Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-08-04
The Fall Of Rome.

Miss Fuller, the correspondent Of the New
York Tribune, who remained in Rome during
the siege, relates some touching incidents of
that diabolical war. She says:
The eve of the bombardment one or two Of
fcers went round with a fine band. 1t play
ed in the ~piazzas the Marseillaise and Roman
marches, and when the people were thus as
sembled they were told Of The proclamation,
and asked how they felt. Many shouted
loudly, Guerra, rira Ia Repubiica Romano
Afterward, bands Of young men went round
singing the chorus,
"Yogliamo sempre quelio,
Nogliamo Liberia"
{" We want always one thing; we want Lib
erty." Guitars played, and some danced
When the bombs began to come, one of the
Trastevetines, those noble images of the old
Roman race, redeemed her claim TO that de-
scent by seizing one and extinguishing the
match. She received a medal and a reward
in money. A soldier did the same at Palazza
Spada, where is the statue of Pompey, at
whose base great Cesar fell. He was pro-
NOTED. Immediately the people were seized
with emulation; armed with pans of wet clay
they ran wherever the bombs fell, to eXtin-
guish them. Women collect the balls from
the hostile cannon and carry them to ours
AS very little injury has come TO life in this
way, the people cry, Madonna. protects Us
against the bombs; she wills moi for Rome 10
be destroyed"
As to The men who die, I share the impas-
stoned sorrow Of the Triumvirs. 80 French
men! " they wrote, could you know what
men you destroy. They are no mercenaries,
like those who fill your ranks, but the flower
of the Italian youth, and the noblest souls of
the age. When you shall know Of what minds
you have robbed the world, how ought you
to repent and mourn!"
This is especially true Of the "Emigrant
and Garibaldi legions." The misforlunes of
North and South Italy, the CONSUMPTION which
compels to the service of tyranny all tina, re-
main, has driven from the Kingdom of Ma
Piles and from Lombardy all the brave and no
BILE youth. Many are in Venice or Rome,
the forlorn hope of Italy. Radeisky, every
day more cruel, now impresses aged men and
the fathers of large families. He carries them
with him in chains. determined, if he cam
not have good troops to send into Hungary,
at least TO revenge himself on the unhappy
Lombards.
Many Of these young men, students from
Pisa, Pdvia, Padua and the Roman University,
lie wounded in the hospitals, for having natu-
rally rushed first in the combat. One kissed
an arm which was cut off; another preserves
pieces of bone which are beirg painfully ex-
uacted from his wound, as r~eliques of the
best days Of his life. The older men, many
of whom have been saddened by exile and
disappointment, less glowing, are not less re-
solved. A spirit burns noble as ever ANNA
ted the most precious facts we treasure from
the heroic age. / suffer to see these temples
of the soul thus broken, to see the fever-wea-
ry days and painful operations undergone by
these noble men, these true priests OF a high
err hope, but | would not, for much, have
missed seeing it at all. The memory will
console amid the spectacles Of meanness, sci,
fshness and failhlessness which life may yel
have in store for the pilgrim.