| Show IX IN 31 THE thu following well deserved tribute to uta hys deceased friend gen thomas L kane is taken from the columns of the philadelphia american general thomas L kane brother to dr kane the arctic explorer who has just died in philadelphia at the age of sixty was a man much out of the ordinary and so eo nearly a realization of the chevalier cher chec aljer alier sans tt sans re as sis to deserve not merely the meagre regard of this paragraph b but u t a full and just biography ile he haa bad early e enthusiasms for bettering the condition of mankind and with a singular earnestne earnestness ks and freshness of spirit he held fast to them to the end at sixteen he be went vent to england where he would have inherited a consider able estate had he been willing to become a british subject but this he refused to do and renouncing the tho ho inheritance he came home to organize a society of young reformers in politics and philanthropy out 0 of f this he emerged because in spite of faini family ly and social ties in the opposite direction he was drawn to the eide elde of antislavery anti I 1 lavery slavery and when in 1850 the slave siave law was en act edhe resigned resign edtha his position commissioner coan missioner rather than be an instrument for its execution in the following year it was that hanway and the other par ties charged with treason in the fuggiti fugitive v slave riot not at christiana were tried before lm his father judge kane in the united states 8 district court and it was he the son who aided in their defence and provided them a handsome thanks thanksgiving ving day dinner while they were in custody cu custody during ahe trial later he went to salt lake lako city to endeavor to negotiate an understanding between the mormons cormons and the president general harneys hanneys Har lra meys forces were marching thither and he always took an active and earnest pan in behag of the indians when the rebellion broke out he was a among 0 the first of the union volunteers and he led with magnify cen cent courage and spirit that remarkable re regiment ent of the pennsylvania reserves us usually u y as the Buck tails 11 resigning gning at t last with wounds that disked disabled h him im for sor life |
