Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-10-30
From lie British & For. 4. S. Reporter.
Death of Thomas GARRISON.

49, ~ WIN lANht ~ = u y
ford Hall, near Ipswich, on Saturday, III,
goth ult., at a quarter past three in the morn
ing. He was born on the Gath Of March.
1861 and was consequently in the eighty
seventh year Of his age, sixty Of which were
devoted to promote the abolition Of slavery
and the slave.trade.
Among the ilIustiious mrn whose names
will adorn the history of our nation and our
race, that of Thomas Clarkson will occupy \
conspicuous position. His was no vulgar
ambition: he sought not fame in courts or
camps, and abandoned an honorable profess
sion, in which he might have risen 10 emf
nence and wealth, that he might devote him
self wholly and exclusively to the relief of
suffering and oppressed humanity. When
seeking for literary honors at the University
Of Cambridge, he became aware, for the first
time, Of the misptirs of a continent and the
dreadful expressions Of its people. lie saw
africa bleeding at every pore. and her chill
dren led into hopeless aud perpptull slavery.
The polished nations Of Europe-and Great
Britain stond conspicuous among ihem-spnt
forth navies to her shores every year. 10 he
trcighted with living cirgoes for the service
ot their plantations and colonies abroad. The
Facts elected by his researches were Of the
most appalling kind. They appe led with
irresistible force To his synIpathies az a man,
nd to his principles as u Christian, and, with
the decision aud energy peculiar to his cha.
racier, he devoted himself TO redress the in.
lnrleS Of Africa, and to the emancipation Of
her sons.
Into the details of his career, and the sue
cesSps which have followed his iabors, we do
not. in our present number, intend 10 enter /;
but "" hope in our next, to present an out
'ine of both, more complete and satisfactory
both to ourselves and our readers, than any
hing We could present al the present moment.
In the meantime we call attention 10 the we'll
merited eulogy pronounced by the Morning
chronicle On this distinguished man.
"Our obituary record nf yesterday ~contain-
I'd one announcement which will have been
read with thoughtful and rovereniial emotion
By all classes and sections of the community.
The decease Of the venerable Thomas Clark
son is one Of those events which. although
devoid Of appreciable external results. possess
= profounder interest for the heart of a people
than occurrences directly and visibly infu-
rncing the course of public affIlrs. The
peaceful termination of a life crowded with
unremiuing efforts and brilliant successes in
the cause Of justice and humanity. and pro.
irLcted far beyond The period at which life
usually ceases TO he a blessing, can, indped.
scarcely excite any feelings Of poign mt regret,
except within the circle Of immediate person.
al friendship and affinity and Even the sor-
rows of personal attachment must be largely
qualified by that sober and tranquil s~atislac-
ton with which we view the harmonious
completion OF a noble and hcneicGnt career.
A ripe fitness of years and honors. which
the hand of death does but consummate and
CROWN Is a spectacle too grateful 10 the GIural
sense TO call forth the sentiments OF the Ian
guage of mere grief; and sixty years of I'M
wearied and iriumpllan'ly successful service
in the most glorious of causes have place d
the dep rted philanthropist beyond the range
of the ordinary regrets ELECTED by a good mans
death. The name of Thomas Clarkson has
long since become historical-hiuh among
the highest of those which head the success
sive chapters of national or universal history.
His death Is but a memenio that more in-
pressively reminds us Of what we owe to his
life, and fixes our regards, with IA more solemn
earnestness. on those labors on which time
and nature have set their final seal.
or a life whose moral grandeur and evter-
nal public results have consecrat.d the name
of Th0mi Clarkson for "A brighter and NOR.
enduring fame than after ages will award to
tie most successful warrior nr statesman Of
his generation, it is d~llicult to speak fifty
within the limits to which we must now re-
strict ourselves. The leading events of the
deceased phiianthropist'S career We have else
where recorded fer those Of our readers who
will naturally desire TO refresh their knowl J.
edge of the dates and details of a struggle
which. in all except its great and permanent
results, has long since faded into the past.
But how 10 sum up the moral significance OF
an activity Sc fruitful, and a character so en-
ergrtlc and commanding-a character, too,
which. by its very simplicity, almost pre-
cludes that sort of anal ytical commentary su-
ally invited by the death of a great mani
Perhaps VI cannot more truly and charac-
t'risiically indicate the place which Thomas
Clarks0n will hereafter occupy in the ethical
judgment of mankind, Than by pronouncinG
him the noblest type and representative of
that spirit of organized moral and religious
effort for philanthropic objects, whose extra
ordinary development within the last half
century-mainly in consequence Of the i'm
pulse first given by ClarksIn and his coadju-
toIs-constitutes a social revolution more lm-
portant than dynastic change itself. The
overpowering force and sIngleness of the NOR
al element of Clnrkson's being, eminently
qualified him, not only to do the work, and
reap the honors, Of ,hat species of moral apos-
tlesiip to which, from earliest manhc cd, he
was irresistibly impellpd, butkepthim through
life singularly exempt from The errors and
evtravagancieS into which this mode of ac-
tIvity is too apt to degenerate. His whole
being and doing may be soid TO b. epltomi>ed
in the youthful impulse that constituted his
first inspiration. That intense and %ail-c0n-
Stunning moral earnestness which spoiled Il
hardly-earned qualification of literary ambi-
ton, and made college successes and honors
the occasion of an unhearable mental anguish,
and constrained the triumphant literary aspire
ant 10 grid himself to a lifelong struggle with
the hideous realities which had formed The
subjrct-mstter Of an honorable intellectual
pa>iime. sustained Itself in all its freshness
and purity 10 the last. The unSIrrplng vigi-
lance, the unNparing seIf-sacrIice, the cour,
age"us Splf-rXpOSure 10 an nblnquy that more
Than once brought him Oh the verge Of liter,
bodily maTtyrdom, and the iude(dtiglbly Ia.