Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-11-24

what use are YOU ?" There are many Of us who
live a worldly and not n beautiful life, who would
lind 1t pretty hard to stand the test Of the little
towet's catechism. When we make a present we
ma II dttl, suit to decide what to give. We desire
that q gift be valuable, But there is one coin
which in the market of sentimont is always gold
1t IS the coinage Of Natures sweet flowers Gap.
plausel. The language OF flowers always goes to
the heart. 1t is n language not in books, but it is
written in the hicorJglyph of Nature itself. ! do
not Know how they learned it, but we have all had
proof that they understand it; and if person who
has reache the years of discretion has never felt
tins language of flowers go direct to his heart, |
can only say that | look upon him with feelings OF
com miseratlOn. So much for the beauty Of flow
ers, those messengers of Heaven that arc so con-
stantly re5uking our gross utilitarianism, and
teach us that Goa has made life to be lovely rs well
as useful. l believe that we arc Americans, for |
think a great deal about being American Zap
plause') II we try to be something else than
what we are, we simply make ourselves ridiculous.
If we try to be Counts and Dukes, we are just
nothing at all, neither Counts, Dukes or Americans.
The true course is for a man to be himself, the son
of his own father, and the fellow-citizeu of his
own lellow-citizcn tApplause With this great
idea in the minds of the people, | can see a noble
future Tor America in social retinements and beau.
tifnl tastes. We are to have n life far more beauti-
full and festive than we have ever known. What
a connection there is between the cultivation OF
uoNcFS hHu lle TCnncmentSO OF nOmci win nOrll-
culture we have seen n new system OF architecture.
What name stands higher than that of Downing ?
go where you will and you will see some memorial
of his fue fancy-sUme monument of his architec-
tural skill. We are a business people, but we be-
licve in being a refined people, land will welcome
the day when in our homes, in the green fields un-
der the spreading trees, we shall enjoy ourselves
with childhood and age, man and woman, music
and flowers, and will receive the benediction oil
God smiling down upon US. (Applause).
One of the best mines of our Zine is DR.. Osgood
and his occasional speeches, out of the pulpit, may
be looked to, always, for valuable suggestions
Called upon at the Publishers Festival, the other
day, to reply to q toast offered to the Fine Arts
he said: -
Whilst speaking of our American Art, We
must not forget that we have something TO do will
furnishing subjects, and whilst scenery is compar
niiyc,y little within our control, the human figure
is very much what we make it, and is monstyOuSl,
abWSed. We are naturally u remarkable good
boxing people; but we have done n great deal t.
spoil our looks, and it would be a very good thinG
for our Academy of Design to apply to the Su
preme Court for a writ of habeas corpus to rescu'
the human body from imprisonment and abuse a
the hands of our false fashions and monstrous diet
etics-from the letters of buckram and whalebonc
from rum and tobacco, which defle and deface 81
many Of our men; from the Stops and confection
er's trash which gives dyspepsia and the vapors t.
so many of our women. Let US have a free and
/ fair physical Development, as the basis of q noble
intellectual, and social life; let us also he willin,
to be true to humanity in our own way, withOu
aping every European folly, and who will doub
that a new day Of beautiful taste and artistic &c
MUS will dawn upon us ?"