Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-05-19
WHOLE NO. 14l.

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The news Of the Revolution of the Three
Days in Paris, and the triumph Of tie French
people over Charles Y and his ministers, Ms
a matter Of course, acted with great effect up
on cur national susceptibility. We all threw
up our hats in excessive Joy ut the spectacle
Of a King dashed down h~eadlong from his
throne, and chased out Of his kingdom by his
l~ong-sudvrlng aud oppressed sublects. We
took half the credit Of the performance to
ourselves, inasmJch rs Lafayette was a prin-
clpal actor in it,. Our editors. from Passam.
aquoddy to the Sabine, indited paragraphs for
a thousand and one newspapers, congratula'
ting the Partisan patriots, and ptophesying
all manner Of evil to Holy Alliances, Kings,
and aristoctacies. The National Intelligent
Ger OF September 81, 1880, contains a full ac-
count Of the public rejoicing. Of the good
people Of Washington on the occasion. Bells
were rung in all the s~teepleS, guns were 6r-
cd, and a grand procession was fornrd, In
GLIDING the President Of the United States.
the heads of Departments, and other public
functionaries. Decorated with tri~colored
ribbons, aud with tri-colored flags minvling
with the stripes and stars over their heads,
and gazed down upon by bright eyes from
window and balcony, the General Sympa-
thizers" moved slowly and majestically thro'
the broad avenue towards the Capitol. TO cell
citrate the revival OF French liberty In r man
ner becoming The chosen rulers OF a free peo-
pie.
What a spectacle was this for the repre-
sentaiives Of European kingcraft at our seat
Of Government! How the titled agents OF
Metternich and Nicholas must have trembled,
in view Of this imposing demonstration, for
the safety Of their peculiar Institutions :"
Unluckily, however, the moral effect Of
this grand spectacle was marred somewhat
by the appearance of another procession, mo-
wing in a contrary direction. 1t was a gang
of slaves! HandcufFed in pairs. with the
sullen sadness Of despair in their faces, they
marched YEARLY onward to the music Of the
drivers whip and the clanking iron on their
limbs. Think Of it! Shouts of triumph, re-
joicing bells, gay banners, and gli,tering ca
valcades, in honor of Liberty, in immediate
contrast with men and women chained and
driven like cattle to market. The editor of
the American Spectator, a paper published at
Washington at that time, speaking of this
black procession OF slavery, describes it as
"dEiven along by what had the appearance Of
a man on horseback" The miserable wretch
: es who composed il were doubtless consign.
r ed to a slave Jail tn await their purchase and
8 Transportation 10 the SoOtn or southwest {;
and perhaps formed part of that drove Of hu.
man beings which the same editor states that
o he saw on the Saturday following, "males
and females chained in couples, starting from
E. Robey's tavern, on loot, for Alexandria, I
embark on board a slave ship"
ID At a Virginia camp-ineeting, many year
lie ago, one of the brethren, attempting an exloI
j. %tation, stanmered, faltered, and, finally, cam
8 to a dead stand. '.Sit down, brother" sal,
old Father Kyle, the one-eyed Abolition prea
c cher, sits no use to try you cant preach
- with twenty niggers sticking in your throat
II strikes US that our country 10 very muct
in the condition Of the poor confused preach
er at the camp-rneeiing. Slavery sticks il
its throat, and spoils its fines, performances
' political and ecclesiastical c~onfuses tn
y tongues of lis Evangelical Alliances; make
= a farce Of its Fourth Of July celebrations, and
as in the case OF the grand Washington pro
. c~eSsion of 1880, sadly mars the effect Of il
reloicings in view of the progress of libert,
abroad. There is a stammer in all our ex
q hortations our moral and political honilie,
are sure to run into Commissions and contradic
lions; and the response which comes to u
from the nations is not unlike that Of Fathe
Kyle 10 the planters attempt at sermonizine
" "lts no use, brother Jonathan YOU can
preach liberty with three millions Of slaves i
your hroat" J. G. w.