New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-03
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ng. ~, -. 49,, 81 vou- task John
Nicl,I ! ire man whom John Mitchell must IN IKE N
rsace with John Mitchell ten years ago ioE an"
liberty and J, hn Mitchell now WISHING ne "cre an 90
ISmsn slaveowuer John Mitchell in lsis Asserting tlo
liberty Of man sgainst the crown and scepter anu
Mitchell in 1884 asserting the sayewbiP ami the MASTER
ssArs, The rights OF msn ...,,,,
please e Moses sleep and come back from yoir refea,
h. lind the duet Of 1900 years, to reconcile joan "e
- iS;rg rarley with kings and agtocrat, WIKI john
N;tchi slaves through rice swamp or along ne
rows of cotton on his plantation ..,,
The public wish know how happens even Il >ayeIy
ce be deft ed ha; the defense OF It should De 50 con
o. NAL task 10 Mr. Mitchell There are some ne,es airy
tails that honorable do not like to perform II cap
tai punishment be allowed some one must DC ZIG uans
o.S rs fuuetons But what sh 3uld think i; those
- men ,bat had spent their lives in endeayoT @ abolish
he eaows and nut away the baEoaTo1s raitns 'Iliq
ire should rush into the first vacancy aad paraie wan
oc;ferous rride their elevation 70 the dignity o; hlh
ran or an execuiioner There were men eHoTsn 90 70
tLs dirty work Of Slavery men born upon eNei N'h
Ier TASKS We did not expect 20 great rcior7ner-
CHAMPION Of Human Rights, afer &n illusrous ci'cIn
navigation Of the globe as martyr iof ireesJ usS n
20 fTs hours OF liberty in Rubbing down the SOU ana
snSyincd limbs OF Slavery Some other man surely might
have been fourd for such junction ~
Bat we cannot continue in tbs painin stTa1 iae I'
Of such man as John Mitchell has been thought 70 be-
cannot excite or,y Indignation There Is PITY TOO ilero
Is strong AID generous uprising in every neart
that it sha,l be We ins;nchVeiy ieei snHt u -
dreamore OF those dreams Of impossible dshonor tha
sometimes torment GOOD and We Stani waning ivrN
To- break and the visionary horror 10 y away back 10 INC
limbo OF mufky folly. whence II issued
Sir had ali this THAI has happened passed IN dfSS1
would Won rot have waked ba,hed in sweat 70 say shnd
dering What hoTTid nightmare has been es't'de o.
my soul God from even such VISIONS OF wrong
TLsf which YOU would thus feel do feel TOT YOU Id'
which You would Thus calculate 10 God 10 eacn
other tell you no news SIR, when say tna. you N.Y.
fallen down In the sight OF the whole community from tae
Mace Of chsrnion of Liberty t. the servue once OF
creeping all The dsyso your HE on your oeIy i9r SaVe
Once you stood ike some great oak, whose woe clicu
ference wgs tcd up above all the pastures me goy %
el beboSrs and a covert for thousand tlind singing
birds Now you lie full length along the gfO1d "ith
mighty ruVured roots ragged and upurneu 10 he"'en'
in brok IN horsh. and despoed leaves Never again
shall bus band predict spring from your swSnS ouus
Never again rha Gods singing eFas OF hoellS eoe
your waving top Fallen Uprcoted Doomed to the
Ak and the hearth!
YOU dismal age desoate and cherries solitude OF n
irmities Time that would have carried you onward,
arded with achievements worthy OF man hvnS t'r
men and surrou rded by the genial sympathes OF loving
hearts row will drift YOU to polar solitude, without
love or sympathy. or pity, or honor fon WIZ sweep
codly on on dark current like an ever ronS lceh2s
that rolling and resoundng ever so mach gains no re''
But there i future beyond this on earth There
time promised and already dawnng in whieh the hu
man family shall be one great brotherhood anu Love
shall be The law of man In that golden age there sha
be research MADE for all the that since the woi
began have wrought and suffered for the good o. tner
eu usmes From the ob'curity into which Despo'sm ma
Gun all who dared defy IT, from the shades ana darH
ness of oblivion by which oppressors would cover dO"h
the memory of all who proclaimed human right ana ma
man liberty they will forth shining like me SUM- ana
none be rgotte that aborod 10 bring to pass tho w0l
(reedom In that day, while ten thousand names shau
no heard in al their number not one shall utter th gone
ond forootten name-John Mitchell.
Eut come back to u.s. John Mitchell il is not yet too late
Our heats and our hands shall help you, ii you will but
stir your,cf 10 break that enchanment that some maSn
mischief come from the misty realm OF cruel oppression
las brenthed upon you. The enehan,men and the en-,
are when any bold hand snaehes ana
rCrcrrs his wand Reverse your utterances You nave
been betrayed into saying great folly You have been
betravCd into poor and deceitfu defense OF IT. you
abide by il will sink you out of the sight Of All good men,
and for ever But recall il Reverse the rod Say To us,
snake in my anger and defended in my wrath; but
il l. not worthy of me 1t no, the truth OF my heart or
of nv nature There is power Of resurrection Tor you
in these few words great that of God final angel III
will m YOU up TO our hearts again will place you where
Gods crown with which he will crown all true and nooe
souls hall rest undimmed upon your brow
But, you viii not assert your better nature ana
achieve the nobest OF your life victory over your
self then sorrowfuly leave you, like some false
and hideous image, around which, for the nomen cnat'
rng priests of have burned incense but soon
10 be ca,t out even by them detected and deseeraied
IDOL forgotten Of men, and remembered only Of vormn'
lizards that crawl darklng beneath the twilight OF poison
ms weeds that grow and twne about IT,