Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-05-21

ana two-thlfdS oil our OWL at The time OF onr
Revolutionary struggle. The mind shudders
al the bare contemplation OF the fact; what
then must be the feelings Of the spectators Of
the horrible calamity :
1t cannot but be believed that something
must be ~"rotten in the state Of" Ireland, to
admit the truth OF this hideous deprivation.
What is to be the remedy, we are incapable
OF divining-but a remedy must be found.
and if enlightened statesmen 10 no, attempt
one, empires WiH--and the body polite sui.
fer as much or mere from the cure than the
disease.
We copy the article Of The Dublin Nation
on the subject. 1t is written in an indignant
and, it may be, somewhat exaggerated strain
OF eloquence but countless circumstances
compel US 10 acknowledge lis too much
truth =
The last Resource. 1t is calculated by the
English Ministry, as the English Spectator
declares, that this years famine will kill two
millions CT the Irish people. Two millions
DO m5n realize 10 themselves that tragic
Tact! Do they know what it means? Does
it picture to their minds one man out Of eve-
~ four living in Ireland when tho English
Parliament met 20 legislate for our - safety y
az dead or doomed to death One out of
every four! OF every hundred, twenty-five
an entire fourth Of all this Irish race dying
Ia the unspeakaLle pangs of hunger. No,
we believe they do not know 1t. a vague
feeling of the enormous calamity floats in
mems minds, but a full sense Of that desoll-
ton and all its consequences no IN seems
10 have realized.
Two millions! If all tho hum1n beings
living in Scotland--men, women and chill
dren-had died of some sudden plague, and
lalt fhot pounl,ps tinrlrp, ana ,,;la ,,;Il.-
ness, without the face Of nan, the loss Of
human life would only equal what has fallen
upon us. II death had swept over some 9TH
er main branch of the British e~mpire-over
Wales or over ClnaJa--Cdnidl, SO strong
that men watch to see her spring into the at
tliude Of a new Western empire, another self
manumitted slave Of Eugland-the loss Of
life would but amount 10 haBwhat we sustain.
The Swiss Republic, the Kingdoms Of Den
mark, Norway, SdXony, Hanover, Tuscany,
Greece-any one Of all these sovereign States
might be depopulated TO the last man, and
still fewer of Gods creatures be lost than we
have flung into the grave, with a~ccursed apa-
thy, in this single year. The plaques which
made fearful epochs 10 the history Of the hu-
man race-the wars which men regarded as
visible scourges Of God-the revolutions
which shook - pieces forever some ancient
and Formidable ~tyranny-none of them all
swept over a land with such desolation as
English rule has brought upon US in This one
fearful season.
And the fever is coming in the track of the
iamlne-the fever which strikes dead the
rich, not the poor. 1t kills, says DR.. Corri-
gan, In language of terrible signifcance--it
Kills one out of tlUo Of the wealthy, for one
out Of fen Of the poor. This scourge is COM
ing, and which OF us all can promise himself
immunity for a month Who can be assured
that he will not be the next victim of Eng.
land
To the proud merchant and the upright
trader, there is, truly, something more ter
rible than death itself-the loss Of Credit
Is not this, too, come or comingl The in.
evitable progress of scarcity and confusion
from the low to the high, has followed its
appointed course, and, aggravated by igno.
rant laws, it threatens to wrap US in a com
mon ruin. Poor-Laws. BENTiNcK clauses,
and GReGoRy clauses, the natural alarm OF
English merchants, the spring tide of emf
grafton drawing an enormou capital and Id
Dor from our shores, the thousand confusio ns
that fall like curses on a State without a Go.
vernment, conc 10 make this ruin comp lete
and signal.
Two millions Of our workers dead-fsver
coming like an avenging angel among the
slothful rich-commercial panic and ruin be-
Gnn-priests and physicians wanting the ne
cessaries of life in the midst of qradrupled
labor-our landed gentry beggared by public
works over which they had no control-our
rural shopkeepers about to be robbed of their
natural customers, and henceiorth to be fed
and clothed by English contractors at thei,
costa time fast coming and inevitable, il
we do not stop and forbid it-when this an
cient Island, robbed OF its gentry, its clergy,
its professional and mercantile classes, its
industrious farmers and skilful artisans, shall
present to the eye of the stranger one wide
gang Of paupeEs and Pay-clerks, slaves and
siave-drivprS.
Oh, God of Justice and Mercy ! 10 WHOM
our fathers were faithful in peril and persecu,
ton, must we endure thisl Ont of the
depths we have cried To Thee, Oh Loan
LonD hear our voice let Thy ears b. atten
tive TO tho voice Of our supplication."
When Cop led His people out oil the land
of bondage, through such terrible vengeance
their sulerings had not equalIed ours
When the Romans meditated abandoning
their noble city after its sack by the Glnls-
when the brave Dutch nation prepared to e.
into their ships and sail away from their coun
- ~ ~ '"hh1l nun NiiihlO tllC NNopidNii,
dominion of a foreign conqueror, their cas-
was not more desperate than ours at this hour
But still, in the last extremity, some brav
voice was heard, exhorting them to one NOR
struggle-one more struggle for their dea
country /; and the one more struggle, nervet
with a last desperate hope, was still triumph
ant. Oh, if some potent voice awoke 0u
people to their condition, the same success i
still to be won. Men would hail it as tn,
voice of ono commissioned Of Heaven to speal
u divine truth. Why should not such a on
now-now, in this hour of our extremity. 81,
for Ireland what Ireland will fat-'I In God
name this has lasted too long we cannot en-
dure more, and we wOEt. You may sent
your lawyers to prosecute us, or your soldier
to kill us but, by Heavens justice, our PEG
pie shall die tamely of your law no longer
First take our lives. You drew away on