| Show dwon Lovo Love joya joys L lovejoy always alwang suggested to mo me A roundhead of tile days of 0 cromwell he was thoroughly in earnest oar noat almost it not quite fanatical in ia his hia poli lioi i ills ilia courage was unflinching anil and lio would woul 1 have died for ile ho and halil is 11 blunt rarely caru led an 1 on oil the slavery question fi antion it ni a naoumi it would bo difficult to name WARn inn Rii tt 11 T lu in r F uary WI 1859 ut tit the capitol in fit wh 1 ington iu toil bleaking C ol of tile aili which lol to this him trial for harboring A fugitive ohve bl ve there li IA ono one of ilia boldest aud atu 1 nuat Inird lat of doia lovejoy tu to bj found in ili sit nil tire tin literature of null anti slavery lla he JIMI hul 1 been aud rep roil she on oll ilia hia I 1 llor floor of Jou grias aud anti ili i buu no who in ill tiding hiding slaves to toodie eacia ouie lie had violated viol alid tile 11 0 bawls and constitution of itis ilia country Us ile had bou dono a a Bt oular threatened by tire liu leri und they atol 0 1 to lo intimidate and silence inui hiril alloy llroy little knew tire nun man and ilia reply hi louried thenia und extorted oi tile tho adm ration of friend and I 1 fol foe ile iio closed one of the most radical r mil and impassioned atilt bin bill very speeches over dalide ia congress by y unflinchingly declaring 11 I 1 tic 10 assist fagi fugitive tive slaves proclaim it then upon ilia write it on divory loaf that hut in tha ilia forest wake muku yi it blua blaze fr from 0 rn the sun bun ut at high noon anti shine eli me forth in the milder ra dianco ol of every stay that ilia firma mout of god lt lot it echo through nil all tho of heaven anti au 1 bellow along nil all the deop gorges of liell bell where clave catchers oitt chera will bo be very likely to hear it 0 awon we n lovejoy lives layos at princeton illi nois quarters of a u mile artl of ilia village vill aea und ba 1 0 aide ui IB every fugitive fuRi tiyo that omon comes to LIB his door and aski it than invisible demon of slavery nl tory loit doat thou thoa think my humble throop uld alil slid forbid MO me to give giva broad to the hungry and shelter to 1 l 1 bilyou bail you thanamae of dodl I 1 haard lovejoy declare that after the death of his brother he wont went to tho the graveyard at alton unil und kneeling upon alia bod which covered tor ercil tho ol 01 I 1 that brother he ha alere before god sways eternal wat war and vengeance vong canco upon slavery ile he kept his oath ile was wab it man ol of powerful physique intense into uBi feeling fc clini und and great magnetism as M a op speaker eaker and liu lie now wont forth like ruler tile hermit with it u heart of lira nuil and A tongue of lightning preaching his hia crusade against slavery lu tho ilia log bobhol ia tho the niao mooting honena and places placed of worship and in tho open air lie he reached find lea tit timrod red against slavery elavery with ith a and passionate allergy which carried tho the people with him file martyrdom of his brother was a excuse for his is violence anti an I 1 the ho name of if lovejoy Lovo joy tho the martyr like tho came 4 0 f rob hob lloy or of douglas in scotch hootch history ln atory became a namo mt to conjure conduro con juro with yome honie idea of ilia his dramatic dra matio power tuny may bo be from a sermon preached at princeton in january 1812 1842 on the death of his br brother ther A after f ter describing his murder by a cruel mob macaure he would not surrender tho the fro freedom odow of the tha press presa he ha declared solemnly that for himself come coma lift ilia or death I 1 will devote the residue of my iny life to tho the anti Bl slavery avery cause the and their zero said he 11 ll havo murdered my brother and it another huether victim in ia needed I 1 am ready ilia aged and widowed mother was waa present in in ilia iho church pausing aud and turning to her he said bind Moth mother eryou you have given ono one son BOB your year older elder to lib erty arty aro are you yon willing to give giva another 2 and tho the heroia mother replied you yes my son eon you cannot dio die lu in it hotter better causal cause 11 ue he lived to see slavery die amid tho the alamea of 0 war which itself hid had klu kindled 1 I N arnold before tho the ill bar association |
