Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1855-07-04
]'qrlor Climbing.
FOURTH OF JULY l77e.
GY GEORGE LIPpARp.

There is a silenccEin this HALEY
/ -4cIy VOICE - hushef --eNery face i.
stamped with a deep responsibilitv
f.. why turns every glance to ia,
F door?: why is it so terribly still9
- !, NC committee of three who lave
1Rt C. out all night, pl tanning a parch.
fhG ~, about TO appear. =. "
F That:parchment, E(he signatures Of
these men, written Niththc ben lyino
*on yondcrtable, viii either make the
world free, or stretc b those necks I'm.
on the gibbety ondcf in P6tter's field
or nail these handst to shc.door nosts
of these halls! lI -
: :" "A Iast the dcor74pcns--thc com
miftec appear. WHO arc these three
! ! men who come walking on TO John
/ llnncock's chair? j., +: :.
! The tall man with dark features
the boldbr and NE sand. hufd hair
holding the parchm ent in bis hand, !
Is the Virginia fitr4ler, Thomas JEFF |
I lcrson. That stout built man with
rcSG " Took and i parking EYES, is
the BAston map, John Adams. And
the calm faced man, with hAirdroop. /
ing in thick curls to his shoulders, /
dressed in plain coat and such obi. !
GUS MISUNDERSTANDING is thcPMl-
a1eiphia Printer, benjamin Frank. |.
lin. - -. .. - / - III
4hc three advance to the table.
nc parchment is laid there; shall it II
be signed or not? '%<H, r." +
: Then ensues a high dcbatc-then X
al the faint hearts cringe in corners Is
while Thomas Jefferson speaks out i
hts few bold words and John Adams G
pours out his whole soul. Them the ~
soft voice of Charles Carol is heard II
undulating in sylIables Of deep ma: b
sic. -: = T.. :. -. d
But still there is doubt; and that's
palc-taccd man, shrinking in one n
sofher, speaks out something about h
axes, scafTold and Igibbct! 49, "
tElbbetF echoes a fierce, bold Ew
Folcs, That startlesFn men from their
look gonderl a tall, tr
slender man rises, dressed, although HI
Z Is, summer time, in q faded red j
Hoax. See how his white hand I'M. lei
iulates as it is stretched out -how1< 4.
hat dark eye 1bufns, while his words Eth
ing through the hall. !. -" @-l pl
tGibbet! They may stretch our nj
ccks OH all the gibbcts in the land "
they may turn every rock into d WI
cafloid- every tree into n gaIlows TIL
every home into a grave, and yet lin
1e words oftllat parchment can new :
r die. d ~. =. =. FIJI IF. -" Lie
'laIeymay pour ont our blood on my
thousand scaflolds, and yet from etc
fery drop that dies the axe, or drops DEF
q the dust of the block, new mar the
r to Freedom will spring into birth!fthc
These words will 60 forth to the las,
orld when our bones are dust. TO TO
ose in bondage they will speak of en- !.
pe--to the mechanic in his work. dow
op---freedom. To the coward gra
lgs these words will speak, but you
t in tones Of flaftery. They will nan
eak like the flaming syllables on lion
lshazzer's wall-++"The days Of your ed,
dc and glory ard numbered Textbook
Is Of Judgment d,taus near r. You
e., that parchment willspeak to
kings in a language sad and terri. d
as the trumpet Of the archangel. that
u. have trampled on the rights ofiall, !
nkindlong enough! Atlength the woul
g . o. ,. human woe has pierced the Eture
oi COG and called his Judgement the
~ fou nave Waded on to voice
, !, l1 : over seas q blood; You have bis b
nPled to power over the necks of shoe,
IONS yon have turned the poor ery i