Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-03-26
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.

he saw the death which awaited him; but
an empress sued and he had not the heart
to say "No." He lost his henrt first, and his
head shortly afterwards.
Dam'me" says blood, all that happen |
ed hundred years ago" An Etonian has
occasionally great difficulty in carrying his
ideas n hundred years back. Well, then,
we will go exmple-hunting nearer home.
There's Sir, Philip Plausible, the Parlio-
inent man. He can make speech OF nine
hours, and n calculation of nine pages; no.
body is better hand at getting up MINORITY,
or palavering refractory oppositionist; he
proffers an argument and bribe with equal
dexterity, aud converts by place and pension,
when he is unable to convince by alltera-
ton aud antitthess. What pity II is he
can't say No" "Sir Philip" says an ELL
voy, "you'll remember my little business ut
the Foreign Ollice?" "Depend upon my
friendship" says the minister "Sir PhilipW
says fat citizen, with two votes and two
dozen children, "you'il remember Billy's
plnce in the Customs /" "Rely on my
PROMISE" says the minister. "i5ir Philip!"
says q lady of rank, Ensign Roebuck is an
officer most desc wing promotion" "tlc
shall bo n colonel swear by Venus says
the minister. "Exitus ergo quis est?" lie
has outraged his Fl endsliip he has forgot
ten his promise. Had he never nn idea of
performing what he spoke !? Quite the re-
verse How unlucky that he cannot say
"Non
Look Mt Bob Lily! There lives no finer
poet Epic, "elegiac, satyric, Pindaric-it
is all one to himw ale is paironised by oil
tho first people in town. Everybody com
pliments him; everybody asks him TO dinner.
| Nay! there are some who read him. lie
excels nike in tradgcdy aud farce, aud is
without n rival in amphibious dramas, which
may he called either the one or the other ;
rnt he is n sad bUugler in negatives. "Mr.
Lily" snyS the duches, lis pntroness, you'll
be sure to bring that dear eIilauipi1m To
my Conversations this eyeuingw "There
is 10 denying your Grace" says the poet
"Bob," says the young marquis, "yUu are
for Brookcs's tonight" F" Dam'inc, to be
sure" snys the poet. Mark the result He
is gone To eat lripo with his tyinnuical book
seller; lac hns disappointed his pa,roness
he has cut the club! How unlucly he can
not say "Nom
Ned Shuttle was dasling young fellow,
who, TO use his own expression, was "abovc
denying thing; !" in palmer terms he could
not say "No." "Sir!" says an enraged To-
ry, "ynu arc the author of the pamphlet ~
Jack never saw the work, but Ie was "above
denying thing" aud was Iorsewhippcd for
Il libeller. " Sirm snys an unfortunate pi.
geon, ''you had the king in your sleeve last
night" Jack never saw the pigeon before,
but he was "above denying thing" and
was cut for backleg. "Sir!" says hot
llibernian, you insuted my sister in the
Park" Jack never saw the lady or his
champion before, but he was above deny
ing tmng," aud was shot through tho head
the next morning. Poor fellow! How un-
lucky he could not say "No."
In the position we are next going to od.
vance, We know everybody will differ from
us; but this only strengthens our opinion.--
| Nothing is so becoming to n female mouth rs
the pOwer-ay, aud the inclination to say
Mop So firmly are we attached to this
doctrine, that we never pW marry a woman
who cannot say "No." For the most part,
indeed, the sex ore pretty tolerably nciuated
by what the world calls n spirit of contra
diciion, but what we should rather desig-
mite II spirit Of independence. This natural
inclination TO negatives renders il unneces-
sary for us To point out to fair country wo-
man the beauties aud advantages Of n word
which they use as constantly as their look
ing glass Nevertheless they occasionally
forget the love of opposition, which is the
distinguished ornament OF their sex; aud,
alas they too frequently render themselves
miserable by ncglecIing our monosy syhble.-
We most earnestly entreat those bellies who
honor with their notice tile humble efforts
of The Etonian," to derive u timely warn
ing from the examples of those ladies' who
have lived to regret n lnsty and unlhinking
assent. Anna would never have been the
mistress Of Il colonel; Martha would never
have been the wife of IL cornet; Lydia would
never have been tied to age, ugliness aud
gout, it ;hesc unfortunate victims had stud
led in early youth the urt of saying" "No."
Short-sirong- g-sharp--quaint monosyla-
BILE Forcible, convincing, arguinentalive,
indisputable No! How We delight in thy
expressive sound We love to hear the miss
OF fifteen plagnng her uncle for her Christ
mas ball, ill Squaretoes, fuding vain the
excuse of affection, finishes the negotiation
with the "No," of authority. We love to
hear the enamored swain pouring forth his
rnptures nt the feet of an inexorable mistress
, till the Indy changes her key from this quiet
hint of indifference to the decided "NO" ol
aversion. We love to hear the school-boy
supplicating a remission of his sentence un.
till his sable Judge alters the {" can't" of sor.
rowiul necessity TO the "No" of inhexible
Indignation. We love-but il is time to bring
our treatise to conclusion, aud we will
, merely observe, that whenever we see a mar
; engaged in duel against his will, or in ,
debauch against his conscience; whenever
we see patriot accepting of place, or
r heauty united to blockhead, we turn from
the sight in disgust, aud nutter to ourselves
+ "This comes Of not being able to say, Mo-
3 nj. o.