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CELEBRATE 200 YEARS The Granville SentinelThe Community Booster 1 9 Thursday, June 30, 2005 The Granville Riot Both sides of abolition movement erupted into violence who carried a heavy stick. He turned and ran across the road toward an open door, which just as he reached it was closed against him; and exhausted, he stumbled on the steps. His pursuer was just upon him when he fell, and he could only turn upon his back and hold up his arms to defend his head, while blow after blow was dealt upon him in double-handed strokes. "The mobocrat was made to desist, but not until the young man was covered with blood. The closing scene was the ride of Judge Birney past the mob, now assembling at the hotel.

He started from Dr. Bancroft's on his awfully bobbed horse, rode slowly by the mob while they pelted him on every side with eggs; and when past the reach of their missiles, he put spurs to his horse, and in that plight left town. All these scenes occupied not much more time than it takes to read them. They were followed by a heavy thunder shower that cooled men's passions; and in the evening the Granville Band was out with music as if such a day might still close in peace and pleasure." For more information on The Works, call (740) 349-9277 or visit the day, and teachers and scholars went in procession to the convention. The young ladies, under the protection of a strong escort, formed a procession four abreast and marched around Prospect Hill into town, down Green Street and up the north sidewalk of Broad Street.

The mob was gathered on the same side of the street in front of the hotel, at the corner of Prospect Street. At this point the two crowds came into collision. As the procession passed them, the mob became excited and began to hoot and to move toward them, calling vociferously for Samuel White and William Whitney, both of whom were conspicuous among the escort, and both obnoxious as abolition lecturers. Thus they proceeded up the street nearly one square, the procession occupying the middle of the street and the mob the sidewalk and intervening space, the more daring ones pressing alongside the procession, some trying to trip the ladies in spite of their protectors. "As the procession was passing a student of the college and the lady he was escorting were pushed off the culvert into the ditch.

Hastening to see his lady among friends in the procession, he returned, found his assailant and knocked him down. The student, who by the way had been a trained pugilist, returned to the fight and singling one at a time from his assailants, laid several in the dust, until he was overpowered by numbers and buried under a pile of rails from Esquire Gavitt's fence. At the rear, a furnace man had got an abolitionist down and was pounding him unmercifully when a citizen ran from one of the stores across the street and pulled him off. A little farther on, several of the mob had laid hands on two of the young ladies and separated them from the procession. A workman at Mr.

Sereno Wright's seeing this, dropped his tools, and gathering the stones as he ran, began to throw them at the assailants. The march now changed to double-quick, and almost a route. Mr. Whitney was so pressed that he broke ahead of the procession, ran through Mr. Haskell's house and secreted himself in the back part of the ladies' boarding house.

Mr. White, also, after felling three or four with his fists, ran across the gardens and was cared for by Rev. Henry Carr. Mr. John Lewis, a student from Oberlin, was set upon by one of the mob Editor's Note: The following excerpts were taken from the Rev.

Henry Bush-nell's "The History of Granville, Licking Ohio, available for viewing in the Archives Library at the Granville Historical Society and the Ohio Historical Society. This article was assembled through cooperation with The Works: Ohio Center for History, Art and Technology in Newark. Ohio State Anti-Slavery Convention held its anniversary in Granville (in no room could be obtained for it in the village. A remonstrance was signed by 75 men. Including the mayor, recorder and members of the council, many of them prominent citizens and of two classes: those who abominated abolition and those whose motive was to avoid a disturbance of the peace.

Mr. AA Bancroft again met the crisis. His large barn at that season of the year was nearly empty. This was offered to the committee of arrangements as the place of meeting, accepted, arranged and styled the Hall of Freedom." The meeting at the Bancroft barn proceeded peacefully. A few personal confrontations were reported, but that changed.

"The Ladies' School, under Misses Grant and Bridges, was suspended for Coasters, additional Christmas ornaments added to bicentennial memorabilia inventory An 11 -year-old driver for the Underground Railroad available at $20 each. The syrup is bottled in a commemorative jug. Canvas tote bags will also be on sale at $20 each. Gra-nopoly, a game designed and promoted by Granville Elementary students, is selling fast and less than 30 remain. Weaver said.

Any remaining games will be at the tent at Opera House Park, bicentennial headquarters. Rotary throws depicting Granville buildings and commemorating the bicentennial, and stitched logo items, such as hats and shirts from Jan's in Stitches, will also be available for purchase at the tent. These items, as well as others, such as mugs, prints, calendars, videos, posters and T-shirts, are currently available at shops and stores in Granville and always at the Village Offices, Weaver said. "We hope to sell out by the end of the year." she said. by EVELYN FROLKTNG Contributing Writer "Sales have gone extremely well," Jodi Weaver-Chiles, project liaison of the Granville 2005 Bicentennial Commission, says of the array of bicentennial memorabilia on sale throughout the village.

From watercolors of Granville buildings to holiday ornaments and mugs, residents and visitors are remembering the Village's 200th birthday with their purchases. And there's more to come. Several new items will make their appearance over the Fourth of July holiday. A set of four coasters in green and white recognizing the bicentennial will be available for $16 a set There are 75 sets available. A fourth holiday ornament at $16 joins the initial three, which have all sold well.

Weaver said. One hundred and eighty jugs of maple syrup from local syrup maker, Bob Warner, are ber-box wagon filled with straw was brought out, and the black dissenters from the American Constitution, who so lightly esteemed our glorious land of freedom, were packed under the straw and some blankets and sacks thrown carelessly over them, so that outwardly there might be no significance of the dark and hidden meaning of the load. Once or twice I was' hailed by some curious passerby with "What have you got to which I made answer as in such case had been provided. About 3 o'clock in the morning, I entered a village and drove up to the house whither I had been directed, roused the inmates and transferred my load. Then I drove back, sleepy but happy." For more information on the Works call (740) 349 9277 or visit www.attheworks.org.

(Editor's Note: The Works: Ohio Center for History. Art and Technology in Newark, provided this article, compiled by the Works.) Granville native Hubert Howe Bancroft was a well-known historian of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He attended the Granville Academy until he was 16 years old, afterward working his way from Ohio to New York and finally to San Francisco. Between 1852 and 1868. Bancroft opened his own bookstore and founded his own publishing company.

He co-authored and published 39 volumes of American history, the best-known of which are "Native Races of the Pacific States" (Volumes 1-5) and "History of the Pacific States" (Volumes 6-26). The Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley is named for him. However, long before embarking upon his life's work, Bancroft was the son of Ashley A. Bancroft, a prominent member of Granville's abolitionist movement. Their barn was used as the gathering place for the Ohio State Anti-Slavery Convention in April of 1836 and was consequently the powder keg which touched off the Granville riots.

One of the most vivid firsthand accounts of Underground Railroad activity in Licking County came from an incident that happened to Bancroft when he was only 1 1 years old: The most brilliant exploit of my life was performed when I spent a whole night in driving a two-horse wagonload of runaway slaves on their way from Kentucky and slavery to Canada and freedom." He continued, "About 9 o'clock at night, the large lum.