Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-02-02
ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE, SALEM, o.


10 tolerate in any regiment religious
meetings, at which a corporal versed in
scripture should lead the devotions of his
less gifted colonel, and admonish q back
sliding major. But such was the intelli-
gence, the gravity, and the self-command
of the warriors whom Cromwell had
trained, that in their camp q political or
ganization and q religious organization
could exist without destroying military
organization. The same men who, off
duty, were noted as domagogues and field
preachers, were distinguished by steadi-
ness, by the spirit Of order, and by prompt
obedience on watch, on drill, and on the
field Of battle.
In war this strange force was irresisti-
BILE. The stubborn courage characteris-
tic of the English people was, by the
system Of Cromwell, at once regulated
and stimulated. Other leaders have main
tanned order as strict. Oiher leaders
have inspired their followers with a zeal
as ardent. But in his camp alone the
most rigid discipline was found in COM
pany with the ~fiercest enthusiasm. His
troops moved 10 victory with the precision
of machines, while burning with the fer
cest enthusiasm. From the time when
the army was remodeled to the time
when it was d%isbanded, it never found ei-
Their in the British Islands, or on the Con-
tinent, an enemy who could stand its on
set. In England, Scotland, Ireland, and
Flanders, the Puritan warriors, often sur
rounded by difficulties, sometimes con-
tending against lhree-fold odds, not only
never faiIed TO conquer, but never failed
to destroy and break in pieces whatever
force was opposed to them. They at
length came TO regard the day of battle
as a day Of certain triumph, and march
against the most renowned b%attalions Of
Europe with disduin(ul confidence. Tu-
renne was startled by the shout Of stern
exultation with which his English allies
advanced to The combat, and expressed
The delight Of a true soldier. when he
learned that it was ave the fashion OF
Cromwell's pikemen to rejoice greatly
when they beheld the enemy; and the
banished Cavaliers felt an emotion of ma
tional pride, when they saw a brigade Of
} their countrymen, outnumbered by foes
and abandoned by allies, drive before il
in headlong out the finest infantry oil
| Spain, and force a passage into a counter
scarp which had just been pronounced
i~mpregnable by the ablest Of the marshals
OF France.
But that which chiefly distinguishes
the army Of Cromwell from other armies
was the austere morality and the fear o
God which porvaded all ranks. 1t is &C
knowledged by the most Jealous royal
lists that, in that singular camp, no oatl
was heard, no drunkenness or gamblin,
was seen, and that during the long do
minion Of the soldiery, the properly o
the ~peaceable citizen and the honor o
women were held sacred. If Outrage
were committed, they were outrages of
very different kind from those Of which
victorious army is generally guilty. N
servant girl complained of the rough gal
lantry of the red coats. Not an ounc,
was taken from the shops Of the gold
smiths. But a Pelagian sermon. or
window on which the Virgin Child wer
painted, produced in the Puritan rank
an excitement which it required the vi
most exertions Of the officers TO q%uell.-
One Of Cromwoll's chief difficulties wa
to restrain his pikeman and dragoon
from invading by main force the pulpit
of ministers whose ~discourses. TO use III
language Of that time, were not savory
and too many of our cathedrals still bea
the marks of the hatred with which thos
stern spirits regarded every veslige of pc
perry.