New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-01

Mot from God, for you have blasphepe
.Not from the people. for yso stand b.r
tiSed IN thar bleod! =.
Here you turn, and b! D Gibbet!
"There-aod . seaAold Ids yea in tn
Fan sro>pd you-death- snA uewher
:Now, e1sau.ioner. OF the human race
dust of the sca1Old-lay your perfume,
heeds upon thes klock-bless the ak q i
falls-the * That yeu sharpened for th
IS s is t6s MESSAGE of that declaratio,
to mar, to the kings of the world An,
shall " faer now? And shall we star
back appalled, when our feet press the yer,
threshold q frAedom. Do |. see queilini
faces around me, when our wives have. beef
utchered-when the hearthstones OF ou
4 dreuf
\ s"What are these shrinking hearts ani
falteping voices here, When the cry dead
of CIR bsttle6elds arise. and Gall UPON us t.
| sign that parchment, OF be ascursed forever
! "Sigh. if Eha next moment the gibbel'.
hope is roend yopr neck! Sign! if the mex,
moment this hallfings with the echo of the
falling axe! Sign! By all your hopes id
AHO VI uCdIu, IS uUSUdHQb-&6 1AGOeC4-as
men-sign your names to the parchment OF
be accursed forever!
"sign-and not only II yourselves. but
for all ages. Eor That parchment will be
the text book Of freedom-the Bible OF the
rights of nan forever.
:Sigs-for that declaratsn will 20 forth
to American hearts forever, and speak to
!. those hearts like the voice of God Aud
Fits work wills not be done, until throughout
this wide continent not a single inch Of
ground WINS tho sway of o British king
prise. 1t is truth, your own hearts wit.
ness it. God proclaims it. This continent is
properly aioae g cd, say proclaims it !!
Look at this strange history sof band of
exiles AID oEtcasts suddenly Transformed
into pe0ple-loOk 1T this woaderfuloxo.
dus OF the oppressed of the Old World int
tie New, where they came, weak in arms
but mighty in Godlike faith-7nsy, look 1t
Bunker Hill-your Lexington a
band OF plata farmee Knocked and trampled
down the panoply of British ams, and then
tell me, if you can, that God has not given
America % thofree?,
1T is not given to our poor intellect to
climb the skies, to pience the cOuncils. of the
AlN3ghty One. But nethinks Il stand
among the awful clouds which veil the
brightness of Jehovsh's throne. Meohinks
see the reosrding sngel-pale - an angel
ls pale, weeping as an angel can weep
comt trembling up to that throne, and
speak hi&dn1Rd 0essage. .
Father. the Old World 10 baptized lin
bloodt Father, it is drenched With the
blood of millions, butch66od in war, in per
secutioa, in slow and grinding oppression!
kathe!-loe With ono solance of Thine
eternal en- look over Europe, Asia, Africa,
and beh6lt evermose that terrible sight,
man tr9dden beneath tfGsDppressor's feet
nations lost in blood-murder and supersti.
ton watkins hand in hand ever the graves
Of their viSims, and not single seice to
"He stands there, the angel, lis hand
trem bling with the black record of human
guilt. Aet bark The voice of .Jehovsh
,peaka out from the awful cloud-'Let there
Do light again. Lst there be New World.
Tell my people-the poor-the trodden
1oWn millions to 60 ont from the Oh World. |
'ed them them "a out putt, ae% wrong, oftreeion
Did World build my altar in the New
AS God lives, my friends, believe THAI |
g be Hb voice! Yes. were my soul trem-
'ling on the wing for eternity, were this
land freezing in death, were This voice |
hooking with t6 last Struggle, I Wild
till: with the last impulse Of that soul, with
he LAST wave of that hand, with the last
asp OF that voice, inplore you to remember
bis truth-God his given America to the 4
rec! Yes, as sink down into the gloomy
hadows of the grave, with MY last gasp /
!ould beg you to sigA. that parchment, in II
be name of the God, Who made the Saviourd
20 redeeme you-in the name Of the mil
ons whose Very breath is now hushad in 4
item seexpectati0n. as they look up to youf
= the awful words-'Yoa are free ="
y, many years have gone since that hour
the speaker, his brethren, all have crun.
led into dust, but it would require an
ngele pen to picture the magic of that
,eaker's look, the deep, terrible emphasis
his voice, the proohet-like beckoning of
e hand, the magnetic flame which, shS6t.
e from his eEee; soon fred evsiS heart /
He fell exhausted in his seat, but the
ork was done. A wild murmur thrills 7
rough the hall-Sign? Hah! There is +.
doubt now. Look How they rteh for.
ard - stout.hearted John Hancock has |
arcely time to eign his bold name, before
9 pen Is grasped by another-another
the parchment-1dams and Lee ax&4 I
Emsn the sheemaIet An. A0"' Roger /
Az hers COMES good old Stephen Hop.
as-yes, trembling with palsy, he totters Z
ward quivering from head to foot, with {
shaking hands he seizes Tie psn, he 2
.atchse his'patriot name.
Then comes BENJAMIN Fsenklin, the print. q
and nov the .talkman in the qark ROBE A
vances, the man, sWho made The fiery g
'ech moment ago&witA the Same hand Il
It but now waved i such fiery scorn he o
ties his name,
md now tho parchment is signed. and b
Y let the word go forth to the people in | fl
streets-t0 the homes of America-to | n
camp of Mister Washington, and the r,
ace At George, the idiot king-let tho ! ia
I'd g0Qut to all the earth. II
md, Cd man in the steeple, nov bare k
If n arm and grasp the iron tongue. and W
the bell speak out the great truth: o.
ifty-six traders and farmers and me- is
mics an,1 have this day shsok the shaekles Of hi
lark Hank to the toll of that beu. e,
tnere not deep poetry in that sound, di
e eetry more saSlime than Shakespeare or M
ton! in
} there not music in the sound 1jut re- M
ds you of thoss awful tones which
re from angel lips. when the news of bt
olrth OF jesus burst on the Shephsrds q
Bethlehem If
Or that bell now speaks out to the worla ha
cd has Gireu tie Amepica,, Continent =, W ",
Free-Ihe IoiHug Millions of the Human tn
s-As the Last Altar of The Rights of on
on he Globe-1he Home of he Or &
sea- Fo,yrern,ore br
us
Forest Culture. Il,
neog the new crops Of this generation We
be ptiO0ed the brest-trees far it
e. projection, al use. The felly Of no
,ding the earth 6Fits best protection is no
N IN tne recent hoeae whoh have 1eso- do
tne nakfo SIDES OF tho Appenines and sta
'neee. Ia the old forest er0W0 been col