Show hONORING A LRTYIL To Ihe IMItor On lien Sth ot Ihls monlh nn event occurred Ihnt must be of Interest to old mn and women yet living In Utah 11 t was the dedication cOo monument al Alton Illinois to the memory of IIIJal Lovejuy In 1812 he located In St LoaN om nn evangelist and the publisher nnd editor of the SI Louis Observer lie las a nallvc of Maine and a thorough Yank lie near an aoed haler of slavery In the slave trade of Mis ourl he tarled open nmcirfarearhont negro slav cry nnd nt once drew upon himself the then rapldlj growing hatred of tho peoi In against the aboil llonlsts whose headquarters were in Huston That fact made the Mlssour lana look upon enemy person a ico I cam from the eastern states ns an aboil tlonlsl Hence when the Mormon began to settle In Missouri and to In Ireiduco eastern thrift they were sup iwscd to be abolltonisls coming In to aoqulre properly and eiciclse polillca Iower aglnst Iavery I II1ve no doubt that It was conception of how ho-w omere and not Ihlr rllglon that aroused the antagonism eif thu MIourlan agalnt the tormon This thought Is Rlrenglhene1 hy the foot that lice ilght allalnRt the lormon near mnlpulald Iy 1I1I1al Iudera It Is In consideration of this colnel den < e belueen the advent of Loveju mil Die Mormons In Missouri that I think the eledlciilloii of a monument to i Ibo former In tho lown where he wa nurdered by a proslaverl mob malt In of Interest to many people white lalreel like mjwlt I now living I In tOuch i will II therefore give some f the scar lIeulur ledlng III to Lanrjoyrieatii In the spring of 134 a runaway tmegronlanOcaa I located in HI Louis bl U K eimcws In nn attempt unread the negro n struggle for liberty occurred that can be understood only by one aho haM run nway rrom hondo ncr The go htlinet one oMils a gallants A mob broke open tho Jill In which he was held earned lIce slave out of thu city chained him tu a Iree and liurne him The matter was carried car-ried before a griiml Jury hlch was Instructed b > the Jaded that It wan a case that tranccnds Jour Jurisdiction It Is beyond the reach ot human law teat not In the matter Lovojoy con r t mlle1 lb enbargeoftice heccice A moii delroye1 leN prlllllnt ciilee hiO iaccrmi aerus lien icitcelShicicI l river to Alton Illinois and attempted to start his paper hut his presi was broken mil thrown Into the river There Is I no elderre llmt the Alton mob was the Xt Louis nil > It lie longed lo Illinois and Ihis fact should he rum inhered In Ihe later eirperli < e if the Mccc lOon ill Nuuvoo Tin fact Is I that while Missouri was populated wllh a pot pnurrl population of toUred Jrcnch and Indian wllh lb enegric slaves thrum ll to glte the whites nil nlohIt fcc thlr letter Igmnnce 1111 I dent Vlbnlnslppl bolder of Illnols WIIB the then Iminu Thul ot ealwalt fc cv lii oaidcerun t Thy cterothcemctocei eceiulanofevnry thing hllmall one1 hone 7cc t III In 11IIor pee cr 111 eacmer nlaea ef advell urr alisriinellnr d btori II ping mur ci men and whit not made Halt Lake < mid rerdezVous Bud IHRIIII the light lIgIII the good works of the Mormon Mor-mon cro Bllt thet < were lionel Men In Alloll nine This wen tintirraieil with b ivi ojs si Incerll They patch the Inrc I A nw oUlfll vus proeuied ten I et III hUI Ins jMlroyil by the hruc I1rv 1cm I HIIII nllnh me c cccl t clOd IC I i hnI I tI tI nmrenc Omhlci te Ci t r It nrntmmrocn bet thrown Inlo the rlvor Thf good 1Old railed n onventlon 10 r etlc Inle onllnv ft meeting was brokn III icy n mob Two wel lalcr the cononllon mo ecret lyonmi 0 gnnlzcol a eOrlt aa rotc emplated It pledged Itself by the belle of Almlghtj nod to reestablish Iovejoy hoper another oUlllt WOR onl tom It IIIcol on the morning or Novemh 1 1S37 lie orrlm was an nounc1 Icy I ihe m1J by horn Iho moh collected to tnl e It from the nrehouse The mob gathered and demandI the goods Thy were reo ruell The nttempted to burn the nrehouse and Us dofenden Thrum cry wan shoot tverj damned nboll onlflt ns he iLnes Lovijoy wns In he building It wan llred He and twu olhpr went out prepllmnhl to Ienaon whit the boil Lovejoy receive a five hul1oto three eif them through hli hrat iiiui fell lynch Nol content a Ill Killing the proprietor and editor or the abolition paper thy rushed intel In-tel Ihe burning hulMlng carried out tide Pier broke It ana threw the frog ents Into the river IIIJnh Ixivejoy wn the flint and gmeoientceunflr 10 hico mood onoll tceilonui guarllnle or freedom or thouhl epoech noel pre In the Unll eol 8tale it Is filling heat today the cllilons Allon honor icir memory It was Lovejo tnlc largely th1 In eidlnrd LowIIs granolt poem from whleh I quat tram moemnryeocae IInel nlhl foreer on time laffolel Wrong rorever on the throne Yet behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the thaelov Keeping watch hove his own For In front the cross stands red And the cra < kllng rngol burn But the hoollng moh or elerdy In silent iTo iVmre teem i-To glean up the scatter rrgments Into history golden IIrn i Ioejoy deserved this monument and Allon honore horelr In ruining II 10 ide His Innrlyrdom wa ihe 001 that produc the ChlI ever When new of his murder died liosto the abolitionists nt once mowol for n l1Ia ss meeting They nllmpltd to s e cure raneull Hall he I cradle or IIhorl but the mnoc rrued them Dr Channing aict reread an appal tu tic e clllzn which neenrect Ihe old hull On the huh or December 1837 uneull Hall wa filled 10 oernowlng Dr Channlni made nn Impreslve Ich nd Ienled n oerleo IIr roo lullun Then tha allornygonenl or Iaa < huell rOle and In a bllter voch 11lare1 thai Iovejoy hd cited on the fool IlIpth and compare1 his mur err with the mn who threw the ten overboarol In lioeto In that meellng w a young man who wa tho pride at Iioeioae I monet nrirtonrotle rller funclliee lie eent or srre only 1 When the altorneygenera i st clown hp crowd < < 1 hi way 10 Ike plattorm lie had neer been hear1 In pUbll lie elH not know his power hut hit soul was on fire As he mounted the ostrum hostile protestattrn began In the crowd lie held his place with hat same calm beautiful dignified manner that marked all his after life and secured a hearing Franc his peech I quote nhon I heard the gentleman lay d erers of Alton Klde by side with Otis don prlnclleo nvhleh place the lOur and II onmor k with Qulncyand Adams I thought thoe pictured llpa fpolntlng to the port rail or theene men on the wall would have broken Into voice tc rbuk the rmieuo t Amechoanthe Innderer of Ihe dead That nlkht made Wendell Phillips the hlef of the Abollllnnlsts and the St norg who Iw the dragon or nero lavery In the Unlltd States From that light until Abraham Lincoln signed he Pro < iamallon or Imanclpallon Wend1l Phillip wn lice yoler or God teem lustK among the poople and cohen we ere whollY free we will erevt a monumnt 10 his memory grand han any that has yet been rals d to man in North America because Wen dell rhllllps was the ran < 1ot man tho United btates has yet produced CHAIILKS LLLIB 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