Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-10-06

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than they have been accustomed to do.
| would have respect paid to our in tellsctual, as
well as to our moral embodiment; for We want men
and women who can be something, and do some
, thing, in an age like this. And the age so far
has been sadly wanting in such. l had began to
think that the time of heroes was past, there
seemed to be none left TO bless the world, 30 far,
in the nineteenth century. The poor old century
T went along for sixty years, with nothing remarka-
! Lle in it. Our country had plodded on for seventy
0 years without q hero; and | thought it must 60
Q on forever without one; but at last, suddenly, and
: against all expectation, q hero arose.; and the thick
darkness Of sixty years was illuminated by the
torch light Of a man, whose soul seemed kindled
= with FIRE from on high; and the age had a hero !
1t had but one, and we did not know what to do
e with him,--so we did, as had been done in all past
time deliberately put him to death. We hung
him-with his noble associates. This was his
end, 80 men said, and they buried him in the
ground. But be was only planted, and the earth
will not hold him. Like the seed that is sown, he
shall soon spring up and bear fruit, thirty, sixty,
t q hundred--yea, ten thousand fold. We murdered
him-so we thought-but such men as John
Brown never die. lie lives in the hearts Of thou,
s~ands-lives in the person of his SON for there
we're TWO Of the name; and john Brown, whatever
may be said Of Daniel Webster, still Tires. When
God himself shall die, then may John Brown be
+; put into the obituary Register, but not before. Till
he appeared there was no heroism, save among The
= slaves. There was moral heroism, but only an
0 nointed vision can detect this, and it is never hon
ored till a generation has passed away.
Aud why is it! let me ask you, that we have
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r intellectual or moral, has no tendency to produce
k heroes, nor to teach us what to do with them when
made. Governor Wise was not the greatest f oil
among US for he saw while others could not,
something Of the greatness Of our hero, and he de-
d clared that John Brown was the bravest and tru.
j. est man be had ever known but he could not
: trust a true and a brave man to live in this world,
t SO be passed him on to another.
!" 1t has been the rule, 10 this country and age, to
:. ask what the community want-what the market
J. demands-and The article is furnished, Thus our
1 demands are supplied. The farmer brings you
what will sell best so does the shoemaker, go
s does the tailor, the miiliner, and all the rest. To-
8 morrow, the minister comes, true to the same poll
Q cy, and he too brings such wares as the people
D will buy and pay for. 1t is his way of living; he
looks to the wants of the market, and supplies
e item. Once a different theology was wanted from
g what the present time demands, and we got it.
Infant spriukling was wanted, and the doctrine
, was preached, and the shores Of the lake Of fire and
| birthstone was strewn all along with the skulls Of
/ unbaptized infants, as the sea shore is strewn
> with shells.
Q Now, we don't want just this kind Of preaching
/. and not wanting it, don't pay FOR it, and don't gel
c it but we get something else. Antiquarians COL
lect the lances and spears, and armor of pas
e ages, and exhibit them as curiosities. No less SC
are the old theological doctrines. The old armoi
/, dosen't fit anybody now--no mans head fits the
old helmet, yot they were once " orn. So of witch.
> craft and some others of the Ole superstitions. We
I do no. hear them spoken Of in the pulpits Of to-day;
? yet witchcraft was once implicitly believed in, and
O then the preachers preached volumes os sermons
n about it, going to prove among other things, that
>. there were more witches than Wizards, because
. women we're both weaker and wickede- than men,
J. and hence Eve was first in the transgression.
d All this is now passed away. 1t only gracss
ia the cabinet of the Antiquarian, as the ancient ar
II NOR does. The same thing is true of our schools
i, Those who conduct them inquire not what oul
It youth need to fit them for the bat,e of life, but
q what will please the people. Hence we have
schools and academies all fitted out to do up tht
e work of education, in the most approved methods
as by a kind of labor saving machinery. Yet, as
!. there is no royal road to learning, / suppose if we
"a are to become really intelligent and learned, we
# must still work our passage on the road to wisdom
even as Newton did. Then we have another kind
3 of education. We have our Colleges, instituted
9 for the ed ucatiou of young men, and a few for
young women. They are inventions Of the past
/. The institutions that have given us what we cal
r our great men, and are preparing others like them
Edward Everett has discovered something about
woman's sphere it was strange, for l thought he
had long since ceased to discover anything. lie it
n q spectral being, one half human, ami one hal
d something else. He has however discovered tina
g woman cannot be kept 10 her present sphere. NJ
n wonder, while he is a candidate for Office TIT
" culture we need is widely different from his.
l asked Mr.. Butts whether he has tried, as
teacher, TO furnish to the age such culture as h
i finds to be needed. He admits be has not. Th
people do not want it, they demand something
ts else. Yet, we have q system Of Education of whicl
next to our religion we like to boast. Piety, pat
ii riotism and education are our national trinity, az
our education is as much below what we need q
X are our piety and patriotism. We have Harvard
W Yale, Dartmouth. The first gave US Everett, tn
last. Daniel Webster and Rnfus Choate (Webste
10 aud Choate are buried. Everett, though not ye
buried, is dead and ought 10 be ~entombed.) Blu
what need has the age of them ? What does i
u do With them {? Somebody thanked God for Dan
iel Webster, but l see nothing in the history 0
any Of these men to be thankful for.
Forty years ago. Webster uttered some nobl
words, in favor Of liberty; but no repented of then
long before his death. Choate never uttered an,
thing worthy to be remembered DR.. Nehemiah
70 Adams preached his funeral sermon, and to SHOW
his humanity he looked over the history of hi
life, and what do you think he found : lie coul'
Of course find whatever there was, for Choate ha'
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