Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-05-19
miscellaneous.
From tho London Empire Of April 2lst.
TEE HISTORY OF THE WEEK.

land, or IN the history OF the world, more momen-
tous and more exciting than the week now about
to close. Louis Napoleon Bonapartc, by an impe-
rial visit to England, gets every newspaper crowd.
ed with the record of his ovation, and we learn
from Vienna that Russia refuses the condition Of
peace offered by France and England, while Aus
tria once more plays a false game. And these
events are heightened in interest by terrible news
from Sebastopol.
Napoleon the Third reached our shores on Mon
day, and no returns to France to-day, free from
that personal injury which the lawless predicted.
and, no doubt, carrying away in his heart the am
bition to be tho master and the ruler of England.
Apprehcnsive that his life really was in danger,
very many French spies and policemen have been
located in our streets, watching the refugees, who
are considered to be addicted to revengcsa land thus,
for once, has the great city Of London been placed
under the vigilance of Partisan hirelings. Louis
Napoleon has, at the same time been permitted to
ride in state, and hold court, as if already he were
Euglands king.
But ii is not a Bonaparte in London, nor French
policemen spying out our land, that most OF all
rouses our attention ut the moment VIC write-butI
Sebastopol in the terrible commissions Of the last
desperate struggle for brutal power. On the 9th
instant the active bonbardment Of tho city began.
The Allies opened fire with 500 cannon of appall.
ing calibre, Sebastopol replied with the rage and
skill of despotic devastation, and we know for GER
tain that the roar and bloodshed lasted for five
days without any other result than mutual annihi-
lation. For five days Sebastopol has been a Hell
lAAl L nv iAAAAAlC VI
the poots-Grc, blood, thunder, groans of the dying
mounds of the dead, the hills blazing, the heavens
reyerberating, the sea agonised, and two or three
hundred thousand human beings, all created in the
image Of common God, engaged in c~onsummating
the most appalling tragedy the earth has witness
ed since the downfall of Jerusalem and the destruc-
ton of the Hebrew Commonwealth.
We cry aloud, 20 men, how long," And turn
ing our attention to Vienna councils, hope begins
to cxnirc. Russell returns as he went, Austria
iu....., C.,-t, 4r,,,hnrN Rusgio 1,os pnt Nioli
and the drum must beat through cur streets for
now victims; Parliament can only exist to vote
money and grant new loans, and the people look
on unheelins and PROSTATE. Heaven help us,
and Europe, and the world, with our Two thou
sand years of Christianity, our age of civilization
and telegraphs, and our beloved Napoleon come to.
Windsor for Il garter, to Guidhall for q feast. and
TO Sydenham for n show! What are we? Where
are we? Alas! how difirult. to indite history at
this moment, unless it be the history Of confusion,
Disappointment, mystery, and downfall. Pro-
phctic voices are wanted. genius is asleep, eliginn
dies away. and the people are divided without lead
ers; they are placed in the hands of craft, they are
impelled 10y t~ranSitory emotions. If the Heavens
had never yielded up its Messiah for mankind,
England, France, and Europe could not have been
lilly.
If it is possible for US, under such circumstau-
ces, to temper down our writing to mere detail,
we should proceed to say that the Emperor OF
Trance HAS, U VIC NSch, DGtl nlutC tue dhi VI
london and Windsor. Those very newspapers
and that very public that pronounced burning
words Of wrath against the perjury and usurpn-
ton of which he was guilty have been loud in their
efforts to praise the perjured usurper, and even
fair and %virtuous ladies of our native land have
been required to extol an imperial ovation, and
wave white handkerchiefs over the head Of him
whose life they dare not robuke. At the towns OF
Dover~anA Windsor-in Fleet-street, Cheapside
and the Mall-at the Crystal Palace, at the Italian
Opera, and at the G~uildhall, Louis Bonaparte ha
been greeted as if his private life were pure, lk,
that of the Hebrew Minister of Pharaoh, and as i
his ruiz were glorious as the reign of Solomon 0
Augustus. Because he represents to us a noble
France, we chose TO forget that he has pandered tt
the priests, that ho has massacred the citizens, tina
be has destroyed the liberty of the press, creatin,
a hired and a gewgaw legislature, and prescribing
the genius of his country. Ecce homo! And wha
pale, sad, and weeping face is that which iollowe'
him through the streets as if crime could comman'
the ministration of angels?-it is the countenanc
of a Eugene to sway reluctant sympathisers.
But in sober language let US ask if it be true, a
tor all, that the Emperor of the French has bee
received by the English people with overpOwerin
demonstrations Of applause. Who were those tbs
discovered it necessary to remind all London b
placards that it was its duty to give him a heart
welcome ?-eyen those who doubted whether
would be done. And are there not many of on
contemporaries of the press who refuse to boz
down their heads before this new star Of destin,
and who demonstrate against the idle homage pal
to him? And could not a tale be unfulded of til
manner in which the reports of the Imperial Oy'
ton have been adjusted to please the higher pow
ers? In our own paper our readers will sec III
style in which reporters have recorded the Imperii
visit, and which we have not thought it well to a
ter, lest we might be thought to have been actua
ted by preiudices. IL is said, for example. tina
Louis Napoleon, when he reached Trafalgar.squar
aud Charing Cross, on Monday, was received by
loud burst Of cheering. We we're there ourselye
at that moment, and hereby testify and declar
that the Emperor passed by amidst an almost dea
silence. So anxious were we to mark the depor
ment Of the crowd, that we did not see the nor
arch, aud the only noise arose from the rustic an
excitement of a great multitude to obtain an cas-
inspection. But let not France understand tn;
this silence was any disrespect to her generou
people, or disregard Of her noble history.