Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-07-14
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Jersey to express tho sympathy of its people with
the delivorcrs of Sicily. Victor Hugo delivered
the following address, which, if not specifically
antchattelism, is an-oppression Freedom be
ing one, as Despoism is one, blow struck for
she rights of man in Italy, is felt by tho op2res-
sors Of humanity in America while. on the 9TH
or band every thing that tends degrade the slave
here, strengthens the power of despotiSm in
Europe.
Gentlemen, I respond to your appeal Where.
ever tribune in the cause OF liberty is erected,
and calls to me- there am |. 1t N, in truth, my
instinct and my duty. While some may act and
others speak, let ell be doing. Yes-a'l to the
work. The wind is breathng-let public encour-
agement to the heroes be the JOY of every soul.
Let the multitude glow, like the furnace, with en-
thusiasm. Let those who cannot Eight with the
sword, fight with the mind. Let not single in
teligence remain neutral let not single spirit
remain inactive. Let those who are struggling ia
the fight feel that they gazed on, that they
loved that they are sustained Let there be around
shat valiant man, who is standing erect there in
Palermo-a ire on every mountain in Sicily-a
light on every height in Europe. 1 have pro-
nounced the word The tyrants Have l exag
gerated2 Have l illuminated the Noopoltun
Government No words Here are the facts !!
Pay attention This is living hstory-bleedng
history
The kingdom of Napes-thot kingdom which
now occupies our thoughts-has bat single insti-
tution-the police. Every district has its cudgol
ing commission, Two Sbirri-A joIsa and Mauis
calco-reign under the King. Aiosta cudgels
Naples-Maniscalc cudges Sicily. But the cud
gel is merely Turkish weapon. This Govern
ment has, in addition, the instrument Of the in
QUESTION torture. Yes, tortuie! Listen.
sbire Bruno binds the accused with the head be-
tween the legs until he oonfeses. Another sbire,
Pontillo, fxes him upon an iron grating, beneath
which he lights FIRE. This is callod the burning
chair. Another sbire, Luigi Maniscalco, a kins
man of the chief, has invented an instrument into
which the arm the leg of the victim is introduc
ed q screw is turned and the limb is crushed
This is called the Angelic Instrument Another
suspends man by the hands and feet between two
walls, and then jumps on him and dioccatos his
body.
There are also thumb screws for crushing the
fingers, a tournquet for pressing the head an iron
ring with q screw which almost forces the eyes
out of the head. Sometimes victim escapes a
man, named Casimiro Arsimano, was one of these;
his wife, his sons, and his daughters seized
and placed upon the burning chair. The Cape
Zaferaua touches on an arid beach, To this beach
the sbri brings sacks Each sack contains a man;
it is plunged into the watera kept there till the
man no longer moves 1t 10 then taken out, and
be is commanded to confess. If he refuses he is
plunged in again. Giouanni Vienna, of Messna,
expired in this manner. AT Monreale an old
man and his daughter were suspected of patriot
ism. Tho father died beneath the whip the
daughter, who was pregnant, was stripped naked
and Hogged to death
Gentlemen, there is q young man Of twenty
years of age who does these things. This
young man is called Francis II. This takes place
in the country of Tibcrius. Is it possibeP 1t is
true. The date ?--lSG0-tho very year in which
we live. Add to this the fact of yeserday-Pa'
lermo crushed by bombshe)ls, flooded with blood
massacred. Add, again, this frightful tradition
of the extrmination Of towns which seems the
maniacal rage of family, and which in history
vii! hdously unbap6se this family, and change
Bourbon into Bomba. Yes, young man of TWEEN
ty-one commits all these deeds OF darkness, Cen
tlemen, declare to you that feel myself struck
with profound pity when thinking of this mis-
cradle petty king.
What horror 1! is at age when others love, |
God believe, and hope, that this miserable crea-
ture torsures and kills See what divine justice
does with wretched soul 1t replaces all the |
generosities of youth and opening life with the
decreptudes and the terrors of the end it fixes
the sanguinary tradition like chain upon the
prince and the people it accum ulates on the new
tenant of the throne the influences Of the family 1t
was necessary to delivery this people l might al
most say it was necessary to deliver this king.
Garibadi has taken on himself the mission. And |
Garibaldi-who and what is Garibaldi ? Heis as
HE fellow-countryman Virgil would turn him, Vir.
Has he an army ?-No: a handful Of volunteers.
Has he munitions None. Has he powder A |
few barrels only. Has ho cannon E? Those of the
enemy. Where then, is his strength What
causes him to conquer What does be bear about
him =? The soul of peoples He goes-he runs
bis march is dream of fame his handful of
men terrify the regiments; his feeble weapons are
enchanted, the bullets of his rifles check the can
non balls he bears with him revolution, and from
time to time, in the chaos of the battle amidst
clouds and lightning, like Homeric hero, we see
behind him the goddess. However obstinate may
be the resistance, this warfare is astonishing BY
its simplicity. 1t is the assault of a man upon
royalty. His swarm floats in the air around him
women throw flowers at his feet, men fight sing
ing, tho royal army fees. The whole of this ud-
venture is epic it is brilliant formidable and
charming, like an attack of bees.
Behold those radiant stages of his march, and
predict to you that not of them shall disap-
point him in the nfallble fortunes of the future.
After Marsala-Palarmoi after Palermo, Messna;
after Messna, Naples; after Naples, Rome after
Rome, Venice after Venice-All. You who
now lear me picture to yourselves this splendid
tisiOn-Italy iree--rec fre9 from the gulf of Ia