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Show Just History .. By Albert F. Philips . Away baefcMn 1140 that- waa a Ubaral party In the nation. It bad a candidate for tha preeldeacr In the peraon at Janee OiUlaple Blr-ney. Blr-ney. B waa a Boutheroer, by birth a native of Kentucky and aa abollahlnlat. Hla follow.re In hla candidacy for the prealdency gave hint TOW Totea. In 1M4 they aain ran him for prealdent and thla time hla rote laoreaa ta tl.IU. WtM, he attained manhood ha went from hla native town to Himtevllle, Ala.. encased In the practie. ot tha law and became th. . moat auceeeeful practitioner in northern Alaaeina-He Alaaeina-He waa a elare owner, bat he did not believe in It. talked aaalnat it and aided In the work of the under around railroad, and In 111 re turned to hla Kentucky home aad freed hie alaree. He ortanlaed the Kentucky Anttelavery aaaootatloa and In" llli he removed to Cincinnati, Cincin-nati, O and laaued the flrat number num-ber of The FallanthropleV which waa la the Interact of the ant I -la very party. Ha waa free and frank in hla newepaper, but na did not mince word, in the ealllna of a apade a.epade. Hla own life waa threatened a number of tlmea On July 1. 1IJ. today beln, the annlveraary, eeven month, after he had be.ua th. publication of The Phtiaathroptet, hla oMloa waa atormed by a mob and the eatab-ll.hm.nt eatab-ll.hm.nt deetroyed. Nothina daunted, daunt-ed, he aeon had another plant and thla, like Ite predeceeeor, waa later destroyed, but he continued . the fiht for the freedom of the black men. He waa bitter In hla oppoal-tloa oppoal-tloa ta eeceeeloa. Tha later yeare of hla Ufa waa apent In Bay City, Mich, and at Eaclerwood, N. J, where he died September It. lMi. but a few month, befor. th. la aulnf of th. .mancipation proclamation procla-mation of Frealdent Abranam Lincoln. Lin-coln. v 1 In connection with Blrn.v-. araat ftcbt to fre. the black man and abollah alavary It might be remarked remark-ed that tha Southern etatea were not the only atetee In which alavary .slated. There were alavea In Utah territory and In lt.J tbe terrltoliaj leanalatura enaemd leclatatloa an the aubject and the act wa. prefaced pre-faced with a lone; preamble to coa-arees. coa-arees. From time Immemorial the practia. of - parchaaina; In 41. a women and children of the Utah tribe af Indiana by Mexican trad-era trad-era waa earrtod oa and tndul.d la by thoeo reepective people until the Indiana considered It allowable traffic, and frequently offered their prteonera or children tor aale; It waa a common practice among the Indiana to (amble away thdlr awn women and children aad the alaree thus obtained were Inhumanely trated and they' were frequently killed unleu they ear. xehana--4 for trade. Thle moon la tak.B from the preamble and art for the relief of Indian ai.v.a which wan paa-ed by th. territorial auemlby of Utah and approved March T. ltit. The act provuled that "whenever any white pereoa within any or. anil. an-il. 4 county of tha termory of L't.h aha-l hav. an ladwa prisoner |