Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20

knew him
''Immertal love, forever fall,
Forever flowing free,
Forever shared, forever whole,
neyer-eDbing sea.
I'VE may not elimbthe heavenly sleeps
To bring the Lord Christ down:
In vain we search the lowest deeps,
For him no depths can drown.
But warm, sweet, tender, ever yet
present help is he;
And faith has sim its olivet,
And love its Galilee.n
In Whittier, then, were all the conditions
necessary othe fullallment OF the second part
Of this text. teaching aud admonishing one
another with psalms and hymns and spiritual
songs" The soul in its highest moods, when
swept by strongest passion OF love or anger or
ecstacy. ascends to rhythmical utterances. When
the Red Sea swallowed up the Egyptian host the
JOY Of Moses for his deliverance, and his admira-
tiOn Of the power Of God burst forth in song !;
when Jael drove the tent pin through the temple
OF Sisera, end delivered Israel from the power OF
Jabin the King, Deborah's soul was moved and
uttered itself in song. When the child Samuel
was born, the mothers soul was full of Joy and
III sung pAAlsN0 but HhlHt Vi 1Ou. DdFiu Was
hard pressed for many years, comprised by enc
mics on every side, OF which Saul was the most
bitter, and implaceabie but when final deliver
snce came we hear him sing, "The Lord is my
rock and my fortress and my deliverer." Was
not Mays soul transported with joy that she
was to be the mother OF Jesuss II was then she
sang the 'msgnihcat." How many hearts we're
moved by this salvation OF the Lord Did not
Zacharias sing and Simeon sing and did not the
angels sing in the presence OF the shepherds,
"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace
among men in whom he is well pleaseds'
Whittier sang OF what he saw around him.
Never did nature so take any one into her conf
dence as she did this New England Quaker poet.
she threw the doors OF her rich treasure houses
wide open and he walked in. He saw things
rare and curious and beautiful, never before dis
closed to the eyes Of man. Joy and admiration
and reverence and all the noble passions OF the
soul were awakened, songs were created within,
that forced his lips apart and came out, and
these children of his soul have each received
name: There is "The Barefoot Boy The Tent
on the Beach," "Snow Bound" Among the
Hills" and Maud Muller"
But Whittier has done more than sing these
rustic songs; he has not only opened our eyes to
see the beauties Of nature and OF homely voca-
ton, but he has taught and admonished his coun-
try in regard to righteousness. the laws of liber
~, the brotherhood OF man. His teaching has
not been a logic of the intellect but logic OF
toe heart 1t not by way Of abstract reason
ing by hard and invincible logic. that he taught
the people Of this country the awful wrong of
slavery his was gentler. milder method. He
sang the horrible evil of slavery into the hearts
Of his conntymen; he made Americans to feel
the truth rather than to sec it with the eyes of
the intellect sla"or'S ds an outrage. it was
sacrilege, it was a de4crattn Of the image of
God implanted in eXry hui. an being. He saw
the wrath Of SS%revealed against it; his sonl
rcoelled againsf its cruelty ITS nhumanity. He
always put himself on tie side OF God and
against evil Anld vet viii all his adherence of
the evil of slsverl witt = the fiery indignation
which that accuFA ed 1stitutien aroused in his
soul. he never grew. fter or vindictive; he never
violated the law of love to man. His love for the
slave holder was as genuine and abiding as his
love for the slave. He says, 1--WE never quarrel
ed with the South; we never hated slave. holders
we only hated slavery
Uncle Toms Cabin was an appeal to the heart
OF liberty loving America. There was poetry in
that book though it was not expressed in rhyme
and rhythm. This great country was made to
grasp the truth by feeling the truth. Whittier's
voices Of freedom and Mrs. Stoves Uncle Toms
Cabin the forces that broke the fettets of the
slave they made us to feel how great is
Gods condemnation of AZ institution 80 diaboi-
cal as slavery and aroused this country to make
haste and put itself On the side of God. Who can
read Writers picture of the slave ships and
keep his soul quiet?--
"All ready?' cried the captain.
"Ay ayi" the seamen said
"Heave up the worthless lubbers
The dying and the dead
Up from the slave-ship's prison
Fierce bearded heads were thrust;
Now let the sharks look to It,
Toss mp the dead ones first
Many dead corpse is cast over and then we
hear the gloomy. compassonless captain cry out
Are al the dead dogs overs" THE blind ones
are no better. Let's tighten the good chip" Then
amid shriekiny and moaning and voices of agony
they are tossed over to become prey to the
sharks.
With what fine satire does he speak OF this
country OF freedom where yet our fellow coun-
trymen in chains We fought for our own
freedom; we send words OF encouragement to
the Greek, who spurns the Moslem letters, to
Belgium to France, 10 Poland. and yet we are
holding in bondage thousands of men and women.
Americans are to market driven and battered
as the brute for gold, Prussia and Russia and
Denmark and England. are releasing the hand Of
the slave master while "around our coHntry's
altar clings the dammirg shade of slayery's
curse" Yes, our country which boasts Of its
freedom. What will be the taunt Of Russia ana
of Mahmouds line when We plead with them for
Poland and the Suliotes Go loose you fettered
slaves at home, then turn and ask the like of u.s.
The yankee girl clings to her wheel ard little cot
tage aud rejects with scom the matrimonial offer
Of the southern Shareholder
Then with what splendid irony does Whittier
describe the Hunting Of Men" How exciting
how interesting, what pleasure
The lords Of our land TO this hunting have gone
AS the fox hunter follows the sound OF the horn
o goodly aud grand is IT huEting to see
In this land Of the brave and this home Of the
free.
Priest warrior, ana statesmen from Georgia TO
Maine,
an inouDt{ng the saddle All rryaSritg the rein