Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1913 — Adorning a Tale. [ARTICLE]

Adorning a Tale.

In the “Autobiography" of Albeit Pell, that fine old English gentleman whose whole life was devoted to the reform of the English pooriaws and to the genes?} rtftinir and taiprev* meat of th? Wffltfon. mochi, sochf and potttfoai, of the English agifeub torsi laborer, it is related that one of the first well-known men whom he met as a small boy was Wilberforce, who used to stay with his father, Sir Albert Pell, tn the country. When one of Pell's friends was an infant in arms, his nurse was wept by an election mob to the very foot of the York hustings at a famous contest for the county in which Wlß'erforce was one of the principal actors. With all the earnestness and vigor which distinguished him he was pressing his beneftcient views on the abolition of slavery. Carried away by the depths of Ms convictions and enthusiastic inspiration, he reached over the balcony, and snatching the baby from the arms of its astonished nurse, held It up over his head in the face of the e*claiming: “See this and hear my peophecyi Before this chDd dies there will not be a white man in the world owning a slave.” My friend, adds Mr. PeH, survived the Civil War In the United States, and virtually Wilberforce's propbocy was fulfilled. ,