Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-03-03
False MOdeSty.

A correspondent Of the National Intelligent
GER, makes a good hit at certain over fastidi-
Gus people who have been shocked at the
exhibition Of Powers statue Of the Greek
Slave:
1.-The Americans are certainly the most
fastidious people upon earth in their notions
of modesty. We never hear an objection
made to the exhibition Of a picture or a stat
ute, on the score of its indelicacy, without
being reminded of a monster piece of art
which we saw many, many years ago-a cer-
tain Senator would be likely to say, more
than a quarter of a century ago, sir Yin the
studio Of "a much valued friend. He was a
French chevalier, a friend of Louis XVI,
who, being stripped of his fortune by the rev.
%olution, found it necessary on his arrival in
this country to resort to those arts for a liv-
ing which he had studied as accomplishments.
Going one day into his room, where 1t was
our privilege TO spend many a happy hour,
he placed before us a crayon sketch which
he had Just finished, and, with a smile, ask
ed our opinion of it. "What is it, in the
name of all that is wonderful! for it seems
to be a m0nstrunt i~nnomindtun," was our eX-
clamation. He never spoke English when
he could avoid it, and replied: "Mais mon
ami, regardez bien! ne royce uOus pas que c'eSt
une lame .4mericnne?" Don't you see 1t is
an American lady? The sketch exhibited
a beautiful head, neck, and shoulders stuck
upon a pair of feet, without any of the inter-
vening parts of the body. "Now," said he,
''you know very well that these are the only
parts of their forms that your cOuntrywomen
will name or permit 10 be named in their pre-
sence. If you say breast, body, thigh, leg,
or even ankle, before one of them, she hides
her face, or flies out of the room in Il rage at
your impudence." 1t was impossible to de-
ny the truth Of this, or to avoid a laugh at
the odditv of the ~conceit, caricature as it was.
We knew that no man ever entertained a
more exalted reverence for the sex than our
friend; he was the most courteous OF mortals,
and it was not in his nature 10 do or to say
any thing not justified by the ~strictest laws
of polished breeding"
VoLTAIRE.-This celebrated man, though
his pen probed deeply the gangrenous sores
Of French theology, gave uiterance, neverlhe-
less, to many an important truth. The fol-
? lowing on the absurdity of war, involving, OF
course, its motives and its consequences, is
r worth attention:
"a hundred thousand mad animals whose
heads are covered with hats, advance to kill
or be killed by a like number of their fellow
g mortals covered with turbans. BY this strange
r procedure they want, at best, TO decide
r whether a tract of land, to which none o
: them have any claim, shall belong to a Ger
tain man whom they call Sultan, or TO anoth
er whom they call Gar; neither CT whom
= ever saw, or ever will see the spot so furious
ly c"ontended for and very few of those cTea
lures who thus mutually butcher each otheI
beheld the animal for whom they cut eac
others threats! From time immemorial Thu
has been the way of mankind almost all owe
the world. What an excess of madness
s this and how deservedly might a Suprem
Being crush to atoms this earthly ball, III
bloody nest of such ridiculous muTdererS! =
THE OLDEST REPUBLIC ON EARTH.-Tt
American Quarterly Review, contains a lie
ter from G. w. Erving, Esq, giving sketc
of his visit to San Marine, a small republt
o in Italy, between the Apprentices, the 20, an
> the Adriatic. The territory of this state
: onlv forty miles in circumference, and /
# nonulation about 1000. The republic WI
fonnded more than l,4OO years ago, on NOR
nrinciples, industry and equality, and hi
preserved its liberty and independence amid
pr ali the wars and discords WHICH have rage
r around it. Bonaparte respected it, and Sc
le his embassy to express his sentiments
NJ friendship and fraternity. 1t is governed
" a Captain Regent, chosen every six mont
II. by the representatives of the people, (sixt
1t six in number,) who are chosen every s
h. months by the people. The taxes are ligl
he the farmhouses are neat, the fields well cul
he waited, and on all sides are seen comfort a
tie peace, the happy effects Of morality, simp
in city, liberty, and Justice.