Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-03-26

and whose residence is on every ,winkling
star that lights The gloom Of absolute space,
finds not her home among men. A sterner
Power sways the rod Of empire here-an ELM
anation from the heart, not of ~paternal Deity,
hut Of his Immortal foe-king Of the internal
shades. Would you know this dread power!
Go inquire OF Time - bid him read his ear
Hest pages" Unroll those dire records which
first began when the blood Of 81 righteous A.
bel" cried from the ground unto Jrhovah.-
Trace the fearful stury down through sue
cessive ages. See Ambition on wings of
darkness" sweeping over Earth's Unrest
r. aims; before him all is beauty, grace and
,plendor-bphiud him desolalion rrigns SUI
IRENE; and DER the bouudIpss solitude the
icnd Of Ruin claps his sooty wings inces-
-ant See the heroes Of Il nth, at whose
frIwn old domin Mons guaked, in the pride of
power traInple on The wrecks Of nations, and
bid the streams run blood |! See the minis
;Prs of death stalk abroad. and red-atmed vi
pleuce clrave down the ranks Of lie See
Fury wave her flaming torch, and the smoke
of temples, fanes. and cities stream up to
heaven! Go question the muse of History,
as she weeps among The tombs Of empires
Why those tears of unearlhly sadness She
bids you mark EaltA's conscious shudder as
the dreadful footsteps OF Ruin 60 laundering
on over Arts proudest trophies OF civiIlza-
lion's %grandest monuments She points you
where stand the ancient sites Of As>yria, f.
gypi. Troy, Carthage, Sparta, Athens. Rome,
and bids you mark those ~prnsive, giant ghosts
bending soiemnly over the spot! The &C.
Mi Of fallen Empires are they, whose voice,
could ii come up from the deep mausoleum
of ages, would loosen the Warriors iron
knees with terror, and startle the great con-
gregation Of the dead
Oh Friends. il is the JTar Dem0n that
has spread all this Jesolation. When chaos
was first bridged by the Internal hUsts, aud
Sin and Death paved a broad way from the
roots of hell to the convex of this upper
world, then the first to pass over in their
train was fierce Moloch, The frnd of War.
Ever since has he been raging over our fair
planet, AMI human blood has not ceased to
flow. Kings and conquerors have worship
ped at his s~hrine-and run with wicked
speed on his missions Of ruin. His internal
spirit has crppt into the hearts of men, and
they have exhausted themselves in heaping
curses and destruction upon each others
hpuncf nva r.n b,rIlu H,,I n rnstiru ,,I,ca
on Earth, except in the hearts Of a few who
retain the image OF their God entire. These
heroes of the Lord have elevated The beauti-
ful banner of Peace. upon whose s~porless
folds. by the finger of Him who is styled
.s,he Prince of Peace" those blessed words
Of comfort, God is love - have been inscri.
bed.
That banner with its holy motto has been
sa~crilegiously trampled in the dust by an
uuholy alliance of Statesmen, Warriors, and
Kings. In its stead they have reared a CORY
standard and bid
Fear and Desola'ion 90 before their path,
And Famine clog their footsteps
! FAme's ohsirrperous trump s,uns our ears
with their unhallowed names. POETRY ''lills
her voice TO ages in praise of their traitor
u Gus deeds-music chants their dreadful tx,
! pluitS in tones that steal away the heart-his
4 tory solemnly canonizes them
---''and sculpture in her turn
Gives bond in store and Pvpr-duting hrass
10 guard them and immoTlaiize her trust.
Strong and overwhelming is the powe
# against which we contend-tearful are tn
odds, yet the 50 still small voice" Of Human
II lty shaH be heard above the tumult Of nation
and before it the gigantic alliances OF Ear
l. and He'll shall be leveled fiat as Jericho
walls.
Who, | ask, that fears his God or loves h
d friend, will tremblp to rear again that ABUSE
II vet stainless bannerl When the might
ones Of earth to compass their ambitious end
..lrt destruction loose on populous realms"-
and lhrn
walk elated DER their fields Of fam,
10 count the thousands that lie sldughiere
{ there,
: "And with these bodies Of the innocent
rear
Their pyramid Of glory--"
, Shall one Of all those claiming the attr
O butes Of manhood shrink To expose the dele.
l. ted, criminal, and the horrid crimel Sha
Y yOu or ! he that mani
appear not as the representative of an
n particular sect or society. but as the adVocat
4 Of Gods eternal Truth and Humanity's mos
sacred cause against a system more crut
than the grave, moro desoiating than tn
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