Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-10-24
NATHAN

The following notice of the life and death of
this estimable man is from the Anti. Slavery Stand
ard
A NOBLE AND VENERABLE MAN DEPARrEp.-Tid-
ings have just reached us Of the death Of one OF
the truest and noblest friends Of humanity with
whom it is has ever been our privilege to become
acquainted. Nathan Galbreath,o OF New Garden
Columbiana County, Ohio, has ended his earthly
pilgrimage in the peacefulness of q serene and beau
tiful old age, leaving to his children and a numerous
circle of friends rich memorials of q long life con-
secrated to noble ends. lie died on the 9TH inst
Ills daughter, i'll q letter now lying before US, gives
the following account of his last moments:
FEATHER looked his last on earth last night at d
o'cPk and passed away in the full possession OF his
faculties and an ardent interest in reform in short
all that made him what he was here and Will give
him a saints halo in the world where he has gone
After he lost his ability to read, which was only a
few days before his death. he continued to inquire
with earnest interest into all of good or bad that
our papers contained relative to the great struggles
Of freedom and right in Kansas and everywhere
else, up to the day before his death.
A friend. whom he has kown some twenty years
ago came on Monday night from attendance at
Progressive Friends meeting in Salem. lie took
a candle. looked into his face, to ace it he WAS still
old Isaac incendiary and robellious as ever-talk-
ed of old tines inquired earnestly about the meet
ing, asked his opinion of Free Love, Spiritualism,
and a variety of other things, giving his own with
as muCh clearnesb anu purity as L ever KNEW MN
to do. On Wednesday, tina. friend prepared him
for death, and saw him receive the last stroke,
calmly and with sweet childlike trust"
Nathan Galbreath was n man of rare intellectual
and moral qualities. Ia his early manhood he EN-.
igrated from North Carolina to Ohio. His senti-
ments and feelings on the subject of slavery at
that early day were those of q genuine Quaker, and
hence when the Anti. Slavery Movement arose he
welcomed il with all the earnestuess of a man in.
stinctively alive to every thing that promises relief
to suffering humanity. lie was from the first a de.
voted friend of BENJAMIN LUNDY, and no man
was more prompt to recognise ann respond to the
clarion tones of GARRISON when he proclaimed the
startling w%atchword of IMMEDIATE EMANCIPATION.
lie loved as his own life the PRINCIPLES of the So
ciety of Friends. but, discarded its sectarisnism
and testified boldly against the compromising
spirit which has 30 long ruled its course. lie
cheered the organization of the Progressive
Friends and cooperated with them so far as the
increasing inGrmilies of age permitted. Ga every
question of humanity and morals he instinctively
and spontaneously took the side of justice and
truth, regardless of consequences, and was never
known ~ falter or turn back under any temptation,
Without conventional polish, he was yet a good
specimen of the Zine old Quaker gentleman" and
won the respect and yeneration of all who met
him. His childlike modesty often made him 81
lent in public assemblies when his friends would
have welcomed the expression of his views, but 10
the social circle, in the presence of those who
knew him well, he displayed rare clearness Of
Judgment, a winning persuasiveness Of voice and
manner, and trenchant wit. He earned his daily
bread to the last in tho sweat of his own noble
brow. being rich only in those manly and Chris.
tian qualities which fitted him alike for life and
death, and the memory Of which is a far better in
heritance for his children than any amount of sill.
! YER and gold.