Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-09-13
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.

tons were repeated by grave voices. The Cclts
were described MS military clans who landed on tho
western islands, and spread themselves over the
mountains killing wolves and living upon deer
a chasing the wild deer and following the roe.
The Scandinavians were described as sea kings,
who landed upon the east coast, killing bears and
seals, and living upon salmon. The highlander
was q soldier aud n venisou-eater, and the Plight
(Pict,) was q sailor and n salmon. eater. The de.
scendant of the Scandinavian, on the authority of
his traditions. denied with indignation the preten-
sion of the CeIt, that his ancestors were the less
ancient inhabitants of Scotland. lie said, compare
our numbers, and that will show you that we were
here first, and have had the longest time to multi.
ply in the land; the lowlandcr being a Plight, and
the highlander a Celt.
The ballads sung by old peoplc were of a kind
have never re ld in print. There was one about
John o Moth and John o Bcnachio Moth and
Bcnachie being two mountains IN Aberdeen shirel
VINO were described as giants playing at football
with tho hills Of Scotland. When puzzling my
head in after years to find the nearing of this
wild chant, have suspected it was II traditionary
lesson in geography, wrapped up iD the marvellous
and fabulous form of n battle of giants. When
men had not books they had rhymes, and sang in
a ballad, or condensed into Il proverb or Il distich,
the knowledge which is now spread (%olten in a
palmer form, | grant,, over II page. The young
women who had sweet voices, surg soft and mel.
ancholy songs OF domestic interest. What they
were. l have forgotten, but | remember they resem-
bled in character the Keel Rows and thc Boatie
Rows. fancy | have been familiar from my in
fancy with such stanzas as,
cast my line in Largo Bay,
And fishes | caught nine;
There's three to Joil, and three to fry,
And three to bait the line.
and again
The keel rows, the keel rows
And better may she speed,
The keel rows, the keel rows,
That wins the lairnies' breed.
The fishers of the Scotch East Coasts have never
been degraded by lculal institutions. They in.
herit the proud independence of the sea-kings.-
Mover adscripti glebi, and never calling any man
My LORD" there was no trace in their manners
of pauperism, prostitution, or proliigacy. When
worsLippers Of Olin, their marriages we're con-
tracted 10y handiasting ard trCth-plighting in pres
ence of their relatives, and beside TIE pillar of the
code or chief. Long after the Papni form of
Christianity was imposed upon Scotland by the
sword, when IL marriage turned out unsatisfacori-
ly it was dissolved by the one party going out by
the north and the other by tho south door of the
parish church. All law and institutions must be
viewed IN reference to the moral spirit and public
opinion Of the populations governed by them. The
mitigation OF the Don people against domestic
treason was terrible. When their fierce puritan.
ism was rebuked by the miilcr liberalism Of the
nineteenth century, they answered, You will ncv.
err in any other way keep up Il breed Of men fit t.
light the French"
The Scandinavians, Mortimer, or Normans have
been for Il thousand years the masters of Gauls and
Sixons, and their notions are worthy of the con.
sidcration Of PSYCHOLOGISTS and statesmen. Thirty
or forty years after | was taught the opinions OF
the Don folks, | listened to lectures Of celebrated
professors Of physiology in the French metropolis.
who described and dcplored the results of opposite
maXims and different manners among the French
youth, and the substance Of their science was this
with our liberal morals, wo shall never have IA
race fit to keep the foreigner out of Paris"