Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-01-07

Tor martyrdom, and they accept %serenely their
places. Hardly a book under its roof but the Bi.
bic. NdSbund so familiar as prayer. lie takes
them in his right hand aud in his left, and goes
down to the land of bondage. Like the old Pu-
ritans of two hundred years ago, the muskets are
on one side, and the pixies upon the other but
the morning prayer goes up from the domestic al.
tar as it did frcm the lips Of Brewster and Carver,
and no morsel is ever tasted without that same
grace which was made at Plymouth and Salem (;
and at last he filings himself against the gigantic
system, which trembles under his single arm.
You measure the strength of o blow by the force
Of the rebound. Men thought Virginia a Com
monwealth he reveals it a worse than Austrian
despotism. Neighbors dare not speak to each eth
er; no man can travel on tho highway without q
passport ; the telegraph wires are sealed, except
with a permit the State shakes beneath the
tramp Of cannon aud armed men. What does she
fear' Conscience. The apostle has come to tor
ment her, and be finds the weakest spot herself.
She dares not trust the usual forms of justice. Ar
raigned in what she calls her court, is a wounded
man, on a pallet, unable to stand. The civilized
world stands agbast. She says, st is necessary
Why ? i stand on a volcano. The Titans are
heaving beneath the mountains. Thought-the
earthquake OF consciencc-is below me- 1t is the
acknowledgment Of defeat. The Roman thought,
when he looked upon the cross, that it was the
symbol OF infnmy-only the silest felon hung
theie. One sacred sacrifice, and the cross nostles
in our hearts, the emblem Of everything holy.
Virginia eroets her gibbet, repulsive in name and
! farm, Ona p,ap n a. n fr,u, II 70 E,j with tpn
hundred thousand broken r~o,iers in his hand and
henceforth it is sacred forever.
said that, to vindicate Puritanism, the children
must be better than the fathers. Lo, this event.
Brewster, aud Carver, and Bradford, and Win.
throp, faced a New Epgland winter, md defined
law for themselves. For us, their children, they
planted and sowed They said-'Lo! our rights
are trodden under foot; our cradles are not salo;
our prayers may not ascend to Cod They formed
a State. and achieved that liberty. John Brown
goes q stride beyond them. Under bis own roof,
he might pray at liberty; his own children wore
no letters. 10 the catalogue of Saxon heroes and
martyrs, the Ridleys and the Latimers, he only
saw men dying for themselves; in the brave souls
of our own day, he saw men good as their fathers
bu. he leaped beyond them, and died for u race
whose blood he did not share. The child of sew.
en:een years gives her husband for n race into
whose eyes she never looked. Drawer than Carver
or Winthrop, more disinterested than Bradford,
broader than Hancock or Washington, pure as the
brightest names on our ca:alogue-nearer Gods
heart, for, with a divine magnanimity, he compre'
hended all racos-Ridley and Lat'mer minister
before him. lie sits in that heaven Of which be
showed US the open door, with the great men OIL
Saxon blood ministoring below his feet. And yet
they have a right to say, We created him.
Lord Bacon, as he takes bis march down TIL
centuries, may put one hand on the telegraph, end
the other on the eteam engine, and say. 'Thest
are mine, for | taught you to invent So the Pu
ritans may put one hand on John Brown and say
You are ours, though you have gone beyond us
for we taught 700 to believe in God. We taugh
] yoa - say, God is God, and rrample wicked Law.
under your fest, And. now. from that Virgins
E gibbet, he says to ne, The maxim I taught ysu
practise it! The principle l have manifested u
you, apply il! If the crisis becomes %sterner, NEE
it! IF the battle is closer, lie true to my memory
Men say my act vas c failure. I showed what
promised, that the slave ought to resist, and could
Sixteen men / placed under the shelter of Englisl
law, and then / taught the millions. Prove tina
my enterprise was not a failure, by showing
North ready to stand behind it. ! on willing, il
Gods service, to plunge with ready martyrdon
into the chasm that opens in the forum, only show
yourselves worthy to stand upon my gravel
1t seems to me that this is the lesson of Puri
tanism, as it is read to US to-day. Law and 'or
der are only names for the hating ignorance o
, the last generation. John Brown is the imperso
nation Of Gods order aud Gods law, moulding
better future. and setting for it On example.