key actors in the plot to liberate Glover from Milwaukee. On the night of Glover's capture, he telegraphed his colleague Sherman Booth in Milwaukee to let him know that Glover was being taken there. Clement then used his newspaper, the Advocate to inspire righteous outrage among the people of Racine. On March 18, 1854, Clement went north and led a mob, along with Booth, to the Milwaukee jail, where they attempted to arrest Garland and the U.S. marshal. They ultimately broke Glover out of his cell and helped him to a boat, which took him to safety in Canada. Clement and others were arrested for assault and battery, but charges were eventually dropped by the district attorney. Outrage over the Fugitive Slave Act was a substantial motivation for the creation of the Republican Party in the days after the Glover incident. That fall, Clement became the first Republican nominee for Wisconsin's 7th State Senate district, and was elected in November 1854 to a two-year term. His reputation was damaged by his time in the State Senate, however. He was one of dozens of Wisconsin legislators in the 1856 session caught up in the railroad land grant bribery scheme, and was found to have received $10,000 of the corrupt railroad bonds (about $360,000 adjusted for inflation). In the run-up to the American Civil War, Clement purchased the Racine Journal, and operated it as a Republican partisan paper through most of the Civil War. He suffered from arthritis, and in 1868 he moved to McMinnville, Tennessee, believing the climate would be beneficial to his condition. He lived most of the rest of his life there, dying in January 1886. Personal life and legacy Charles Clement was one of eleven children born to Joseph Warren and Mary ( Fitz) Clement. Both parents were born and lived out their lives in Essex County, Massachusetts. The Clements traced their ancestry to Moses Clement, who arrived at the Plymouth Colony in 1628. On his mother's side, the Fitz family traced their ancestry to Robert Fitz, who settled in the Colony of Virginia in 1614. Charles Clement's younger brother, Stephen, who he had followed to Wisconsin, had subsequently moved to Texas in the years before the Civil War. In that time, secret societies such as the Knights of the Golden Circle began hunting for anti-slavery northerners living in the southern states. Stephen Clement was an active subscriber