Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-03-17

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nature and trusting sympathles, led him to
continue a willing co-worker with tho Lon
uoh society, because he believed their aims
honest, rather than from a conviction that,
TOT lew past years, their course was ener-
geHc, and decided. and manly, as il ought 10
nave Deen. Approving, as he undoubtedly
oid' OF Mr.. Garrison's bold line of policy.
he must have considered that of the London
society often too cold and tame for The great
occasion.
We have now given a faint outline of the
lie OF Thomas Clarkson. We have not en-
iered upon the task merely for The purpose of
Placing upon record the name aud actions Of
a good man, although that name well deserves
70 De held In dtiectlonate remembrance. We
are ueslrous also of stimulating other men,
on whom the great duties of life shall de-
yolve, to pursue high and noble purposes with
The same steady and unialtering aim. Let
them remember that for more than sixty years
OF his life, that venerable man devoted his
physical and mental energies to the noble pur-
pose OF promoting the freedom and happiness
OF his fellow men. Let them : 90 and do like
wise. The world will not be redeemed by
slothtulness. No good end WAS ever vet at
tdlned without much labor. Clarkson and
his contemporaries wrought with vigor and
constancy. Let all who, like them, desire 10
be 6enefdctors OF then race, work on in the
same unselfsh manner, and their labor will
not be without its reward.
We copy from the Morning Chronicle the
following beautiful tribute to the memory Of
Clarkson =
"Our obituary record Of yesterday contain
ed one announcement which will have been
read with thoughtful and reverential emotion
oy all classes and sections Of community
The decease OF the venerable Thomas Clark
son Is one of those events, which, although
devoid Of appreciable external results, pos
sess a profounder interest for the heart Of a
people, than occurrences directly and visibly
Influencing the course Of public affairs. The
peaceful termination of "a life crowded with
| unremitiing efforts and brilliant successes in
the cause of justice and humanity, and pro-
tracied far beyond the period at which life
usually ceases 10 be a blessing, can, indeed,
, scarcely excite any feeling of poignant regret,
except within the circle of immediate person.
al friendship and affinity and even The sor-
rows OF personal friendship must be largely
, qualified by that sober and tranquil satisiac-
: iion with which we view the harmonious com-
2 plelion OF a noble and beneficent character.
Y ATipe tulnesss of years and honors, which
: the hand Of death does but consunmate and
8 crown, is a spectacle too grateful to the NOR
at sense to call forth the sentiments or the
language Of mere grief; and sixty years Of
At<sNearisd and triumphantly successful ser
g vice in the most glorious of causes, have pla
n ced the departed philanlhropist beyond tht
range of the ordinary regrets ELECTED by
o good mans death. The name Of Thoma,
Clarkson has long since become historical
high among the highest of those which heat
: the successive chapters of national or univer
sal history. His death is but a mementC
S that more. imPressively reminds US of whal
we owe to his life, and fixes our regards, with
a more solemn earnestness, on those labors
e on which time and nature have set their ina
i seal. H
Of a life whose moral grandeur and exter
: nal public results have consccraled the name
T of Thomas Clarkson for a brighter and more
y enduring fame than after ages will award &c
: The most successful warrior or statesman o.
his generation, it is difficult to speak fifty
within the limits 10 " hich we must now re-
: strict ourselves. The leading events of the
deceased philanthropist's career we have else
II where recorded for those of our readers who
will naturally desire to refresh their knowl.
S 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 to sur up the moral significance o.
= dill dCHFlly SO lIultlul, anu Il CHdIdCtSI So en-
ergetic and commanding-a character, too,
S which, by its very simplicity, almost pre-
d cludes that sort Of analytical commentary usu.
n ally invited by the death of a great man!
Perhaps we cannot more truly and charac.
teristically indicate the place which Thomas
y Clarkson will hereafter occupy in the ethica
: judgment of mankind, than by pronouncing
h him the noblest type and representative OF tha
spirit of organized moral and religious eifor
Is for philanthropic objects, whose extraordinary
developement within the last century-main
ly in consequence of the impulse first giveT
by Clarkson and his coadjutors-constitute
l. a revolution more important than dynastiC
Q change itself. The overpowering force anc
l. singleness of the moral element of Clarkson':
n being, elemently qualified him, not only to dc
the work, and reap the honors, of that species
e OF moral apostleship to which, from earlies
manhood, he was irresistibly impelled, blu
kept him, through life, singularly exempt
from the errors and extravagancies into which
this mode Of activity is too apt to degenerate
n His whole being and doing may be said Il
be epitomised in the youthful impulse tina
n constituted his first inspiration. That intense
h and all-consumlng moral earnestness which
e spoiled a hardly earned qualification of litera
d ry ambition, and made college successes ant
honors the occasion Of all unbearable menta
anguish, and constrained the triumphant lite
y raTy aspirant to grid himself 10 a lifelong
e struggle with the hideous realities which hac
formed the subject-matter Of an honorable in
8 t%ellectual pastime, sustained itself in all its
o freshness and purity to The last. The un'
e sleeping vigilance, the unsparing self-sacrifce
the courageous s~elf-exposure to an obloquy
that more than once brought him ON the very
y verge Of literal bodily martyrdom, and the In
defatigably laborious and pains-taking indus
g try, with which Clarkson began, carried on,
/ and ended his warfare against a gigantic pub
lie wrong that seemed, when he commenced
II as solid and rooted a fact as the British mon
y archy itself, were but the varied and prolong
/ ed expression of that exlulslIeIy sensitive