Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-10-20

the relation Of things TO each other, to trace cause
mp TO effect, and reason back from effect to cause.
But Intelloct-especially in regard to morals-is
often ~woefully mistaken; and when the Heart is
altogether right, the Head is sometimes altogether
wrong, and places the mans influence where il
should not 10. aud whete he does not desire TO
have it. Bus wheo some great event, like that
which we have assembled this evening 70 COM
memorate, speaking not the voice Of any party,
not the voice Of any sect. but Humanity speaking
through John Brown as with the voice Of Divinity
itself, it heeds not the barriers which Intellect has
put up, but leaps on its lightning GRAND from
heart To heart, 1t is the power Of God made man
ifost in the Soul Of man; and they who receive the
message, whether they be Democrats, Republicans,
or Disunioni@is; whethet they are members Of the
most anti~slaVery church, or the most pro-Slavery
organization; whether their religious faith is after
the mos, approved fashion of orthodoxy, or cut
according to the most unpopular pattern Of So
called inf ielty; these distinctions, which Intellect
has made, are for the time, forgotten. and the
hearts VI such, beat in harmony With the great
heart Of God. Although many, Very many, may,
because Of their position IN Church or State re.
f'ain from speaking all Of the sympathy and ad-
miration they feel for Osamatomie Brown, yet be-
'iVNIHR III w VuNcuCJ U OOu = truIO, L CANNOT
doubt but there is a wide-extended and deeply felt,
though imperfeciIy expressed sympathy for John
Brown,And Gov. Wise and the south are we'll con-
vinced that such 10 the case.
PASSING AWAY.
John Brown has gone hence. fits life was full
Of works FOR oppressed humanity, and his children
have been %baptised into oneness Of spirit with
their father. The mantle which he dropped when
he assembled in Gods fiery chariot Of martyrdom,
they have reverently taken up, and will ~worthily
wear. Aud let us remember that many of US will
also soon pass away, and we shsll find that our
allotted t me is quite short enough for the work
we have to do-for she labor which crushed hu-
msnity is demanding at our hands. And wha. Of
those who come after uS ?-those who are living
within the influence of our daily life, and whose
forming character i, being in part moulded by our
parental handsi When we have passed from this
stage of existence, feeling thss we have fought the
good fgbt and kept the faith, what will be the
daily, practical commentaries of our children upon
the life which their parents lived Will they, by
walking in the path which we have trod, and car
rying forward The work which our hands left un-
finished, thus, by their deeds, rise up and call US
blessed p Or will their daily life be a daily con-
demnation Of our course2 While protesting with
their lips to venerate our memories, will their &C.
tions say to the worl1. Our father and our mother
were fools and fsnatios-we follow not after them,
or walk in the path which they trod 2
A Lesson TO BE LEARNED.
From the lesson written at Ilarper's Ferry we
may learn at least three things which should es-
pecially interest the ci:izens of this Republic.
FIRST, The weakness of The South when left to
Der own resources.
Second, Ths obligation of the members of the
Federal Government to light on the side of the OPP
pressor and against the oppressed.
Third, The inability Of the North to protect her
own citizens.
If we receive the testimony Of Shareholders in
regard to the first point. we should think the South
was the Union, and the Union wa. the world
The extent of Southern territory. and the number
of southern slaves. ia 10y no means MI INDIGESTION Of.
the strength of the South. For whatever her poll.
,icians and her priests may say of the beauties of
her system Of patrisrchial servitude, aud the affec-
tionats relation existing between the master and
Lis servant. ''she powers that be- know that they
are surrounded by a dangerous population, which
they must check, and curb, and cabin, and confnS
by local police, and patrols, and stringent laws.
When they wish to exhibit their institution to the
admiring gaze of outside bsrharians, they blow up
the bubble until il becomes tinged with the pris-
ma'ic colors Of the rainbow; bur let the spear of
p some Jnhn Blown but touch its surface, and it
! freaks, and he naked fact stands out before yea,
that the South keeps COZ slant watch and ward over
her slnees. and dare net trust chem unguarded for .
: single hour. IL is as much ~ she can possibly do to
watch her slaves when in II state Of quietude, and
J Il il more han she cun accomplish To crush an in
rurrectionary movement. Aud because of this
weakness. j Ihn Brown and his score Of followers
y nut-mstched the Old Dominion and her volunteers
g his Provisional government was far more mighty
= han the Commonwealth of Virginia. II the set
l. Element OF The question at issue had been left TO
p John Brown aud his followers on the one side.
e and Gov. Wise and his militia on tho other. l do
not risk much in affirming that the Provisional
= government would have been established ere this
d from the Atlantic, beyond :he Blue mountains,
: from the southern border of Pennsylvania, to the
northern boundaries of the Carolinas; snd the
motto Of the State-"So always TO Tyranss"-now
illustrated only by her official seal. would have
had a far deeper Significance pending the estsb-
|lishmens of John Browns Provisional Govern
ment.
Bot Virginia bad provided for the hour Of dan
ger. She had obtained from the members Of the
Federal Government in the North as we'll as at the
South, a pledge that they would use their power
to protect her and her institutions in such an
emergency. And the member of the Government
redeemed their pledge; they sent their Marines to
"a shoot down the men whom the Virginia soldiers
d did not dare to look in the face--they sent them
is to capture the heroes upon whom Virginia chivalIy
10 feared to lay So much AS the weight Of its little M
ger. In the name ofthe Constitution and the laws
Of the Union. on behalf and by direction Of the
Y members Of the Federal GOVERNMENT, the Marines
c!utched John Brown and his companions by the
II throat; some they butchered on the spot. and 9TH
d ers they flung wounded, bleeding, and bound into