Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-03-22
The Singers Mistake.

"Sone Of our readers may remember an nc.
count given by a correspondent to this paper at
Havana, Of the imprisonment Of Marini, the
great tasso of the Italian opera, because ho sang
the word liberty, in the opera Of IPuritan.-
Tho original words of the opera are Beiioe af-
tlonfar Ia morte grigaado Liberia. alt is beau
tiful to meet death with tho shout of libcrty;"
but the government of Cuba always requires the
singers to substitute the word ieaitd, Qoyalty)
for liberia. On ono occasion, Marini, it seems,
so far forgot the place he was in, as to sing H.
6ey-, when recolccting himself, he changed to
ieakd. But the slip of the tongue was regard
cd as Intentional by the Jealous Spanish author
itcs, and he was accordingly sent to prison for
his ofi'nce. When he was released, he had oc-
casion,. the night after, to sing in LElisire D.
Anore, the line legGo Sud liberia 81 fe Soldato.
" He sold his liberty 10 become q soldicr;" but
determined to make no mistake this time, he
sung Vcnde sua leaha 81 fc soldatc.-The ap-
plication was so obviously droll that the whole
audience broke forth in loud laughter"
We find the above in an exchange paper.
The Cuban authorities should 20 10 our
southern neigbbors to learn the vast differ
cnce there is between speech aud action.-
They would hear the voice OF the orator de-
claiming in favor of Liberty mingled with
the mechanical cry of the slave nuc,oneer,
and find that no Que felt shocked at the np-
parehtinconsistency In fact nothing could
he mo- o foolish than for these Spanish rulers
TO proscribe word with such flexible de-
6iniixi 4 ns liberty. There is scarcely So
Icinl x y;0iIsical rosision iD which Bnn cum
he placed that has not been called Liberty.
In the Southern stafes, Liberty means the
power Of two hundred thousand slave hold
ers 10 govern the whole country, and thus
hears a strong resemblance TO the Liberty of
Ancient Greece, upon which so much admi-
ration and bad poetry have been expended.
The Liberty of Poland upon which our peo-
Pile wasted SO much sympathy, was the Lib
eriy of few lundholders to oppress their
swnrms of serls without dividing the spoil
with the Government of Russia. Grecian
Liberty, as it appeared about tweniy-eight
years ago, was dispute between two sets
of pirates aud highwOymen concerning de-
sirnble field of operations. Liberty in Eng
land has been n sliding scale from the black
est tyranny down TO well organized uristoc-
racy. II would take wise man TO tell what
Liberty has not been in France except, in
deed, the thing defined by the poet and phi
losopher. In fine, the definitions of Liber-
iy should be arranged thus; with govern
menis, Tie existing government; with men
too luzy TO work, any kind of revolution;
with shareholders and serf-holders, an exclu-
sive monopoly Of their irade with the Peo-
pie, dream which hns never been realized;
a dream of heaven which is incompatible
with material world.
But with all this, Liberty is not altogether
phantom, aud we may reasonably hope
that the time is approaching, when the reai-
~ of this much coveted blessing will be un-
derstood aud finally attained.-Pits. Gazette.