The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-12
FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL PASSED
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date, Sept. l2-of importance enough in 1850. to lay a pavement terribly strong of a Civil War, but of the Emancipation of the Slave! On Sept 12. 1850, tho Fugitive Slave Bu, the rendition Of fugitive slaves To their owners. was passed by the House of Representatives at Wash ingtou. as it had come down from the Senate.
 It was the tocsin of the Civil War. Providence moves in a mysterious way saith an ancient hymn, but only ao perform great wonders.
 "No controversy in the history Of the United States Hls aroused such passion and led to such momenJuous results, save perhaps that between patriots and Tories at Jhe outbreak of the Revolution says Prof. Hart of Harvard University, "as that be- tween the advocates and the Oppon- ,tuts of slavery" The great AntI- Slavery Movement, together with tho Abolition Movement numbered among it's fiery apostles men who would be hcard-and they were heard. The names of William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips. Charles Sumner. Thomas Wentworth Higsin- son. Whittier Charles Dexter Cleve- land. Charming and Lowell are torches in that critical time-the future sal vation of the United States The moral movement Couvulscd the entire country It Is difficult today to real ize the situation. The abolitionist was taboo. Nay. he was deemed an i'm proper person. Within The church as without. the friction passed into a polite frenzy. Two great and not able bodies of Christianity were rent from top Co bottom. But the aboli- tionist was willing Co suffer for the great cause. Upon the passage of the infamous Fugitive Slave Bill the anger of all auti-sIlverv people was poured out in the autumn of 1850. From 1850 to 1860. indignation and redoubled efforts, suferiuEs and tire less toll of the aboIitiOuists prepared that stirring day beyoud the tempest of the Civil War. when, iu 1868 Abraham Lincoln wrote the immortal Emancipation Proclamation. Its let ters had already been traced in brave lives and supcrhumau toll of the noblest of Americans.
 In this connection we publish a pertinent poem from the New York Globe, of February 1T. 1919. It was the day of the return and parade of lhe fbloIHa tIpbRS-
 BUT ALL ARE ONE! To the Fifteenth Regiment, CoIOred
 Troops, 1919. Above the light of the morning blaze. Above the face of the crowd, That stares, as one, at the Grand
 Parade,
 And bow as the courtiers bowed To dusky faces and hearts of gold, There looms One Face, the Externally
 old.
 Externally bold! Notes manly features, the firm, the
 stern,
 And the eye of the self-devotion, It marks the record of ready men Who flung themselves OCT the
 ocean,
 When cries of Man. who to Might
 was sold
 Cried on. they saved a Cause eternally
 old,
 Externally bold! The Face that is gazing at Great
 Fifteenth
 Is wrinkling. the heavenly tear! It sees a yesterday, long ago,
 A covering slave, and tho Seer Sees trackless light meath travail
 ing pen:-
 He sees the worth of the Now, and
 the Then.
 Worth beyond our ken ''The Last Shall be First" says the
 speechless Face,
 A light beyond mornings arch Tn the burning Wound of His Hear
 for these,
 yr ,a ,tod for thasa men or
 march.
 O Isncolni Jesus Christi n'er told Was thy faith in these! the tried
 r1inted gold.
 Ere. again, bands outburst,
 hear a word first,
 My eternally bold
 Tn My Martial fOldt"