Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-03-06


en- the intellect, and strengthen mans moral
courage, which at the present time Is in a
sorrowfhl condition. My friends there are so
many by-paths to King Alcohol's national
road, lit used to he a national road, | hope 1t
won't be SO l%ong)--I say there are so many
by-paths to it, that | am lost in a maze when
l think Of enumerating them. There is, or
can be, intemperance in eating as well as
drinking, intemperance iu sleeping, intem-
perance in waking, intemperance in almost
every act Of our waking life, even sleigh-ri-
ding. Yes, just behold those painting steeds
at the command of the driver, sweeping along
with a sleiglI-full ofhuman beings over edrth's
chrystal carpeting! They have rosy lips and
bright eyes. | wonder if they have human
hearts. Where have they been! Have they
been on brands of mercy ITO relieve the
poverty stricken Ito succor the distressed :
TO free the bondmenl Oh no! no! They
have been to the festal board.
And now | will digress a little, and ask
what is pleasure-what is happiness! Are
they not the same thingl | think not. Some
are eagerly pursuing pleasure. thinking by
this means 10 obtain happiness, but it is a
mere chimera, a %fanciful illusion. Pleasure
is fteeting-they grasp it, it is gone. Happi-
ness is abiding. II we live in harmony with
the laws of our being, our happiness will 90
on increasing to the end of this state of being.
and when the spirit wings Its flight from the
chrvsalis in which it is now encased, to an
other and unknown form of existence, how do
we know, if we continually strive to live IN
to the known laws of nature, that we NAV not
still move on, and in an increased ratio, in the
scale of being, approach nearer and nearer TO
the pc ~rfection of the Great Architect, of whom
we are in this state Of being a mere type or
symbol. Let us my friends, seek pleasure
as a mems no longer, believing real happiness
can only be obtlined by permitting the true
and good spiritto directus to seek for a know
ledge Of Natures llws-to know the right
and to do it, with all our might, mind, and
strength, let it be in the temperance cause, or
any other cause that has a tendency to i'm
prove the condition of mankind, and make
them happier and better.
made allusion to sleigh riding as a species
Of intemperance. | pointed you to the pant
ing steeds, the h~eartless driver, and his COM
pany. | guessed where they had been. They
must be %thoughtless at least, for see! the
monarch of the frozen zone is appealing to
their hearts in the feathery consolidation of
foamy Precipitation that covers the sides Of the
poor brute that cannot speak, but they heed
it not. Goodness grant that they may not
drive thus blindly into a future state of exist
ence! There is a piece in one of the Eclec-
tic Series entitled the 'Festal Board 1t is
an old thing, and You may have read it an
hundred times, and not felt the depth of beauty
and truth il contains. Shall | read it!
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Now let us lift the curtain and take a peep
at Paradise Hegained.
will venture 10 say without falling at all
short of the truth-that the time spent by
young men and old in lounging about the
corners OF the streets-anI the time and mo-
ney spent by the Incorporate of this place,
since its first settlement, might have built us
bathing houses-(where the house the soul
lives n,might be purifed)-might have built
US lce-houses, Ito mitigate the summer heats
and keep our homminy and other gifts of the
Creator from putrifying)-might have planted
us vineyards and orchards of every kind and
description, and gardens, (where the whole
vegetable tribe might lift their green leaves
to heayen,) not for the purpose of beinr per-
verted into that which destroys both soul and
body; but, that we might live on food rich
from the Creators hand, might have built
school houses, (such as we have never had
here,) and a Hall with these words inscribed
upon lis front, Tile Pyerian E0unt wheye
all mag drink Mat uiH"--in the centre Of
which a circular table filed with the rich out
ponrlngS OF the mind that inhabits this planet.
This is what might aare been done with the
time that has been misspent, and this, and
striving each for the others good, we mirht
n0'c be enjoying "ParaiiS: Regqinsa."