Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-04-28

Louis Philippe has done much which we
may thank him for. lie has kept mainly at
peace the fercest nation Of the world; has
kept the peace Of Europe for l. years. Let
us thank him for that. lie has consolidated
the French nation, helped to give them a new
unity OF thought, and unity of action, whirh
they never had before. Perhaps he did not
intend all this. Since he has brought it a.
bout, let us thank him for that. But most
Of all, | would thank this citizen king for
another thing. His greatest lesson is his
last. He has shown that five and thirty mil
lions of men, in this nineteenth century, are
only 10 be ruled by JUSTICE aud the ETERNAL
LAW OF RIGHT. We have seen this crafty
king, often wise, and always cunning, driven
from his throne. lie was the richest man
in Europe, and the embodyment of the idea
of modern wealth. He had an army the best
disciplined probably, IN the woodland, as
he thought, completely in his power. He
had a Chamber If Peers OF his own appoint
ment, and a Chamber If Deputies almost of
his own election. He ruled a nation that
contained 300, 900 ofice-holders, appointed
by himself-and only 100000 voters! Who
sat so safe as the citizen king on his throne
surrounded by republican institutional So
confident was he, as the journals tell, that he
babe d friend stop a day or two. 'and see how
i will put down the P~eople'!! For once,
this shGewd calculator reckoned without his
host.
Well, we have seen this man, this citizen
monarch-who married his children only ts
kings-rush from his place; his peers and his
deputies were unavailing; his Office holders
could not sustain him; his army 'fraternished
with the people, and he, f~orgetful ofhis own
children, ANONYMOUSLY is hustled out of the
kingdom with nothing but a fve-franc piece
in his pocket. For the lesson thus taught,
let us thank him the most of all.
Men tell US it is too soon to rejoice. per
haps the Revolution will not hold'-'it will
not last-'ihe kings of Europe will put it
down. When a sound, healthy child is born,
the friends of the family congratulate the par
/, ents theni they do not wait till the child has
grown up, and got a beard. Now this is a
= live child; it is well-born in both senses
| come of good parentage, and gives signs OF a
good constitution. Let us rejoice at its birth,
and not wait 10 see if it will grow up. Let
| us now baplize it in the crystal fountain OF
= our own HoPE.
In a great revolution, there are always two
things to be looked at, namely: the Actions
= and the Ideas which produce the aclions.-
= L liC uNliObS L Va WV US w ho'O o.
read of them in the newspapers. Some o
the actions were bad. 1t is not true that al
at once the French have become angels
e There are low and base men, who swarm il
o the lanes and alleys Of Paris; for that grea
r city also is girt about with a belt Of misery
Of vice and of crime, eating into her painiu
lolns. 1t was a bad thing to sack the Tuil
i l%eries; to burn bridges, and chateaux, ant
railroad stations. Property is under the in
suTance of mankind, and the Human Race
must pay in public for private depredations
1t was a bad thing to kill men,-the Human
n Race cannot make up that loss; only SUITE
and be penitent. ] am sorry for these baC
actions; but am not surprised at them. Eot
0 cannot burn down the poor dwelling of
e widow in Hoston, but some miserable mar
will steal pot or pan in the confusion Of thu
fire. How much more should we eXpec
pillage and violence in The earthquake which
throws down a king!
Enough have | said of the actions-bu
there was one deed too symbolical to be pas
sed by. 10 the garden of the Tuilleries, be
fore the great gate of the palace, there stand
8 a statute of SpaTtacus, a colossal bronze, hi
broken chain in the left hand, his Roman
q sword in the right. Spartacus was aRomal
gladiator. He broke his chains, gathered a
q bout him other glabiators, fugitive slaves
and assembled an army. He and his com
rades fought for freedom; they cut off fou
/, consular armies sent against them; at last tn,
,, hero fell amid a heap of men, slain by hi'
own well p~ractised hand. When the peo
pie took the old and emblematic FrencI
h throne, and burned it s%olemnly with emblem
a attic fire, they stripped off some Of the Grim
son %trappings of The royal seat, made a thar
thereof, and bound it on the gladiator's head
i But red is the color of the revolutions-th
color of blood; the unconscious gladiator wa
an image too saving for new France. So the
: took the Roman sword out Of his hand, an
q in its place they put a-bunch of lowers!
Let us say a word Of the IDEAS. Three
A IDEAS filled the mind of the nation-the Ide
of LIBERTY Equality and FRATERNITY
Three noble words. LIBERTY meant libert
of ALL. So at one word they set free tn
Slaves, and if my friends cyphres are Co
rect, at once 300, 900 souls rise up from III
ground Disseminated, free men. That is
great act. A population as large as the whoI
family of our sober sister Connecticut all
once find their chains drop of. and they al
FREE: not beasts, but MEN. This may n,
hold. Our Declaration Of Independence wa
not the Confederation of '7S-slill less WI
T. it the Constitution of 'S7. The French ma
of be as false as the Americans in their Idea
N Liberty. At any rate, it Isl good beginning
r. Let us rejoice at that.
Of EQuALIrY means that all are equal befor
y the Law, EQUAL IN RIGHTS, however un,
- quail in nights. SO all titles OF Nobilit
- come at once to an end. The royal famil
% is like the family of our Presidents. Til
~ Chamber of Peers is abolished. Univers;
a Suffrage at once decreed-all men over .
y, are voters. Men here in America say III
~ French are not ready for that. No doubt tn
IN King thought so. AT any rate, he was nj
- ready for it. But it is not a thing a%ltogetht
=" untried in France. 1t has been tried sever;
:, times before. The French Constitution wa
~ accepted by the whole People in 1900; n;