Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-08-28
Richard Golden.

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Elihu Burritt thas speaks of the last meet
ing of the League.
Golden arose-not TO speak for the space
of several minutes, but 10 stand up in affect
ing silence before the assembly, who would
have drowned the voice Of a trumpet with the
swelling peals of applause with which they
greeted the Napoleon of Moral Revolution.
Several times he essayed TO speak, but ere
he could frame his lips to the utterdnce of a
word, the multitude would burst forth anew
with another volume of cheers. | saw his
clear, s~pirit-speaking eyes fill with tears on
being thus interrupted for the third time in
his efforts 10 make himself heard. There
stood the meekest looking man | ever saw
fronting a public assembly and in the meek
est attitude. AS he stood with his slight
form inclining forward, with che of his thin,
pale hands hanging by the forefnger from a
buttonhole in the left breast of his coat, and
with the other resting on the corner of the
Speakers desk, as if for support, he looked
the very impersonation of timid modesty.-
His whole attitude and appearance reminded
me of some humble member of the Methodist
church, in America, arising in one of their
class meetings to "tell his experienced in a
%contrite spirit. And that was England's
foremost man! Among all the heroes her
annals have numbered, that soft-voiced revo-
lutionist stood the highest in the peoples
gratitude. For England had become a peo-
pie, and he the peoples man, and this was
the hour Of his coronation. The first words
he uttered fell upon the listening multitude
in tones OF querelous meditation. They were
uttered with child-like simplicity, and were
tremulous with the emotion he confessed
He adverted in a touching manner to the
fact, that they were assembled to disblnd
their organization at the moment Of its tfi-
umph. He spoke Of the unanimity which
had pervaded the councils from the earliest
period of its history. The pressure of the
opposition they had encountered, and the OBJ
slacles that had surrounded them, but had
rendered their union more compact. Now
that this opposition and these obstacles had
been overcome, it might be safer to dissolve,
in the spirit of union, than to retain their or
ganization in tho full force Of its executive
agencies, after the cause and necessity of its
existence had been removed by the abolition
of the Corn Monopoly. He addressed a
word of comfort 10 an emotion felt by all,
saying that the best part of the League would
remain In vigorous activity after its physical
dissolution. Its spirit would still live and
pervade the earth. Disembodied from the
League. it would seek voluntary forms of
existence, filling all the avenues of practical
PHILANTHROPY. In the most delicate manner,
he soitened down the cminence to which his
tellow-countrymen would raise him, by re-
minding them of the eXertions of the earliest
pioneers in the cluse-lnen who had entered
the field before him, and with u~ntiring zeal
and assiduity, had cleared away its tangled
thickets of difficulty, leaving a clearer course
for their successors. He commented to the
gratitude of those so grateful to him, the " up
per room" few, and the first acts of their he
roic faith the men who strewed the bye
paths of the people with tracts, and the fugi-
tive foliage of earnest, truthful thoughts.
He scattered the lauTels that were wreathed
for his brow in every direction, out of appa-
rent love 10 see them worn by others, whom
the people might forget in concentrating their
admiration upon him. With a graceful sim.
plicity and an eloquence of spirit, he twined
a wreath around the fair brow of England's
young Queen, and paid a delicate tribute to
the wish in her heart, that the poor people of
her kingdom might have cheap bread. What
a lesson might Alexander, Cesar, or Buona-
parte have learned, had they been present to
see Golden, in the singleness of Lis heart,
commencing his rivals to the admiration of
his admirers! He would not have Sir Ro-
oS' L Soi ioiSoltel III oil lluuT NHell tB InPd-
sures and the men which had effected the
triumph of their cause were passing in re-
view.
He adverted in earnest terms-as if the
assembly had forgotten them-to the sacri-
fees and labors which the Premier had en-
dured in advocating, and carrying through all
opposition, the measures for which they had
struggled for SO many years.
Having begun by ascribing 10 an over
ruling Providence the influences that had
combined to bring about the consummation
Of their hopes, he ended by ascribing the
whole glory and good of that event to the
same divine interposiiion. He sat down
with the visible sentiment in his manner of
having reduced his eminence before the peo-
pie to the level Of his associates and cola
borers Of The League.