Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-10-27
Prom the New Bedford Mercury.
WHAT is THE CRIMEA.

Homer calls it the land Of the Lasbrigonions.
who were giants and ate mems flesh, and from
whom the much enduring Ulysses escaped with
some difficulty. The Crimea is also known to
tragedy as Tauris; and the custom of sacrificing
all strangers upon its affairs, which then prevailed,
shews that FROM the earliest ages it was a very
dangerous place for foreigners. Then it was call
Ell Cimmeria the land of darkness. To the sun
loving Islanders of the Egean, night and storm
and eternal winter dwelt beyond that Euxine sea
which only a few adventurous mariners dared to
penetrate. Cimmeria! there is meaning in that
nPme. 1t is only Crimea in its full development.
1t was one of the halts of the Caucasian tri 20 in
their first western migration. The Tartars (Scy-
thians they were then called drove them out, and
on they went, these wandering Cimmerians. They
called themselves Cimbri when they arrived in Eu-
rope. A portion of them in Wales, with fantastic
legends of the fall of Troy in their early and N.Y.
thical history, are still known as the Cymbri; but
they are the parents Of all the race of the Celts;
and now the invaders, English, French, Scotch
and Irish, are only seeking their ancestral place
and making themselves at home after a tolerably
long absence. They have found there the old
Scythian tribe who elected them. To be sure
their former conquerers have not been in posses
sion the whole time, nor very much of it. Little
l moro in fact than half a century is it since they
finally took it into their keeping for, after driving
out the Cimmerians, they these Cythian Tartars
5 were h themselves expelled; lut they have come
! back and got the start Of the original owners, yhc
now, after near two thousand years, have Just re-
i turned to look after the old homestead.
r There is another little association with the Cri
Q mea that to us Americans is interesting. One
$ John Smith, the John Smith, the adventul Gus cap
t tain of Virginia, was also a warrior against thu
n Turks or Tartars. lie cut off several Moslem tur
bans with heads inside of them, but was uulucki
o ly captured and sold as slave. lie was carried
up the Straits of Kertsch and into the Sea of A zof
Somewhere in the Crimea, or Whereabouts, his cap
Itivity ceased. lie killed his master, seized hi
horse and rode for dear life and the nearest Rus
sian post, at that time to him nearly synonv
10 nous ideas. He was kindly received, and passe,
% along from one MuScovite station to another bacl
8 to friends and civilization. With every step a ney
instalment Of gratitude became due from him
q which he duly discharged through his heirs and as
,e signs; for he founded Virgir ia. Virginia one day
m with her sister colonies, became the United State
of America. England was at war with Franc
tn and her own revolted colonies. The house of Buui
as bon aid the honse of Guelph had no leisure t
look eastward. In fact, there was not an Easter
BIT question" at all. Catherine of Russia stepped
eft with her armies, and the Crimea was hers. Franc
he came to the rescue only too late. English cour
try gentlemen were too full of the Middlesex ele
ee ton and the American war, the 'no-popery" rio
&C. and the national debt, to think much of the schemt
lst of the Czarina. Their Indian empire was b,
nd just beginning, and n" Napoleon had taught thel
he the value of the ~paschalik of Egypt to the owe
at- land route to the East. The fall of the Grim,
To- was but the annexation OF n barren Khanet, q r
he volted State of Turkey. The Austrian Empi
oh could hardiy nave taken more interest in the a
iv. ~nexation of Texas than England then did in Il
Crimean transfer to Russia. The seeds of futu
he calamity are sown in silence. "The tempest
foretold by q little cloud no bigger than n man
hand" which comes out of the sea; but to-day ii
nj Crimea is the centre of the worlds gaze, and VIII
sic is now passing on its soil may be changing ii
ow whole visible current of affairs.
til. We have made, in the foregoing, large draugh
on on a very entertaining and able article in t
North American for October.