Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-09-15
From the Louisville Examiner,
Cheap Patriotism.

In this goodly city of ours there is an abur.
dance OF cheap patriotism. Let il bnt bs
known that some 1000 miles of. a peopIs
are becoming restless under LONG continued
wrong and oppression, and orthwith our non.
uiafliy seeking politicians are brimfu of the
most dlsin'erested philanthropy and sincere
sympathy Ihey will, at a moments warn.
ing, congregate together and pass nat,io,ic
resolutions by the hat full. A few months
since The DOMESTIC INSTITUTIONS" of old
Ireland were not conducted 10 the satisfaction
oil our hummlng-bird patriots (; a courthouse
sympathy meeting was therefore Convened,
and the government of England duly lee.
tufed In a series of resolutions, ffeely spiced
with patriotic anathemas against tyranny,
oppression, kingcraft and all that sort Of
thing.
Within the past few years we have had. in
This city OF Louisville, public meetings Of
sympathy with the Greeks, the French, the
roles the Irish, and the Dorr Government
Vi hhoue Island, all OF which were doubtless
very proper, and against which we have not
a word to say. We have attended manv Of
these meetings, and we do not r~ecollect Of
hearing a word said against interfering with
" the domestic institutions" of an depressing
or an oppressed people. "Vested riphtsS
were generally forgotten. "The rights Of
properly y had no peculiar sacredness or bte-
cedence over the rights of persons,, Hoa-
~ headed precedent, if founded in wr,na
was bitterly dehuunced--the RIGHT and ,6s
true eloquently advocated. Men could ,hau
s'anu up and give utterance to those immor-
tai sentiments OF the Declaration of Indepen-
oehce-in which 1t is declared that "all men
are created equal, and that they are endowed
" meH creator with certain inalienable
.eh's' that among these are life, liberty and
ne pursuit Of happiness" Without anv aaniy.
coating and contemplate commen,s~com-
men's which are a ~disgraee to thc llyino ana
a SANDER upon the dead-speakers and Iis-
tehers spoke and acted generally as American
lreemen might be expected to speak and act.
and one would not suppose that a sIape coufd
tread IN glorious sciigr patriotic Eentsrk0,D
Inc secret OF all this spontaneous patriot.
Ism lies on the surface. 1T COSTS NORTH
ING is POPULAR. We can afford
anaoundance OF eloquent denuncialion against
all oppression and wrong, provided it exists
on announcer continent and in another form than
mat whlch prevails In our own land. Our
sftn-deep patriots can tread on the toes of ths
Pope, knock Gen. Oudinot over the knuckles.
curse the government of England, anathema.
tlse the Emperor of Russia, for all this can
be done without suffering either in their nur.
ses or their popularity-but ask them Ia
look at home" and 10 do or say something
that shall tend 10 destroy a system Of slavery
that regards MEN simply as property, and
which cannot be sustained a moment without
a violation Of the most sacred rights of hu.
mainly, and all at once they are "as dumb
as OYSTERS" They will tell you "that liber-
~ Is very good thing sometimes and under
certain circumstances, but circumstances
especially COLOR alter eases" That the
sentiments about personal equality promulqa-
ted in the Declaration of Independence, are a
" lying abstraction" long since exploded bv
the inventive genius of John c.. Calhoun,
That political and social wrongs ara hest
remedied by The slow process of " moral cam
ses.' That Jesus Christ does not in terms
condemn slavery, therefore slavery cannot be
very wrong, that after all slaves are in a bet
ter condition than " free niggers."
With our views Of right, as founded in the
laws OF mans being, and as clearly proclaim-
ed In our National Charter, We have no con-
hdence whatever in this time-servinp and su-
peTfcial patriotism, and we have no doubt
that a large proportion of the fairwea,ber pat.
riots who thus openly proclaim themselves
the slaves of prejudice, and who are always
ready TO bow down TO that ever-chanring bur
o%mnipotent idol-public opinion-wouId, il
they were residents of Europe, be the most
obsequious slaves of monarchy or the most
radical Jewellers, just as The popular breeze
or the instincts OF self-inlerest would seem
TO dictate.