Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-05-26
TIE EMETERY

THE CEMETERY.
As q people become Christianized and refined
they respect the repositories of their dead, regard
ing them as sacred from oil trespass. This should
be ho place for rudeness, ~vulgarity or Indifference.
Here is a place for meditation. Here is the "last
OF earth'-here men rest from their labors all
struggles, disappointments, failures, hopes, fears,
6ackslidings, which made them unhappy here. are
past and over forever. All the high aims and
noble purposes Of life are gone, but their works
follow them. Tho good which they did while hero
on earth is eternal-that is not past and over. II
cannot die it lives and grows forever, and follow,
in their path long after their forms are moulderino
in the earth, and bears fruit until everlasting life,
not only in the men with whom they associate
while living, but in generations yet unborn.
This too is a suitable place for the contempla.
ton OF Gods works. Not a blade of grass that
springs out of the Earth, not q dead leaf TIM,
tails to the ground, not q flower, not a plant,
shrub, or tree, but is doing Gods work and show.
ing forth his glory. Not an insect or bird, but is
created BY the same 6enefeient hand, that maSe
us so "fearfully and wonderfully, 4" and each have
their hnbitation and rank allotted. and ara M,
made in vain-and the sacred Cemetery seems
N''J WV VI muir uuUlluLlOn-nn0 ShOnId
be secure from the hands of the spoiler. Hare
nothing is idle, nothing wasted-all is full of beauty.
tul OF use-all obeying Gods laws, although too
deep for our comprehension. '
In such a frame of mind we can see that The
grass beneath our feet, the clounds above our heads
every insect, bird, shrub, tree, or flower. do in
very deed and truth bless the Lord, who mads
them to praise him, not with words in!ellieible to
the human ear but with porks that we NAV ,ec
with our spiritual eyes. 10
FILLED with such emotions, inspired with such
feelings, when We enter the sacred enclosnre NJ
the dead, we would fear to ~trespass, touch. in.
lure or destroy the sacred momentoes. which
mourning friends, have planted and erected 10 the
memory of their dear departed ones. ..-a
we had hoped with the Christian Culture. and
pubic sentiment in Salem, our children and youth
would have been taught, this lesson Of refinement
and respect bot which all parents will regret to
learn is not the case. af .t.
Our Cemetery, which has been beauti6ed with
trees. shrubs and flowers, aas become on;,s a
place of public resort, and parents and guardians
should see to ii, that those for whom thew are
responsll!o-children and those Who are no longer
ohiIdFen-do not utterly disregard all good breed
ing and sense of prOprioty, by pulling flowers,
running over the graves, breaking down shrubs
and trees, destroying birds nests, killing the
young, defacing the tomb-stones-treaking down
the enclosures around the burying lots, erected
with cost and care.
On last Sunday several beautiful and highly
priced shrubs were not only robbed Of all their
flowers, but the trees literally broken to pieces and
destroyed. $3.50
This is exceedingly discouraging to those who
have planted and nursed them, and morally more
injurious to those who commit the depredations.
This, too, has been a resort for birds to build
their nests and rear their young, as il by instinct,
they knew that this spot ought to DO secured to
them, sacred from thoughtless and cruel bows
but with modification and shame, we find that this
spring,nc only the nests but the young birds have
been destroyed, even the shrubs and trees torn
to pieces upon which they build their nests.
This certainly cannot proceed f.om malice but
is the result of thoughtlessness and want of prop.
er training. Iii is high time for reformation in
this respect.
In a short time our new school house will bo
lnished,a and surrounded with trees and shrubbsry.
and the public sentiment of Salem should be 40
improved and cultivated, that every boy and girl
would feel disgraced to have anything about the
sehool-housc or it's surroundings injured, The way
to learn how to do this, is to unite to prevent q re-
currence of such outrages in tho Cemetery.
j. BE ATOM.