Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-06-02
The Funeral 0bSequiGS.

While we write, the merry sound Of the
fife and drum, the rich swell Of full brass
bands, the heavy roll of wheels, the tramp 0f
many horses, and the sound of countless hur-
rying feet, I'LL our sanctum with clamor.-
Onr streets are thfonged with thousands,
whose gay dresses and smiling faces speak
excitement not unpleasurable. Women aud
children are hurrying gaily to the spectacle.
Men have dropped their business-Marshals
with rich sashes, on prancing barbs, are DIS
Playiag their figures 10 advantage. And it is
a glorious day, If The sun would only shine ;
Out nature appears inclined to weep at the
pageant, and breathes on it with a chilly
breath. The cause OF all this din and c%lalier
Is a handful Of bones. which once did the bid
ding Of Commodore Barney, and which, thir-
~ years ago, were laid down for a last long
rest amid their kindred dust. These, instead
OF heing permitted to rest in their graves un-
VI the resurrection, arc dragged up again to
mlngIe IN the turmoil, strife and clamor Of
the world which they had So long left, and
give a holiday TO the children. Talk about
heaihendom, will you; what "dom' is this I
IL Is a great thing TO have bones! At least
1t Is very well that soldiers are not all flesh
or the wolves would eat their immortality
Nafions and sundry are the uses to which
those bones are put; for instance, those of
commodore Barney, Lieutenant Parker, and
y ID. Sewell are to-day affording a grand
gala day TO the good citizens of Pittsburgh,
ana nave given a fine opportunity for a dis
play OF fine horses, fine carriages, fine forms,
oTalory, eIoquence, public spiritand generosl-
ty; while thousands more bones made fine
picking for wolves and hyenas, on the plains
and mountain sides Of Mexico. When onr
good people were sending for these bones,
would 1t have cost much more to have brought
up a ship load Have not all our dead sol.
dlets thus crowned themselves with immor.
tai, lmperlshable, unalterable, and Infinite
glory But this glory displays itself in 81
many different ways. To some it comes il
long professions, pomp and parade-to som,
In The voice Of the mountain storm which
bowls over their foreign graves, or in Tho
beams of the torrid sun which bleaches thci
unburied bones, that will perhaps be rakec
mp in after years, brought home, ground up
and grown into %turnips, as those of Water
loo have been. Soldiers bones are of vari
Gus uses, and it is very well they have bones
Then the coats, hats, vests, swords, &c.
f which they are hauling around on The hearses
[ VIZ MY July tltNl lOOs DIS lUU lIuldIS u
their relics, with the dead, or is some NOR
ciriA>ed disposition to be made of them J.
I The Reverend Clergy have their place
assigned them in this frightful mockery {
death God save the clergy and religio
from their hands May He save the worl
form the present caricature of Christiauit
which is cursing it, from the Christianit
which sanctions human b~utchery, and sue
empty gew-gaw shows gotten up to NAL
murder honorable-to deafen the ear of h
G mainly lest it should hear the groans Of II
dying, the walls Of the widow and orpha
above the noise of martial music. Save Il
clergy, good Lord, aud if thou hast, in /
better land, any use for those who aid in su
work, in mercy take them there soon, for tn
are a fearful curse here! Amen.-PiHSJur
Sat. PiSiir.