Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-02-21
miscellaneous.
From Chambers Journal.
What 10 do in The Meantime ?

TO do in the meantime? Tbs thesis requires
no demonstration. II comes home 10 the
experience of every man who hears it liier.
Ell. From the chimney pots to the cellars
of society, great aud snail, scholars aud
clowns, al classes of struggling humanity
are painfully alive to lis truth.
The men to whom the question is prccmi.
ncntly embarrassing nru those wlio have Ell
ther pccuniary eXpectnncies ur possess talents
OF some particular kind on whose rcrugni-
tion by others their material prosperity de-
pends. II may be laid down ~ u general
axiom, in such cHscs that the worst thing n
man can do is to iodit, aud the best thing lie
can do is To tcork that is to say, that ia himo
cnses out of ten, doing something has great
advantage over doing no,hing. Such nn as
seriion would appear mere Obvious lfiiisui,
aud one requiring neither proof nor illusira.
iion, were II rot grievously palpaplc to the
student of the great book of lit-ihc IN.
written biographical Dictionary of the world
that an opposite system is too often pro-
ferred aud adopted 10y the unfortunate vic.
tins of This iion.orcvcrybody qucs-
ton" 20 clearly proposed, and IN countless
instances so inetlicently aud indefinitely
answered
To multiply dismal examples Of such snd
eases Ofpuople ruined, starved, aud in II va
rieiy of ways irarlily embarrassed aud tor
monicd dining The process of expectation, 10y
the policy ufcOwnrdly sluth or feeble hcsiti-
tiOn, nigh indeed "pOint n moral ;" hui would
scarcely "adorn tale" II is doilhiless un
advantage to know how to avoid errors, but
1t is decidedly much grcicr advantage 10
lcurn practical truth. We shall, therefore,
leave the dark side OF the argument with full
confidence to the memories, cXperincC and
imagimalions of our readers, aud dwell ratll-
n ~ int t;,,,r
considcruion-on the brighter side, in cases
OF successful repartcc IN The grand query,
which our limited personal obscrva ton has
enabled us 10 collCct. Besides. there Is
nothing attractive or exciting about intellect
inl inertia. The contrast between active re.
sisinncc aud passive endurance is that be-
tween u nrnchine ~ rest and u mnchinr in
imoton. Who that has visited the Great
Exhibition can have failed to remark the
difference Of interest aruiisch IN the two
eases What else causes the pcrauhulnthg
dealer Ia artificial spiders suspended from
threads 10 command 50 great patronage
from the Juvenile population of Paris aud
London? WI nt else constitutes the superb
oriIy of an advertising van over a stationary
poster? What sells Acxandrc Dumas nov. I
rls, mud makes Il balloon ascent such n favor /,
lie Specialize "Work, mani" said the phil '
Osophcr; "hast thon not all eternity TO rest
Z" And 10 tcork, according 10 Mills "PO- , T,
litical Economy" is to more therefore per
peiual motion is the great ideal problem of
nechnnicnns.
The first case in our museum is that Of
German officer. lie was sent 10 the coast of
Africa on All exploring expedition, through
tie agency of the p1rti pretre, or Jesuit parry
IN France, with Whose Vaccinations against
Louis Phlippe's government lac had become
accidentally acquainted. The JcsliS, find.
ing him opposed To their plans, determined
10 remove him from the scene OF action In
consequence oi ilis determination, it 50 hap
Vened that the capiaiu of the vessel in which
he went ont set sail one fine morning. leav.
ing our friend on shore 10 tie society and
care Of tie native negro population. Ills
black ucqunintanccs for some time treated
him with marked civiily; but ns the return
of the ship became more and more problem
aticnl, familiarity hegnn 10 breed its usual
progeny, and the unhappy German found
himself in most painful position. Hitherto
he had not been treated with actual disrcs-
pect but when King Bucca- Bocca one day
rut him IN the most ,ncquivorn manner, hc
found himself so utterly neglected, that the
sensation of hcing nobody-a nobody too
amongst niggcrs for the moment com
plelely over came him. A feeble ray of hope
wns excited shortly afterwards in his dcs-
pondeDt heart by hint gathered from the
signs madu by the negro IN whose hut he
lived, that project was entertained in high
quarters Of giving him coat of hmp.bnck,
nnd selling him ms II slave; hut this idea was
abandoned by its originaiors, possibly for
want of opportunity 10 carry il ont. Now
Onr ndvcnturer had observed that so long as
he had charge of gunpowder leli To give
away, the black men had almost worshipped
as mn incarnation of the MuInho-Jumbo ndor-
ell by their fathers. Reneciing on this, il oc-
Cured To him that ii, 10y any possibility, no
could conlrive to manufacture II fresh supply
Of the valued commodity, his fortunes would
lie comparatively secure.
No sooner had this idea arisen in his brain,
than, with prodigious perseverance,, lac pro.
cecded To work towards It's realization. The
worst of il was, that he knew the native
names neither Of charcoal, sulphur, nor nj
ire. No matter; his stern violation was
proof ngninst all difficulties Having once
conveyed his design 10 The negroes he found
them eager 10 assist him, though, us difficult
~ nfer difficulty arose, il required all lie
eonfdence of courage and hopeful energy to
control their savage mpaiiencr. The frs,
batch was n failure, md il wns only by pre-
tending that il was yet unfinished lie was en-
nbled to try second in which he iriumphed
over all obstacles. When The negroes lad
really loaded their muskcts with his powder,
md fred them of in celebration of the
event, they indeed revcred the stranger us a
superior Ond marvellous being. For nrnrly
eighteen months the German remained on
the coast IL was port rarely visited, aud
the negroes would not allow hin to make any
ntiompt 10 travel to a more Grequcnied place.
Thus he continued TO make gunpower for
his barbarous friends, aud to live, according
TO their notions, "like prince; !" for To do
King Bocca-B Bocca justice, when we learned
our friends value, he treated him like man
and brother. What might have been his
fate had he awaited in idle dcspondency tho