Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-05-05
The Model Republic.

how reform was progressing there, sweeping
with resistless force even over the HOLY CT
ty-how the battle cry of Liberty that went
up from the hills and vallies of sunny France
found a response in the hearts of millions of
the subjects of neighboring monarchs-how
Tyranny trembled for her power, and Royal
ty stood aghast. There seemed to be scarce.
ly a nation in Europe but what was represent
ted in the great Council of Freedom and
we were tempted TO believe it was by con-
cert of action, by well matured and admira-
bly, executed plans that so much was effect
ed in so brief a period. Where-we asked
ourselves-where will the next revolution be!
What people will next strike for freedom, or
demand their rights at the hands of their OPP
pressors. We eagerly watched every arri-
val for Intelligence, we closely scanned the
columns Of the papers for the announcement.
1t cdme at last, and what was it?
o. Seventy-six slaves have escaped from
their masters in the city of WASHINGTON, the
capitol of the great republic of North Amer
lea, and have been pursued and retaken.-O
One of the most detestable features in the
system of American Slavery is the recap
ture Of fugitives. We can conceive of the
possibility of Shareholders deceiving them
selves in the belief that the wretched VIC
Tins of their power are contented and happy
in their servitude and degradation, so long
as they remain in the possession of those
who claim them, without apparent coercion I;
but when, by their struggle for liberty, by
their willingness to dare all and suffer all
that they may be free, they give the strong
est evidence of their desire to be men; it is
the very essence Of meanness, the perfection
of tyranny to drag them back 10 their prison
house and their chains.
When the people of France threw off the
dominion of Louis Philippe, and forced him
to flee from their presence, America could re-.
joice or pretend to rejoice in the event. Not
only did the people of this nation hold NEE
tings of sympathy and pass resolutions of
congratulation, but the nation as such, spea.
king through its House of Representative
and its Senate, expressed its satisfaction ant
delight with the dethronement of the citizel
king. The resolutions Of the American PEG
pie and the American Congress had scarcely
crossed the Atlantic, before another struggle
for freedom was made. Not, it is true, BY
those who dwell within the shadow of thu
hoary deSpotisms of Europe, but by those
who live upon the soil of this republic no
by a nation strong in its might, counting ii;
force by millions, but by a handful of unna'
tionalized people who had no country, nc
home not by those who were armed and
equipped for the work of death, but by men,
women, and children whose fettered hands
left them no power of redress, no means OF
Iy appealing TO every true lover of liberty
for if the subjects of a European king should
be cheered on in their struggle for freedom,
how much more should the slaueS of an A.
merican despot receive sympathy and sup
port! But how did the people and the 60
vernment of this land receive the intelligence
of the escape of the seventy-six fugitives!-
1t came like a thunderbolt upon them, it pro-
duced the same effect that the announcement
of the existence of a French Republic did
upon the Emperor Observation-Disclosures
said he to the officers about him, ''be prepa.
red to put foot in stirrup at a moments war
ming" Men who had pretended to love Ii
berty for France gave pursuit to the flying
bondmen, and when they had been recaptur'
ed and closely secured, there was as much
exultation among republican despots, as
there was in Russia over the ruins of Poland
when Nicholas proclaimed 'Order reigns il
Warsaw"
In another place we record the phlegmatic
business-like account of the event as given
by the National organs of the Democratic
and Wing parties. Heartless as they are
they are not more h~eaTtless than the parties
they so truly represent. We have also pla
ced upon record resolutions upon the subjec
prepared by Joshua r. Giddings, but which
the house refused to give him leave to pre-
sent-resolutions briefly stating the facts il
the case, and calling for the appointment o
a committee to ascertain by what authority &
prison built and sustained with the peoples
money is used as a pen in which to cOnfint
fugitive slaves. So it appears that the Uni
ted States government not only tOhrates theil
recapture, but becomes accessory after the
fact, and severely Furnishes men because they
love liberty, and then coward-like shrink
from an investigation of its acts. Would it
not be well for the political clubs OF Paris
which were organized TO promote the extern
sinn nC frendnm. 10 giye the case Of the sew