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While I sit musing over my sheet +of foolscap, he emphatically tells the hour, in tones loud enough for all the +town to hear, though doubtless intended only as a gentle hint to myself, that I +may begin his biography before the evening shall be further wasted. +Unquestionably, a personage in such an elevated position, and making so great a +noise in the world, has a fair claim to the services of a biographer. He is the +representative and most illustrious member of that innumerable class, whose +characteristic feature is the tongue, and whose sole business, to clamor for +the public good. If any of his noisy brethren, in our tongue-governed +democracy, be envious of the superiority which I have assigned him, they have +my free consent to hang themselves as high as he. And, for his history, let not +the reader apprehend an empty repetition of ding-dong-bell. He has been the +passive hero of wonderful vicissitudes, with which I have chanced to become +acquainted, possibly from his own mouth; while the careless multitude supposed +him to be talking merely of the time of day, or calling them to dinner or to +church, or bidding drowsy people go bedward, or the dead to their graves. Many +a revolution has it been his fate to go through, and invariably with a +prodigious uproar. And whether or no he have told me his reminiscences, this at +least is true, that the more I study his deep-toned language, the more sense, +and sentiment, and soul, do I discover in it. +</p> + +<p> +This bell—for we may as well drop our quaint personification—is of +antique French manufacture, and the symbol of the cross betokens that it was +meant to be suspended in the belfry of a Romish place of worship. The old +people hereabout have a tradition, that a considerable part of the metal was +supplied by a brass cannon, captured in one of the victories of Louis the +Fourteenth over the Spaniards, and that a Bourbon princess threw her golden +crucifix into the molten mass. It is said, likewise, that a bishop baptized and +blessed the bell, and prayed that a heavenly influence might mingle with its +tones. When all due ceremonies had been performed, the Grand Monarque bestowed +the gift—than which none could resound his beneficence more +loudly—on the Jesuits, who were then converting the American Indians to +the spiritual dominion of the Pope. So the bell,—our self-same bell, +whose familiar voice we may hear at all hours, in the streets,—this very +bell sent forth its first-born accents from the tower of a log-built chapel, +westward of Lake Champlain, and near the mighty stream of the St. Lawrence. It +was called Our Lady’s Chapel of the Forest. The peal went forth as if to +redeem and consecrate the heathen wilderness. The wolf growled at the sound, as +he prowled stealthily through the underbrush; the grim bear turned his back, +and stalked sullenly away; the startled doe leaped up, and led her fawn into a +deeper solitude. The red men wondered what awful voice was speaking amid the +wind that roared through the tree-tops; and, following reverentially its +summons, the dark-robed fathers blessed them, as they drew near the +cross-crowned chapel. In a little time, there was a crucifix on every dusky +bosom. The Indians knelt beneath the lowly roof, worshipping in the same forms +that were observed under the vast dome of St. Peter’s, when the Pope +performed high mass in the presence of kneeling princes. All the religious +festivals, that awoke the chiming bells of lofty cathedrals, called forth a +peal from Our Lady’s Chapel of the Forest. Loudly rang the bell of the +wilderness while the streets of Paris echoed with rejoicings for the birthday +of the Bourbon, or whenever France had triumphed on some European battle-field. +And the solemn woods were saddened with a melancholy knell, as often as the +thick-strewn leaves were swept away from the virgin soil, for the burial of an +Indian chief. +</p> + +<p> +Meantime, the bells of a hostile people and a hostile faith were ringing on +Sabbaths and lecture-days, at Boston and other Puritan towns. Their echoes died +away hundreds of miles southeastward of Our Lady’s Chapel. But scouts had +threaded the pathless desert that lay between, and, from behind the huge +tree-trunks, perceived the Indians assembling at the summons of the bell. Some +bore flaxen-haired scalps at their girdles, as if to lay those bloody trophies +on Our Lady’s altar. It was reported, and believed, all through New +England, that the Pope of Rome, and the King of France, had established this +little chapel in the forest, for the purpose of stirring up the red men to a +crusade against the English settlers. The latter took energetic measures to +secure their religion and their lives. On the eve of an especial fast of the +Romish Church, while the bell tolled dismally, and the priests were chanting a +doleful stave, a band of New England rangers rushed from the surrounding woods. +Fierce shouts, and the report of musketry, pealed suddenly within the chapel. +The ministering priests threw themselves before the altar, and were slain even +on its steps. If, as antique traditions tell us, no grass will grow where the +blood of martyrs has been shed, there should be a barren spot, to this very +day, on the site of that desecrated altar. +</p> + +<p> +While the blood was still plashing from step to step, the leader of the rangers +seized a torch, and applied it to the drapery of the shrine. The flame and +smoke arose, as from a burnt-sacrifice, at once illuminating and obscuring the +whole interior of the chapel,—now hiding the dead priests in a sable +shroud, now revealing them and their slayers in one terrific glare. Some +already wished that the altar-smoke could cover the deed from the sight of +Heaven. But one of the rangers—a man of sanctified aspect, though his +hands were bloody—approached the captain. +</p> + +<p> +“Sir,” said he, “our village meeting-house lacks a bell, and +hitherto we have been fain to summon the good people to worship by beat of +drum. Give me, I pray you, the bell of this popish chapel, for the sake of the +godly Mr. Rogers, who doubtless hath remembered us in the prayers of the +congregation, ever since we began our march. Who can tell what share of this +night’s good success we owe to that holy man’s wrestling with the +Lord?” +</p> + +<p> +“Nay, then,” answered the captain, “if good Mr. Rogers hath +holpen our enterprise, it is right that he should share the spoil. Take the +bell and welcome, Deacon Lawson, if you will be at the trouble of carrying it +home. Hitherto it hath spoken nothing but papistry, and that too in the French +or Indian gibberish; but I warrant me, if Mr. Rogers consecrate it anew, it +will talk like a good English and Protestant bell.” +</p> + +<p> +So Deacon Lawson and half a score of his townsmen took down the bell, suspended +it on a pole, and bore it away on their sturdy shoulders, meaning to carry it +to the shore of Lake Champlain, and thence homeward by water. Far through the +woods gleamed the flames of Our Lady’s Chapel, flinging fantastic shadows +from the clustered foliage, and glancing on brooks that had never caught the +sunlight. As the rangers traversed the midnight forest, staggering under their +heavy burden, the tongue of the bell gave many a tremendous +stroke,—clang, clang, clang!—a most doleful sound, as if it were +tolling for the slaughter of the priests and the ruin of the chapel. Little +dreamed Deacon Lawson and his townsmen that it was their own funeral knell. A +war-party of Indians had heard the report, of musketry, and seen the blaze of +the chapel, and now were on the track of the rangers, summoned to vengeance by +the bell’s dismal murmurs. In the midst of a deep swamp, they made a +sudden onset on the retreating foe. Good Deacon Lawson battled stoutly, but had +his skull cloven by a tomahawk, and sank into the depths of the morass, with +the ponderous bell above him. And, for many a year thereafter, our hero’s +voice was heard no more on earth, neither at the hour of worship, nor at +festivals nor funerals. +</p> + +<p> +And is he still buried in that unknown grave? Scarcely so, dear reader. Hark! +How plainly we hear him at this moment, the spokesman of Time, proclaiming that +it is nine o’clock at night! We may therefore safely conclude that some +happy chance has restored him to upper air. +</p> + +<p> +But there lay the bell, for many silent years; and the wonder is, that he did +not lie silent there a century, or perhaps a dozen centuries, till the world +should have forgotten not only his voice, but the voices of the whole +brotherhood of bells. How would the first accent of his iron tongue have +startled his resurrectionists! But he was not fated to be a subject of +discussion among the antiquaries of far posterity. Near the close of the Old +French War, a party of New England axe-men, who preceded the march of Colonel +Bradstreet toward Lake Ontario, were building a bridge of logs through a swamp. +Plunging down a stake, one of these pioneers felt it graze against some hard, +smooth substance. He called his comrades, and, by their united efforts, the top +of the bell was raised to the surface, a rope made fast to it, and thence +passed over the horizontal limb of a tree. Heave ho! up they hoisted their +prize, dripping with moisture, and festooned with verdant water-moss. As the +base of the bell emerged from the swamp, the pioneers perceived that a skeleton +was clinging with its bony fingers to the clapper, but immediately relaxing its +nerveless grasp, sank back into the stagnant water. The bell then gave forth a +sullen clang. No wonder that he was in haste to speak, after holding his tongue +for such a length of time! The pioneers shoved the bell to and fro, thus +ringing a loud and heavy peal, which echoed widely through the forest, and +reached the ears of Colonel Bradstreet, and his three thousand men. The +soldiers paused on their march; a feeling of religion, mingled with +borne-tenderness, overpowered their rude hearts; each seemed to hear the +clangor of the old church-bell, which had been familiar to hint from infancy, +and had tolled at the funerals of all his forefathers. By what magic had that +holy sound strayed over the wide-murmuring ocean, and become audible amid the +clash of arms, the loud crashing of the artillery over the rough +wilderness-path, and the melancholy roar of the wind among the boughs? +</p> + +<p> +The New-Englanders hid their prize in a shadowy nook, betwixt a large gray +stone and the earthy roots of an overthrown tree; and when the campaign was +ended, they conveyed our friend to Boston, and put him up at auction on the +sidewalk of King Street. He was suspended, for the nonce, by a block and +tackle, and being swung backward and forward, gave such loud and clear +testimony to his own merits, that the auctioneer had no need to say a word. The +highest bidder was a rich old representative from our town, who piously +bestowed the bell on the meeting-house where he had been a worshipper for half +a century. The good man had his reward. By a strange coincidence, the very +first duty of the sexton, after the bell had been hoisted into the belfry, was +to toll the funeral knell of the donor. Soon, however, those doleful echoes +were drowned by a triumphant peal for the surrender of Quebec. +</p> + +<p> +Ever since that period, our hero has occupied the same elevated station, and +has put in his word on all matters of public importance, civil, military, or +religious. On the day when Independence was first proclaimed in the street +beneath, he uttered a peal which many deemed ominous and fearful, rather than +triumphant. But he has told the same story these sixty years, and none mistake +his meaning now. When Washington, in the fulness of his glory, rode through our +flower-strewn streets, this was the tongue that bade the Father of his Country +welcome! Again the same voice was heard, when La Fayette came to gather in his +half-century’s harvest of gratitude. Meantime, vast changes have been +going on below. His voice, which once floated over a little provincial seaport, +is now reverberated between brick edifices, and strikes the ear amid the buzz +and tumult of a city. On the Sabbaths of olden time, the summons of the bell +was obeyed by a picturesque and varied throng; stately gentlemen in purple +velvet coats, embroidered waistcoats, white wigs, and gold-laced hats, stepping +with grave courtesy beside ladies in flowered satin gowns, and hoop-petticoats +of majestic circumference; while behind followed a liveried slave or bondsman, +bearing the psalm-book, and a stove for his mistress’s feet. The +commonalty, clad in homely garb, gave precedence to their betters at the door +of the meetinghouse, as if admitting that there were distinctions between them, +even in the sight of God. Yet, as their coffins were borne one after another +through the street, the bell has tolled a requiem for all alike. What mattered +it, whether or no there were a silver scutcheon on the coffin-lid? “Open +thy bosom, Mother Earth!” Thus spake the bell. “Another of thy +children is coming to his long rest. Take him to thy bosom, and let him slumber +in peace.” Thus spake the bell, and Mother Earth received her child. With +the self-same tones will the present generation be ushered to the embraces of +their mother; and Mother Earth will still receive her children. Is not thy +tongue a-weary, mournful talker of two centuries? O funeral bell! wilt thou +never be shattered with thine own melancholy strokes? Yea, and a trumpet-call +shall arouse the sleepers, whom thy heavy clang could awake no more! +</p> + +<p> +Again—again thy voice, reminding me that I am wasting the “midnight +oil.” In my lonely fantasy, I can scarce believe that other mortals have +caught the sound, or that it vibrates elsewhere than in my secret soul. But to +many hast thou spoken. Anxious men have heard thee on their sleepless pillows, +and bethought themselves anew of to-morrow’s care. In a brief interval of +wakefulness, the sons of toil have heard thee, and say, “Is so much of +our quiet slumber spent?—is the morning so near at hand?” Crime has +heard thee, and mutters, “Now is the very hour!” Despair answers +thee, “Thus much of this weary life is gone!” The young mother, on +her bed of pain and ecstasy, has counted thy echoing strokes, and dates from +them her first-born’s share of life and immortality. The bridegroom and +the bride have listened, and feel that their night of rapture flits like a +dream away. Thine accents have fallen faintly on the ear of the dying man, and +warned him that, ere thou speakest again, his spirit shall have passed whither +no voice of time can ever reach. Alas for the departing traveller, if thy +voice—the voice of fleeting time—have taught him no lessons for +Eternity! +</p> + +</div><!--end chapter--> + +<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BELL’S BIOGRAPHY ***</div> +<div style='text-align:left'> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will +be renamed. +</div> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United +States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. 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