Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-04-23


her present sovereign TO the throne also du-
ring the same year the Poles commenced an
unhappy struggle for independence with the
most powerful despotism of the East--a strug-
gle which turned The granary Of Europe into.
a wide desolation, and drenchpd its soil With
the blood of peasantry and mobiles. Here,
too, we date the outbreak Of the sanguinary
Revolution Of Texas, which has since entail
ed upon our own Government a clinging and
malignant curse.
Much about this period the notes Of civil
discord were sounding across the waters from
Spain; and for years the public prints were
rife with intelligence respecting most revolt
ing warfare carried on in the very heart of the
country with a cold blooded a%,rocity scarcely
paralltled in the annals of Barbaric States
Partial tranquility has since been restored
but Spain even now sleeps like a villa on the
side Of a volcano.
Then followed our notorious Florida War,
in which 10000, 900 Of revenue and many
human lives were expended, as a distinguish
ed Statesman has said, " in fighting five hun
dred invisible Indians !" The Canadian re-
volt next ragged on our frontier; and simul,a-
neously Mexico became embroiled with
France. Before these difficulties were ad-
justed, England had commenced waging that
detesied "Opium War; upon $4,000, coo OF
unoAending Chinese; than which none more
basely sordid or Of blacker infany stand on
record. At this period also Italy was the
seat of rebellion, and frequent scenes Of car
mage were transpiring in the Rhenish Pro-
%yinces. Soon after France aud Morocco
CANT to hostilities, and horrible massacres
occurred on the Isle of St. Domingo. Rus
STA also made repeated but unsuccessful at
tempts 10 subdue the wild hordes Of Cauca.
sus. Then comes the butchery Of the Sikhs
in India by tho British arms, and solemn
Thanksgiving offered up on Easter Sunday il
the Church of the Establishment for two o
the most inhuman and complete massacre;
history ever chronicled.*
Last on the scroll Of infamy stands our owl
Mexican war; begun in sheer wickedness
carried on at the expense of property and prin
ciple, and (whether it prove successful 0
oihcrwise,) certain to plunge the Government
in irretGievable disgrace. The war Of th'
Greeks and the revolt of the Poles, thougI
unques,icnably impolitic, are nevertheless
justified by many reasonable men, because
they were a struggle Of free against despoti,
principles, a rising Of the public mind in de
fence of a great idea, a war Of %changeles
Right against high-handed wrong. We fin,
some palliation in the attack of France on Al
giers, for she thereby succeeded in breaking
up that old den Of pirates. Even a tcar Q
ambition has some redeeming elements in III
estimation Of those who rate highly what the,
are pleased to call "the war-like virtues.-
But a Shareholders war who can tolerate !
A war clearly designed to prepare an area fC
the more complete and permanent establish
ment Of despotic, unchriStian principles, whi
friend of humanity can uphold? A war
which a successful issue is u%nmingled CT
/, lamiiy to Republicanisn and universal Libe
,y, what Patriot-what PhiIanthropist ca
, but deprecate and abhorl But notwithsianc
, ing all our individual reprobation, indign'
ton and adherence, as a nation we are ca
rying on war-a Shareholders war. There
no denying that. For twelve months or mo-
our troops have been invading soil they HAY
no right 10 tread, and revenue by scores
millions. and human lives by the thousar
have paid the heavy forfeit. You and | me-
see the stupid folly and the treasonablene
of all This; but the wal still goes on, and v
come in for a share Of its rich legacy Of tax
o and its exhauslless revenue Of national ini
my.
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10 = Witness the following sketch: "Tl
ID battle had began at six, and was over at elev
N o'clock the hand-to-hand combat CONNER
ID ed az nine, and lasted scarcely two hours.
20 The river was full Of sinking men. For t.
" hours, volley after volley was poured in up
IT, the human mass, the stream being litera