Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-08-13
WHOLE No. 1850.


Of the hierarchy so long as any question
was unswerved. $3.50
Oh, thou slave kingl thy days are
nearly numbered. Weighed art thou in
the balance and found wanting. Thanks
to the dear God, every free soul in this
land has heard on the West wind the
burden Of tie old prophecy-''Ari for
this matter belongeth unto thee; be of
good courage and DO it'' Let the full
fact burst upon US, that 500. 900 men,
the entire number of shareholders, are
keeping thirty millions in deadly COM
motion and feud, fast leading to civil war;
that one more inch of United States ter
ritory given to slavery implies that every
man, woman and child in the North is a.
slave that the pro slavery representa-
tion of Kansas, which is larger than all
New England, would, should il be adj
mitted, checkmate all the anti.slayery
power in Congress, for FIVE. centuries,
and make the Union absolutely intolera-
bic. Let each man feel that his personal
manhood is involved, and that crawling
in the dust is not living. Whatever be
our occupation, let US strike the task and
Join to save the State. Let the artist see
that he cannot be so good an artist nor
find so much patronage as if this was
settled. Let the farmer see that labor
is degraded and agriculture clogged.-
Let the man of letters see that the spec.
ial faculty smixed and MANNED by these
inlaid spirits of duty whose clamor
browns all other spirits. Let the moral
ist see that it is the Foundation of public
and private corruption; that in it the
olden prophecy is fulfilled, "because in
iquity doth abound, the love of many
shall wax cold" Thus each man, ap-
preaching the fact from his own Office,
by his own door, shall find that, as the
form of man cannot be found on the ge-
ologic plain with the vast extinct mon
sters which needed primeval marshes for
their element, so the highest spiritual
manhood cannot eo-exist with the dra-
son, poisoning the air. Thus has the
II finite Father of African and Caucasian,
made it one cause with them. If the
North should consent to slavery exten-
sion, it would forfeit not only all nobili-
ty which could yield because they have
none, but all their interests, which they
cannot yield. Every spirit which can be
aroused against it is now reused. Ma
ture is now in labor with millions Of hu-
man heaits which shall be sent on earth
to cry to this guilt-Anathema Marana-
tha ! We all live in different country
of that Of six weeks ago. trust we all
have undergone the birth adapted to the
new conditions. What is the praise or
blame when it is uniolded all we are
OVin " OC W
One thing is forever settled, that the
subject is to be definitely dealt with
1t is up now. and cannot be put down by
any power, nor postponed. Henceforth
no freeman is ever going to be quiet
1t is idle to think of it Go to Mary as
she sits beneath the Cross whereon her
only son hangs, with FIVE ghastly
wounds, and bid her calm her grief
Never, till she sees him arise from the
tomb, shall she be calmed. So we, Sit
ting here under the very shadow Of the
cross where Freedom hangs cruci6ed,
with hose FIVE bleeding wounds which
the last ten years have given, in each Of
which is tongue of fre-how shall we
be quieted 1t cannot be Not until
the resurrection morn OF Freedom rises
on our land shall we cease to weep, and
pray, and work, and watch, by the sep
ulchre. Already. oh, my brothers, 1
hear the fui of the angels wings as he
comes TO roll away the stone and break
the seal of the slave power.
Let us all be ready, standing, await
ing the victory of God. The mountain
is indeed high and strong our strength
is small our might weakenss. But if
each one surrenders himself this day and
hencefOrth to be the passive instrument
of the best instinct striving in him-hIs
acts will cease to be the work of mere
man and rise to the grandeur and inAu-
enee of direct acts of God. Each one
can be now workman for God. His
visible finger entering and moulding the
affairs of men. l beseech you, Oh
Christians, yield yourselves thus. Lend
l hand to the great cause of God and
nan and know that success is certain.
The tongue of God hath spoken it.
Not by might, nor by power, but BY
nv spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts. Who
.rt thou, %, great mountain? before
Ierubbabel thou shalt become plain"
Patience. application and cOurge over
:ome all difficulties
Many drops make a shower light
,ains make heavy purse.
1t is better TO go round the stream
han drown in crossing.
A Widows child is generally spoiled.
" the love Of its mother.
The best work mother can do is to,
axe care Of her children.