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A Brave Philanthropist.To the Editor of the Western Christian Advocate :On this centennial year of Ohio and the Ohio Valley, it is becoming to recount the brave deeds and reverently mention the names of departed heroes, whose lives are of the most precious records of the State and surrounding oountry.John Van Sandt, a native and resident of Kentucky, and a member of the Methodist Church, impressed with the wickedness of slavery and with his duty towards it, came to Ohio about half a century ago, and made his home on a farm about two miles above Lockland. There he opened a part way house for the northward-bound refugee on the “ Underground Railroad. He welcomed the comiDg, but more especially did he speed the parting, guest, in his covered wagon for a night’s long journey toward the nearest land of liberty and safety for the colored race. His station, a farm-house on a hill overlooking a beautiful view of Mill Creek Valley, deserved the name given it in honor of one of freedom’s sacred poets, “ Mount Pierpont.”In such charities as his, it was not safe to let the left hand know what the right hand did, and unsaid and unwritten in the world’s ways are the numberless acts of kindness in sheltering feeding, clothing, doctoring, nursing, protecting, and carrying forward the distressed fugitives.But he suffered the hardest persecution as an Abolitionist, “slave-stealer,” etc. The charge of kidnaping” was made and proved against him in the Church and in the courts, and in the 8upreme Court, to which his case was appealed—8almon P.Cbase and W. H. Seward gratuitously rendering to him services as counsel. The decisions of the lower courts were confirmed, and he was sentenced to pay penalties and damages until his last dollar was gone.
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Western Christian Advocate
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Wed, Mar 14, 1888
Page 11
Full Page
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