ington, by "Bully Brooks," of South Carolina, Burlingame was with one voice chosen to execrate the murderous deed, and speak for insulted Massachusetts. A finer philippic in indignation and arraignment under parliamentary law, can not be found in the language.

Burlingame, with towering indignation, said of Brooks' cowardly act, “I denounce it in the name of the sovereignty of Massachusetts, which was stricken down by the blow; I denounce it in the name of humanity; I denounce it in the name of civilization, which it outraged; I denounce it in the name of that fair play which even bullies and prize-fighters respect. What! Strike a man when he is pinioned-when he cannot respond to a blow! Call you that chivalry? In what code of honor did you get your authority for that?" It stung the assassin; and the reputed high blood, taken with the wounding of the pride of South Carolina, required a resort to the code duello. Burlingame received the challenge and accepted it, naming Canada by Niagara Falls, as the place, and the weapons rifles, and the range so near that the shots must be fatal, and on neutral soil with less fear of arrest. The coward did not accept; expelled from Congress, he died with the brand of personal infamy, and a disgrace to the chivalry of his state. What was the status of Burlingame? Praised for his matchless speech, feted for courage, even admired by moralists who were happy in the explosion of an idea that the North had only the blood of "craven agitators." It ended challenges for words in debate by the South, under their code.

Burlingame I met at the Chicago Convention on the nomination of Mr. Lincoln in 1860, both being delegates, and that was the scene of an ovation. Judge William D. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, late Nestor of the House of Representatives, had spoken from a stand for receiving the delegations in open air. Also, that great stump orator, Henry S. Lane, of Indiana, who began, "I am the next Governor of Indiana, and I see you are glad to see me, and the feeling is heartily mutual.”

I hinted by a whisper to the chairman that Burlingame, of Massachusetts, would stir up the boys.

"Bring him near and introduce him; my voice is all gone."

I need not say that the orator was loaded for that occasion. This was my introduction as reported:

"The nation has heard of an invitation made to one Brooks,

the cowardly assailant of Sumner, to cross the Canadian border; there would have been no farcical arrest; no burlesque of coffee and pistols, but rifles at short range. Where was your chivalry, declining before the high blood of a Puritan cavalier of Massachusetts ? He is here to speak."

How his voice did ring out; only drowned by cheers as he mace Gov. Banks his candidate the schooled mechanic, Speaker of Congress, the "iron man". That crowd would have nominated Burlingame before Banks or Lincoln. I dined with him in 1861 in Washington, and recall this: "I am a restless spirit and have an ambition to see the world and serve abroad." He was early made Minister to China by Mr. Lincoln, and in 1867 became the Ambassador of China to this country and to all the powers of Europe, a post which he held until his death in 1870. If it was a distinction to draw a larger salary than received by any American, there was a higher honor in diplomatic service for hundreds of millions of people whose gates have been barred against the English people for centuries. He had his faults and foibles, but what American was not happy for the fortunes of a gentleman of culture who lowered the plumes of southern chivalry, and won officially more than a President's power, and at his death a wreath of honor which the subjects of Kings had striven for in vain?

THEODORE PARKER.

While on the Radical list, I do not omit Theodore Parker, a by-word name, being by the popular say an infidel and a Garrisonite. To me he was logical in debate, yet heavy as contrasted with Phillips. He was a Harvard scholar-a theological debater and a living protest against the Unitarian Church which disowned him, but could not keep the curious boys from his people's church, where were the blendings of heresy and caricatures of doxy and conservatism, most shocking to philosophy. He was rather deep than clear to the masses, and the multitude of his volumes and his linguistic erudition made him the peer of scholars. His sermon on Immortality" eclipses all in freshness and vigor. For inciting the rescue of a detained fugitive, he had the honor of an indictment by jury, yet not a burlesque trial. He was a rare scholar, greatly missed by his intimate friends, who lamented the cool,

brave spirit holding forth to crowds in Music Hall, until a fatal disease drove him to Florence, where he died. He was vigorous and original in thought, inciting the schools and the calmer speech of Boston in praise for the gift of a library of 13,000 volumes. This act softened the enmity against the dead patriot and reformer.

CHAPTER VI.

"Go West, Young Man, Go West"-Out-door Speaking in New York-Failure of Voice-Horace Greeley's Advice - Copy of Greeley's Letter-Proposed Colony - Turned from Missouri by Slavery― Protégé of Henry Farnam - Railway Magnate— Fortunate Location of the City of Grinnell.

INTEREST attaches to those incipient public acts which have brought beneficent results. The story of the Genesis of Grinnell has been told in consecutive letters to the children. Their study will be of value to living cotemporaries, possibly stimulating co-operation in efforts for organized emigration.

Conspicuous failures in attempts at organized emigration have been many, but in common association with sordid grasping and the strife of ambitious leaders, which should not detract from the policy in the founding of settlements like that described in this simple narrative. There was Marietta in Ohio, founded in patriotic protest against slavery, from which Marietta College sprang. Oberlin, Ohio, came to be through the agencies of capitalists and devoted men, in a land-purchase and college, the result of labors of pioneers gone to their reward, whom later generations can never forget. Their fortitude, and consecration to principle and a great educational scheme, require no monument for perpetuation. Galesburg, Illinois, had a land company investing in rich soil, and a college scheme, the product of capital, experience and devotion. The city of Greeley, Colorado, can be cited with a charmed history. Enriched by water supply, with rare attractions of climate, it had oneness of moral sentiment, with union in labor, while under the ban of intolerance and ridicule. These cities had the details of action, and corporate powers, with names now noted in philanthropic, wise purpose. What there was in the founding of Grinnell was an unwritten purpose under the hat of one man, waiting on opportunity. Formal unity in action there was none. The whirl of the horses to the carriage, and striking alone for the land

office while his comrades debated localities, was an assumption, and the decisive act which led to what follows of incident or story. It is a fresh version of sacrifices and successes, related to the episodes and romance of thirty-six years ago, and much like the devotion of the founders of Denmark Academy, and the heroic personal and pecuniary sacrifices of our brothers of Tabor College on the west, worthy to be written in letters of gold. Here are the

letters:

My Dear Children:

With pleasure, and I trust with profit to the great cause of the Master, I was the pastor of the Union Congregational Church of the city of New York for three years. Devoted and noble as were the people, with large plant for church extension and removal, I was to leave them. It came about in this way, under God's providence. Speaking intemperately in the open air at the ship-yards in New York, in 1852-3, was indirectly the occasion of my expatriation to the West.

William H. Webb, the great ship-builder on the East River, furnished timber for comfortable seats occupied by non-church goers, and workmen coming out with their families, where there was good singing, order and spirit, which lent to the service at least the charm of novelty.

Among those interested in the ragged schools and out-door talk of the laymen, there were Hon. William E. Dodge, the eminent Christian philanthropist; also, ex-attorney general of the United States, Benjamin F. Bntler. He was a specimen of a courtly "elect Democrat ", whose Sandy Hill "stated preaching" correspondence while of the Van Buren regency of an early day, was the occasion of irreverent talk. William Allen Butler, author and satirical poet in "Miss Flora Mc Flimsey," is a son who perpetuates the name of a father not less distinguished as a Christian gentleman than a lawyer.

The following letter furnishes an historic and ludicrous incident of the times, related to a distinguished character:

The boy's school in my charge on Sixth street is crowded. It is composed of strolling, poorly-clad orphans, and venders of newspapers, a smart but rough set. They demand a varied entertainment, and I secured the promise of an address from the great lawyer and politician, Benjamin F. Butler, once attorney-general of the United States under Gen. Jackson. I had the promise of quiet and correct deportment in his honor. Mr. Butler, a pleasant, venerable gentleman, was presented, to be heartily cheered. He asked, "Boys, what shall I speak about?" Anything!" "How long?" "Twenty minutes, thirty if awful good," shouted one. "Call it twenty," said Mr. Butler, "and that is a Sunday trade, but you must keep quiet." "And I will time you, boss," said a leader, upon which there was a show of watches. This seemed to occasion a little nervousness on the part of the speaker. A simple and elegant address was made, but the application was not reached when the shout went, "Time's up! Time's up!" "But I have a concluding story for you." "No, no! A bargain is a bargain if it is Sunday." I came to the rescue, saying that this venerable gentleman was not used to such rudeness. The reply was, "We keep our contract; time's out. No stories." Mr. Butler arose, a