Salt Lake Herald | 1895-03-11 | Page 3 | A Singer of Old Days

A SINGER OP OLD DAYS From the Washington Post One of the most remarkable incidents inci-dents of the afternoon was the appearance ap-pearance of Professor John Hutching son the iast member of the great antebellum I ante-bellum party of abolition agitators a venerable man of almost fourscore years bent with age and his long white hair sweeping his shoulders while his longer snowwhite beard fell far down his breast He was the sweet singer of the abolition cause the one who had done almost as much with music as Garrison and Summer had with eloQuence and he came as the sole remaining member of the old guard to pay his last tribute to Ills fellow worker In spite of his great age his voice was clear and his utterance distinct Beginning slowly at first he spoke of his labor with Douglass recalling the scenes of the New York riots when Douglass and Ward two liberated slaves had faced the mob with other white abolitionists He recalled other scenes and incidents of the dead mans life in his fight against slaVery and his final triumph and finally raising his voice he half gang half chanted 1 requiem ode tothe dead wild aolemn anthem with the rhythmic refrain Lay him low layTiIm low Under the grasses or under the snow What cares he He cannot know Lay him low lay him low