The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-01-19

: OF ONO, JANUARY 1854.
THE HEROES OF THE PEN.
Sin casde, sine sanguine---vicistts .-CIcERo.
BY PROF. COATES KINNEY.
In the old time gone, ere came the Dawn
To the ages dark and dim
Who welded the sword with mightiest brawn,
The world bowed down to him;
The hand most red with slaughtered dead,
Most potent waved command;
And Mars from the sky of glory shed
His l~igEtlike a blazing brand,
But fiery Mars among the stars
Grew pale and paler when,
At the Morn, came Venus ushering in
The Heroes of the Pen.
Not with sword and flame these heroes came,
To ravaga and to slay.
But the savage soul with thought to tame,
And with love and reason SWAY,
No good steel wrought that battles fought
In the centuries of yore,
Was ever so bright as they Furnished thought,
To cut into errors core;
And in the fight for truth and right,
Not a hundred thousand men
or the heroes old, were match for one
Ofthc Heroes Of the Pen.
For the weapon they WELD, nor armor nor shield
EnduTes for a single dint;
Nor glave withstands, nor bayonet steeled,
Nor powder, and ball, and flint.
1t touches the thing called Slave OF King
And the Man doth e.appear,
AS did from the toad the seraph spring
AT the touch of Ithuriel's spear;
Andlwhenever down it strikes a crown,
Says sovereign to serf, "Amenl
Amen! and hurrah," the pecplecry
"For the Heroes of the Pcnl"
Upon old tombs, those catacombs
Ofthe dead and buried TING,
Ihey lay the base of glory's domes,
And build with truth sublime;
And IRON their height, directing the Eight
the RICH. against the wrong,
Ihey I'LL the world with lettered might,
1 eloqnence and song.
Nor buried they lie with those who die
AT three score years and ten;
But atop the piles they have bulided, sleep,
The Heroes of the Pen.
Hurra, for the true, of old or new,
Who heroes lived or fell;
Trermopylaes immortal few!
Hurrah for the Switzer Tell
Up voice to sky the brave Graceful
Hurrah, for the Pole and Hun!
For the men who made the great July!
Hurrah, for WASHINGTON!
Yet old time past will triumph at last;
But hurrah, and hurrah, again,
For the heroes that triumph over Time;
The Heroes ofthe Pen!
After the reading Of the poem, Prot. Mans
field delivered an address to the Convention.
1t was an exceedingly able one, and gave
great satisfaction to all who heard it.
MORNING SESSION.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 18th, 1854.
The Convention met at 10 o'clock.
]. Torbett took the chair. Judge Emire,
chairman of the day previous, appearing
in the Hall, Mr.. Torbett vacated the chair.
Judge Emire stated to the Convention
that he did not attend the session of last
evening on account ofthe sickness of a
member of his family.
The first business in order was the report
the committee on permanent officers
Mr.. L,aubach, the chairman made the fol-
report:
PRESIDENT.
Ottway Curry, of Chillicothe Gazette.
VICE PRESIDENTS.
Judge ]: Torbett, Of Springfield Repub
lican.
]. D. Caldwell. Cincinnati Atlas.
r. H. Gilmore, GAINESVILLE Gazette.
s. S. Cox, Columbus Statesman.
Jos. McKensie, Kalida Venture.
Joshua Saxton, Urbana Gazette.
John p. McArdle, Mt. Vernon Register,
1914.
Judge Jonas r. Emrie, Hillsboro Gaz.
John Teasdale, Akron Beacon.
SECRETARIES.
W.. 7. Coggeshall, Columbian, Gin
John Coon, Cleveland Herald.
T. s. Slaughter, Gazette, Lancaster.
o. j. Victor, Sandusky Register.
The report Of the committee was accept
and the nominations unanimously CON
frmed.
Mr.. Curry, on being conducted to the
said he was under deep obligations for
the honor conferred upon him, and the con-
fidence reposed in him by his brethren of the
Press. He had been derisively asked,
what was the object of this Conventionl"
He had answered, loosely, 1--WE will meet
together and have a good time, generally"
If nothing more was accomplished, much
good would be done, but there were other
The advantage of personal ac-
luaintance would be very great; it would
promote good feeling, and soften acerbity.
What the Convention would do was to be
decided, butit had already done much. II
lad been the occasion Of a Poem that he
lnhesitatingly pronounced a gem in Wes-
.ern Literature, and it had called out an adj
lress which was worthy to BIO spread on the
witt wings Of the Press. =
The Presidents address was well %receiv-
ID. We are able to present but a mere
oft.
Mr.. Coggeshall said he was much indebt-
to the committee for the nomination, and
o the convention for his election rs Becre-
airy. He was willing to work all the time
or the convention, but his time was already
II consumed. lie begged the convention
o excuse him.
On motion, Mr. Coggeshall's resignation1
vas accepted, and j.. Wardsworth, Of the
Magazine was appointed in his