Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-09-01

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in the career for which he is adapted by
nature. He went upon the parapet and
looked upon the road with a spy-glass,
and, no obstruction being in sight, he
turned his face for q moment back upon
Rome, then led the way through the
gate. Hard was the heart, stony and
scared the eye that had no tear for that
moment. Go! fated, gallant band, and
if God care not indeed for men as for the
sparrows, most of we go forth to perish
And Rome, anew the Niobel Must she
lose also these beautiful and brave that
promised her regeneration and would
have given it, but for the perfidy, the
o%verpowering force of the foreign inter-
veniion.
| do not know whether they, were re-
ally so bewildered by their priestly coun-
cilors as TO imagine they would be we'll
received in a city which they had bonn
barded, and where twelve hundred men
were lying wounded by their assault
To say nothing Of the justice or injustice
Of the matter, it could not be supposed
that the Roman people, if it had any
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However, | was not out, as what counte-
n | have | would not give on such
an occasion; but an English lady, my
friend, told me they seemed 10 look ex-
pectingly for the strong party of friends
they had always pretended to have with.
in the walls. The French officers look.
ed up TO the windows for ladies, and she
being the only n they saw, saluted her
She made no reply. They then passed
into the Corso. Many were assembled
the softer Romans being unable 10 con.
troll a curiosity the Milanese would have
disclaimed, but persevering an icy ST
lence. In an evil hour, o foolish prizes
dared to break it by the cry of Vird Pic
Mono. The populace, reused to fury
rushed on him with their knives. lit
was much wounded one or two other
were killed in the rush. The people
howled, then. and Kissed at the French
who, advancing their ~bayonets, and clear
ing the way before them, fortified them
selves in the piazzas. Next day III
French troops were marched 10 and fr
through: Rome 10 inspire awe into tn
poop lie, but it has only created a disgu.
amounting TO ~loathing, TO see that, wit
such an imposing force, and in gre;
part fresh, the French were not ashame
TO use bombs also, and kill m an
children in their beds. Oudinot, thcr
seeing the feeling of the people, and fnd
ing they pursued as a spy any man VIII
so much as showed the way 10 his sol
diers-ihat the Italians went out of tn
cafes if Frenchmen entered; in shor
that the people regarded him and his 70
lowers in the same light as the Aus,riani
has declared the state of siege in Rome
the Press is stiflod-everybody is TO b
in the house at 81 P. M. and, whoeve
in any way insults his men, or puts an
obstacle in their way, is TO be shot.
am sick Of breathing the same a
with men capable of a part so utterl
cruel and false. As soon as can ] sha
take refuge in the mountains, if it be pc.
!. sible TO find al obscure nook unpervade
by these commissions.
, 1t makes me sick to see the palace
4 and streets of Rome full Of these iniur
u foreigners, and 10 see the alread
changed aspect of her population. Tt
men Of Rome had begun, filled with ne
hopes, 10 develop unknown energy
t they walked quick, their eyes sparkle.
g they delighted in duty, in responsibility,
: in a year Of such life their efeminac
}. would have been vanquished -now, d,
: jectedly, unemployed, they lounge alor
The streets. feeling that all The implemen
0 OF labor, all the ensigns of hope, ha,
been snatchcd from them. Their hanC
; fall slack, their eyes rove aimless, II
e beggars begin to swarm again, and ii
i black ravens who delight in the night
: ignorance, the slumber of sloth, as II
only sure,ies for their rule, emerge dali
more and more frequent from their h
ding places.