Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-05-20

d. Worhington, 1854
This is a pamphlet of ifty-two pages, full oi
soul, Of vigorous thought clothed, rs is meet, in
strong and vigorous English. Its satire is most
keen, aud that part which is personal" contain,
most admirable hits.
Take the following, picked up at random, as a
specimen Of the spirit ard style Of the work.
Speaking of the fugitives:
For him our flag has stripes without the stars;
Our eagle is vulture at his breast;
Our pole cross where he is crucifed;
And our free soil northern hunting ground,
Where vile officials scent the Afric smell,
And. with suspicious noses on the ground,
Pursue the game with barkings Of delight
I've seen pack after pack of hungry dogs,
With collars on their nocks. and names thereon!
When Fillmore puckered up his mouth, they prickcd
Their ears before he got the whistle out;
And when at length the shri, sharp sound was
heard,
Their savage yelpings made the wcltin ring.
Why, could fll this waiting page with names
OF mastfs, ours, and most illustrous dogs
CorroN, fat, sleek spaniel that could bark
With voice so musical it charmed the car;
lie was too lat or too polite to run,
Therefore he gently logged along behind.
UNION, mastif with ferocous mouth,
Whose angry bark awoke the slumbering hills,
Was always first and foremost in the chase
His nabby jaws were red with human blood
COMMERCE, most sagacious dog, who barkcd
With so much dignity one would have thought
lie knew enough to speak, perhaps to vote!
STATESMAN, a cunning dog most like fox;
lie never lod, but followed in the pack,
And barked Just like the echo of the rest,
And bit the victim with the whtest teeth.
LAW, an uniceling and relentless cur,
Whose fevcred fangs were cooled in human blood.
TASTE, white lapdog from lady's knee,
Whose piping voice amused both mice and men.
SMELL, with small pug nose and great long ears,
Sneezed often when he should have barked aloud.
SIGHT, a scared puppy, bowling in the dark;
And minor dogs too numerous to name.
But all these watchiul dogs could not prevent
Tn escape Of hunted ireemen to the north.
Most true is the following graphical description:
Who ever saw such times as these?
Stripes on our slaves, stripes on our flags;
Our blacks wear gives, our whites wear gags (;
And half the nation on its knees
Implores the other half, that scorns
Freedom betrayed and crowned with thorns
OF the personal" here is the description of
Douglas;
The chosen champion Of this wicked work,
Without the stature Of a fullgrown man
Or mind of more than common caibre,
Is falsely called the Giant of the Westi"
And yet this Tom Thumb Titan is not seen
Save when he climbs upon a negro's back,
Or struts and spouts upon an auction block
A platform where, in all the gilded pomp
OF pigmy grandeur, little giants stand,
If Douglas be the western Brobdignag,
What little Liliputians are we all
The torch of genius shines not in his eyes;
The gods have set no zeal upon his brow;
His speeches have no spirit in their words
Mere mobs of syllables devoid Of souls
Thoughts are to words what souls to bodies are
But Douglas is ambitious, and aspires
To highest honors, though deserving none.
lie sacrificed the freedom of his state,
Made it the byword of mocking world,
The most inhospitable spot on earth,
The black sheep in the bleating flock of states,
That he might gain the presidential chair
lie purchased plantation titled by slaves,
And fattenod on the ncgro's blood and sweat.
Gold was his gospel, and the lash his law,
Office his heaven, and power and pelf his wish,
His farm the only empire that he ruled,
And ragged slaves the subjects he oppressed
lie was the emperor of gang of blacks;
His driver his prime minister of state,
Who left his mark upon the rising race.
This great king of Mississippi swamp
Divorced sad husbands from their weeping wives
Snatched screaming infants from their mothers
arms;
Scourgod white-haired danes and venerable men
Erased Gods image from the face divine;
Extinguished hope within the human breast;
Trod on the necks of most obsequious slaves,
And crushed their hearts beneath tyrants heel
He counterfeits the autograph of God
Upon the charter Of our sacred rights,
And signs deeds for the priceless soul of man.
geS-James Montgomery, the Sheffield poet, nov
in his 23d year, is editing volume of Miscella
nies.
bsS-A colored man, named George r. Roberts
over seventy years OF age, well-known residen
OF baltimore, is an a visit to Washington, in ques
OF pension for services rendered during the las
war with England. lie was priyateer, and serv
cd with Capt. Boyle, who blockaded tho ports O
Great Britain with little brig He was takeI
| prisoner, carried TO jamaica and, with half
dozen others, barely escaped the honors Of yarn
arm promotion ,af