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

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Though 'hiviug wisdom with each studious year,
and passionately devoted to his desk, as truly as
was said OF Milton, the lowliest duties on him
self he laid What ~drudgory of the street did
that scholarly hand ever refuse ? Who 80 often
and constant as be in the trenches, when a slave
case made cur city a camp? Loving books, he
had no jot Of a scholars indolonce or timidity but
joined hands with labor everywhere. Erasmus
would have found him good company, and M ell
ancthon got brave help ever q Greek manuscript
but the likoliest place to have found hin in that
age would have been at Zwingle's side, on the
battlefield, pierced with a score Of fanatic spears.
For, above all things, he was terribly in earnest.
If / sought to point him in one word, l should say
he was always in earnest.
I spoke once of his diligence, and we call him
tirelOss, unAagging, uuresting. But they are com
m~onplaco words, and poorly describe him. What
we usually call diligence in educated men does
not outdo, does not equal the day-laborer in cease
l%essness of toll. No scholar, not even the busiest
but what loiters out from his weary books, and
feels shamed by the holman or the plough boy,
The society and amusements Of easy life eat up
and beguile one half our time. Those on whose
lips ard motions hang crows of busy idlers, submit
to lifelong discipline-almost every hour a lesson.
Those CD whose tones GOat the most precious truth,
disdain an effort. The table you write on is the
fruit of more toilsome and thorough discipline than
the brain of most who deem themselves schol-
ars ever knew. Let US not cheat ourselves with
words. But no poor and greedy mechanic, no
farm tenant on shares ever distenced this unrest
ing brain. He brought into his study that con.
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had handed down to him on the hard soil of Mas
sachusetts. lie loved work, and l doubt if any
workman in our empire equalled him in thorough.
ness Of preparation. Before he wrote his review
Of Prescott, he went eopscientiously through all
The printed histories of that periodin three or four
tongues. Before he ventured to paint for you the
portrait of John Quincy Adams, he read every
line Adams had ever printed, and all the attacks
upon him that could be found in public or private
collections.
Fortunate man be lived long enough to see the
eyes of the whole nation turned toward him as to
a trusted teacher. Fortunate indeed, in a life so
noble, that even what was scorned from from the
pulpit will surely become oracnlar from the tomb
Thrice Fortunate, If be loved fame and future in
huence, that the leaves which bear his thoughts to
posterity are not freighted with words penned by
sickly ambition or wrung from h~unger-but with
earnest thoughts on dangers that make the ground
tremble under our feet, and the heavens black ov-
err our head-the only literature sure to live. Am,
bition says, L will write, and be famous IT'S
only a dainty tournament, o sham fight, forgotten
when the smoke clears away. Real books are
like Yorktown or Waterloo, whose cannon shook
continents at the moment, and echo down the cen
tuiies. Through such channels Parker poured bis
thought.
And true hearts leaped to his sids. No mani
brain ever made him warmer friends no mkn'i
heart ever held them Rrmer. He loved 10 sSNal
of how many hands he had, in every city, in eve
~ land, ready to work for him. With royal sere
nifty he levied on all. Yassal hearts multiplied
the great chiefs powers. And at home the gen
tlest and deepest love, sanity, unequalled devo
ton, made every hour sunny, held off every care
and left him double liberty to work. God comfor
that widowed heart
3 Judge him by bis friends. No nian suffered
D anywhere, who did not feel sure of his sympathy
f In sick chambers, and BY the side of suffering hu
g mainly, be kept his heart soft and young. M
J, man lifted a hand anywhere for truth and RICH
e who did not look on Theodore Parker as his fellow
= laborer. When men hoped for the future, thii
s desk was one stone on which they planted thei
: feet. Where, more frequent than around his boarl
r would you find men familiar with Europe's dun
d geons and the mobs of our own streets? WheIev
t er the fugitive slave might worship, here was hi
: Gibraltar. Over his msntel, however scantily fur
d nished, in this city or elsewhere, you were sure Il
); find a picture Of Parker.
i But he is gone So certain was he of his dealt
o that in thu still watches of the Italian night. b
comforted the sickening hopes Of those about hin
+ by whispering.
81 hear a voice you cannot hear
u Which says | must not stay
T see a hand you cannot see,
Which beckons me away
Bot where shall we stop ? This empty desk
> You may gil it, but where is he who called it int
being? Who shall make it so em2hatically tn
symbol of free thought? To have stood her
% was, for most men, sufficient credentials. Her
the young knight earned his spurs. Around it ha
swelled and tossed the battle Of Christian liberty
The debate, whether Theodore Parker shout
speak in one place or preach in another, ba
been one Of Gods chief methods of teaching .thi
land the lesson OF what bigots style liberation, an
: freemen better call Christian liberty.
lie has passed on-we linger. That other worl
. grows more real to us, as friend after friend or
y tiers it. Soon more are there than ON this side
: soon our hearts are more than half there. Go
tenderly sunders the few ties that still bind III
So live that when called to join that other Assem-
bly,, we shall feel we are only passing from an ar
!" premiership of thought and toll to broader field
and a higher teacher above.
q The blessings Of the poor are his laurels. Sa
that his words won doubt and murmur to trust j
. a loving Goblet that be his record Say tha
, to the hated and friendless, he was shield an
buckler-let that be his epitaph The glory {
children is the fathers. When you voted thG
Theodore Parker should be heard in Boston, Go
' honored you. Well have you kept that pledg,
" In rnoch IahoF and with manu- socri6eas he ha