The morning sun shines from the east, And spreads its glories to the west; All nations with its beams are blest, Where'er the radiant light appears. So science spreads her lucid ray O'er lands which long in darkness lay; She visits fair Columbia, And sets her sons among the stars. Fair freedom her attendant waits, To bless the portals of her gates, To crown the young and rising states With laurels of immortal day. The British yoke, the Gallic chain, Was urged upon our necks in vain, All haughty tyrants we disdain, And shout, Long live America! -Ode to Science
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > "Such Underground activities were kept secret for years, but in > January, 1860, all Fairfield was suddenly awakened to the realization > that slavery had a long arm ready to grab victims even there. > > On the last Sunday morning that month, two young white men passed > through going south. They had with them two Negro girls, about 11 and > 14 years old. They were soon followed by a young man named Allen, at > whose home they had stopped for breakfast. The more he had thought > about them, the more he suspected that the men were carrying off the > children as slaves. > > In Fairfield Allen secured warrants for their arrest, and they were > pursued, arrested at Iowaville, and brought back. One was put in jail > and one released on a bond signed by Colonel James Thompson, Samuel > Jacobs, and William H. Hamilton, all highly respect citizens, but all > pro-slavery democrats. The preliminary hearing was hardly over when the > sheriff of Jefferson County appeared and took the men into custody on > the charge of kidnapping. They were taken to Iowa City for trial, but > they had brought the issue of slavery sharply before the people of > Fairfield. Sadly, opinion on it was bitterly divided." > > > > Quoted from > A Fair Field, by Susan Fulton Welty, 1976, page 107 >
