Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-08-29

For strangers have come TO town;
There's some n rags, and some in tags,
And some in velvet gowns"
The Judge and jery came to try the little rogues,
who were not stroego or skil(ul enough TO break through
the meshes Of ire law. and also to grant or refuse IL
censes 10 rumse'lers and other hotel keepers. We
don't know how many licenses were gra ited o. how
many refused. We hope that every applicant who
was" mot a Temperance man was dism issed without
one. for liquor sIups--whether low g~roggeries or fash
ionable hoiels--are a curse to the community in which
they are located; and beside, ram barrels are an un.
steady foundation upon which to build the Anti
Slavery cause, or any other cause of moral reform.
No man who is a slave to rum can be q good abolition
list. His moral perceptions are too dim TO permit
him 10 see our enterprise in all its giotious beauty,
md his intellect too much muddled, to suse. him 10
become an in,e lIlgent defender of Freedom.
We don't know how many prisoners were tried
nor for wha, crimes they we're a~rraigned, but we will
risk our reputation Tor veracily, that if there were
uny horse thieves among them, they were more dark
~ scoNled upon, and more severely punished, than if,
under the name and in the person of Henry Clay or
James X. Polk, they had stolen both horse and rider,
One murder mikes a villain, millions a hero"
and by parity of reasoning, it is vile and criminal
10 steal a horse only, but honorable and praiseworlhy
10 take both horse and rider. In this country,
"'Tis theft 10 rob a hen.roosi Of a hen;
But they who plumber Gods afflicted poor,
And boil, and bar the captives prison door,
Are christians all, and honorable mem
The Judge and Jury came TO prepare the way for
the execution Of the laws; and the soldiery came to
prepare themselves to execute their fellow men.
We are SO constructed physically and mentally,
that we must laugh at what is ridiculous; and rea lily
such playing at soidiers--when we forget the mur
derous abstract principle upon which these military
musters are based--is one Of the most ridiculous
things upon earth. The morning of the 2lst was
usbered ;n--we were going to say, BY sounds of mu
sic, but it would be a libel upon all sweet sounds TO
call such discord music il was rather
GAS if a s~queakng fife should strive
To drown a cracked bassoon."
The soldiers had come, and every boy in town
knew it. At an early hour, they fastened 10 their va
rious places of rendezvous, and had Falsiaff been there
lie would have reioiced exceedingly over them, as
men after his own heart. If variety be the spice of
life, as the poet tells us, none could complain that
these soldiers were not highly spieed, fora greater
variety than their uniform presented, human eyes
seldom behold. The only uniformity we could per
ceive in their dress was, that every man was uniform
ly unlike his neighbor. After mastering their forces
upon the Public Square, and making sundry maneu.
vers characterized as was the Dutch girls dancing
more for strong than handsome - but nevertheless
infinitely TO the qualification of some Orergrown as
we'll as undergroun boys, they performed tie great
feat of the day-a feat which was also performed on
a certain time by a certain monarch, and recorded. in
the following poelical lines,
"The king Of France VITA twenty thousand men,
Marched up a hill and then marched down again"