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0 pealed unpopular case Clarence, Darrow apand the decision went against him, it was never unanimous. One vote always favored the unpopular appeal. Darrow beamed and said, "There is always one man." Freedom what it is because there is always one man, one man who says, "This far and no further." Mr. Henry Blow was such a man. If you were in St.

Louis, Missouri, in the summer of 1857 chances are that you went to Barnum's Hotel to see the porter who worked there, the fellow that caused all that commotion. He wasn't hard to find. There he was sitting under one of Barnum's imported palm trees, smiling and laughing, with a group of men around him. After you talked to this porter a while, you understood he didn't know much of what had transpired about him. All the legal phrasing was so much candy to him.

He was much more interested in his notoriety than in the history he had made. This porter had been a slave and he had sued to regain his freedom. The United States, Supreme Court had ruled case. The porter's name was Dred Scott and the Court had ruled that he was still a slave. We immigrant boys on the East Side of New York thought we knew all about Dred Scott.

The Dred Scott Decision had voided the Missouri Compromise. But truthfully we weren't sure what the Missouri Compromise had been and Dred Scott, well, he was probably a fugitive slave. We didn't think of him as flesh and blood, or even who wanted his freedom. manly two people to my knowledge ever did think of Dred Scott as a piece of humanity instead of an abstract fact of history. ONE Holbrook these whose was Stewart book, "Lost Men of American History," offers a biography of Dred Scott.

The other man was Dred Scott's master, Henry Blow. Dred Scott was the luckiest of all slaves. His master was an abolitionist. Henry Blow was a young man, but already a multimillionaire. He was one of the pillars of the St.

Louis community, a philanthropist and a public-spirited man. But he had incurred criticism from his neighbors because he was doing everything in his power to condemn slavery, limit it, and keep it out of the new territories. Blow himself did not own slaves. Did not own slaves until one day one of his father's old slaves sought his help. It was Dred Scott, born on Captain Peter's Virginia plantation in 1795.

Captain Peter was a Vir- In America' Harry Golden a cd ginia aristocrat who had willed Dred Scott to his daughter. Captain Peter's daughter found Dred a nuisance, so she sold him to an Army surgeon named Emerson. Emerson took Dred with him to encampments in Illinois and Wisconsin, he even bought him a wife named Harriet, but for some reason he abandoned Scott when he came back to St. Louis. But Emerson was still Scott's legal master and when Emerson Scott was assigned to his widow.

Mrs. Emerson used to hire this slave out for wages, but it was rare that Dred Scott earned his keep. Scott, it is said, was shiftless, lazy and unreliable. There was no reason for him to be otherwise. A slave he had to; and attenthe myth the plantation sire has fostered about the kindness the master showed the slaves, the lash alone kept the slaves in line.

SOON no without means of employment support, Scott appealed to Captain Peter's son for help. Henry Blow sensed his chance to strike at slavery. He financed Scott's appeal for freedom through the Missouri Courts. Scott's argument was that any slave who lived in a free State was automatically free: no slave State could re-enslave him. Though Scott never appeared in court, these issues made him famous.

Begun in 1845, the suit took seven years until the Missouri Courts ruled in 1852 that Scott's argument was neither good logic nor good law. The case of Scott, a Man of Color vs. Emerson, was filed away. But not for long. Henry Blow financed an appeal that went to the Supreme Court of the United States.

It took the Supreme Court until 1857 to make its ruling. This was the decision which ruled the Missouri Compromise enacted by Congress in 1820 was null and void. Congress had no power or right to exclude slavery from any new territory or State. By a five-tofour decision, the Supreme Court ruled Scott was still a slave. If Henry Blow was disappointed by the Decision, he stop fighting.

He wanted Scott freed, so he bought him and Harriet and freed them. Of everyone involved in the case-Blow, the abolitionists, and the courts, Scott came off the happiest. His last years were in fame and when he died, Henry Blow paid his funeral expenses. Henry Blow was that one man who is always there. He saw the political issue of slavery but never forgot either that it was played out in human terms.

Copyright 1959, by Harry Golden. Obituary EDWARD LAWRIE MIFFLIN, president of the two textile manufacturing firms, died Thursday at his home, 1 Brookside Wallingford. He was 76. An executive in the textile field for 40 years, Mr. Mifflin was president of Mifflin DiOttavio, 127 Van Horn Philadelphia and the Fibre Processing Wilmington, Del.

During The Second World War he served as a civilian with the Coast Guard Auxiliary, using his own power boat to assist in patrol work. Surviving are his wife, the former Edna Parker; a daughter, Mrs. Richard Schwarz; a son, Edward and a sister, Mrs. G. Firman Mather.

Memorial services will held at 3 P. M. Monday at the Friends Meeting House, W. 3d Media. THE DORE E.

WEIDER- SEIM, retired vice president of the Ketterlinus Lithograph died Saturday at his home, 7003 Hill Overbrook. He Green, Mr. Wiederseim was a member of the Loyal Legion, Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, Sons of the Revolution, Society of Wars of 1812 and Society of Colonial Wars. A son, Harrison survives. Services will be held at 11 A.

M. Monday at Holy Communion Lutheran Church, 21st and Chestnut sts. MRS. HARRY F. GILL, died Friday at her home, 2426 6th Boothwyn, after a short illness.

Mrs. Gill was the former Margaret Anna Mann. In addilion to her husband, she is survived by a son, Harry two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Bodley, and Mrs. Marian Barr; two sisters, Mrs.

Rose Naylor and Mrs. Elsie Tees, and two grandchildren. Services will be held at 2 P. M. Tuesday in the Maxwell funeral home, Meeting House Boothwyn.

MRS. PETER BYRNE, widow and the former Margaret Duffy, died Friday in the Mountford Convalescent Home. She was 85 and a former resident of 23d and Wallace sts. Surviving is a sister, Mrs. Thomas J.

Hanley, Solemn Requiem Mass will be sung at 10 A. M. Tuesday at St. Francis Church, 24th and Green stavier MAYER of 808 Disston a retired builder, died Thursday in Jeanes Hospital. He 72.

Surviving are three children, Clara, Harry and Joseph, principal of the Dick Elementary School, and a sister, Chaia Aeligon. Services will be held at A. M. Sunday at Joseph Levine and Son's, 7112 N. Broad st.

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Broad died Friday in Jefferson Hospital. He was 65. He lived at the Kevon Park Apartments, 52d st. and Montgomery ave. He was a Mason and a member of the Golden Slipper Square Club.

Mr. Chadwin is survived by his wife, the former Minerva Rose; a son, Stanley; a daughter, Mrs. Esther Becker; a brother, Leo and a sister, Mrs. Fannie Kasdon. Funeral services will be held at 11 A.

M. Sunday at Joseph Levine and Son's, 1512 N. Broad st. CHARLES H. KRUMBHAAR, of 1725 E.

Willow Grove Laverock, a former partner in the investment banking firm of W. H. Newbold's Sons 1517 Locust, died Friday in Chestnut Hill Hospital. He was 79. Mr.

Krumbhaar, who was graduated from Harvard University, was a member of the board of directors of Drexel Institute of Technology. He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Charles Platt, Floyd T. Starr and Mrs. S.

Rowland Morgan, and a brother, Dr. Edward B. Krumbhaar. BARNEY LEON SILVER, of 711 E. Upsal a master plumber for 30 years, died Saturday.

He was 50. He was a Mason, and member of the Master Plumbers Association. He is survived by his wife, Sally; a daughter, Esther; a son, Joseph, and three sisters and two brothers. Services will be held at 2 P. M.

Sunday at the Sullman's Memorial Chapel, 4324 N. Broad st. MRS. WALTER R. WELL, died Friday at her home, 120 Cascade Springfield, Delaware county.

Mrs. Maxwell, the former Gladys Lundgren, is survived by a son, Walter a daughter, Nancy two sisters, Mrs. Jerry Kiely and Mrs. Monroe Blanchard. Services will be held at the Cascade rd.

address at 11 A. M. Wednesday. SAMUEL SMILEY, of 6214 N. 16th a television repair man, died Friday in the Einstein Medical Center.

He was 48, Surviving wife, Rose; a daughter, Barbara; a son, Leonard; two sisters, Mrs. Sylvia Toll and Mrs. Esther Vinokur, and a brother, Jack. Services wil be held at 2 P. M.

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