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is dominant. He has always been ready to leave the search for 

 knowledge to go to the defense of freedom of thought and action, 

 but never to give that up for any other consideration. This trait 

 has been shown publicly in his answer to Orestes A. Brownson's 

 attack upon the Hungarian revolutionists; in his eulogy of 

 Thomas Jefferson as an apostle of the rational freedom of indi- 

 vidual men in government ; in his speech, after the Republican 

 presidential nomination of 1856, when he urged his fellow-Ger- 

 mans to support Fremont ; in his argument against the assump- 

 tion that our Government is founded upon the Christian re- 

 ligion, as in derogation of the rights of non-Christian citizens ; 

 and in many other addresses and in newspaper articles and law 

 cases. 



It was also strikingly manifested in his presiding over a pub- 

 lic meeting addressed by Wendell Phillips, when the orator was 

 made a mark for missiles, and Judge Stallo stood by his side 

 and bore the brunt of the assault with him. This was in 1862, 

 when Mr. Phillips was invited to speak in Cincinnati in favor of 

 emancipation. A bitter prejudice existed against him because he 

 had been a disunionist. Judge Stallo had been invited to intro- 

 duce him, but declined, because, his sympathies never having 

 been with Mr. Phillips, he was not the proper man to perform 

 that office. But when he was informed that other men whom he 

 had mentioned as more suitable had declined, because they were 

 afraid of a mob, he consented, saying, " That is enough, gentle- 

 men — I will be there." Mr. Phillips, after being introduced, was 

 at once assailed with a shower of disagreeable and dangerous mis- 

 siles. One of them hit Judge Stallo. " During the turmoil and 

 uproar," said Judge Stallo, telling the story several years after- 

 ward, " Mrs. Stallo, with Mrs. Schneider, sat behind a fellow who 

 had risen and aimed a big stone at the speaker. As he threw his 

 hand back to fire the stone, Mrs. Stallo, who entered heart and 

 soul into the spirit of the hour, and had no thought but to stand 

 by her friends in the stormy crisis, reached over and hit the fel- 

 low's wrist a hard blow, making him drop the stone and howl 

 with pain. He looked around to see his assailant, and Mrs. Stallo 

 was up and ready for him, but gentlemen hastened to her side, 

 and the fellow moved away." In the law case of Rothgeb vs. 

 Mauck and Others, Judge Stallo maintained the right of an infidel 

 to have a temperately worded declaration of his sentiments re- 

 corded upon his tombstone and admitted to the cemetery. In a 

 case in which certain action of the Board of Education of Cincin- 

 nati was involved, he opposed the enforcement of the singing of 

 hymns and the reading of the Bible in the public schools, be- 

 cause they were objected to by a part of the citizens who were 

 taxed to support the schools. The reading was enjoined by the 



