Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-08-11


glories Of war, and the ingraiitude of repub-
licsi What an impressive sermon was
preached TO that assembled crowd by the
agonized and despairing features Of that
remnant of a regiment, fresh from the viclo-
rious army of Mexico.
Poor fellows our heart bled for them;-
and had we not known that we had done our
best to prevent them from going on their bar
bafous errand, we could not have looked them
in the face on their return. Their haggard
looks would have been a rebuke 10 us, such
as we should not dare TO encounter. We
thought we could read in their ghastly faces
some OF the feelings which filled their mind {:
above all, seemed TO be the consciousness
OF ingratitnde on the part Of those who had
beguiled them from their homes with tales Of
profit and promises oil glory. They had met
no enemy III pitched battle; but in rude en-
counter with pe6tilence and the elements,
they had consigned TO the grave one third OF
their number and now they felt that they
themselves were returning, only to drag out
a brief and miserable existence, poor, dis
eased, and heart-broken, soon to die.
The cars remained but a brief space at the
depot while the engine was being supplied
with new fuel. The bell rang T" all aboard"
cried the conductor, and the cortege passed
out of the depot on its way 10 the camp
grou nd which had been allotted them near
Boston, in the midst of the same unbroken
silence with which it entered. We looked
around upon the faces Of the crowd of oiti-
zens there assembled, and we think we are
safe in saying that we did not see even among
the most strenuous advocates of the war, a
single person, who could, in the state Of mind
in which that spectacle had left him, write,
either a passable essay on military glory, or
the tamest eulogy upon the measures of the
present corrupt and wicked administration,
even with the inducement Of half of Mexico
for his reward.
On Friday, We visited the camp ground for
the purpose of conversing with the men, and
learning something more Of war as ii really
is, from the lips OF those who have been ia
tniliar with its service, but want Of space
obliges US to defer to another week, the ac-
count of our visit. Suffice it for the present
to say, that it is our firm belief, the wretched
condition of the men is mainly owing TO the
unprincipled and nhuman conduct of those
officers, whom all agree in representing as a
body of debauchees and drunkards, and that,
if half the tales are true which are reported
of Gen. Caleb Gushing of Newburyport,
(and they are confirmed by the unanimous
testimony of all the men with whom we con-
versed,) he should be forever cast out from
the pale of decent society, with a deeper
brand than that of Cain upon his forehead.
In comparison with his deeds of perfdy and
cruelty, the character of Nero would be com
mendable and Domitian and Caligula might
be ranked as examples Of virtue and noble
ness. Even Beelzebub himself might learn
from him lessons Of sublimated cruelty, such
as the inventive genius of his diaboIlcal ma
ture never conceived, and such as his fami-
liar associations with the internal spirits of
the lower world never prompted him to exc
cute.-T. D.