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

on the sea, Of life, how sinks your heart with
anguish-how reels your brain with grief!
But all! when life at last fOrsakes the cisa--
del when grim death sets those rigid fea-
lures, fixes that CLASSY eye, and iytches out
that freezing expression of the souls last
struggle with the enemy does your heart
tell you it is a ligh, thing to die? Worlds
would you give, could some kind being re-
animate for you that stone-still corpse; but
worlds can never bring back the pale, gliding
ghost that has already PASSED within The ror-
tails of Eternity. Did you ever see a guilty
wretch dangling in his shrouJ from tho arms
Of i gibbet! That was indeed a sight Of hor-
ror, which made your very joints tTenible,
although you knew the victim to be a demon
Of wickcdness, aud richly deserving a more
terrible fate. Go with the at night into the
v%oiceles5 chamber Of death, and By the dim
torchlight uncover the glastly limbs Of the
sheeted dead. Lay your hand upon that mar
bic brow. You start! Your blood is chill
ed, aud your heart stops beating! Why this
shiinking--this unsrelkable awe in the pre-
sence Of %lifelcss clay7 An! my friend, there's
mystery there! Whiiher strays that death
less spirit, which SO lately smiled in hose
eyes, ard brta.hed its own music On those
sealed lips? Where lirgcfs ihat familiar
voice, which ouce spake words Of love 10 your
heart? Whittier have fed those noble lho'ts
which once gave expression TO that placid
brow? Those warm aTt ciions that cling
around your heart like links e steel-where
are they All! it is dread and awful thing
to die,' Even fools, who make all things
7 sacred their sport; who seek the dizzy cliffs
Of eternal ruin, and defy the s~calhing thun-
ders Of Jphovah's wrath, dare not sco(f in the
grim visage Of death, it is too terrific. Yet
death, | tell you, is the Warriors ally. From
death he receives his laurel wreath, all drencl-
ed with the widows scalding tears-all drip
ping with the gore Of men. With death, the
"gfisly terror" he has stricken an unholy
league, and sold his guilty spirit to e~verlast-
ing burning,, for the privilege Of rioting on
earth in human carnage and woe. Yes, life
to you is a most sacred and holy thing. You
dare not put forth your hand and take ii away,
because your feelings are human. But think
not that human feelings dwell in the War
rior's breast. The fires Of hell have burned
out every tender sympathy ,hatlIngersd there.
That was one Of the stipulatios.s of his infer
nal covenant. His trade is bloodshcd, his
~r.rt J., ,,;,b rr.,i,,. Inns ArJ NrIon Ia
falls upon tie cold field of battle, the victim
Of his own madness, his voice, like that Of
RinggolJ, the man your country loves TO hon
or, in broken accents is heard TO say, Those
guns Of ours did splendid execution! !" and
then he drops into Eternity. Who would
have rested. like that man, in his grave upor
the muskets Of his slaughtered foes! There
was a dreadful place to sleep-with guns a
his head and guns at lis feet, and The charneI
worm rioting on him! Mexican bayonets
fenced in his lonely tomb; but his spirit, al
unguarled, passed into the presence of the
memorable Judge.
! have spoken Of facts and figures. True
they do not constitute very elegant rhetoric
but they are stronger than armies 10 deien,
the right.
War itself cannot stand in their presence
t Like boar frost, under the warm beams of III
risen sun before them, its linsel and splendo
melt away. You will not dispute the testi
mony Of Edmund Burke, England's mobiles
statesman. a sounder intellect never grace,
, her Parliament. Yet he reckons the who'll
number Of the victims Of war to be not les
than Mjriy5fre thousand millions, enough t
people forty such globes as we now inhabit
Think Of that, you who apologize for wa
and reProve whoever speak u tPlainly on thi
subject. Think Of that, yr rulers, who reck
lessly "let slip the dogs of war; TAX
, heed all, lest History link your names wit
those Of detested man-slayers-for there is
. better time coming, when she will dare spea'
with an impartial voice on this point.
But look again; the single siege of TTo
h cost two millions Of lives-a sum equal to a
: the men, women and children that tread III
q soil Of Ohio. And all these fell-for what
n A miserable courtesan. AT the siege of j
$ rusalem, there fell of Jews alone, 10000
d men. The brilliancy of Caesars name mail
n ly results from the fact, that he ~slaughtere
l,l92,00 of his foes, and effected the d.
g s%trnction Of about an equal number of his a
lies and countrymen. 1.-THE wars in the tin
of S~esostris cost l5,0OO,O 900 lives; those
e SemiTamis, Cyrus and Alexander collectivel
.e 10000, 900 the wars Of the Roman Empir
$4,000, 900 Of the Saracens and Turks, leo
000,Ooo;" which last is more than the pr
sent population Of the entire Western Hemi
T. phere, including also the vast continent
@ Africa. The wars Of the Reformation d
siroyed almost as many human beings as i