From the Journal Of the Times.


BENJAMIN LUNDY.
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The hitory of this individual will fur
nish theme for the admiration and graft
tude of posterity. If We survive him, he
shall not lack a biographer He has done.
and is doing, more for his country than
a host ofeyery day patriots. There is not
another man in the twenty-four states, who
would endure his voluntary privations and
sacrifices in the cause of philanthropy, as
exhibited for the last half dozen years. Hc
is one of those rare spirits who rise up in
the lapse of many centuries, to adorn and
elevate mankind. We have never met
with more extraordinary being nor one,
who succeeded SO we'll i'll grating his feel
lngs uDon our own.


If WiIberforce deserves the accIama-
tions Of the British people for first advoca
ting the suppression of the slave trade in
the colonies, Lundy should reap greater
harvest of applause from his countrymen
The former never hazarded his life never
lost an hours repose, never suffered sim
gle hardship, never missed a dinner, by
err thing -hess=said az did to .accomnlisa.
his NOBLE object. 4e presevered, II Is
true, TIL he was victorious; but the strug
Gle was short, and the deprivation nothing.
Tie latter has endured hunger & thirst,
and cold-slept on the damp earth-ex-
pended his own resources-repeatedlyI Iisk-
ed his lfe-and has toiled for years in
the great cause of emancipation.


We are ell partially acquainted with
some of the events of his life, and we think
it ought to be known. 1t is time that JUS
tice should minge with praise, and the
trumpet Of fame stir up the emulation of
the good and wise.


Benjamin Lundy is member of the
Society of Friends. He was born in Sus-
sex county, New Jersey, about the year
So, and when youth repaired 10 the
state of Ohio. After serving an appren-
tireship to saddler, he esta blished him
self in business in the town Of wheeling
BY economy and industry, he accumula-
ted in few years snug property, but af-
forwards met with some reverses offortunc
Wheeling was then great thorough
fare Of slavery. The daily spectacle Of
a drove of negroes, manacled like wild
beasts, bareheaded, barefooted, and half
clad, alike in the severity Of winter and
the intensity of summer, and goaded for
ward 10 their more southern destination
by monsters in human shape, melted the
heart and reused the Indignation of the
tender Lundy. 1t haunted him in his
dreams at night; it followed him in his
daily ayocations I" the iron entered his
soul" He was conscious that something
should be done to break the fetiers Of des-
potism-but what could an Insignificant
ill.taught individual, like himself achieve {!
He was comparatively unknown his edu-