Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-03-09

MARK the perfect man, and behold the upright, for Il
end Of that man is peacei"
DIED, in Salem, o., on the morning Of Eel
r,,ary 9th, DR.. BENJAMiN STANTON, aged Sixty
ssven years and seven months. lie was q natiy
Of North Carolina; came with his mother to Nj
Pleasant, o., 10 the year 1900. Subsequently, h
went to Wheeling, Va, for the purpose Of goinI
to sea, on board n vessel that was there fitting up
but the war Of 1912 prevented the expedition
lie studied fiedicine with DR.. Hambleton, of Mour
Pleasant;-settlcd in Salem, in the year 1915
where tninistering to their improvement and hap
piness, he has witnessed the passing away of tw,
generations.
He was a member Of the Society Of Friends
When the separation in that Society took place
he identified himself with the Hicksite division
When subsequent divisions arose, his distaste fol
religious controversy induced him to withdraw
from the Society, as an active member, though
still %ndhering to its principles. During the latter
years Of his life, he rarely attended religious
meetings.
With the religious element strong in bis charac.
ter, he investigated fearlessly, and uttered hi.
often original opinions with a degree OF ihdepen.
dence that sometimes startled the timid; and often.
ded those whose standard Of truth is popular opin.
ion. Religion, with him, was practical goodness;
agreeing with the Apostle James, that "Pure
religion, and undefled, is to visit the fatherless
and the widow in their aflic!iou, and TO keep him
self unspotted from the world"
To him, life was a state in which a free human
being was to work out for himself q high and holy
characteri-man q responsible being sustaining
physical and moral relations to God and the uni
verse; and pure ~teligion, the perfection of human
character. consisting in the performance of the
duties and obligations growing out Of these rela-
tons.
lie p~racticed medicine, for nearly half a centu.
~, in this place; and to the last was respected az
a physician by the faculty, and the community, as
he was loved and Venerated as a man. lie was
cherished and bOnOred as few men are. If e2teu-
sive wealth, commensurate with the labor perform
ed, was denied him, he acquired what is worth
more than the wealth eff worlds,-a good name,
and possessed a happy home, consecrated by intel
llgence and love.
lie was ever the earnest friend Of education
Through his influence the first tax was raised 10
Salem to establish a District School, upon the
principle that the property should educate tile
children of the community. The children OF this
and the preceding generation owe him a deb. oil
gratitude for having inaugurated this practical
system of education, long before The passage u
the general school law.
With zeal, he espous0d the cause of Temper
auce, and was ever active fur the reclamation o.
the unfortunate victim OF intem2erance. lie, 100
was amorg the earliest and most faithful friend:
of the slave. The early pioneer in the anti-slavery
cause Benjamin. L~undy-and he, were intimate
friends, and often took counsel togethcT;-many a
toil-wOrn pilgrim found shelter under his roof
long before the anti-slavery cause had popular ad.
vocates.
His intellect had the strength and boldness cl
his character. lie was Glow in his deliberations,
but shruDk from no conclusions to which truth led
him. He delighted to dwell on the philosophy
which treats Of the laws, powers and capacities of
the human soul. He was one Of the few who
never grow old; till his last sickness he retained
the freshness, viVacity and Vigor of youth.
The present unhappy national difficulties, he
predicted many years ago, as the final result of
attempting to harmonize the homogeneous elements
Of freedom and slavery under the union, and re.
jec:ed the idea generally entertained by abolition
lists, that the Shareholders would be kept in check
~ fear of their slaves rising in revolt. He said
the slave power was in earnest, and really desired
a separation, in order to establish a military des-
potiSm as more 10 harmony with their civilization,
and that they could for years maintain their power
against their degraded and imbruted slaves.
His moral character was most strikingly marked
by honesty, purity, anijustice. His heart ever beat
in uni, on with the great heart 81 humanity, and be
was bound to manhood by the strong tie of bro
lie felt for all men, but ADORE all for
the poor, the oppressed, and the wrOnged. The
destitute in Kansas received his benefactious even
Frustrated on his last bed of affection.
He was always actively engaged IN some men
tai or physical labor-he studied Algebra after
he was sixty. As a horticulturist few excell-
ed him, and he was passiOnately fond of flowers
their cultivation.
He enjoyed life 10 the last. As he sank By slow
disease, though fully alive to the fact that he was
approaching the dark and BARROW tomb, it had for
him no terrOrs; be looked into it with compOsure
and peace, fit and happy termination for such an
earthly life as his! Few have greater cause to re-
jOice in life's success; for the world is better for
his having lived in it; and it Is not meet that tears
be shed, save for the sundered ties Of family and
criends m