Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1855-07-04

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hangmenof the world-for You com
the day ofaxes and gibbets, and sea-
iolds--the wrath Of mantle light
ming Of Godl +. ~. : r. s
S. + See, how the tightening of Won
palaces on fire flashes up 70 the mid
- night sky Now, purpled hangme,
= of.the world, turn and beg for mercy
IS Where will you find it.? Not from
God, for. you have blasphemed hi,
: laws; Not from the people, for YOU
standbaptizedin their bloodl Her
you turn a and 10! gibbet There
! q scafiold stares you in the faeelN-
Az around you death-bit nowhere
pity! "A NJ
Now, executioners of the human
rqce, kneel down, yes, kneeJ down
llpon the scatfold, lay your s iSfnt,,,. a
heads upon the block; bless the axe
asst talls-th he axe you sharp ened for
i The poor mans neck. n "."r
T. Such is tllcmcss age orthatd ecIor-
alton of man, to tie kings of the
hworld-and shall we falter nor -
fshal! we stand back appalled, when:
fosuf feet press the very threshold Of
freedom DO you see quailing faces
around You, when our wives have
ib'cen butchered; when the hearth
stones ofsour land are red wild, thc
blood Of little children? \
t' W hat? are there shrinking hearts
Etor inHcrlng voices here when The
Herydcad ofour battle fields arise
and an call upon us to sign That pa,c6,t
Rcnf,--:or be accused forever
Sign. ifthcncxt moment his Lon
rings with the echoofthc GalIingaxe /
Sign by all your hopes in i G;g o. !
death, as husbands, fathers, as men i.
Seymour names to the parchment or
be. accused forever =.
Sign! not only for yourselves but
Tor all ages; for that parchment Nil
be the Text Book for Freedom. The
Bible ofthe Rights of Man forever,
= +. Sign! for that Declaration will 90 +
forth to American hearts forever and
speak to those hearts like the voice
OF God and its-work will not bcdone
until throughout this wide continent {
not a single inch of ground owns the
sway ola British king. =
Nay, do not start, and whistler I
With surprise. It is a truth, Sour !
icarts witness it: God proclainis it., c
llis2continentis the property afa free g
'eople, and their PROPERTY aIone,- c
lod' ! say, procIailns it. Look AT p
: ms strahge history OF d band of :
N'les and outcasts suddenly trans n II
ormed into a people: look at this ii,'
'onderiul exodus ofthc oppressed of q
le Old world into the Nfw! where "
icy came weak in arms, b 1t mighty Sc Sc
! God, like faith: nay, look at The N u
istory of your Bunker Ill., your. Ia
exIngton: where a band Of plain le
fmers Knocked and tramplcd down m
&c Panoply ofBrit;sh arms and then IN
II me, if you can, that God has not - II
ven America to be Grc! . # t.. VI
~ - hofslren for our poor hui Ga ga
an intellect TO climb the skies n nc
cree the counsels of the IAImipbty an
ne. But methinks ] stand among Is
G. awful clouds which veil the
of .Jchoy chs Ethrone.-
elhinks see the record Ing angel,
'eplnS as an angel can weep, r.
me trembling up TO that throne, vi
d speak llis dread message: ,, VIII
Father The OldWorld'is drcnch. al" an,
in blood Father, tits drenched , I,l,
.hthc blood ofmiIlions, butch cred ~. tIio
war, in persecution, in slow and h t"e
nding oppression Father, look l l.'
h one glance Of thine eternal eye. ~, ,.iI
k over Europe, Asia, Africa, and ' Won
lold eyermore, terrible sighs, man ola
tden down beneath the eppres. 81!
3 destinations lost in blood d. .
rider and superstition walking 100 n"s
ID in hand over the graves of their ' az
ms, and not a single voic e to- nc"
sper'hQPc 10 man ! i ny
The angel stands there, his hand, W. mo ;.
milling with the black record Of GU
ian guilt. But bark the voice on
oHah speaks out from the a wful o ot' !,
d., IN f.. r.. o. o. u
Let there be light again: Let f Go'
e be a new world. Tell my peo- n1t Inv.
the poor--the down trodden A. A." :,
Ions, TO 80 out from the Old - 80
Id: Tell them to go out from p li'
K, oppression and blood tell e enn.
10 go QUITO build upmy altar c c3ns
G new" IF .~~ cc'ls
ts God lives, my friends, I be- :" y. l y,
this to be his voiee! Yes, were rma ! :
eul trembling on the wing of r r,,tii'
ity, were this hand freezing in n.y.. J,
/, were this voice choking with .,s, "
asst struggle, ] would still with ~ sH.'i :,
lst waive of that hand, with the VI" N' q
,asp of that voice, implore you - /.
the truth-God has gin. -.
acrica to6e freci Yes ), as I ! unk sse
into the gloomy shadows ofthe obsta,
!, with my last gasp Iwould beg no ~,
, sign that parchment--in the lie III
Of God--in the names Of mil. M mi
whose yery..breath isnow hush bnild :,
intense expectation, az they tains
p to-you for the awful words world
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