Show A TRIUMPH FOR FREE SPEECH lloro alore than halt half a century ago a man in illinois who drove an incisive pen who on the was wag one of 0 the most impetuous and incisive of 0 speak erg horrified at the institution 0 of slavery by tongue and pen began to insist that this nation should rive give it up he I 1 lived ived in a northern state but the original settlers of 0 that state were many 0 of them from the south they had been brought up side bide by side elde with the institution ot of slavery and while they believed some features of it were bad they bell believed eved the general ecar ral average was the best that could be had anti and as day by day tile the of this man was waa circulated among them they grew more and more incensed and finally in a moment ot of frenay they tore down the mans printing office and killed the editor por for a long time ills his grave was unmarked atter after a while however a plain slab was put above it and now after the institution of slavery has ban been dead for a generation gene ration after mens passions have cooled and the most bitter is willing to admit that what has been had to be a movement Is put on toot foot to erect a glorified monument over the grave of 0 that man whose martyrdom was but the shifting of one of the scenes in the preparation of the stage lor for that great four our years tragedy lv which aich had h a d to b be fought out in order to e eradicate forever from our lind land the system of bondage which bilitch had been established and till all that makes us think that ehni in the most exciting moments men melt should try to keep their charities warin the descendants ot of tile the men who v be killed elijah lovejoy will subscribe s to build a monument above him because they realize now that there was a principle involved which had made such a hold upon his heart that it was absolutely necessary for him to be an cangel to hla his fellow countrymen the fathers hated him the chil drin dlin build to him a monument and I 1 that la in good for or those who still are on earth but vi what hat does it matter for him NO hn built his big own ovin monument lie ile U wrote to te his 1113 name with till that glorified list hat of men melt and afraid women that list hat of those who believed belf eved in the right so much has as they saw the die right that they were willing milling to die 00 to establish it that was all the ho monument that lie personally ever ra needed ceded the la Is good for or the met men who live and who are yet to live will see it tor for in ili contemplating it they can that witch when he who ha sleeps beneath it tiled died he died amid tile the scorn and under tho the cruel heads or of the lie hale bate of those there ground him but that tile the soul SOUI within him staining on has at last eatn tallied so that men looking back upon it can see sec that lie he was waa true and earnest and a belter man than those ila ho slew him and by that thai lesson they may learn that when some other inspired min man erica out alit to them and t ti thi th tit ni of a right that must ile be will ill hac the pall to listen n r lit ill least leant will davs the salle of jul jui ties baroni enough to gle sl uch such men n what hat they CIR claim an for themselves the taj right to express their I 1 dean fairly and ni without resti adint |