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TES OLD TEAR 'MID TEM NEW..
One, like a faint old roan,
Bat down by the way-tide *weary.
"Firm his step as one who knows
He is free where e'er he goes;
Tot, withal, as light of spring
As the arrow tram the string.
impassioned eye had got
Fire which the sun has not.
Bilk to reel and gold to see,
Fell his tresses fill! end free;
Or. like morning mists that glide
Sett ndown the mountain's side,
Most deliciests 'twan to henr
When his voice was thrilling clear
Like a silver•hearted bell."
An, with song and roundelay
Came the New-Year down this way..
It was the last eve of December.
The bells were chiming the hour of
eleven as an old mut, loaning on the
tent of a zrneeful youth. passed nut of
the city into the open field= beyond.
Very ♦enershle wits he. His crutwen
mice was sad. his step filtering. He
looked like one nn whom rare had
pressed heavily. and Who vvaa weary
•fthe tiigl. Beautiful as Apnlln, fresh
tad Imporid aemnrnino. was the youth.
He stand erect with majestic ease. and
his lnig. fair hair. blown backward by
the wind. fell upon the gray locks of
kis cninpanion. They came to a rus
tic seat by the way-side.
" Shall we rest here. father 1" maid
ha to the old mnn ; " time wane-z, and
thou'sayest then ha•t much to tell me."
"Ile. child : let itz ffn to the rock
in the shadow of yonder forest. Thou
art all impatient. I see. to commence
th• reien. tut I have yet an hour al
lotte4l me."
Silently they
rock
on through the
night till the amined.
" Sit closer to me." said the old
man. " and take my hand in thine. for
the air is cold and my blood rims chill.
Twelve moons azo I was as warm and
rigorous as thou.
"How differently 7 now look upon
tha world ! Then I was fill] of dreams
Ind high expectation; and unutterable
longingi for its perfection to he et-P
tained through ma. I said to myself,
' All my myriad predecessors have left
it better than they found it, but its
progress has been an slow that it is still
full ofguilt and wretchedness and pain,
and fees sighing and groaning amongst
the spheres as if it were devoid of joy.
I will work a mighty change. I will
Baize upon its abuses with a powerful
arm and demolish them. The strong;
shall nn longer oppress the weak ; cun
ning and •nalice shall not prevail over
honesty and right ; neither shall Thera
he war nor tumult any more. I will
instruct the ignorant ; reclaim tit•
vicious and so elevate the whole race
that it shall he but one happy bother
lined under the eye of Gnd. Then
every natural beauty will appear un
dimmed. There will he nothing to
tsar the sublimity of the mountain, the
loveliness of the valley, the grandeur
St the ocean ; but the wide earth shall
lend up ascriptions of praise that will
find sweet entrance at the gate of
• heaven !!
"Haat thou not had such thoughts,
ray son 1"
i
"Nay. father ; they were even now
in my mind. llist thou tell me they
era vainl"
" Aye ! vainer than a dream. What
if the snit and the rain should say of
11 seem ' Herein lies hidden a stately
THE::'EOPLE'S '.JOURNAL
COUDERSPORT POTTER COUNTY, PA., FEBRUARY 28, 1856
tree: Tt shall not have, like all other
oaks, a thousand years for its develop
ment, but we sacill tend it with unceas
ing care, and a single day. shall suffice
to display its lofty proportions.' Think
you the germ would unfold more rapid
ly the their schemes?
" - Experience has• shown the that
the world's growth is like that of the
acorn. God's forces are revolutionary
only in long periods. In the material
world convulsions and upheavals are
the exception, nut the rule. The
coral is forming silently for ages in
the deep. The desert sands encroach
almostinsernibry upon the oasis. The
river, little by little, deposits its sedi
ment at its mouth. But, in the lapse
of time, a rocky island rises from the
waves ; the oasis disappears ;. and the
stream, seeks a new outlet to the sea.
It is so in the world of mind, with
nations and with individuals. Each
must develop himselfand work out hie
(.le.t.iny according to this inherent laws
of his being and you might sooner
think to produce the perfect oak its a
day, than bye single effm t, to change
the.coustitution of things. and bring
them up to the ideal standard. You
have a wolk to do that nu previous
year over had ; that no future year
can accomplish. Be content to Sow,
though ;Luther may reap and: gather
into barns. - Take up the line of duty
where it has been left, and, though•
you cannot rear the full-grown tree,
you can add another circle to its trunk,
deck its boughs anew with foliage, and
give it greater power ti wrestle w.th
wind and storm.
" Oh t• I seem to lee the years since
the creation of man—a glorious pro
cession—one after another falling into
their appointed places—eat nest, hope
ful, uutiring—cuutent to wet k upon
the etude or the refitted mate:lels be
fore them ; nothing daunted
: though
thu skies are dark ; - expectiluguu int;
mediate results from their : toil ; but
pressing steadily onward' with a calm
trust, till, their mission ended, they
return to the bosom of God.!"
•' My lather ! I almort fear to join
this princely company. I had looked
for au much of present benefit and ra-
ward."
"Be strong, my son, and * heaven"
will sustain thee. No year . ever wore
so regdl a crown as thou wilt wear.
All that went before thee have been
laying the foundations of thy throne
wide and deep. They wrought fur
this hour, as thou must' fur that which
will follow. There were never such
high duties, such enlarged spheres of
labor as are eraitingfor thee. Be not
a theorist in them. Be a true and
practical builder.
"My predecessors and I had one
err or of belief into which 1 tt ust nu
coming year will fall. We looked
around and saw the people suffering
under the tyranny of their rulers.
They were ignorant and degraded,
and oftentimes on the brink of starve
iron ; herding together like beasts
rather than men. And we taid, We
will give them republicanism and in
telligence and cosimmt ; thus they shall
be uplifted.' Mighty agents are these,
and indispensable to mural progress,
hut how utterly insufficient did we
find them to stem the tide of human
depravity and wrong. If a plant were
growing to poisonous earth, light and
warmth and moisture could not vitally
curs ; they could only &inanimate its
condition ; and so ail these influences
of which 1 speak can assist man to
rise, but cannot radically alter the
corruption of his nature.. - Du you
seek to intuse a purer principle. ShoW
him that it is neither Ituerty nor learn
ing nor luxury which will bring him
into cominumun with the Divine ;- bJt
love and meekness and charity, such
as dwelt in the breast ofJesus. Teach
himthat to be great is out to be widely
knoWn ; and that he is the hero,,, how
aver.humble his lot, who fulfills all
the duties that devolve upon him, and
puts bis confidence in God." •
" 0 my father ! the burden is great.
Canst thou not linger a while to help
mar
DEVOTED TO THE PRINCIPLES OF DFAIOCRACY, AND THE DISSEMINATION OF MORAL LITERATURE, AND NEWS.
" Child, my moments are numbered.
Thou must bear it alone. It will not
all be grievous. A thousand joys are
scattered along thy way. Many good
ly seeds sown long ago shall in thy
time bear - precious fruit. There aro
noble souls, that in the conflict for
truth and freedom. have been over
borne, and' lie- now on the battle-field,
wounded and bleeding, and faint unto
death. It shall be for thee to raise
them up and bind their brows with
hays, while the shouting -multitude
shall decree to them the victory, and
write their nameia:nong the immortals.
And there are those high in power,
but full of selfishness and crime, whom
thou shalt overtake with swift justice
and fill with remorse and 'shame.
Verily, thou . wilt have many cumpeu-
sations."
Thou comfortest me, my father ;
but thy voice groWs feeble. Hast thou
no last request to make !"
"These is much, my ch.ld, which
in the rush and hurry of my affairs I
was compelled toleave undone. There
are captives in dungeons whom I
meant to have released. There are
friends long estranged, whom I hoped
to have recunciled.to each ot'aer. There
are lovers separated by a cruel fate.
whom I would have united , . There
are lonely hearts 'yearning for an
affection they have never known,
which I designed to give them. . But
thou wilt do it ; thou wilt do it !"
Oh ! my father ! I can hardly hear
thy words. Bless me ere thou depart
est_"
I . de bless thee, my son. May the
Almighty light thy path. and make
thee mare glorious than all who have
preceded thee. May he give 'thee
wisdom, find knowledge and . gladness,
and bring thee, when thy coarse is
run,'iuto his presence with rejoicing !
" List ! the . winds .wail.. The mid.-
night stars beckon,. I' ga. Remember !
Farewell !" • DEAN:
BROOKLYN, Doc. 31, 1855.
A V/ROLSTIAN'S VIEW OF THE SLAVERY
curEs:noN.
DUTIES of du NORTH & of the SOUTH.
A SE ItMON
Preached in the Unitarian Church, Wash
ing.on City, Jan. 26, 1856.
BY MEN. H. D. COAT WAY, PASTOR
First -Pius, then Peaceab!e.—James nt 17
It is now eight weeks, awl the Con
gress of these States, called, as if in
bitter irony, United. is still unorgani
ized. Thole is reason enough for the
grave apps ehension now pressing upon
the mind of every patriot. Our young
Hercules, just as his labors have arisen
before him, and the nations looked on
to see him stranee the Hydra here,
and there unbar the flood of Reform
toward manifold Augean stables, sud
denly becomes paralyzed. Oh, son
of Jove, last and strongest, what is
this ! whither has thy noble promise
fled •
We meet here. my friends, on a
common ground: Vat ied perceptions
of the relations of that common ground
to - human - welfare, separate us into
different parties. We are also of di
verse secii.►ns. I .do not think" the
pulpit should he used to.asseil any of
these, as such. I therefore shall not . ,
permit myself a doubt, as I touch this
must sensitive subject, that you will
- sympathize with me and with each
other. .1 do se only because, in these
troubled times, my heart burns to
point you to the ancient landmarks of
Right and Wrong, which, when seen,
none can fail to acknoWledge ; for, like
the objects of . the ear and eye, they
are their own evidence. I shall not
make any partisan statement; for I
belong to no party ; but there is one
phase of the present state of things
which enters my pulpit whether 1 will
or not. This are of the circle—not
the arcs of the politician or economist
—the pulpit cannot bei true to itself
without interpreting. - Andl am con
strained to believe it a mathematical
certainty, that any arc of any circle,
moral or geometric, being given, the
others - May be discovered i.nd describ
ed, And the radii traced to their con-
• I shall waste no words on the dogma
that such subjects are not proper to
the • pulpit. Christ and Paul funnel
them appropriate to their ministry.
If mural questions shouhd not enter
here, what- should I And if questions
involving the happiness of - milliims,
and the good relations of section with
section, and man with man, through
out the land, are nut moral. whit are 1
I: was the saddest day that ever
dawned on the country. when this was
madeeny Other than a moral question.
In the day when it was made one. of
national political issue, the wind was
sown ; to-day we reap the whirlwind.
It is exclusively a moral question, us'
are all questioilS affecting humanity. It
is nut a question of North and 'Sotith
--Tthuse very terms should be banished;
as unhealthy here. How completely
do we find moral pet ceptiuna obscur
ed, when here, in the noun of the
Nineteenth Century, on a question
involving more entirely than any other
the just relations of men toward each
other and toward G.rd, a great nation
is geographically divided. Men with
divine suuls must be lumped with the
clod whereoli they tread, and certain
princiules and ideas considered as ex-:
elusively-pi oducts of certain sectiuns,
as coffee' or cotton. Given a man's,
longitude and latitude, and you may
predict his views on Slavery, and
nearly everything else ; as when.you
know which way the wind blows, you
may announce with certainty the 'po
rition of the neas est, weather-vaues.
But in the present stets of things,
the political view hears its triumph of
Doom. The old party watch-fires are
but blackened earth and ashes ;. their
lines have fallen in unpleasant places.
A fearful disintegration has supervened
the political mass. Let us hope. by
the working vf a higher synthesis.
Hitherto we have had ancestral cunt
pacts and the political representation
of negioes canvassed. Men have spo
ken uf.what is "wise and expedient,"
lather than what is right. You need
nut that any one should show you how
this political treatment has miserably
failed, even in objects. highei: than its
own. Each party has come t;,rerard
with its nostrum, declaring itself the
original of Dr. Jacob Tuvrusend,whose
pillS, and none others, were gelatine;
each was to bring repose to the dis
tracted paCieut; and soothe irritation
by protOuader nationality. The in
flaninamixiii has spread with every ad:
ministration until. this ; and with this
the very powers which enable inflam
mation to spiced. seem nearly death,
still. I doubt net it would be so with
the - administration of any merely po
litical party in the country. Let the
people know, then, that this is the
grand success Of the political treat
ment of the Slavery question—every
wiled of the Government stilled !
In this state of thitigs, it will not be
the popular heart, but they who live
by smothering that heart, who will
withstand those - who now, when sal
other' II:mum:Is fail, present the one
path opened up before the country in
the
.Curisiian Law, First jiure, then
peaceable. Every man knows how
alone he gets peace. Priests may
mumble over the souls of the depart
ed, or beneath them, ilcquiescad in
pace, but hu soul ever rested in peace
until it had entered rt by . the path of
phrity. And the gi eater is contained
in the less ;_ each atom obeys the laws
of the sphere. Nations began with
individuals, and are now but collec
tions of them, and must obey-the laws
of individuals. With both, peace blos
soms-duly on the stem of purity.
This, then, will save us from any
national peril: that . Conscience ;dealt
be enthroned everywhere Absolute Mon
arch. It must be allowed untraniniel
ed action wherever iu any man it pro
hibits slayeholding, and" wherever •in
any man it does nut. Orly let Mee
that feel livingthey-are and voting at .
unity with their. best light of duty, and
they demand no more, but areat . ease.
When agitation is abroad, it is certain
See Pierce's last message.
that the lash of ConscienCe has been
nosened somewhere.
In Order to-secure this, we'are
call
ed to mutual concession—to the con
cession of each moral sense to the
other of all it claims—it being under
stood that nothing can be claimed by
'either for political advantage; but only
fronisneh a sense of the mu•al neces
sity- of such a claim as shall never
shrink., from. any: results whatever,
which are needed to secure it. , lithe
two. portions of the country cannot
unite and feel at the same moment
ready to face the Eternal Judge, with
the full conviction that they are each
completely true to God and to every
man, white and black, bond. and free,
on Earth, let them sink together be
neath..the waters under the Earth, but
never, never unite or relit lin united!
We are calletFthe mere to 'this con
cession because the error has been .
with both sides, and is now. The
men whose- consciences were first
stirred on this subject have dwelt on
the inhumanity of slaveholders, with-
Out remembering to ask what= TUT
were not alaveholders. For whatever
the Federal Government sanctions or
adlpts is of course by •complicity of
all who are parties •to that Federal
compact. As the people of Virginia
didsiot derive • their power to hold
slaves from-the Union, and-do not now,
of course none of the rest ofthe States,
or of the individuals of the Sates, are
involved'in it. Tney aver indeed, its
a high sense, concerned in all that con
cerns their fellow-men ; but not other
wise are they morally involved, than
as they are in widow-burning in Hin
dustan, or cannibalism in the Fejee
Islands. Du we, ai Americans, take
upon our consciences the . sins, as we
may think them, of Great Britain or
Japaa., because wo have treaties with
these nations 1.- lit) England and
France become responsible for one
another's pnlicy,or assume each other's
National Church, becauie, for a dif
ferent object, they have formed an
alliance ? The United States are but
such an alliance- And as England
and France have only a common re
sponsibility for what is done in the
war with Russia, so have the people
of the free States only a 'responsibility
for what is done by the Federal Union•
as such. So we can only look upon
the position of, the class of Anti-Slave
ry men whose motto rs "No union with
slareholders . ," as a blunder, occasioned
by their not having union with their
seal duty. Had they worked by the
Christian principle, " First cast the
beam out of thine own eye,, and so see•
clearly to cast the mote out of thy
brother's ;" had they not wasted their
energies on Slavvry in the. South, but
concentrated them on Slavery in the
North, they would have put in a de
mand which, so surely as God made
man alike in Maine and California,'
would have received the approval of
every sincere soul from i `Maine to Cali
fornia.
This blunder hat had its antitheti
cal' one in the South. And here, I
may say", we must guard against our
predjudices. As a Virginian, with no .
tie of rel tionship northward, of the
remotest kind, past or present, I feel .
how easily I . might slide into a justi
fication of my dear mother, the Suuth7
But the soul knows no. prejudices or
sections, and must see all under the
pure light of reason and conscience
. The first error of the 'South has
been an impatience in the discussion
of this question, reminding calm men
ofth6se unfortunate persons, met with
in lunatic asylums, who speak ration
ally on all topics until you touch that
on- which they are deranged, when
their insanity bursts wildly forth.
This has caused them to put them
selves in an attitude before the world
which has- brought down its severest
censure; and, feeling that this was
not just what they deserved - -since
they were at-least sincere—its has led
them en to a still greater, rage against
a judgment which, however unfair,
was the result of their own mistaken
Leg. It has precluded freedom of
iiscussion even anions themselves;
! ^ ";
n policy which no human brain or
heart ever respected yet; The native
sans of the South have again aril
'again sought to discuss it in their clins.
vicinities, and 'hare as ofjen boat
threatened and visited with and
processes, though the privilegeis .
cured them iu the Bill of Rights of.
nearly every Southern State. The
&Intl' has thus lost the confidence or
maujof her own children, who On&
that a freedom. exercised by Omit
lordly ance.stors,. Washington, • Jefier.,,
son, Henry, and by them transmittei,
as.an eternal inheritance, is new de
nied them by men who beside thous
are Lilliputian.. Those who deny that.
the full sunlight should play above and:
beneath and around any subject, cats.
never coavince any disinterested per
sun tlit they are in the right. This ,
was true before Jesus said, "Whims;
doeth right commix to the light," an&
it lia4 been true ever since, and bill:
be true to 411 etruity. What !Paulo"
men,. including the Soutb,• say tee
Christ's getting into a pafsion %victim,
antagonist, or Plato's refusing to heai
the other aide in an. argument! '
Blunder is of a prickly-pear growth
—due leaf developed from another.
Tuis impossibility of free speech in %hie
.South has Preserved a.Ccide of Slave
ry which is far bene6ll her osorak
sense, but which cannot become la
dead letter so lung as there are wisk
.e4 and seifiitt melt iu the marl& Ai
au evidence of this, it is a familiar
fact tuat the int:wiled men termetk .
• Negro•drivert" are held, with their
famines, in semi/ by all classes of afx
ciety in the Suttth ; yet no baiiness
more entirely
How is the Code to be reformed,.
if it is a crime to hroaclithe subjects
Take any Southern man, and ask him,
if he believes that these blacks should.
be so completely in the possession of;
the whites that there should Ewen se
curity to the marital relation ; du‘ .
one man should have the power, if hi,
wills, to saparate the families be ow 4,
to any extent'? Ask him it he believes
that immortal beings.should be reared.
in brutal ignorance I (And these
.who do otherwise break the laws.-.-
Huw sadly suggestive is the fact tha.
the only other peupte who forbid edu
cation to amp ate the Yezeddis tn.
Mesopotamia, who are tke only race
uf Dovil-worshipers!) A Southessi
man. will reply, Nu.
And yet those laws remain there:.
trained by Southerners m i t° are nu:
men, to bear the cruellest fruits ; such
as have aroused the open indignatiu.a.
of the. world, and the secret iudigns_ .
lie, of thousands of Southern hearit
and shall continue it, until hunrie.
souls, North and South, are father's**
and nei divine instincts of justice an}
pity flow out from nod's heart.
Taus bUth 'sides, by their infra pre
minis. need internal reform. But .cur
reference new is to the great atoial_
responsibility pvessing, on each, cull
growing out of our beiog ooe iusopls
. 1 would tue pressure were heaviek
1,1 tois- country, wuece, by the "ver,c ,
Latui e ut the . representative systems...
ad action aod influence of the
al Governinect—tuvulvieg as 'they
the hapintiess ui-misry,elevatiub
degi auction, of women, sett
children, everywhere—bye share hy,
every Lox-papa:and voter, the raoraa
respeusibility resting uu each pains is.
tremendous. What ;Atka cent is :
to r.ay, The North has nothing go
with Slavery. Nut hing . tu de vtith. it...
When the National Hag cauuut Rases
over a slave in this District,, cur inatiyk
Un.ted States Territory, who is not ea
slave by Northern as well.as.Southene,
conseutl Never was anyduty . pleiiei
than theirs to attend to this
see what it is which they, by their rep:
resentatives, have : been pervitualis
sanctioning and (weeding, t '4.• t i ers,, is
need that the voice o,f t h e ends=
prophet should be in every..rhreat.t .
which stirs the free airsof Pree.Stateie
crying to each maim this day, ,
for this matter belongeth unto dive 1
I alluded just now to these who*
assailed the Southern institaniat
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