Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-04-29
JAMES W. WALKER.

A brothers spirit has passed on" and l am
happy lie is happy, and give him joy Of his
change
We have each our individual attractions. To
me, so 1t was that there were not four men beside
in the wide world, the sudden departure Of one Of
whom could have had power to take such hold Of
me, not to become SC much an event in my exist
encc. And the other three are scattered full many
a thousand miles over land and sea. So my own
hearts brother, has gone where I wish to go
gone to an eternal Love, and to be onel
Doubtless many causes united to drain the life
current from his system, and waste il to it's final
ebbing. But not all feel, how greatly his long,
continued and crushing labors in the Anti-Slavery
cause, contributed to the result. What a sad sac
rifce for the sin Of the master, and the wo Of the
slave! How wrong to make that ntonementl
Such man ought not so to break through ALL
even to tearing himself from this sphere, to reach
his destiny in the Immortal Chimes. We shall yet
learn that vicarious expiation is an unwisdom, a
siSequal to that for which it satisfies. The duty
now is to lire even so that here for no other
business. So we shall one day come to be just
though it deny the pleading prayer of a world
But in what an evil case that world must be, that
its miseries should condemn its most noble spirit
to this untimely fatel
But James Walker is one of us STILL We shall
not let him part company from us now. He is yet,
and all the more, champion in our Anti-Slavery
band We have not lost him from our ranks, nor
from his post leader in the thickest Of the bat
tie. Only he will be wiser to aid, than he was
before, and will make us wiser too. So he will
help us, and he bids that we shall one day know
IL. We shall not forget him. but he will be re-
membered by many near and far, in the New
World and across the great waters His old COM
panions in arms will still think of him-those who
have preached the evangel of freedom by his side
and many circle everywhere, of those whom he
has helped convert to a truer position, and high
er fidelity will long miss him when they meet
together. lie will still live in human hearts.
And friends shall cling around the dear ones he
has left behind, Though yet they not left-can
love leave its own y and help to make them strong
in this time Of their souls great loneliness For
them kindest hearts in their depths shall pray,
"AH is sceu!"
"A voice fell like falling STAR
when he was going up-"All is well and shall
not they say so, toih him? And another fell as
the opening sky closed in upon him, his own rap
turous watchword in that great hour of spirit
birth" Excelsior !'--and shallit not become the
voice of cheer and Strengthening to us all, our
rallying cry in the onward, upward path beiore?-
So will say that he has penned the great epitaph
of our brother, through whose inspiration spirit
wrote,
"Lifo's ftful fever over, he sleeps well =
And more than one will add with Longfellow,
Day after day we think what he is doing,
In those bright realms Of air;
Year after year his upward steps pursuing,
We see him grow more fair.
Thus do we walk with him, and keep unbroken,
The bond which nature gives,
Thinking that our remembrance, though unspoken,
May reach him where he lives;
And though at times impetuous with emotion,
And anguish long suppressed,
Our swelling hearts heave, moaning like the ocean
That cannot be at rest:
We will be patient, and assuage the feeling
We can not wholly stay;
By silence sanctfying, not concealing,
The grief that must have wayw
And yet can not say the last two verses, fol
then they would not be true. o! no grief for The
gone from earth-no tears for The spirit 6ornl We
are all going to that heavenly land-no lament 70,
those who ripen into il rst-not one sigh for those
pho hare gone before!
JOSEPH TREAT.
CLEVELAND WArER-CuRE, April 18th. 1854