Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-11-06
Ntw aud Old.
SAMUEL J. MAY.
ny J. W. IIIGGIHGsoN.

"Thcse early days of September have
shown us leaves already yellow with the
past severity of heat, aud ready to lie pushed
aside by the silent buds of another season
for those buds will he formed this autumn
and lie molionlcss, the winter through, the
concentration of n future summer upon
evey leaf1css twig The season has been
beautiful, as all seasons are. Unuticed, I'M
counted, its swim hours have gone by. AS
tile earth revOlvCs lcucalh unconscious feet,
so revolves eartll'S periods before unconscious
eyes. How many watched the passing OF
| spring into summer? IN Il single night OF
ruin nfter weeks heat the magic chungc
took place; in the morning the clear traces
OF new experience were over Nature, the
foliage WIS heavier aud darker, aud that day
! OF June led summer in; u few nights more
brought the iorcbodlrg cirkcts, few more
the fireflics, then came Midsummer Day, and
then there was one more bright Spring
passed AWAY forever, only u lovely reculcc-
ton now. How near an experience, yet
how ancient. So has passed away the prime
OF every season since Jesus, since Adam
saw tile young leaves swell and darkcn this
whole graceful universe ihrobs and changes
before us, renews itself at each instant, aud
noihing remains still. Nothing, but the
stern old Principle of MOt:rn, the eternal
Law Of Change, more constant Than the
morning and more ancient Than the stars,
the Power in whose grasp all these lrni
leaves flutcr aud wthcr aud We among
them, the one grand Permanance of the Wis.
ible universe, within whose plastic influence
! the buds and hroOds of each new senson
! chant unhrOken the eternal anthem OF Old
and New
Man and his institutions can only follow
the great laws 10y which Nature aud her ilI-
siitutions nre seen TO live. There is no es-
cape from her umerring morals. The Old
Inns its own place and the New its own. even
az she teaches. j. new institution to live (;
IL must rest on principles that date hack to
the origin of The universe; cOeval with those
wlicl, rule the green leaves aud the yellow.
Accumulated ages must supply the spirit
and to-day tho form; aud speedy despair
wuits upon that bankrupt enterprise which
! cannot bring forth from its treasury things
Old and New.
In stating this combination only state
that which is familiar TO the consciousness of
every reasonable nlan. We have no quarrel
with the pnst-ior are we not its children ?
DO We need better martyrs, better saints,
better heroes, Than people this great temple
Doubtless every form against which we can
protest, was born in prayer aud baptized in
tears. Every creed which we renOunce WINS
in its day tie trumphal anthem of the freed
intellect. We may do Justice TO these AN
Cestral glOries, while we bid them farewell.
u is only, tint in building the tombs of the
prophets we have 10 bury some Of their
works with them, as the Indian sleeps be-
side the memorials of his courage. But
some there are always who cling TO that
which should pass away, ns n child cings to
the body of It's dead parent aud will not re-
linqu'sh to II the grave. Yet the globe must
roll on, unchecked by all those passionate
tears; those clinging arms must untwiIe, or
share the scpuicer; life goes on, on, through
a series OF bereavements, aud each genera
ton bids farewell TO much that the heart
holds dear. We must choose between the
past forms which once embodied the eternal
spirit, and the other forms which are TO re-
new and embody il now. The stern alter
native always creates new division in So
clety; the old has The court, The senate, aud
the mar ket; The new has the poets, the peo-
pie, and pOsterily.
1.-The conservative and the rcformer are
thus tie permanent forces in society. Nei-
ther desires nt heart to be exclusive. The
reforner only wishes to secure the new
forms, willing to retain the old spirit; the
conservative is only anxious to preserve the
old spirit, which he thinks endangered by the
new forms. But they disirust each other