Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-04-20
An Address
By HANNAH N. LocuE, OF ArwArE
n UPWARD.

Friends and FtLoW S~chookmaies:
feel sensible Of my utter inability to dc
justice to the subject, upon which ! now at
tempt 10 address yon. | feel that | cannot
do justice TO the parting scene to the break
ing up Of our lit,le band, and the s%eyering Of
friendship holiest ties. We have spent
happy days and weeks together in the pur-
suit of knowledge. Science has opened an
avenue to the mysteries that lie hidden in the
recesses OF nature. BY it, we have been en-
abled TO investigate, and explain that which,
in days of ignorance and superstition were
considered dark, insolubIe enigmas.
1t is indeed surprising to witness the chan
ges which science and literature have wrought
in society, within the last few centuIies.-
Mankind have become more enlightened and
intelligent, and are therefore enabled to make
that,-which was formerly neither known
nor apprgcidted-sources of invaluable plea-
sure, ard intellectual enjoyment. No one
invention has ever contributed more 10 the
civilization and improvement Of mankind
than the printing press, which has Invested
itself with such a halo Of light, and %intelIec-
tual progression, Through lis medium we
have been enabled 10 Peruse the histories o!
ancient lines, and acquaint ourselves with
the lives, manners and customs of our fore
fathers. And knowing that education is con-
ducive Of such pleasure and happiness, let
us labor, whether in school or elsewhere, to
lay up a store cf useful knowledge, so that
in age we may have the pleasure of know
ing, that we have not lived in vain that we
have in some degree attained the end for
which we were created. Let us seek that,
which will tend to ennoble and b%e-u'ify the
mind ; and furthermore, lei us strive to be Of
the number Of those whose aim is eminenco
and end destruction, rather than of those who
having neglected to improve whatever ad-
vantagcs might have been afforded them,
were therefore doomed to lead lives u mind
degrading ignorance.
Who can gaze upon the sublimities that
1 surround us without a thrill of JOY, and an
, indescribablc desire to know more of their
i nature and oTigin3 When we raise our eyes
to the blue canopy above Us, We are touched
with the subIimily Of the shining hosts, and
!, are made to feel that He who formed. and
placed them there, is Ali Powerful and Di-
vine.
Rank and wealth cannot purchase know
a ledge unless we exert ourselves. and COM
# mence with a firm resolve not 10 give up Ill
$ the victory is ours. Take Benjamin Frank
}. lin as an example of the reward Of an never
@ tireing application TO the pursuit Of know
ledge. He arose, as you all know, from the
, humble station Of a printers boy, to be one
;, Of the most useful, if not the most famed
h philosopher Of which the world can boast.
., ITsue, we cannot all be Franklins, we are moi
all endowed with such comprehensive minds,
II and penetrating genius as he, but it is a duty
= imposed by the hand Of Him who created US,
to cultivate whatever talents we may be in
N possession of, and adopt them to high and
:, holy purposes. 1t might with ~propriety be
4 said of franklin, as Hannah Moore said OIL
Sir Eldred Of the Bower, " And such a mar
was he, as heaven only sometimes shows &c
show what man should be-"
ST The rise and life too, Of Napoleon Bona
L. parte manifests the possession of rare talents
er and well might his countrymen mourn til,
use to which he appropriated them. They
al were to him a curse, rather than a blessing
,e they urged him on to deeds OF bloodshed an,
IA destruction his life was one of continue
k. seiges and alarms; and what wonder that
was so, he thatavowed himself the open enc
my of all who refused obedience to his com
mand 7 And after having spent his youth il
IA the conquest Of different nations and coun
tries, he was banished TO the solitary Islam
Of St. Helena, where he died ignominousl,
and alone, without a friend to soothe hi
hapless lot, or close his eyes in deaths IN
varying sleep. His road to tame lay over
bo path 'ha. ! hope but few will lall0w' Rath