Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-06-04

nDle. lie snlltS Uln1stti w Ills IOOuI UP WI
many days someiInes-then he becomes
very social; then again he studies all the
night and sleeps the day through. In the
had weather, he is so gloomy, that we pity
him; but ii we say so, he is at once displeas-
ed. His Frau Wirtll says, that he much
money to the children gives; but that he
drinks tea infinitely, and has fourteen pairs
boots for winter! This is the spleen! You
understand, Herr B. |"
expressed myself entirely satisfied.
inquired soon in regard to The fashionsi in
the room. whether they were German, most
OF them?
".qch, no % she replied; "it is not thought
so noble to dress in German fashion. We
borrow the French. ! sometimes think we
have nothing original, unless our musique.
No one reads German novel now and in
the South, they often teach the children new
er German, only French and English"
"Will the Herr Anercaner he good enough
TO take the lady out TO supper" said the
hostess, interrnptng us.
"Very lucky !" whispered my companion,
ns we walked into the supper room, " for
otherwise we should have sat ut the lower
end among the children aud stupids."
The soup was passed around, while help
ed my lady to tea favored with vanilla, with
a few drops of rum.
"Do you know" said /, "you would utter
ly shock AIRY of our tea drinkers by such
mixture ns that"
al know il is not English" she answered.
"You will find it through all Germany. We
think the tea will not awaken us at night IT
we sprinkle in rum"
"Is il So" said she again, aller a little
while, that you in America have those hea-
Wy English breakfasts with meat? How can
you2 IL is so gross~
! defended the habit MS well MS ! could; at
the same time making nm insidious attack on
some of the standard German dishes, espe-
cally the Sduerkrdut. Size held up her hands
il comic asionishmeuf, ".uien Coll Not
to like Sduerkraut! Where hdUe you educo.
ted 2"
The conversation of the table now began
10 turn towards me. A gentleman near nsk-
ed IN regard to my plans OF travelling in
Hungary in the summer. explained them.
lie said he would strongly dissuade me-
Hungary was n very unnteresting country
half bnrbnrous. There was nothing there
TO see. No works of nrt--no thenters-no
good hotels or roads. The country had scarce
ever been heard Of till this late red repub-
lican outbreak. at was wild, lawless in
surrecton, aud the land had not yet recovered
from it,"
As the Hungarian was gone, I took up the
defence of poor Hungary. was not sure
of the facts," | said, but had n different
impression of the struggle" commenced
in German, and then waxing warm left it
for English. described the conlnence-
ment of thut heroic strugge-pictured tile
old Constituiion-tol,l my opponent that he
and his countrynen were not prepared to ap-
precinte a constitutional strugge-and in my
ardor, from the deep stiffness of the table,
began to ienr ! had offended the political
prejndices of some; when was interrupted,
as stopped for breath, by" Voieriilich ~ lex
cellent J "the vowels have even a clearer
sound than ours, and the consonnnts are
smoother. strong language but not so
clear, not so many small words in speaking,
| MS Gcrmaum Aud found that my English,
much more than my IDEAS had been listened
to, so turned again to German: aud il is a
curious fact TINT the speaking ofa foreign Ian
guage varies ns much, nt various times, and
depends os much on moods, as any eriempore
/ speaking. When under u strong flow OF ex-
citenent ! could always speak good German.
spoke now in words which my opponent
could not hel p attending TO- of the wrongs OF
that oppressed and unhappy land, of its no
! bic aud rational struggles tor freedom, of the
crushing attacks of Russiu, and of the Aus
trinn tyranny. of whose abuses we heard
each day in the pol crs.
! could not nvoid, as / was upon IT, and MS
| knew my audience well, speaking sadly
also Of the oppression over the dear old
! German Fatherland. | alluded to their
strict police laws; TO the open acts Of injus-
: tice from the authorities everywhere, and
mentioned that well known measure of in-
justice 10y which, lately, liberal editors had
/ been imprisoned aud banishsd. ] snid that
the times seemed dark in the Old World
and that we in the New looked with pity
over TO all this, and longed to right il again.
l had spoken with very considerable feeling
and the company had listened intently hut
here was interrupted by a gentleman whom
! knew to be somewhat more acquainted
with America than The others. The words
| can only imperiecty give, but the rebuke
will never leave me.
"Sr," said he, very earnestly, eve admit
that the times look dark here in Europe,
aud that there is much wrong here, but we
do not admit the right of your country to
rebuke il. There is system now with you,
worse than anything which we know, OF
tyranny-your Slavery. II is disgrace and
blot on your fee government and on a
Christian State. We hnye nothing in Rus
sia or Hungary Which is so degrading, aud
we have nothing which so crushes the mind
And more thnn this, we hear now of law,
just passed by your National Assembly,
which would disgrace the cruel code of the
Car. We hear of free men and women,
hunted like dogs over your mountains, and
sent hack, without trial, to bondage worse
than our serls have ever known. We here
in Europe have many excuses in ancient
evils and deep-laid preiudices, but you the
young, free people, in this age, to be passing
again, alresh, such measures of unmtligeted
wrong and oppression! We have not been
able TO understand il.
must say that the blood tingled to my
cheeks with shame as he spoke.