Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-04
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E MIN G S /.

Tho wind, which, some hours since was driving
through the passes, aud descending the slopes of
the Rocky Mountains; which mourned across Kan
sas, trumpeted Of FIRE edom in Minnesota, and howl
cd over the prairies of Iowa and Illinois, has come
10 night against our sheltered home in the open.
filing oil the space between earth and sky
its tumultuous, onward march. 1t is a brave
heart, and brawny muscle that can, unHinchingly,
meet it face to face, in an open encounter. l con-
fess to n sometime bowling of the head and bend
ing Of the will. before the strong wind, which
"bloweth where it listeth."
The icy, ruthless blast Of winter are almost
gone, now that Spring comes to rule the earth, and
from her hand the winds are sent northward and
eastward with a somewhat eoftened, and more
generous buoy ancy. In the security Of my cham
her, l hear its wild music, as it passes the window
and roof tree, and oft listen, nor always in vain,
to its voice, active and purifying, searching aud
everywhere penetrating, unfettered and uneon-
auered, the voice Of the wind is not without its
lesson and inspiration.
Although few are endowed with that fno per-
cep,ion, which discourses a correspondence be-
tween the musical scale AID the 2rismatic rays
and hence while listening to the performance OF a
grand musical Composition, revel also in u crea-
ton of tremendously combined colors, yet musical
sounds give delight to every hearing ear even
though dull with idiocy. No sound can be heard
without producing an effect upon mental action
Each class Of musical instruments seems to give n
characteristic style of vibratory motion to tho at
mosphere, producing like corresponding effects up
on the auditory waves and spiritual emotions OF
the heores. Thus we tell Of the ruder-keyed in
struments, which give only horizontal, monotonous
vibrations, we receive pleasure from the often deli
cate. and gracefully curving lines which flow from
III, dute. The feelings are overwhelmed in the
resonant waves poured fourth by the full toned or
gan, but among stringed instruments we lind those
most capable Of scope and variety of vibrations
OF these, the violin is most common, and its charm
when skillfully played, is universally admitted
With its tones, thought wanders through long past
ages, or moves onward toward an illimitable future;
then i. speaks .plaintively and sorrowingly, it
reaches the depths of clark despair" Again with
hope and joy, it rides triumphaDtly, and, as if
borne on an angels wing, we penetrate the mys-
teries of q sublimer, diviner existence.
Every lite has n melody within it, and each life
is a note in the great choir of the created Universe
Some, surely, are oft discordant, some are form
ed on a minor key, and take a correspondingiy
somber hue, others are heightened and fiery with
thought and passion.
Some take hold on oil the details Of life with
such q we'll balanced comprehension, that it is ev-
ideut they represent the whole octave of the mat
ural scale,"-while others honestly buster, and
hasten along like o vigorous old tuge.
The life Of one who dwelt with us some moons
only, was typi6ed by q bird song, another's passed
through many years like the simple, gladstone
murmur of the clear, uniailing rivulet by the hi
side. The memory Of many young and beautiful
who have gone to a brighter home, is like the ech'
of a sweet serenade heard from afar at sumnie
twilight. A few are noble chants, sounding witt
stern integrity. intellectual power, and moral he
roism. They are inevitable leaders in the BATH
Of freedom, which, 10 some form, mankind are al
ways fighting. The martial fife of political clique
may deafen many to their call, still it will not TAI
Of recognition and response. As their tones, s
full, and unfaltering, proclaim the business of jus
tice and the injustice of wrong; they miDgie lik
parts of o grand anthem, and there is a prtphec
that all nations and all tongues will yet add thei
voices. making one unbroken, worldwide concer'
whose constant acclaim of true lives will be Lii
erty, Fraternity and Equality"
Truth, with unerring accents outaoweth unit
every world and for all intelligences, and tina
which cometh to man it is his privilege to hear an
learn, for it comprehends all Of his existence 1t
relations and dependencies. In proportion as min
receives acknowledge becomes wisdom and throug
the guidance of wisdom the inner life, and hene
also, the outward life becomes less discordant.-
Thus likewise are the affections expanded, strength
ened and elevated. and fiom regarding self, or tn
home circle exclusively; the reception of trut
divests of narrow prejudice, and brings a we
founded appreciation Of the fact of human brotI
erhood. "1rue friendship" has, in all times, oee
a favorite theme, but its reality and permanent
are the result of immutaule principles, which
ing alike comprehended by different persons. eau
their sympathies to flow responsibility. Truth is &
bond of spirit life, which neither time nor eterr
ty can sever, it is the vital elemenr of those live
which know the best love.
The wind has not ceased to blow this drea'
night, but ss it bears on its course over the dar
ened earth, il is, to the listener, a voice, which tie
eth Of the triumph of an infinitely mightier po'
or, the truth which reaches al, which purifes a
A. E.. L. r.
March 10, 1857.
SPAIN BEFORE THE FRENCH CoNQUES