Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-28
BUGLE,
From the Msnchur,cr (Ens) Weekly Advertiser.
HOW 1T LOOKS TO OUR NEIGHRORs.


of our hardy kinsmen 5eyond tho AtiaGlic as to
eonfeand them with their nominal representative
at the White House, or with the mass Of political
Snsfieucrs who compose too large section of the
memlv vers Of congress- Were itso,we might despair
Of America. Protectionism and piracy seem to be
the loading features in the policy of its president
and its parliament. One of the last notable acts
in the history of the moribnnd congress, which
closed its eyes on the 4th of this month, the
rejection by the senate of the free trade modif-
cation of the tariff which had been sent up to it
from the House of Representatives 1t was rejec-
ted, We are informed, by "union of the agri-
cultural and iron interests; :" for class legislation
is not confined to the limited monarchy of Great
Britain, but hourrishes with rank luxurance be-
yond the Atlantic, under the regime of Universal
Suffrage. The free trade triumph in the House
of Representatives had been cunniugly disguised
before it was presented to the Senate. The liberal
notifications in the tariff were not exhibited in
their naked responsiveness to the protectiOnsts of
the American House of Peers They were tackled
as kind of appendix in small type, to an innocent
aud miscellaneous measure, the General Appropri
alton Bill. The ingenious device was unavailing.
Nor can we any room for hope ur grounds for
consolation We are told by some optimists, indeed
that the last was contemplate congress and that
the next will be q much superior one. But, ON the
other hand, we are informed on the very best
authority, that of the New York correspondent of
the London Times, that the Congress which has
lust expired was one Of very much than the
average responsibility. Probably" he says,
"there has not been more decent termination of
a session for many years" AT the solemn hour of
close he has to confess it s true that the rotun.
da lobbies. and the passage ways were, as usual,
crowded with persons interested in schemes for
plunderng the public treasury" but, against
this. we have to set off the gratifying fact that
"the members conducted themselves with unusual
propriety" We hope that no national feeling has
interfered to warp the writer's yeracity, and that
he may be implicitly credited, when he goes on to
make the extraordinary and gratifying statement;
Fec ,cere drunk notwithstanding the session las
ted tor tr,nty-fce hours and there cere 40 .fghts.
They sat there all this while the New York
writer's English seem to have slight American
tinge), 'tho debris of papers, apple parings,
ange-peels, and cigar stumps, accumulating about
them, working through the mass of business on
the calendar until the hour comes for the fall of
the curtain; and now the first congress of Presi-
den PIERcE's administration is thing of the past,
and the congress of the know-nothngs has come
into power" The highly respectable congress
which at the moment of dissolution did not get
generally drunk, is succeeded by congress OF
know-nothings, who, as we have more than once
explained to our readers are the proectionsts par
srcellcnce of America. The English protectionism
of the past will, on the historic page, hide its
diminished head before the American protection
ism of the present, which has assumed the un-
couth designation of know-nothingism. 1t is not
merely raw materials or manufactured products
from tho sacred soil of ira lsatiantic uicanism.
but man himsel In land of''the rights of man,
the wealthy and prosperous forei ,ner IS not to par
ticpate, according to the scheme OF the know
nothngs in the rights of citizenship, until after
sojourn of very many years. The INDECENT for
eigner on the other hand, who hitherto, as German
or Irishman, has contributed so potcntly, by his
industry and SKILL to the well-beng of the States
is not to be allowed to land at all, Even already
before the decisive triumph of the know-nothinSs,
measures are being adopted 70 warn the continen-
tai governments against the further export of men
to America And this is the land which has been
held up as the future home of man." 1t is a
land not over-crowded, not encumbered with an
aristocratic or ecclesiastical class. whose legis
lative movements are not fettered by bureaucra-
tic chains yet, with democracy rampant, with
untold millions of acres inviting the labor of the
foreigner American oficiasm can do nothing bet
ter than initiate the aissezflire of old Europe
and warn off the intending immig grant from its
shores, with an Il have the honor to bel"
So much for the protectonism OF the model re-
public to what sanguine free traders in this
try have long looked in fond expectancy of an i'm
itation of our own generous and just commercial
policy. But nations have perfect right to be
protectonists, and SO long as they only exclude
foreigners and foreign commodities from their own
Shores they may be blamed for their folly, but
cannot be hailed as criminals before the bar of the
comfy of nations The government of the United
States seems to be going a little further, and
.hout to add niracv to nrotectionism. What Tur-
Sev vas TO the Exneror Nicholas, Spa;n annears
Hey ' :" " =. W.. % .a Uu;,od Statos amd cpPo ;s
~ i; w." ,rh;oh tho ,rostnrn don,ocr"cu
taking leaf out of the book of eastern absolutism
wishes to seize as a material guarantee. During
the mast week. the London journals have been
renublishinr from their American contemporaries,
some very remarkable documents on the subject
of an intended seizure of Cuba, not by stray Anne
rcan adventures, bat by the American government
itself. One of these documents is the report of a
conference, at Ostond and Aix-la, Chapelle' last
October, held at the request OF the American pres
ident, by Messrs. BucnANAN, MAseN, and SouLE
ministers of the United States to the courts OF
London, Paris, and Madrid, the object OF which
though there is no express satementto to that effect