Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-07-14

ges are too high by half, and everybody de-
mands that evefybody's wages shall be dou-
bled. Everybody is indignant that the trea-
sury is empty and yet evefy body-that is,the
"puvilsged ORDERS" The OureritrS-insisis
upon full measure, and prays increasingly;
''Lcrd, send US weeks Of Sundays,
A saints day every day,
Shirts gratis, ditto bfpeches.
No work, and double pay"
Kings and mobiles are tcmbled abouiss chill.
dren tumble apples on the grass. Popes are
no longer inlalilhle; and cardinals and bish.
ops are bundled cut Of their Sees with no
more ceremony than would he shown 10 the
merest laynsn. 1t is CRAFTY ing, how ever, 10
note that the Waltonian injunction when i'm.
paling a frog, ''handle him tendurly and us
though you loved him." is strictly obser,ed;
the "obnoxious" are stripped and squeezed
gently, and termed out to fresh woods, md
pastures new" TO Craze with what appetite
they can mus,et.
Thu phlegmatic German Is bubhllng up
like ore Of his own "bru nnens," and hopes,
when the troubled waters subside, Tor a
brighter and better fuiure. The fiery and
inpassioned Italian has felt his strength, and
"as at the stroke Of an enchanter's wand"
sceptre and tnple-ctown, hoary abuse, and
BARBARIAN insolence," have melted away be-
fore the afdof Of his enthusiasm, and the
stern holiness Of his purpose. Even the
pefhdious SaTdinisn Prince has become the
beau-ideal Of a patriot hing.
There too, by the blue Egean, in tho
"clime Of the uniorgctien brave" the KEEP.
tocracy" Of Greece are about 10 strike for
more plentiful pickings under a chief OF their
own choosing. Ohio has doubtless been
wafncd ere this, and mus, needs follow the
paternal or avuncular example, and abdicsle.
He may flee to Switzerland and condole with
the Bavarlan inamoTaio who, like d true Mn
nessinger, lost his Kingdom for a mistress,
and was content TO lose 1t. Or, better still
amid the treasures OF art In Munich, and in
spired by its delicious beer, he may qualify
hlnself 10 build 10 better taste, and for u more
successful renovation of Greek antiquities in
the event OF a restoration.
OF all Europe, the Moscoviie alone sticks
to old customs, worships the Car, believes
in the knout, and the right divine of fogging
his better half. But "lhe whifIigig OF Time
will bring about his Ievenges :" and 'tht
rugged Russian bear' will dance TO q met
rler tune, and show his leader, "charm h'
never SO wisely" a 'pirouette" not Of hl'
teaching.
On our side Of the water tie piebald PEG
pie south Of US arc In a state Of fermentation
quickened doubtless, by the philanthropi,
shaking we have given them, and our bene
VIOLENT efforts TO let In upon them with th'
points OF our bsyonets, a larger portion OF III
breath OF freedom and the light Of clylliZa
ton. 1t Las Casas, the venerable ''apostl,
OF the Indians" could revisit our planet, nov
would he rejoice to see the letters fall trou
The down-tGodden Indian; aud the aboTiglna
lords of the soil once more erect and free, a
when the Tobber-chivalry OF Spain first selzet
and appropriated their bTthTight. The spec
lacle would, we are fam TO believe, be sad
dened by the remembrance that TO save on
race he had, more than any other, helped /
consign TO a bondage as calling, those NEE
and patient "lmages OF God carved in ebony,
snatched by Iapaclous hands, from freedom
friends and native land.
But in sober seriousness, willis We hor
= that this glorious opportunity Of improvin
g the condition of the masses may not be mi
used or lost, we yet fear that some of Il
leaders in these movements, have been AZ
tuated more by motives of personal aggral
dlzement, ana vaulting ambition, than by
lofty and enlarged patriotism that 10 assuu
ing the port and Of the great an
good OF our own land, they expect TO fin
The prophecy in the mantle, and the wisdor
in the wIg," rather than In The disinterestec
ness and devotion of their examplars. b.
sas the shadow that falls from beauty is dar
as the echo even Of glad sounds is sad
W. will hope that the Inurmurs which ar
borne to US, are but the melancholy under
tone which ever accompanies the noblest har
monies and that out OF the seeming confL
sion, systems of polity, wise, genial, gener
} Gus, just, may spring up, to endure not 10
an aye, but for all time. Louisville Erami
: ner,