Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-10-12

f0rD1ds JnaJ accommodation; yet some OF tne
orators arc happily able to address the audience
in two or even three languagcs-to make all
Babel understand Among the strangers here
we must not overlook " rcd man." who comes
to address this audience, bringing from the
wilds of America the calumet Of Peace, and
presenting it to the President amid deafening
cheers nor the Rev. Mr. Pennington, (our col
ored brothcr) now made Dr. by the University
Of Heidelberg.
This meeting is the first I" feast of reason :"
with which we have been blcst in Germany
To hear the music Of English eloquencc, and
especially coming from the warm, enthusiastic
American heart, almost transported us across
the Atlantic. And We rejoice the more that
such meeting has been held, because we sec
the great need Of disseminating Peace princi-
pies. We have seen this week the seeds Of
War sown all around us in the most fertile
soil. Whilst l write hear the voices of youth
full songsters--of school composed of chill
dren of the best families in this city. And
what do they singi A song of freedom, or of
I fighting, of course. These children arc taught
Divines here, and yet his pupils learn more of
military evolutions than of all good things to-
gcther. Even the Sabbath is spent in getting
up theater with scenes from the "tentcd
fields" And the most pious We have met can
attend this thcatcr, as conscientiously as they
Go church, and help raise a sum to equip some
poor fellow for Schleswich IIolstein. Oh VIC
are taking an awful lesson, and that too almost
on the spot of Luthcrs labors. Near us, at
Marbury, Luther and Zuingle had an inter
view, and almost within walking distance is
the first church erected by Christians in Ger
many proper. Near by, at Cologne, we were
shown church which our guide assured us
contained the seulls of 1000 virgins, who fell
at the hands of the hcathcn, martyrs to Chris
tianty. (The sculls arc there, but ,ohose sculls,
1 believe those who placed them there know
not.) And the burying places and every
ncighborhood tccm with evidences of the rude
Christianity of former age-of general deyo-
ton to what was conceived to be religion. But
with the improvement of schools and the adj
vance of Philosophy, both Natural and Moral,
as well as Theology, (theorctic) We behold an
increasing disregard for all moral and even re-
ligious obligation. You may go to church or
the beer house on Sabbath morning, and it is
all the same in public estimation but in the af-
tornoon and evening you are bound to be at
some dancing party, or general mcrry-mahing,
if you wish to be generally esteemed. And
Preachers as well as the profane join these Sun
day drinkings, and if not too lazy, the DANcINGs
-aiso. so near lis we can judge the Hcssians
possess very little of even the rude Christianity
Of former times. Rationalism and Rccklcssness
are the two systems of doctrine generally pre-
vailing. Indeed the people seem to be guided
by morally Of habit rather than by principles
well understood. There is little independence
of thought, l may say little thinking. Things
are to be left as they are found-innovation be-
ing considered little less than crimes. Cows
arc to be yoked by the horns, children and cat
tic are to live under the same roof, boys are to
be trained for war and girls for spading the
lands and cleaning streets, and all proper educa-
ton and domestic happiness arc to be neglected |
in future as at present. 1t will be much easier
to make neo Germany in America than to
change the habits of Dutchland. The princes
are dcspiscd and their government is not res
pccted still there is neither intelligence nor vr-
tue enough among the masses to make Rcpub-
licanism succeed satisfactorily at present. All
the virtue and nearly all the intelligence is con-
fined to a middle class, not very numerous in
itself, and without any of that public spirit
which would enable a few, favorably situated
as this class is, to mould the nation into any
shape whatever. eve speak here of the Hessians,
and from our first impressions of G9many.) !
Cautious and jealous, these intelligent few in
stigate the ignorant against the rulers and the
laws and then, instead of making common |
cause with the people, turn sclfshly to them
selves, abandoning all to anarchy, and then |
complaining that there is no government, no |
safety. The idea that the enormous sums now |
expended in war would improve the country, |
employ, clothc and feed the laborers, who are in |
some way dependent upon the government, has
not yet entered the heads of that class who
could in six months be happy sovcreigns of
happy republic, embracing all Germany and |
forming political power which could shake all |
the thrones of Europe. But as al men here arc
turning their attention more to politics, and as
there is now a free press, the people may soon
learn that they have strength beside that of the
army.
But must conclude my prosy letter, and be-
fore doing so thou wilt ask a word respecting
ourselves. Gulielma is reading German, tend
ing baby, etc, and l am toling amid the fumes
of the laboratory under the instruction of the
great Liebig. Just now am determining"
the permanent constituents of brain, an organ
not heretofore examined by the chemist. AS l
find about eighty per cent. water, no longer
wonder that the effusions from the brain are so
often insipid. Potash, soda, lime and magnc-
sia are present, together with several of the