Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-02-11

ped called husband, which unfortunately is
not so rare that we seek for the specimen on
ly in museums. We know not whether Mon
tezuma Moggs was or was not born lazy
nor shall we undertake to decide that laziness
is an inherent quality f; but as Mrs. Moggs
was herself a thrifty, painstaking woman, as
women, to their credit be it spoken, are apt
TO be, her lazy husband, as lazy husbands
will, in all such cases, continued TO grow and
to increase in laZiness, shifting every care
from his own broad shoulders to any other
shoulders, whether broad or narrow, strong
or weak, that had no craven shTinkings from
the load, Moggs contenting himself in an in
dolence which must be seen to be apprecia-
ted by ihose-husbands or wives-who per-
form their tasks in this great workshop Of
human effort with becoming zeal and with
conscientious assiduity, regarding laziness
as a sin against the great purposes of their
being. Ii this assumption be true, as we
suspect it is, Montezuma Moggs has much
to answer for; though it is a common occur
renee, this falling back into imbecility, if
there be any one at hand willing to ply the
oar, as too often shown in the fact that the
children Of the industrious are willing to let
their parents work, while the energetic wife
has a drag upon her in the shape of a loung-
ing husband.
Yes, Mrs. Moggs belongs TO the numer-
ous class of women who have what is well
called "a trying time Of it," You may re-
cognize them in the street, by their look Of
premature age-anxious, hollow-eyed, and
worn to shadows. There is a whole history
in every line of their faces, which tells OF
unceasing trouble, aud their hard, quick move
ment as they press onward regardless of all
that begirts the way, indicates those who
have no thought to spare from their own i'm
mediate necessities, for comment upon the
gay and Haunting world. Little does osten-
talion know, as it flashes by in satined arro-
gance and ieweled pride, of The sorrow it
may jostle from its path and perhaps it is
happy for us as we move along in smiles and
pleasantness, not TO comprehend that the
glance which meets our own comes from the
bleakness of a witlered heart-withered by
penury's unceasing presence.
Moggs is in fault-ay, Montezuma Moggs
what, he ''mend boots, mind shop, tend
baby" bringing down his lofty aspirations
for the future to be cabined within the mise
rable confines of the present!
"Hard work 7" sneers Moggs-"yes, if a
man sets himself down to hard work, there
he may set-nothing else but hard work will
ever come to him-but if he wont do hard
work, then something easier will be sure TO
come toddlin' along sooner or later. What
can ever find you but hard work if you are
forever in the shop, a thumpin' and a nam
Good luck never ventures near lap
stones and straps. | never saw any of it
there in the whole course of my life and
I'm waitin' for good luck, so as to be ready
to catch it when it comes by"
Montezuma Moggs had a turn for politics;
and for many a year he exhibited great acti-
witty in that respect, believing confidently
that good luck to himself might grow from
town-meetings and elections; and you may
have observed him on the platform when or
atory addressed the ''masses," or on the cleo
ton ground with a placard to his button, and
a whole handful of tickets. But his luck
did not seem to wear that shape and polit-
place in the - innumerable caravan" of the
disappointed. And thus, in turn, has he
courted fortune in all her phases, without a
smile of recognition from the blinded god
dess. The world never knows its noblest
sons and Montezuma Moggs was left to
sorrow and despair.
Could he have been honored with a lofty
commission, Montezuma Moggs might have
iOiti ~ q iCfCi III tlO hdllS VI ~ HhlhC-
sake but as one of the rank and file he
could not think of it. And in private con-
versation with his sneering friend Qniggens,
to whose captiousncss and criticism Moggs
submitted, on the score of the cigars occa-
%sionally derivable from that source, he VEN
tured the subjoined remarks relative to his
military dispositions
"What | want" said Moggs, sis a large
| annunf nF nloru and n hinnar chara Of nav
a nan like me ought to have plenty of both
glory, to swagger about with, while the
people run into the street to stare at Moggs,
all whiskers and %glory-and plenty of pay,
to make the glory shine, and to set it of. =
wouldn't mind, besides, if | did have a
nice little wound or two, if they've got any
that don't hurt much, so that | might have
my arm in a sling, or a black patch on my
countenance. But if | was only one Of the
rank and file, I'm very much afraid | might
have considerable more of knocks that would
hurt a great deal, than | should of either the
pay or the glory-that's what troubles me in
the milenIary way. But make me a g%ineral,
and then, III talk to you about the matter
make me a gineral o%ssifer, with the commits
sion, and the feathers, and the cooked. hat
plenty of pay, and a large slice of rations-
there's nothing like raiions-and then I'll
talk to you like a book. Then I'll pledge
you my lives, and my fortunes, and my sa-
cred honors-all of 'em-that | will furnish
the genus whenever ii is wanted genus in
great big gloves, monstrous long boots, and
astrida of a boss that scatters the little boys
like Boston, whenever | touch the critter
with my long spurs, TO astonish the ladies'.
Oh, get out do you think | couldn't play
the gineral and look black as thunder, for
such pay as g%inerals getl I'd do it for half
the money, and Id not only do it cheaper,
but considerable better than you ever see il
, done the best Fourth of July you ever met
, with. At present, ! know I've not much ra-
!, tons, and no money at all-money IS skurse
d. but as for genus-look at my eye-is MT
I genus there!-observation my nose-isn't it
D a ~Boneyparte !-aint | sevagerous about the
mouth - tell you, Q%uiggens, there's whole
lotQ of a harO in this littla -a.l---.