Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-03-26
CAPE COP, March 10, 1877.

sands of this wondPrinirst peninsula IN the
world. Soln,bcdy asked once. what was the
most valuable natural production Of New
Hampshirel The answer was, MEN
Tie sands of Cape Cod are the nursery OF
Na,igators. They are only spiouted here
for as soon as they can haul a mackerel, away
they embark-and by the time they are nine
teen, they can s,ddle and bride a shin Of
600 tons, and ride her down to Canton or
Calcutta as coolly as ever man rode his mare
u mill.
Nature evidently designed this barren
region as her dollhouse for the culture of
navirators. And she opens to them the ne
rils of the sea even at their own or idles, so
they may know the fate which awaits them.
For the storms that often sweep the ocean
are equally terrific on TIE Cape, which is on
ly a fiat arm Of land reaching out some hun
dred miles, as il 10 stay the tempest on the
ocean. Nor does the storm abate thti r zeal.
though in mockery Of it, it SO often hurls
their thousand vessels in their very faces on
tlp SHORE, NlNl NHulN CiCN u'ONH tu IN The
cabin, or swept overheard TO fodder the
monsters If The deer. In one storm the fa-
mily where | now am lost three sons, from
sixteen to twenty-eight years old. The dis.
tressed father, three days after. W. Mt AMI to k
the youngest out Of the cabin Of the vessel,
Cndrrsi aud laid him out with his owl hands.
M r..-lI,, I.;,,o - ,a.hioL, N tlo l.ll.--
Of the storm-god, he had been drowned in
his berth, had preserved his form and feature,
complexion and expression, as il, instead of
death. a gentle sleep had been rocked upon
him, as he bounded on the pillows. Hours
afterward, he seemed as one asleep. Just
before he left, he built a little model schoon-
er. which he named "rhe Bride" furnished
with sails, colors and rige ing in every part,
and giving her into the hands Of his mother,
he said, Keep his Till I come." She keeps
her yet. ~ was 10 keep her," said she just
now, with a tear, ~ was 70 Keep her until he
His schooner, The Bride, was to
only an emblem Of "A more precious trea-
sure he left behind, whose youthful widow
rood is still mourned by her maiden %associ-
ties, as they look upon her pale and SORROW
countenance, with the tenderest af-
tction.
The village Of Dennis, where I now write,
ost twenty-five persons in the same storm,
but six of them under thirty years Of age,
and nine of them leaving young families.
Truso, clese ~. with a population of only
1909, lost, al the same time, sixty or its brave
youth and middle-aged, leaving ,wen,y-
seven widows and ffty-tne orphan children,
besides tender and distracted mothers, sor-
rowing fathers and brothers, weeping sisters,
and broken.hearted lovers. In the town are
more than a hundred widows, most Of whose
husbands persisted at sea. So does the Eu-
roclydon Of Ocean sport with those who dare
brave his %terrors. The shark and the sword
f,h fatten OH their flesh, and their frail barks,
all deserted. are dashed on shore, 10 bring
tidings to their loved ones Of their melancho-
ly doom.
AS a matter Of course, The people of the
Cape are as hospiiable as they are brave
One might say Of them, in Burns's language
on the death of his friend,
With such as he, where'er it he,
May | be saved, or damned"
And. better yet, they are the freesi people Of
all the Bay State. The priesthood endeavor
in vain 10 ~enslave them. Most of them are
far too Intelligent. Indeed, the clergy, as a
body, are the siupidest part Of the popula-
ton. | have been recommending 10 the ppo-
pie to send many of them to sea. as a means
OF lettering their education and mending
their manners. II they would only 90 10 the
Grand Bank. or the straits Of BeIlisle a fish
ing, 1t might make them more like Peter ard
those old fishermen, and better fit to become
fishers of men. We have ihronged houses,
but the priesthood generally stay prudently
and wisely away. They call us wolves, de-
vouring the fnck, and then, like their broth.
er ''hirehngs" we read of, they fee at our
approach, because "ihey care moi for the
sheep" except for the mutton and the fleece.
Massachusetts is still raising men and mo-
ney for the Mexican war. Governor Btigus
is one of The champions of Washinrtouian.
ism, and President Of III" great Legislative.
Temperance Socie'y hut he is still helping
TO get boys drunk, that so they NAV write
themselves murderers, and be sent to nrey
upon female virtue, and the lives of men. wo-
men and children, better than themselves, in
Mexico.
When the regiment was shipped or the
other day from Boston, one company of slim.
less and shoeless wre,ches who had M, o
c'lved Their advance Money refused to go on
hoard The glorious Colonel imme dialely
armed sixty men with muskets loaded Win
ball, and then loading himself and others with
handouts, and other gospel irons, he advaoc-