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


direction is what we call Revolution. Men
are the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. are the Raiment.
Ard Revolutions are as inevitable as growth
or as caprice. The child must needs put of
his childish attire when he grows into a man
and The man will fain change the fashion
of his garments at the prompting Of conve-
nience or of within. The true wisdom is to
enliqhten and direct the ever-busy minds of
men 10 that which Is abourd or mischievous
in their present social habits, and persuade
them when they change to change for the
better.
Whether our Revolution was the example
of others or not, other Revolutions may at
least take warning by the event Of OURS
We could not endure the sceptre of King
George, or the supremacy Of the British Par
lament. and having shaken them off, we de-
liyered ourselves up, bound hand and foot,
and by bonds Of our own weaving, into the
hands of the Slaveholding Philistines. We
spurned the Aristocrscy of English Acres,
and then recognized and built up the Aris-
tocracy of American Flesh and Blood
Power based on the ownership Of Human
Beings we acknowledged and submitted TO.
And ever since, and now more than ever, we
have been in our National character, the vas
sails and setfs of that abominable Oligarchy.
Whatever degree Of safety or success we
may have in SON of the subordinate divi-
sions Of the country, it is in spite, and not
because, of the Covenant which has made us
one with tyrants. From the beginning, lis
uniform tendency has been to endanger the
one and to disturb the other; while the dete.
rioration of our national morals, and the deg
radiation of our national character, have fol-
lowed our guilty consenting as the night the
day. A true Republic the world has never
vet seen. That problem still remains to be
worked out. And our experience may yet
show those who are seeking for that Philo-
sopher's Cor Politlcian's) Stone, that it does
moi consist in the abnegation of Crowns or
the p~rivation of Titles but that all the reali-
ties of tyranny can subsist under all the forms
of Freedom.
If our experiment has failed, il has not
been for the want of a proper field. The
comparative equality in our social condition,
the diffusion OF property and of an imperfect
sort of education, and above all, our broad
extent of fertile lands imploring the plough,
which has kept Starvation, the dread adver-
sary of Progress in the Old World, from our
gates, have all helped to remove obstacles
out of its way. The struggle for the attain
ment Of a new form of government which is
now going on upon the other side of the At
l%antic, is made under far other auspices, and
yet it may well be that the nearest approach
to a Republican Government, as applied to a
large nation, may yet be seen there. The
-Four Days of June in Paris, to be sure, seem
bloody bodings to many hearts. But fright
full as they were, were they worse than Ba-
dajoz or Saragossa, or multitudes of the
bloody fields or sieges of Despotism! Did
they produce more suffering than our own
piraiical incursion into Mexico? 1t seems
as if such fearful lessons were needed in the
present semi-barbarous condition of mankind,
to teach that Freedom can never be baptized
in blood.
But the hope of France consists in her free
dom from any element of the cohering and
inveterate malignity of our Slavery in her
political composition. These ehulliuons and
effervescences must cease in time, and a Co
vernment in some shape will brood over the
troubled waters. That it will be in form
Republican, seems now almost certain. Tina
it will take from us our brag of being tn,
Model Republic is quite certain. For a Re
public with three millions of slaves can ne
yer hold up her head among the nations be
fore one that has set all her captives Free
But though Republican France may yet pu
TO shame Republican America, (if such
thing were possible,) still she will be ia
enough from the true Idea of a Republic
The World, with al its material Civilization
is but approaching the point of advancement
which is essential 10 the Advent of such
perfect Pollty. Through much more toll an,
suffering and blood must the Race endu re
before it can achieve this long-deferred Hop
of the Ages. But the faith of the best spi
rits of all Ages, heralded by prophetic hu
man hearts in all time, and sealed with tn
blood of martyrs ever since the world begar
shall yet be justified and crowned with friu
tion.-Q.