth in the milder radiance of overy star that bedecks tho firmamont of God, Let {techo through ol the arches of heaven, aud rover- berato and bellow along all thoe deép gorges of hell, wliera_nlavo-catchers will be very likely tolwar it. Owen Lovejoy lives at rinceton, T, threc-qunrtors of o milo eatof tho village, and Lo aids overy fugi- tive that conies (o hiv door und avks it. Thou invisi- Dble domon of Blavery, dost thou think to cross my Lumble threshold, aud'forbid mo to give bread to tiio hungry and shelter to the houscloas! I bid you defi- ance in tho nnme of my God! HMUMAN DEINGS NOT PROPERTY, Tob. 17, 1858, Dir, Lovejoy mado o speech in Conyross to provo that human boings. were not property. Among other things, ho said: What 110w fs our country's duty, doatiny, and truo glory? "l'o go murnuding ovor tho torritorics of weaker Hations, ko buccauvors and poltroons, to estend tho uren of ‘slayory; to bunt down fugitive aluves, nnd take them back, manncled, to bondugo ; to break down the dykes of freedom, and lot the durk and eumin- guined waters of sluvery rush in & destructivo fiood Gvor tho land, Nol 1o tuoname of the fothers, in tho name of tho Constitutfon, in tho name of the Docluration, in the uame of our dignity aud position, andin the nwmo of God—no! Thoe true mission ol {his nntion, the worl asalgnad, the trust comruitted, 15 to roded to argoulo form, aé we hava niready done and now to illustrate heforo the world, tho grest and ovor-enduring truths that T hove recitod, and thus to exomplify beforo the nations of tho eatth tho prin~ Ciplos of ‘civil nnd religious fracdom and equality, and 80 teach thown that thelr monarchivs are despotisms anid usnrpatious, I uever read that Declaration Lut ‘wiils now admiration snd dolight, 8o comprehensive, vot 8o full ! Lmbraoing the whole Divine theory of iuman government in a aingle puragraph, All then, ondowend by thelr Crestor with an oqual title to life, Hborly, aud the pursuit of happitess, Goverumonts fustitnted among mon {0 seouro these rights, derlvivg all their just posors frons tho cousent of (e gov- orned. e hosr about keoping step to fho musio of the Unlan.. e, no butld augo organ on tho slelviug aldes of the Rocky Mountafns, and let tho angol of Hherty striko fta koyn and chiant forth that aublime aud grand old authem of universnl freodom; wnd then, us I notes roll ovor. the land, solemu sud mo- Juatie, ju God's namo, sir, I will koo atep to tho mnuslo Of tho Unlon, 1tisus Divine symphony, But when you cail upon mo to keep siep to tlio wound of Y Pnicng chitnw and of Tminan masclor, o the wild e tian agany uuil suflering, Tcaunot da i, it grates upou mo l"(untllu v-iry dissunuuce of hull. l = oo stop to mich musie, ”‘}{"‘.fi'.?w'. »1:-,‘ why dowa stund thus proudly yre- aminent among the nstlons of the eartli? Wiy les e tatlon bown led toa poaltion 80 grind and en. Viabla? Ts it bocauso Gad {8 any veapoeter of noraona Srof nations? Not that: but becausn Lo han & jrrand Work for 1s o do—to Tead tho workl to freedom and flory ; 10 tho canrclous posucnion und unmalestod en forcat nf Tighs Divincly givon, Aud why should wo abandan thils position? - Why are wo ealiod npon Yo veteay tho high nud volemu “truuts’ committed: to our earo by the Most High? Why aro we asked to {rhoel roind frow tho vau fu the progrees of a Chrli- tiun clvilization, nud with muttled drum and drooping colors miaroh bnok o decide of centuries futo the darks ween aidd barbarism of the past? Why should we, Dy onir refieal fa fulnll the destiny plainly markod ont 1or us by the lingor of (od, yiold the hogor of varth's renovation to somo ollior peopla? What 14 to roward 1w 07 nil thie sliomo, loss of ponition, aud raoreancy to Heaven-couddud frustys Wiki tho cluuk of huwan 3 ———————— | fotlern on the plalon of Kansss, and the wail of man's dospair on tho Pacifo ahore, compontate us for thin 0N, how mutch moro nioble anil horafo for those who finve it 1n tholr power to say, in God's name, this ovil mnt bs romovod, What x future then faniies on onr country ! In those ages to cumo, by n natural procens of sseiinllation snd poaceful oxpansion, wo should conguor and pozeas tho entira continont, The gonius of freedom, on nomo lofty ponk of the Rocky Sfouns tains or the Andos, shouli Inolt nbroad, nortliward and southward, eastward and woatward, and_boliokd one vaut ocoan of republics, bound fogother by fadoral compnot, Distinot ltke the billows,tret ono Hko the son, Andl ax tho recording angel droppod atoar of porrow on the good man's oath, and blotied it out forever, so tho genlus of bistors,’ when nho cama to trace oue xocord would drop i idar of roprot aud blot out. ttia fact that avery over exintod, With this resultin, view, tho Conatititlon wa formed, 3 Badoea of the doparted, hovering around this hall, 1 blosn your memaories for that Couatitution, It{snottobo wondered nt that uttorances such ns those woro rocotved by those who wera Willing to eacriflc tho entirs intoreats of tho Nation to maintain and extoudslavery with rags ;I‘!’:}il u‘:l“y:“. Mr. Lovejoy was for a t{mo sube MOST UNMEASURED ADUSE. As a snmplo, I quoto tho words of Mr. Bingleton, ot Mlulul{:pl, Fob. 8, 1850, who proposed an nnlmndmlnmt‘o an approprintion bill, and eaid: Droposs this amondment to say a word to tho gen- Wemon from Illinola [Mr, bova!uyy] Al M hged o {umt mads, salnomlodgad tiat fio Tas partioipated in o erimo of atealing a negro fram ona of my Ito cone stituents, 1 regard bim sn & disgracod ran, one unfs $o ansoofate with honust men upon this floor, n disgrace 10 hix canatfluonts, to the country, and worthy of placa in the Penltonliary, {Loud ores of order], Tho Chair sustained the point of order. Republican mombers bogged that ho might have @ g —T think the gentl r. Gildinge I think the gentleman fs in perfeot order. Ihape he will he lllol\‘vod to pmco:d. s Mr. Singloton—1 now withdraw my amondment, T offerod it ouly to afford me an_opportunity of putiing on revord my opinion of tho gentleman from filinols, 1f you nsk me who Mr. Singleton is to-day, T nanawor that I think that {a all thero was of him, | whilo no ona would noed e tald who (wen Love- joy is. But porhaps TINE MOST REMANEADLE AND DISGRACEFUX: SUENH that ovor oceurred in the Houso of Roprosanta~ tivou wag on April G, 1800, M. Lovojoy wall de livering a speech upon the barbariem of slaverys Mz, Pryor (advancing from the Democratlo side of {the Houna Loward tho nrea where Mr, Lovejoy'stood)— The gentloman from Ilinols [Mr, Lovojoy) shall nol approsch thia side of the Housy, shaking his fiste, and talking In the way ho hon tolked, It s bad onough to ‘e compolled to slt hern and hear Lim nttor Lia tros- sonuble and funulting langunge. But lio shall not, air come upon this sido of ko House, whnking s fat i O tmaworth—1t a mot £ Mr, Farnswortb—It {s not for the W]xllt l%llili\nlon‘{ml]l.‘whnt is nu!.r Spmnmnio r, Pottor—Wa listoned to gentlemen npon the othy sida for elght weeks, when lgny dunnl\ntm the I?IBB:E bers upon this rido with violentand offenslva Iangungo, ‘I; lIl:v‘l:‘l'lul.“ln !‘Illl\:m ?;l(ell ,{m(l heard them through, d t, thin side shall ““,.‘."""p',”“ s Lo ieard, Iot the eonvo- r, Pryor—The jofat I malcs fs this— ' fln’fib‘:rfig:’gmml&-’flll Chullll' will recelve no motion, i gentlemon, nnt| sests, and ordor m'mno}gn i et e e r, Cox—I rise to & point of order, gentleman from IIL\IIDI.‘E aball gpeak Irnllllhl'l!(:l::r!“ i Az, Pryor—That is tho point I make. Let the g tlemun aposk {roin bis scat, nud way all undor the fule Lo in entitled to ray s but, 'sir, lie ahall not coma wtpon thia nide, shaking ‘lits fat'tu our facos, aud talking in the styls he hns taiked, Ho shall not come liere gmfilfl- ulating in a menaciug and rufianly mannor, 'h.h-. Potter—You are doing the same thing, Uhe Ohairman—Gontiomen will resunie xluh‘ seats, Br. Cox—If the gentleman from Iillnols goes on, ar h‘a ":mn, o guoardian will Lave to be appointed far Atr. Darkadalo (vddresaing Mr, Lovsjoy)— ot corno upon xlnfn Ao of thg Mope. 07— Yo alal £, Adran—To avold all further difoulty, T ang- gent b, tho gentlomnn from Tiisia o onk fenm Ha ;. now Lim fo Lea man o tiatho cnmaot o Tnmidated, eangyant ¥ Pryor—No ono wants £ intimidnte h Bir, Laveloy—Nobody asn intimidate mo, By, Adriun—I know that. 1 suggent {0 tho gentles man iliat he continuo lis apecch from his reat, [Thisty or forty of the miombors from both siden of o Houso yathared 1n tho atea about A, Lovoloy and 3. Pryar, und there was incraasad confunion,) Mir. dobi Cochrane—I mova thut the Committes rise, a8 1t iu the only way wo can gat rid of this disturbanco’ Mr. Poltor—I do’ nut belfevs thut alde of tho Housk cat 5y tolers a miombor aball apaok ; snd they sull ot euy Mr, Siigleton—The gentloeman from Tilinols shall 0t make that apeech upon thiu side of tho House, Mr. Burneti—Thoro la » rule of {hia House Which roquirca cich man to spenk from bin scat. Tho gentio man from 1llnoin ws notin bia moat when Be wi speaking, fe connot and hio shall not cross thin b 10 tbis eidta in'» monacing meuner, - Ho shall nat, the_connequencen be what they will, 1o 1ust speak £r0m Lin seat, Ar. Grow—T move that tho Committea rise. Tho Chairmau—Gontlemen must resuize {lielr eate, B, Coz—Let tho goatiomn from Tiiaols tako bl sout. Ik Waaliburne, of Tilinols—Let others be moated, and 1ot my colloaglio procead, 3ir. Polter—Tho gentloman from Iilinols can take hro of bimaol, witiout ko asssizace of tho ollior side, » Ak, Rellogg, of Tinola—T say togentlemen, that my colleaguo Alail apeak ; thnt L is in order, and will not comimit 8 breach or the rilos of this House; if bo doss, T vill be tho firat to roluke dim ; but Lo aliail havo bis sights aceordiag o the rulta of 't Housy, aud In 50 wiko liall thoy bo abridged or intorfered’ with. ifo sl be livard txpon thin iloor, and at this time, MM, Drigge—Then lot him 4o upon his own side. Tho Olinicmnn—The Choir calls the Committo fo orgler ; and if gentlomen do not come to arder, ha will call thib Bpenker to the chalr, aud zeport tho dlsorder 0 tho Houso. 3. Floronco—I movo that tho Committes 2iso, It 1a fmpossibla to quell the disturbanco withoat dolng 80, “Iue Ohisirman—The Sposlr will take the Chair, The Ohuirman {Mr, Washburn, of Maine) vacated the Chinir, and the Speskor resumed it, The Speaker—The Chair calls the 1lousoe to order, 3 desiro goentlel f the ouse to take thelr neaty, Ar, Floronce—Every ono, upon cither and nll sides, Ar, John Cochrano—~Tho Committee has risen; Las it not Tho Sponkor—The Chalr Tequests gontlomen to re- spect the authority of the Touue, and taks their scate, Tdr, Barkadalo—Ordor that black-loarted acoundrel and niggor-stenling thief to tako his seat, and this sida of the Lonsa will do it r, McQueen—Wo_will allow mobody to come over from that side of the House and bully s on this_sidoe, [Cries of * 8lt down i 4 Sit down 1" from all sides of the House.) The Spoiker—Tho Chsir desires gontlemon to take tholr scuts. 3r. Bosoek—T, for_ono, will do so with plessure, yroniplly, when the Speakor requires it, I only asi {hnt wyorybody ehall do so, I think this ‘whole mutter can bo gottled, if tho gentloman speaking, and avery other gentlemn, wil tuke his sont, Nr, Burnett—1 rise to o privileged question, ko Bpeaker—Tho Chair canuot xecoguizo anybody, until goutlemon take their seats, . Burnett—Then, lot oversbody take his seat, and 1ot ardor be onforeod, Thie Bpeaker—Gontiemen will take tholr seats, with- out distinction, Members gradunlly withdrew from the open ares fn frout of the Speaker's chalr, and resumel their uoaty. T supposo that no publishod roport can give any iden of thia acene, It was the last attempb in the Congross of tho United States to silence froo spoech by rufliauism. Thers wore twosides to this quostion now. 'The man who now stood to dofond freedom could not be siloncod by clamor. The scone is thus desoribed;by an eya- witness : o T thiuk it must haye boon yorth yoars of common lifeto sttnd in thia ball aw he did’on the memorshla accunfon Teferred to by bin colleague (3r, Wash- burne], after Linving repestedly cudurad ‘the inwults aud felt iho oppreusion exercised ngaiust those who Daltled for freedom and tho right of (roo spesch ; to stund hera, with the cousciousness of power, and sy, ho saldl to thoke who vainly attempted to allunce him, ¢ You shull hear me, I will spoak, 1 stand horg to eay what I iuve fo oy about thoe groat crime of tho notfon, Iwill not yleld the floor,” Those who maw the determined face, the compaat, erect form, and the upliftod_hand, motionless for fiye miuutes amid tiie turmoll of opposing volces, woll kuow tha anrnestness of tho daclaration aud the stern will tbat underlay it, "heso men who so bitterly assailed Mr. Love- jufi'm the Houso loft the halls of Congrees to tako port in the rebollion ; but still there were men loft who, although not willing to eeo the union of tho States broken up, wero atill excoed- ingly sonsitive upon the question of slavery, and’ with these men Mr. Lovejoy was often brought in earnest antagonism during the War, although thore wns ug ruftinnism romaining. On tho Gth and 20th of Jauuary, 1862, Mr. Lovo. Joy delivorad spoochos upon TINE GUNDUOT OF TRE WAR, in which ho said : Tlut, Mr, Bpeakor, to rotirn to that which I wanted cllofly to 83y, and that 48 thiu : I caro vory little about inyeaiigatiug 'thes ncidentnl fagte, Tl grcut trouble 4 that this nation bus failed, and s yot failiug, rightly 10 Intorprot (he provideucew of God,” Althougl a rofers cuco {0 uny higher law or_providence may Do receivod hern with & umilo and n jeor, yot the truthiu that God fe hulding thls nation, and refusing toallow ua o achiere any viclorics, becanse o are not Just ; because we ure not triig o {ho prineiples of justice’ and truth aod Bunan oquality. which wa procinimol fu the origiual structure of our Govornment, Wo hnva stood lookiug coldly aud_jueriugly on tho suffering slave, ns year after year, tustrum aftor lustrum, sud docado aftee ducude rolted by, Wo are yerlly giilly oncoruiuyf aur Lratlier, in that \vo have scon the auguleh of his touly and hinve ot had compuesion on hin, Webave dorlded Db wovws wo havo acen stripped pud spoiled, and lucvr= ntodyand wronged, and outraged, 4,000,000 hitman bo. Tge, 1unde 40 the lmage of God; wo Linve deridud tholr atiforiogs, aud now we liave’resclied & poiut which fliat fareusolng statesman, Juiforson, SaW yours sgu, Wo ara standing tn the frout, not miovely of rebets, It o ara stuning Lofore au inconved God—I profer bl glhaunrlpmrflurm to destgunto tho Bupromo lis- gt any one profers tho phraecology, 1 will say Wonave standiug fu the presonce of that Dlvine Nemusts tho lins woven the threads of rotribntion into the web of natloual 1o no Joss than into that of individual it ¥ ara put (o AR bucwise that divine power 1s agaln un, . Wo must repent, aud niust proclaiin Hborty to the envlaved of tho lud, Bir, it Jv sald that 1t is went of brains that provents our inilltary success, 1t {6 not the want of braius so pauck 8 44 66 tho want of Least,. Wo wont & squi lath