Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-01-26

tha' 'he people may be saved from the de-
s%truction that threatens them.
OF The London Star of December
5;h, in an article on the result of the re-
cent Presidential election, speaks its mind
of Brother Jonathan in plain terms as fol-
lows
While the millions Of the United
States are emerging from the brief and
bloodless battle Tor the Presidency, while
they are looking forward with composure
10 the advent of a pacific Administrator
like General Taylor, it is not surprising
that some Of the more reflective citizens
of the Great transatlantic Democracy
should begin 10 contrast the tranquility
of the Western with the turbulence and
distraction Of the Eastern hemisphere
The difference Of the condition of the A.
merican Continent and the European
Continent in l848 is too striking not TO
challenge observation, and the deduction
derivablc from that difference is too flat
tering TO the political institution Of the
former not TO excite the patriotism Of its
enthusiastic people. Light and darkness,
crime and virtue, youth and decrepitude,
trance and delirium, are not more oppo-
site TO each other, the whole range of
history does no, afford Il more vivid an
tilhesis than that which presents itself TO
us in the position Of affairs in Europe or
one hand, and in North America on an
other. Before. however, a dirgo can be
sung over the former. and a pecan chaunt-
ed over The latter before unconditional
praise can be bestowed ON the one and
un%mi,igated condemnation pronounced
upon the other; before Europe a be
secuted Gas it has been secuted from tho
same quarter) as an agglomeration OF ad'
minis,ralive baseness and popular deprav
ity-some few facts, bearing rather init
mately upon the question nj issue, shoulC
be candidly and studiously borne in rec
election. Foremost among these is the
circumstance that while each Of the con
%tinental races Of Europe is striving indi'
viduaIIy to conquer its independence
without cncroaching upon any of THEN
respective dominions, the model rcpub-
lie has been availing itself of the shall
lowest protXets 10 aggrandize lis own do
minions by incursions upon the domin-
ions of the contiguous countries. True
it is that the despot Of Prussia, screening
himself under a masquerade of liberaIiy
endeavorcd, by force of arms, 10 rob The
crown of Denmark Of its hereditary APP
pendage of Schleswig-true, again, tina
tyranny strove 10 trample out the germs
of freedom sprou'ing up among the Pose
nose. the Lombards, and the Hungarians
but in each instance the cries of eXccra
lion which |resounded from the surround
ing nations caused the crowned oggres
sors to desist in their unholy efforts a
repression. With the model Republic o
the United States it has been wholly 9th
orwise. There the wiles Of diplomat,
chicanc and the audacily Of military ex
petitions have been sedulously directe,
to the acquisition of new provinces, 10 III
s~ubiugation of ~unonending races, TO tn
massacre of the patriots Of Mexico. an
to the desecralion Of the golden halls {
the Montezumas.
"While again French democracy ha.
ever in the agony of her own struggle
for existence, decreed the abolition {
Slavery in all her possessions, America
democracy clings with The tenacity Of ia
: naticism /. the bloody sway exercise
over the ncgroe population by her fire
D and enlightened cilizensl The Whine
Proviso is as l~agrantly repudiated by III
t legislators of the United States us eve
= were the local bonds oflllinois or Penn
s~ylvania. 1t were well consequently,
!. the journalists of North America, befor
y exulling so vain-gloriously over the vi
u tues ana eminence of the United State
when compared with the views and deg
radiation of Europe, would simply put iw
1t and two together and see whether or n,
IS they come TO four. Stones ofabuse hur
ed from glass.houscs are liable 10 pr
IS woke reprisals; and marvellous, indee
A, does it appear 10 us, that while our Tran
= Atlantic contemporaries are o%XuIting ov'
. the pacific character Of their republico
" institutions, the principal representative
5 that pacific policy is the very man WI
n overran with his soldiers the mountain
and savannahs of Mexico, and advance
y with fire and sword from Monterey
the capital. Old Zachary is not the loa
anomaly, amongst all the huge and mu
hilarious anomalies olthe United States