Deseret Evening News | 1910-09-17 | Page 18 | Quaker Joe

r S n QUAKER JOE I i r ri V to WHITTED of or Topeka re i K In city It Journ Journal t an en in int ini I t rr Ung story tor of or the anent ira ra o r i i Speaker Cannon Uncle Joo Juo la ii at ot I Quaker stock said ald d and al AI the Quakers do nt not brico tn In war m mt mst t ft of 1 th them m hate hav ha fighting bl v d dIn In their veins seine I know kno a little story scary h on nn that about the Cannons annan It hlll before I was born but Is le a II story ator down dawn My 1 grand grandfather nd father and Dr Cannon father of ot Cannon worn ero member of or a n l ittle l l of or Quakers that d In Park ark county Indiana along about 1828 1823 mm Ing there from rom North Korth Carolina They founded the tho little litho town of or Bloom ln ta ton Cannon WuI waa aa born lx rD th c my m parent were fOro born torn there thero and I was alto also born there hence I know tho the atory etory etor long Along In the LOa 10 M by the tho death of or ofa ofa a 1 former member of ot tho society In the Iho south louth the inherited a 35 In lit money and negroes Quakers did dill not belleva In slavery And what to ilo do with wit h the tha RII a n problem It was IUS finally decided to free freo them and ui use Ulft the 1000 In purchasing for them howo la to Indiana Dr cannon was waa selected elf ted to K w tJ ba t Alabama where they were wre and ond bring them Tho The of or Park county count were veto very or Indignant over having that many man located among them and were ot lit the tho landing landing when wilen the thc boat arrived nUY notified Dr Pr Annon that thul a ho hI would nut not l e per permitted mitt 4 to t land them The old doctor and h he heI Or determined man vin woe it a very I mined I OIl n R musket and nI gave VO the negro Instructions to march horo Tho The doc dec doctor dector 10 tor and the negroes were permitted tu to t toland I land nn Uie plans plane pl arced agreed reed tikes uvo IK bt II the I 1 society w u ere ero carried out Indiana had soma nom very ver stringent laws at that time against freedmen one that any Rny p person r lIon on giving employment to 10 a II freedman should file tile filea a 1 bond with the th county Insuring them 1 the treed freed freedman man employed ever fOyer becoming A n county count charge charRe Dr Can Cannon non nun was waa very hitter bitter t such ouch laws and openly o violated them At lout last louthe he bo woe wan arrested tried trl d convicted and fined nned very vel heavily bel 1 about aboul an ac t I remember was AVS 11 a n crY very lUg large community at al t um lIum eum of or mono money In that that time and und the mend society to pay It Dr Cannon would not pp II and hll them to do BO an however sold nold at woe 11 entire property i axle lalo to pay tho the fine and cost corl co t tAs As Aa the tho little old speaker recently hou house houRa e of ot rii i he them to do dB resembled led 11 1 ya old Id Q Iy have doctor as III he Mood l court h Court to lo do d I nt at worst