The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-07-31
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FREEDOM.
E" Freedom is a precious boom"

| Freedom is precious BOOM
Aye, Freedom, thou art precious boon |!
but as yet America may not boast of thee.
Comes there not ever upon the moaning winds
a voice of wailing,-a clanking of unseen
chains, which wrankle and tester in the heart
of our brother man? Speak the thunders
no tidings of the monster who fetters thou
sands down in the dark dens of poverty, ig-
norance, and crime--or sends them reeling,-
frightful holocaust Ito a drunkard' grave
Bear tie zephyrs no sighs of the gay, the
beautiful, the gifted, d,-once the light and Joy
of many an Eden-home-now blighted by
the polluted, sirocco breath of vice
Turn whichever way we may, we behold
servile, bowing, cringing servitude to gold,
the god of this world, and fashion, his boon
companion. These have held an iron sway,
until man, the image of his Creator, receives
with apparent pleasure the manacles which
fetter his free limbs, and free'r spirit, and
hugs with delight, the chains which corrode
his life away. Must it be ever thus Must
Virtue, Truth, Justice and Temperance ever
lie bleeding beneath the gilded juggernaut of
the purse-proud of our land? Shall we who
boast our fathers blood which flowed upon
the battlefield, free as the mountain torrent
unmindful of the glorious cause for which
they fought,-bow in servil. Tonnage to the
dictHm of the heartless, souless image OF man,
because lie is surrounded by the glttering
trnppings of wealth? Forbid it, Heaven Be-
meath the humble vestm nts OF honest power
ty, beat hearts OF nob!er, freer, boiler aspira-
tons and emotions than often find resting
Place amid the romp and power of greatness.
These hearts may slUmbero on for a time, seem
ingly unconscious of the wrongs done them and
society But, the lime will come they will
yet rise, true TO themselves and the rohle
virtues which swell their bosoms, and assert
the majestic sublimity and grandeur Of Free,
dom-Fieedom Of intellect, Freedom OF
thought, ht,-Frceiom in all that causes man tc
approximate to the character and perfections
Of Duty,-Freedom from all that deba
ses and degrades those Attributes " hch place
him only a /" Ii tie lower than the angels"
Now, vice and intemperance stalk hand il
hand, unrcbuked into the midst of every So
ciety, and fec indeed, dare turn from thcil
ulholy greeting, and treat them with The
witt erin5 contempt which they know thoi
baseness so richly deserves E',n virtues self
of!encr smile than frowns upon these /" whitet
scpulchres" Aye, those smiles will yet turr
ard pierce like poisoned daggcrs into her OWL
bo ON If Mey are murderers,, size is The
guilty accessory, the prime insIigator ;-ant
be assured, ja,t punishment will, in due time
be me;,d ut to b,th by Him who cannot
lie"
Bat the time will come cen now fsin
murmerings are heard, like the groanings o
the lar off thunder, and soon will burst upol
our ears The joyful cry
''Up--up with Freedoms banner!"
The storm of strife is near-and an army
headed by Luther, who will be the "ruf
fan ;" of greater reformation" will seiz
with strong grasp, the surgny billovs 0
crime, in whatever guise, and hurl then
from the land. Then planting the standar
Of Virtue and Truth, whose strong roots sha1
strike deep into the earth, its bold iron
; reaching heaven ward, will catch the frs
; rays of the rising sun and reflect them wit
5 the brightness of Jehovah's smile, upon al
, who with true and upright souls, can stan
: erect, with one hand upon their heart, til
other upraised toward Heaven, and exclain
+ awe are free-we are free We have burs
I asunder our bonds of sin and vice Wv
t serve no task-master-We acknowledge n
P god but God the Creator" Then Earth wi
a have
It "No beauty to see,
r Like the broad beamng brow ola nation rhep free"
n BALDwINsvILLE Mich. C. II. II.
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