Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-08-24

the publication of volume of poems
which, though serious, were nevertheless
in tic highest degree entertaining. We'll do
] remember the fun used 10 have over
them, "in my hot youth, when George The
Fourth was King" can see it now, in my
minds eye, thin, bilious volume. IL al
ways stood cheek by jowl with Emmons's
(hrother of him whom men were wont to
call " Pickle and sometimes (" Pop y "free-
doniad, An Epic Pocm," in twelve or twen-
ty-four books, ] forget which. Blue, indeed,
must have been the devils, which one or the
other of these exorcists could not put TO
flight Ah, poor Ben Pollard and Jack
Sticlsney Qong since with God. Heaven
rest their souls y with what g,lsto would
they quote it, and shake their Jolly sides and
set the table of the Exchange Coffee House
ON roar with it! ] have not seen. It for a
quarter of a century, land il is strongly borne
in upon my mind, as the Friends say, that
there was second volume published after
wards) but rather think j know where to
10y my hand upon copy. II so, aud 1
should at any time feel particularly malici-
Gus, perhaps may send you lew extracts
for Republication.
The success of" Sigma" with the Muses.
was not sufficiently signal TO encourage his
An occasional eflusion ofn strictly fugitive"
description tor they made their escape with
such alocrily that doubt whether the united
patriotism and piety of Daniel Webster and
Moses Stuart could reclaim a single ono OF
ihem) was the only evidence he gave alter
wards of desire TO re-establish Irritation
with "the danty Nine." But bethnking
him that, like NJ. Johrdain, he had been
speaking prose all his life, las well as writing
~ he turned bis attention to that line OF COM
position. dare say you are old enough TO
REMEMBER some of the Temperance Tales
which he put forth in rapid succession, dur
ing the most credtable portion of his liie.-
They were accepted by the Temperance
Public, nt time when no help was TO be
refused, and the goodness of their purpose
was permitted to excuse the mediocrity OF
their literary execution. They have been
long forgotten. But the best thing he ever
wrote was the Diary of the Rev. Solomon
Spittle," published some three or four years
since, intended as a new Counterblast TO
Tobacco" II was n theme emineDtly adapt
ed to his style. 1t was disgustingly coarse in
many parts; but the stbject-niatter seemed
to excuse ifnot TO justify il. 1t was book
that no gentleman would willingly have
written HIMSELF but which no one Of the few
not infected with the Tobacco Vice was very
should be written by somebody
else. There are some offices which, how
ever willing one may he that they should be
done, one had little rather do by proxy
than in person. II was in this book, by the
way, that this gentleman who condemns MIR.
Garrison and the Abolitonists for their sour
rility towards opposers, and especially to-
wards The Cergy, lampooned Bishop East
Inn la nf Ia ha 10
or was jealous Churchman,) whose per-
sonal character and official position (even If
he did SMOKEY entitled him to the treatment
| of a gentleman, as "BISHOP BEASTLY !lH
| But tho triIirnphs of Sigma have been by
| no means confined TO the field of letters
| There have been times whep this noble lio-
man has changed the saying for which Cice-
ro was so quizzed by the Edinburgh Review.
ers of his time to "arms cedat toga!" and
the gown has given place to arms. Whate'
yer difference of opinion may exist us TO the
mental and moral qualifications of our Au
thor, there can be none as to the suilicienc,
of his arms and legs. Though now prett,
well stricken in years, he is still ga prope
fellow of his hands," and quite competen
to give Captain Rynders himself his grue
if they should ever stand in an untagonisti
position, instead of their present fraterna re
lations TO each other. One day, two or thre
years ago, he fell upon a handcart man, i
Our streets, assisted by his son, an uncom
monty robust young man, aud thrashed hit
to his hearts content, because the churl oil
jcctcd 10 their dogs treating some goods j
his keeping as Launce's dog did the gentle
woman's Farthing ale, which formed mai
count in the indictment upon which that il
, starred cur was condemned TO undergo cap
! tai punishment. But though he triumphe
, gloriously over his enemy, still like the ht
rocs of the Greek Tragedy, he could not CT
! cape from Nemesis, who soon overlook hi
4 in the shape of Police Officer. He wa
I brought before the Police Court and sun
marily dealt with according to law. And,
: the Police reports did not lie, this eminel
? asserter of Law and Order against the on
B RACES of the Aboltionists, bitterly complain
D ed that the recreations of gehtiemen should |
D obnoxious TO such unseemly Interruption
! Nor did cruel Fate cease her persecution
4 here but he was compelled to pay over
the incorrgiblc hand-cartman a round su
: of smart money TO save himself from Il
d. further exposure and disgrace of a suit
g law!
2 Is il not an odd coincidence that n chan
: pion of this particular description shou
S have taken up the cudgels for Chrstani
}, and the Church here, also? You see tn
d Boston as well as New York is not witho
o her Defender Of the Faith! Aud this is Il
u Teacher that undertakes to put the Abo
i tionists 10 school and give them, and 81
r the rest of mankind" besides, lessons in pr
/ priety of language and conduct Such
l. the Model Man who assumes TO sit in jud
l. ment upon Mr.. Garrison and TO spit o.
o against him the harmless venom of his in
IS potent insults! Insults which would hay
r. been indecent, (even though deserved,l if il
Z stead of being man in the purity of whoi
J. private and the disinterestedness of who's
of public life, even his bitterest enemies Ina,
al failed TO find flaw, he were just enterin
d after youth of abandoned profligacy and
re manhood of conting hypocrisy, upon an o
D age made odious by malignity and ridicuo
is by self-conceit7 1t is but justice, howevl
to the saints hercabouts TO say, that tn
ID seem heartily ashamed Of their chalnpic
~ They were not more swift TO disayoW th,