The Madisonian. (Canton, Miss.) 1850-1855, 1850-03-14

delicate forms into crowns for your
annonted 6rows. Now Kings-now
purpled hangmen of the world for
you come the days ofaxes and gibbets
and scatfolds for you the wrath Of
man; for you the lightnings of God !
Look how the light OF your paIa-
ces on fire flashes up into the midnight
sky!
Now, purpled Hangman Of the
world, turn and beg for mercy!
Where will you find it!
Not from God, for you have bias
phemed His laws!
Here you turn, and 10 gibbet!
There, and Il scattold stares you in
the face
All around you death but nowhere
pity!
Now execntioners of the human
race, kneel down, yes, kneel down up
on the sawdnst of the scatfold lay
your perfun1ed heads upon the block /;
bless the axe as 1t faIls-the axe you
sharpened for the poor mans neck
Such is the message Of that decla-
ration to man, to the kings ofthe world!
And shall we fear nolO2 And shall
we start back appalled,, when our feet
press the very threshold Of Freedom =?
Do you see quailing faces around you,
when our wives have been butchered
when the .hearlhstoneS Of our land are
red with The Blood of little children ?
What are there shrinking hearts or
faItering voices here, when the very
dead Of our battle fields arise, and call
upon us to sign that parchment or be
accurSed forever
SIGN! f the next moment the glib
bets rope is round your neck SIGN
if the next moment this hall rings
with the echo Of the falling axe!--
SIGN! by all your hopes in life or
death, as husbands fathers as men
sign your names TO the Parchment
or be acctirsed forever!
S1eN-not only for yourselves, but
for all ages-for that Parchment will
be the 'Iext,B ,ok Of Freedom the
Bible OF tic Rights Of Man forever.
Sign-(or that Declaration will 90
forth to American hearts forever, and
speak to those hearts like the voice Of
God And its work shall not be done
until, throughout this wide continent,
not single inch of gtoOnd owns the
sway OF British King.
Nay, do not start and whisper with
surprise 1t i a. truth, your own
hearts witness it-God procLains it
this continent is the property of free
people, and their property alone. God,
| say, proclaimS it Look at this
strange history of band Of cxiles and
ohtcastS suddenly transformed into n
people-look at this wonderful / odus
Of the oppressed Of the Old World in.
| TO the New, where they came, weak
in arms, but mighty in God like faith
nay, look at the history your Bun
kcr Hill-yohr Lexinglon--whers a
band Of plain farmers Knocked and
trampled down the panopIy Of British
arms, and then tell me, il you can, that
God has not given America to the free!
1t is not given to our poor human
intellect TO climb the skies, TO pierce
the counses Of the Almighty One
But methinks stand among the aw-
fuI clouds which veil the brightness Of
Jehovah'S throne. Methinks | see the
Recording AngeI--pale as an angel is
pale, weeping as an angel can weep
come trembllngup 10 that throne, and
speaks his dread message:
Father the old world is baptised
in blood Father it is drenched
with the blood OF millions, bntchered
in war, in persecution, in slow and
grinding oppression ! Father-look,
with one glance of thine Eternal eye,
look over Europe, ASIA, Africa, and
behold evermore, terrible sight, man
trodden down beneath the oppressor's
destinations lost in blood--lost in
blood-mrder aud superstition walk
iiar hand in hand over the graves of
their victims, and not a single voice TO
whisper Hope to man!
He stands there, the Angel, Ills hand
trembling with the black record OF hui
man guilt. But bark The Veice OF
Jehovah speaks out from the awful
cloud Let there be light again. Let
there be new world. Tell my peo-
ple--the poor--the down,trodden mil
Lions, to 90 out from the Old World
& Tig,,, !, them to 70 out from wrong, OPP
preston and bIou;s. tell them to 20 out
| from the Old World--to build up nv