Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-03-05
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French Revolution Nv Olunteering--GOv
Briggs.
woRcEsrrR, Mass, 9Th Feb, AZ.

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ma, Austinburg, Jefferson and New Lyme in
the North, Lloydsville, Somerton and Short
Creek in the South, & New Garden, Younrs-
Town and Salem between, are they so soon
forgottenl Believe it not. High on the scroll
Of my loved ones, are the names of my dear
friends there, and in other towns too. Aud
while memory performs its wonted office, nei-
Their time nor distance shall invade the sacred
registry.
But | have been whirIed as in a tempest
with engagements. Sickness kept me a
month from the field. In that time "Thc
Church as it is" was written, else | should
sooner have been well. While in Boston,
experimenting The printing, I made my night
ly sallies into the surrounding villages, and
lectured generally to a late hour.
That off my hands, ! accepted an invitation
TO lecture before a.Lyceum that was despe-
rate enough to apply to me 10 furnish them
one of their course of lectures. | selected
for my subject, The Causes and Character of
the French Revolution with a view TO res
cue somewhat, that wonderful phenomenon
from the horrible odium which European des-
pots and their clinging minions, and more es-
pecially the spiritual and political dema-
gogues of this country have screamed upon it.
The lecture caused me much study but
the reception it met with in the places where
it has been delivered, was an annie common.
sation. The clergy have been croaking them
selves !oarse in cursing the French Revolu-
ton, about long enough. 1t is time now to
tell the world the truth about IL. Society
must keep drunk, slaves must shrek, wars
desolate the earth, the priest commit adulte-
ry, and the gallows, dragon-like, devour its
victims, lest in Kidding the world of such ex-
ecrable curses, we revive the horrors of the
French Revolution. Thus has the priest :
hood stayed the advance of Reform. As if !
that Revolution, bad as it was, came any too :,
soon, or was not ten thousand times more u
needful than ours of I776-and in almost eve l
ry sense, as honorable TO humanity. II
Such are a few of the reasons why nv pro- '
mise to the Bugle has not been better kept. !
We ore doing a great work in Massachu- !.
sets. Our numbers in the field are small, v
so many being in Britain and New York. II,
The Boston Fair yielded, including a sale at p
New Bedford Of some Of the goods, more "
than 5000 dollars. S'
The people are growing more and more =
sick Of politics and political parties. They ~ ~
have tried Whigism and found it more decep- =
tive than the apples of Sodom-Democracy, "'
that too, is loathsome as adders, poison as =,
asps-and Birneyocracy, but that combines -
that is odious in both the other parties. y
So the converts TO the doctrine of Disunion y
are daily multiplying. .
Massachusetts has been trying to raise a Z
regiment to go with the other plunderers and !,
pirates TO Mexico. Governor Briggs was y
the first to volunteer. He volunteered to :
raise the regiment, as soon as the government
told him it would consent to accept of it, if
men were big fools enough to leave better
pay, to come. This was every particle of
authority the governor had for his laundering
course.
And the blunderhoodship was the least Of
the evil. Gov. Briggs had sworn to support
the Constitution Of the United States, and
he said this whole Texas proceeding was a
gross violation of that Constitution. What
business then, had he in violation of his oath,
to support it, to be raising an army to trample
it deeper In the dust! Is perjury so trifing
an affair for Governors 10 commit?
He nrnfasead too to ho ror,.xl---l ::
the Temperance cause. And yet he knows
this banditti cannot be raised, only as The ele-
ments composing it, to a great extent, are
drunk. And he knows that the strong in
ducements with many are, first, the hundred
thousand gallons of w~hiskey, the very sink
Stops of Tophet, for which the government
has just advertised, 'Jor the use Of the army"
and second, the horrible riot they are allowed
60 make, on Mexican female chastity. He
knows this, and yet enlists them, Tempe
rance champion as he is.
Gov. Briggs also calls himself a Christiaum
He says he has followed his Lord down into
the Jordan of baptism. Monthly he celebrates
his dying compassion in sacramento feast.
He reads, and says he loves his p~recepts,
''Love your enemies-do good to them that
hate you" But he loves the Mexicans, who
are not his enemies, even, by sending his
blasphemous myrmidons to chop them to pie
ces. He "does good to them that'' do not
''hale" him, by sacking their towns, plum
dering their plantations, violating their wives
and daughters, and seizing on their lands.
This is the virtue, the temperance, the chris.
tianity of Gov. Briggs.
But after all, they cannot yet raise that one
regiment. They have gone from New Hamn.