Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-04-16
MISCELLANEOUS.
AN ADDRESS.

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inary, 0" JehaB Of The Studens-puLhShed
by their request.
It's unnecessary for me 10 60 into the usu-
al formula in spcech-inaking Of protesting my
inability TO DO justice 10 the occasion-apolo-
giving for the attempt-regreiting that a more
competent person was not srlected-my want
Of preparation, &c. Suffice it that | have ra-
iher trusted 10 the truth Of the old adage,
d" Out of the ~fulness Ct the heart the mouth
speaketh." The time draws rapidly near
when cumbrous and empty forms will be
burst over by the out-swelling and up-heav-
ing of the strong and determined 81 irit Of hui
manity, ycarning upward and onward from
beneath her grievous load a time when to
possess a thought-lo feel-will he a thor
Ough reason or apology for a full and free Ut
ierance of soul. ] have no other apology to
make, and desire none.
am confident ! speak 10 som extent the
feelings Of my chool-companions, when 1
say that the present occasion is a melancholy
one-an occasion which is suggestive of wide
world-embracing thoughts, and of feelings of
mingled pleasure and regret. To me it is so
for several reasons. Independent of the all
important object for which we have been as
sociated together, there is something in our
familiar daily intercourse, in making ourselves
companions for each other in all our trials
and pleasures, through evil and through good
report, that has knit US together with more
than ordinary ties.
Commonplace and unimportant as it NAV
appear, | conceive this occasion, from the We
y fact of its worldly unpretendingness, to be
with the germs of more fertile and
Important results than is commonly imagined.
Dawn together in the pursuit of the same
object, here have we been toiling
Istily away in The chase; at times tagging
EARLY behind, and again, fired and embold-
ned, dashing away in the pursuit. And now
ere we stand on the beach, as it were, about
push out on the voyage of Life. A veil :
lngs over the future ard hides I'll Profound !:
It mystery. No far-seeing or penetrating eye :,
~ v M Chd d. stu tic NeIl d - even
catch the merest glimmering of that which :
to come. We who this night look upon :,
IL bright faces OF our friends and school :,
Iates, know not but it may be the last time,
We know not what storms and perils await ,
S on the troubled Sea Of Life. We know
ot OH which rock we may be dashed, or on
yhich tr,cl,iose doom >va rn.y fo,,l- w
now not but that ere the haven is reached,
Nc may pass away and rest beneath the land
'r the water. How fitting, then, that we
should meet together in all frankness and in
rood faith, and give freely of our counsel and
words and well-wishes for a happy
nd prosperous voyage! Now that we are
bout 10 60 forth broadcast over the land,
ach 10 pursue the path that may seem TO him
meet, 1t is interesting TO reflect how each may
'ecome fashioned by the circumstance in
which he is thrown; how he may cast his in
iuence about him. "ris indeed a fruitful
to contemplate what may be the sphere
If each-whether he or she may contribute
o shed light and gladness, or sink to dark
hess and despair-on which side of Humani-
US scale each may cast his mite, to cause it
o rise or to ~sink-wheiher each may tighten
increase the burden TO be borne.
To me there is nothing more true or beau
iful than the great idea of the oneness and
armony of human interests. To regard an
injury done to the poorest and meanest as an
injury done to the whole, and the happiness
f one as so much towards the happiness of
he race. 1t is a silken chord that runs thro'
II society and binds men together in the gol-
.en hands of Love and Sympathy-it is that
which bids US TO revere the kindred in the
owliest of the kind. 1t is the genial soil in
the germs Of all charity strike root and
grow into vigorous life and reality-the mex
lau stible source on which feed all the appli-
inces for lifting the fallen from their depths
10 walk erect and drink cheerily of the bless
ngs of life. 1t clothes the Reformer with
night for the contest and disarms the crimi-
lal of his power for evil. What stronger
'timuli is there needed for the laborer in HUI
nanity'S cause than the unequivocal certainty
If the fact that in laboring for the happiness
If masses, he labors for his own happiness;
md that a blow aimed at the freedom and
of the lowliest of his fellows is a
stroke at his own welfare. Only show The
man about TO commit an outrage upon Socie-
that he is aiming a blow at himself, and
criminal is transformed into a friend of
he race.
know that men have acted upon the OPP
poslte principle from this, and in all ages have
sought power and glory by prsying upon each
| know that they have been Graded
md nouTished in the belief of the Divinity Of
butchery, and that their history from
he cradle IN the orava ie uvr;tta, IL hloaI