Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-03-31
TIE BURIAL OF STEVENS AND HAZ.
LETT.

The remains Of Stevens and Uazlett we're taken
10 Eaglewood, N. j., for interment. The remdins
we're forwarded by express, and reached Railway
on Saturday, when they were taken at onco 10
Eaelewood. Attached to the buston-hole of Sic
vens' coat, by red and blue ribbons. was a plain
black India-rubber ring, but for whom IL was in
tended his friends we're not informed. His be-
trothed accompanied his remains from Charles
town, and was jJined at E~aglewood by his father
and sistet. Mr.. Aaron Stevens, the futher of A.
D.. Stevehs, Mrs. Pierce, his sister, both of Nor
witch, c.. Mr.. Meech, his lncle. ttoti Criswold
CT, and Miss Dunbar, his betrothed from Ohio,
were present. No relative Of i1aslctt attended,
The Rev. Dr.. Arms, Of Norwich, Conn, opened
the services by reading ihe hymn entitled Come
unto me and win give you fest which &ds beau
ti'ully sung, with the sweet accompinent of a we'll
played piano.
In the course Of his rem -rks which followed he
said -
II seems very hard for the young to die. But
then, my friends, It Ia Better to die than do worse
to give up principle, to 1elenquish liohOr, to Dc
wrong. You doubtless remembe wheu the stea'
mer Arctic was lost upon our northern coast, amid
all the confusion of such du occasion, when hard
sailors aud men. called bravo, were trimming hi;h.
er and thither, distracted at their imminent peril.
a Lad stood alone at his gun, firing a~treGular inter
walls, as a signal Of distress, dhd to induce some
passing vessel to come to their assistance. 4
thick fog was upon the water, like the mist Which
n~veloped US this morning, and Though itcame the
quick flashes and the sullen booming OF this signal
gun. The noble ship went down, and With her
this brave lad; and when the boys father was 10.
formed of his loss, and of the circumstance IL
which / have alluded. no said that he was com
forted, that it was far better for his son to die thus
than to mingle his fea.s with those Of the distrac
ted crew. You remember, also, that BishOI
Crammer was Induced, by the dread Of suffering
to sign a recantatiOn Of his faith; but upon a re
consideration of the value of lie here and of lif,
eternal, he retracted his recantation. and gave hi
body to be burned. And, 1t is said that when LEI
to the burning pile, he thrust bis right hand int
the flames, exclaiming, THAT hand that guilty
hand ! which had signed the disavowel of hi
principles. 1t is better to die as friends than t.
do wrong. In the execution Of these men, who's
funeral we are here to attend, stern Justice har
exacted the very Utmost penalty-death. ] can
hot blame the court or the law which condemn
them; l suppose that the law Must be ACQUITTED
from all blame; neither can | in all RESPECTS com
mend the example Of the deceased to the yOuDI
men whom / see around me.
When Cuba was invaded, the ring leader of tn
flibusters was executed, but. at the same time, hi
followers were p%ardOned and sent back to thi
country. This was the mercy of despotie Spain
but Virginia has demanded and taken the yer,
last drop Of blood within her tedcH. Bit l am toll
that Stevens was g%uiltleas 81 any desigb to shet
blood, and that, in all Fespectsi he was a mos
kind.hearted, humane and Christian man. l d.
not know bow be became involved IN the afai
which ended in his execution. But in his love o
the oppressed, even to his laying down Of his lf
for them, and in oil THOSE qualities which 60 t
make DIP tfde manhood. / car cohinehd him |
the young as on example. r
After the singing Of.he hymn, Nearer to Thee
o God" Mr.. fheo. Tilton, of the LhdepehdeHI
said, in substanee.tdat I. was not the speeehes;bu
the hour itself which evoked their sympa,hies, anC
by the glistening eyes and moistened cheeks Of al
present, he could SOC that sympathy was not want
ing. He connected, this occasion with the buria
Of that old pstriaroh-John Brown. Upon BIZ
grave, among the Northern mountains, the snow
were yet lying. lie could scquii neither the lev