Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-08-21

The mother Of the boys, who had been ST.
lent during the whole conversation between
Frank and his father, now said
Boys, as your fatheri is silent, ! must say
TO YOU and him what is in my mind, and
what il / is very painful TO me TO say. think
your father was very wrong in praising such
a wicked thing as the War with Mexico
] think it is vile and vindiclive beyond all
words TO tell. and | was grieved to my soul
from the first that your fathers political views
stood so in the way Of his seeing what was
Just and noble. You have fairly acted out
the principle of this War, which is robbery,
lllsehood and cruelty. You have, like tie
American Government, been guilty of tyran-
ny and ~avarice and meanness. You have
used your superior powers to Cypress the
weak, and rob those already poor and friend
less. | cannot but hope that your father,
when he sees these principles acted out by
his children will also see how hateful they
are, and be cured of his admiration of the
Mexican and of all other wars, and will new
er again rejoice at the success of wickedness
and the death of his fellow men. He has
known that | disagreed with him, that
thought him wrong, but | should not have
said this to you if ] did not think it a So
lemn duty which | w you, to say what |
think about the crimes of our Government
and of your wickedness in committing the
same offence against our innocent and excel
lent neighbors, the Browns. / shall never
cease to entreat your father to give up the
cranberry pasture to Mr.. Brown, who claims
1t as his own rightful property. | am asham-
ed of my sons, that they can commit robbery
and cruelty, and then boast of the act and
talk of glory and bravery ! mourn that their
father, my husband, should ever have given
his children occasion to think for a moment
that such acts could meet with his approba-
ton"
As she concluded, Mr.. Lucas, the Adolf
ZIONIST, entered. The poor Browns had sent
for him, their only friend, and had told him
their grievances, and asked his aid in this
moment of their need. 1t appeared that the
youngest of the boys who fell into the ditch
had dislocated his hip and injured himself
severely, and was now a great sufferer
They we've very poor, and this was a heavy ca
lamitv to them. Mr.. Lucas, after he had re-
lated the fact, added, 81 could not believe
that your sons intended so seriously to in
lure any one of these poor boys, and | thought
that if they knew all the pain and injury they
had done, they would never again have the
heart to commit such cruelty but their vio-
lation of the law of right would have been
Just rs great had no serious injury followed.
| could not believe, sir, that you would APP
prove of this cruel conduct of your sons, and
| thought you would wish to make what re-
p~aration is possible to the poor Browns"
The father of these boys who had shown
themselves such apt scholars in the art of
wrong-doing, had been looking steadfastly
on the floor while Mr.. Lucas spoke he now
broke silence "I," said he, 81 only have
been to blame (; my boys have perhaps been
too ready 10 learn evil, but | have been their
teacher-I, from whom they should have
learned only good but | will do the best to
remedy my fault. Had their mother always
spoken to them and to me as she has to-day,
her higher and purer moral sense would per
haps have taken hold of their minds and my
own before now. Her u~nwillingness to con
denim their father has kept her silent; sh,
has loved me and my favor more than he
children or her own sense of right, or sht
would have rebuked my conduct before now
but the words she has uttered shall not bt
in vain; henceforward / will bid my boy,
learn justice and humanity from their mother
and that they may be good scholars, | will
myself be a learner with them. | comics:
to-day l feel ashamed OF my politics, ashamed
of my injustice"
That very hour he went with Mr.. Lucas
to see the poor little boy who was so much
injured by his fall; he promised to pay al
the expenses Of the physician and nurse he
begged the forgiveness of the little fellow
and his parents for himself and his sons; he
gave up all the right to the cranberry pasture
which he had obtained by purchase, to Mr.
Brown, as a compensation fer the injury he
and his sons had done him.
Is it not d%evoutly 10 be wished and prayed
| for, that our country, stepped as it is in mi
putty, might follow his example and repen
of her sins. Il. l.. f.