Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-10-18


The deco nnrass Of weeds ind footid mud
Now dry. now covered by the rising food,
In squares arranged Ay lines Of bank ard drain,
Smiles with rich harvest of the golden grain,
That, wrought from ooze by natures cnrous art,
~ pcarly whi,eness, cheers tic Negro's heart,
Smokes on tic M,ste,'s board ia goodiy shoT
A mimic pyramid of seeming snow.
\ nd borno bv commerce to each distant shore,
Supplies tie ,corld ,eiM one enjoyment more.
How philMnthropic, how self-denying is the
slave! lie appears to toll. and Drudge and stnryC
all to supply the world with cni"yments." lie
iorgoes all Injuries himself for the enjoyment,
of his master and 1.-THE rest Of mankind" Al
his delight is in seeing others happy. The name
Of Howard must pale its Intellectual fire. before
that Of the cunmonest stare. This 'pome larry
blnzcs with philanthrOpic lore
On upland slopes, with Jungle lately spread,
The lorGly maize uplits its tas,eled head;
Bro,d. graceful leaves of waving green appear,
And shining threads adorn the swelling ear
Thu matchless ear. whose stores npart
a feast that mocls the daintest powers Of art
So every taste whose ripper bounty yields
a graceful feast amid thousand fields
And sent, on mercy's errd,h, from the Stare
10 starring hjreiiags, s0res them from the Craze
In broader limits, by the lofter maize,
The silk-hke cotton all its veal displays;
Through forked leaves, in endless rows unfold
Gay blossoms sinsei with prrhle dyes and gold !;
To suns autumal bursting pods disclose
Their heeces, spotless ~ defending snows;
These, rich freight thousand ships receive.
thousand looms with fairy fingers weave;
ind hTeiiHg mu1tuHdes IN o'hcr lands.
Arc blessed riM rdiH,em from, tie Negro'S bands.
We are cantivated with such disinterested good
ness. Bright and beautiful rs fairy land is the
sunny South. Ole is almost tempted IT, break the
tenth commandment. The inhabitants Of thi,
bleak northern cline must he vCry much in error
about this right and necessary" institution @
their more fortunate Heighbors Only think, thC
! Negros hunGs are permitted to cultivate
The lucious cane, whose genial sweets difuse
More social joys than Hyblas honeyed dews
Without whose help civic feast is made,
No bridal cake delights.
'Tis his happy condition to
Cultivate "the sweet tobacco posey!"
The weeds soft influence, too, his hands pre-
That suothes the bcgsar's grief, the monarch,
! care,
Cheers the lone scholar at his midnight work,
Subdues alike the Russian and the Turk,
The saint leguilcs, the heart of toll revires,
; Ennui itself Of half its gloom deprives,
In iragrent clouds involves the learned and great
In golden boxes helps the tolls of state.
, And. with strange magic and mysterious charms
Hanger can stay, and bones and duns disarms
All, you lovers of the weed YOU arc not half $,
happy the STARE. Would You know true h0ppi
ness. hnster To the field, t, take up 1.-THE shove
and the hoe" and c'dt cate it, not it as ordi
nary murlals do 1t has an aromatic breath sweet
CT than the ETHEREAL odors of To-Day. The .IMtJrC
Sia kai Nekt0r Of Old IIermiopus is nothing To it
1t blossoms in the sun under the aborer's has d
Tue slave is never troubled with intellectual strug
giles. lie never makes reads books. Not he
These labnrs are tn" fiat, stale and unproftable
How far nubler to dig in
4 The deep morass of weeds and foetid mud -
Tho poem" sums up the ecstaces Of slave lf
thus:
Instructed thus, and in the only school
Barbarians ever kuow--a master rule,
The Negro learns each civlizng art
That soltens and subducs the savage heart.
Assumes the tone of those with whom he lives,
Acquires the habit that refinement gives,
ANrd slowly learns, hut surely, willie u slave,
!, The lessons that his country never gave.
lie adds that "for wiser teaching' the Negr
was stolen from Africa and sold in America, and
If they who bought him were by Mammon driver
Still have they served blind instruments of HEAVIER
And though the way be rough the agent stern,
No better mode can human wits discern,
M happier system wealth or virtue find,
To tame and elevate the Negro mind.
! For more than a century Milton has stood unri
va.ed and alnne-the King of Imagination Til
world had pretty much conceded that his eaui
would never dawn upon nur earth. How uncer
tain are all things here below. Milton is eclpseC
Nuif sed." Ii B. E.
Rochester, Sept. l3 1856.