Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-09-10
OUR NEW LIvERIES.

Our Washington correspondence to-day gives u
description of a magnificent private coach, drawn
by spanking bays, and with cOachman and footman
in blue liyeries. From his description of it, one
ght imagine it to belong to some foreign Minister
whose IDEAS of political grandeurare the depression
of the people, crushing them in the badges of CASTE
in livcries which originally worn by prisoners
taken in war, to mark their degradation. and are
now put by the socallcd upper classes on the backs
of the poor equally to mark their degradation. and
show how brutal man with money may act toward
one who is without money. OF course in this
country we cannot dictate to foreigners who SO de-
grade Gods image, but it is hard to respect Amer-
cans who pretending to be Democrats, never appear
in public without being attended, by serve creatures
with such marks of their shame on their backs.
But curiosity may exist is to what foreign minis
ter appears so royalty in public-The Russian,
Prussian, English, Spanish?
The reader must not be put on u wrong track.
The carrageand horses, and the liyeried white serfs
belong to FRANKLIN PIERCE. President of the United
States, elected by the hard-fsttd Democracy" to
represent and carry out the great principles of po-
itica equality and the social elevation of the masses
| Genius of llumbug. canst thou farther goe? Can
the pretense of respect for EQUALITY-yotical
social personal, be more complete than such dis
| play, by such parsonage, of the means by which
pride towers erpoverty and rank over pebeanism
! o ye poor, trodden down and despised sons of
toll! When shall como the day of your deliver
ance ? When will you he too intelligent to be the
menials of small lawyers who abuse yoy by their
professions of Equality, and at the first opportunity
Ibetray you to shame and dishonor? What is there
in this man Pierce, that lie should dare to degrade
the Democracy Of country in the persons of liver
led menials Who is he that he should play sovereign
at Washington, and enter upon snob-rivalry with
the representatives of foreign Courts, dstancing
them in the depth Of his gingerbread and the pom
derosity of his liveries What is the meaning of
his Jesutical appeals to the people, when he sane
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tude-servitude not of the black, hut of tho white
his equals as men and citizens? No. Then by
what right dare he to put them on other men as
good as himself?
What was the meaning of Secretary Marcy's cir
cular to the legations and Consuls, inviting them
to leave Off barbarian trappings and rise to the
dignity of men? If their liveries are degrading
and Infamous equally 30 are they on the bucks Of
Il persons in their employ. Lveries for the Demo.
Gratis who help Democratic President to discharge
his Democratic duties; and live the Democratic life
proper for the head magistrate of this Republic
Faugh upon such Democracy! Let Secretary Marcy
at once issue IA circular for home use.
We shall be told, perhaps, that this is hard
doctrine, and that since it is customary for great
families and rich men in the large cities Of the
Republic to dress their servants in livery we must
not complain if the President adopts the same
blessed privilege We deny this entirely. We
maintain that the President is representative man,
and has no right to make a fool of himself in this
way, because other people do il. Besides he pro.
tesses democracy, the superiority Of man over his
accidents whereas the magnates of our best society
profess the contrary. And we put it to the good
sense Of the country, to the honest men who till
their lands and follow their trades remote from the
vices and falschoods of cities, and bring up theiI
children by the labor of their own hands, whether
they regard it as fitting thing that republican
president should array number of his fciIow-citi
zcns in menial guise and display them in public as
creatures of lower caste? Is it fitting that he
should ape the cifete fummcry of aristocratc dis
tinctons in so base manner? We think not
sacred, which should pervade life and transform
institutions, and not mere set of phrases to figure
in inaugural addresses and replies TO electoneerine
committees Farmers and Mechanics. what say
you ?--T,ibune.