Free Soil Banner, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1848 — Page 1

EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY W. B. GREER & L. W VLLACE.]

« HE IS THE FREEMAN, WHOM TRUTH MAKES FREE; AND ALL ARE SLAVES BESIDE."

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VOL. I.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1 848.

NO. 9.

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Air—ILiirr's Missionary Ifyuli. We hoist fair Freedom's standard, On hill and dale it stands,From broad Atlantic’s borders To Oregon’s far lands, Where'er the winds may wander, Where’er the waters roll, Its wide spread folds extending, Shall spread from pole to pole. Tho’ slavery’s frightened forces, May sound their loud alarms, And call their flying squadron:/ To muster up their arms, Tho’ Whigs and Locos falter, And knees of Doughface shake, No “free soil’’ soul ahall tremble, Nor lor slave thunder quake. Tho’ Taylorites and Cassites May jibe and jeer, and limit, With '‘free soil’’ on our banner, We’ll whip the cravens out, “Free soil, free speech” lorever, Shall on our “free Hag” fly, Till mountain and till valley Shall echo back the cry.

X.

For Young Mon.

“Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow,” is a maxim as true as old, and in no country on the face ol the earth is it more applicable than to the young men of these United Stales. With ns those distinctions of caste, so common and so pertinaciously held in the old world, find no place. Men must, in the estimation of the virtuous thinking portion of our community, stand on their own intrinsic merits.— With us the road to honorable distinction is alike open to all. A 1 ! may enter the list—all may run; but none but the dilligentand persevering will obtain.— And it is a remarkable fact, that in other countries, as well as our own, those who have been most distinguished, have, for the most part, been of humble origin, and depended mainly on their own efforts. Virgil, whose strains will never die away, and the fire of whose genius will never be extinguished, was once a poor boy—the son of a poor baker!— Horace was the son of a freed slave— Voltaire of a tax-gatherer—Massillon of a turner—Tamerlane of a shepherd —Benjamin Johnson of a mason— Shakspeare of a butcher—Collins, (the poet,) of a hatter—Beattie of a farmer —Gray of a notary public—/Esop, the Fabulist, was brought from Carthage to Rome, a slave, and afterwards freed —Cincinnatus, of Greece, was a plowman—Ferguson, the Astronomer, once threshed grain for his daily bread—Dr. Clarke was once apprenticed to a linen

The BPcuth of the Dominie,

BY THOMAS HOOP.

“ 'fake him up, says the master. ”

[Old Spelling Book.

My old schoolmaster is dead. He “died of a stroke,” and 1 wonder none of his pupils have ever done the same. 1 have been flogged by many masters, but his rod, like Aaron’s, swallowed all the rest. We have often wished that he whipped on the principle of Italian penmanship—up strokes heavy, down strokes light ; but he did it in English round hand, and we used to think with a very hard [ten. Such was his love of flogging, that for some failure, in English composition, after having been well corrected, 1 have been ordered to be revised. 1 have heard of a road to learning, and he did justice 10 it i we certainly never want a stage in education, without being well horsed.— The mantle of Ur. Busby descended on his shoulders and on ours. There was but one tree on the play-ground— a birch, but it never had a twig nor a leaf upon it. Spring or Summer, it always looked as bare as if the weather had been cutting at the latter end of the year. Pictures they say, are good incentives to learning, and certainly we never got through a page without cuts ; for instance 1 do not recollect a Latin article without a tail-piece. All the Latin at that school might be com-

prised in one line—

“ Anna virumque cano. ” An arm, a man, and a cane. It was Englished to me one day in school hours, when 1 was studying Robinson Crusoe instead of Virgil, by a storm of bamboo that really carried on the illusion, and made me think for a time that J was assaulted by a set of savages. He seemed to consider a boj'as a bear’s cub, and set himself literally to lick him into shape. He was so particularly fond of striking us with a leather strap on the flats of our hands that he never allowed them a day’s rest. There was no such thing as Palm Sunday in our calendar. In one word, he was disinterestedly cruel and used as industriously to strike for nothingas others strike for wages. Some of the elder boys, who had readSmollet. christened him Roderick, from Ins hit-

Gen. Tarylos- at School. The following amusing announcement appears in the New York Mirror, a paper devoted to Gen. Taylor: “The undersigned hss it from the best authority, from a medical gentlemen very closely connected with one of Gen. 'Taylor’s Aids-de-Camp, that the old general is constantly engaged in the study of political economy, as suited to the peculiar position of the United States.” There is enough of the ludicrous in this idaa of General Taylor’s “going lo school,” at his advanced ago, to provoke a smile from the most obstinate partisan. It reminds us strongly of thoso “ schools for adults,” which were once established in England for the education of persons who had unfortunately grown grey in ignorance, and which are so well taken oil’ in the in the inimitable sketches of Thomas Hood. “It seems too whimsical,” says Hood. “ to contemplate fathers and venerable grandfathers, emulating the infant generation, and seeking for instruction in the rudiments. My imagination refuses to picture the hoary

abecedarian,

“ With suichel on his back, and shining morning

fkco,

Creeping like a snail, unwillingly to school.” This picture, notwithstanding, is realized in the present educational position of General Zachary Taylor. We have it from his best friends, that he has been sent to school in politics, that he is now prosecuting studies, with which any dandidate for the Presidency should he conversant from his youth. The dullest mind can fancy Gen. Taylor trembling before his political pedagogue, lisping his first lessons with the timidity ol childhood, and growing more and more confident as truth beams into his beclounded intellect.— There sits Bliss, with unlifted ferule, catechising the “ Old General” into the

Whig creed.

Gen. Taylor, what is Tariff? Gen.—Don’t know, Bliss. Well, my dear Gene raj, the Tariff is hard to define, and we must postpone it until you are farther advanced.

What is a Bank?

A place where they keep money. Bliss.—Right. You may go out and play for fifteen minutes, and I will forward a certificate of scholar-

ship to Gov. Morehead.

The “ old General” accordingly

From the Tribune. ! False Frclciices.

A Good Idea. ^ The Noithampton Courier, an old We hear through channels that on- established whig journal in Massachuable us to state with confidence, that sells, now in the ranks of Free Democthe leading Hunkers of our State me- racy has the following— diate the withdrawal of their Electoral “Kkkh it beforkt/ik Pkopi.f..—The Ticket at the polls, in favor of that ol Hunker whigs make very loud profesthe Regular Democracy, which is | sions of zeal and friendship for Free pledged to Van Buren and Adams, thus j Soil, and claim that their party is the ceasing to distract the Democratic par- especial guardian of freedom and dety, so far as the Presidency is con- fence against ihe extension of slavery, cerned. This is the most sensible The sincerity of their professions is scheme that has entered their heads this! forcibly illustrated by the indisputable season. If they will just make a clean! fact, that the bill establishing the govthing of it, by pitching over their spav-j eminent of Oregon was passed in the ined Slate Ticket as well, and giving Senate by the assistance of every us a fair, old fashioned fight between i northern and two southern Locofoeos

Fish and 1 )ix, Patterson and Gates, they will make the contest close enough to he interesting, and bring out the voters. As they know by this time that the People won’t vote for Cass, and that their only chance is in the House, they may fis well slop their disorganizing, third party nonsense in Massachusetts and Vermont also, making over their scattering votes to the Free Soil Democracy, and thus partially concealing their own weakness. The game is a good one, hut unless played boldly and

thoroughly, it will fail.

If this is true, it is a good example for the Whigs in Maine, New Hampshire, Ohio. &c.,&c., where their “third party nonsense” tends only to exhibit their weakness, and multiply the chanc-

es of their opponents.

To the Point.—The following dialogue occurred in Quincy Market yesterday, between one of our most distinguished rum-sellers, and a somewhat distinguished temperance man : P. B. B.—How d’ye do, brother Free

Soil ?

E.—Well. Howdy’edo? But what do you mean by Free Soil? P. B. B.—I’m going for Free Soil,

ain’t you ?

E.—Why, y-es, but I shall vote for old Zach. He’s the man most to be depended on to carry out Free Soil. P. B. B.—0, he is, is he ? Are you as much of a temperance man as ever?

E.—Certainly.

P. B. B.—And do you want to have temperance measures carried out in the

city as much as ever?

E.—Certainly. What of that?

against the fiercest opposition of every

southern Taylorite!”

ting like Random, and being so partial

to Strap.

His death was characteristic. After: goes out and Major Bliss prepares the

making his will he sent for Mr. Taddy.i following:^

the head usher, and addressed him in 1 Dear Sir,- The old General is althe following words :—“It is all oyer, rnost precocious. He told me to-day,

draper—Samuel Drew was a shoema- Mr. Taddy—lam sinking fast—I ami without stammering or hesitating, what ker—so, we believe, was Roger Sher- going from the terrestrial globe—to the a Bank was. If be progresses at this

man—Dr. Franklin was once a print- celestial—and have promised Temper’s boy—so, also, were John M. Niles, j kins a flogging—mind he has it, and Amos Kendall, Joseph Gales, and Hor- don’t let him pick of the buds—I have

ace Greely. Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Henry Clay, Thomas Ewing, and a great many of our most dis-

asked Aristotle,” (here his bead wandered.) “ and he says, I cannot live an hour—I don’t like that black horse grin-

tinguisbed men were once poor boys, j ning at me—cane him soundly for not

without a college education, and with no means to procure one; yet they despaired not—they complained not, but went to work, and by diligence and perseverance, rose to high stations in so-

ciety.

Henry B. ITanscom, when entering the ministry, was poor, and in the world’s estimation, unlearned—so was Martin Enter, and John 1*. Durbin, and Nathan Bangs, and Bishops McKendree and Roberts—but why multiply cases? It is needless—a man must rise by bis own efforts, if he rise at all.— Then let every young man do something with an honest aim—something of an honest, useful character. Mend shoes, hammer iron, chop wood, make baskets, hoe corn, dig potatoes, maul rails, grub, plow—anything for an honest living; lay off your fine coat, throw away that cigar, get out of the street, roll up your sleeves and go to work.— There are already more preachers than penitents, more doctors than patients; more lawyers that clients, and three times more shopkeepers than necessary. Take care of the stores, there is no particular honor in standing behind the counter, more than standing beside a workbench; and more men proportioned to the whole number engaged, fail in that than any other pursuit in the country. To make a successful merchant, a man must have much brains and more industry, and many boys stuck behind the counters have little of the one and less of the other. Don’t be afraid to work, it will not disgrace or hurt you. Spend your money economically, buy good books, read them closely, study them well, you can always find time for it—commence the practice, keep it up; and you will soon become so much gratified with the attainments you will make, and your thirst for knowledge so much increased, that it will be as pleasant as profitable.— Don’t be discouraged, nor whine and fret over your disadvantages; that will make them no better, and will make you worse. Keep a clear conscience, a cheerful countenance, an honest aim, a steady purpose—“go ahead,” and you are sure of success.—O. Standard.

knowing his verbs—Oantego to, non quod odio habenm—O, Mr. Taddy it’s breaking up with me—the vacation’s coming—there is that black horse again —Dulcis moriens reminiscirur— vve are short of canes—Mr. Taddy. don’t let the school get into disorder when I am gone—I am afraid thro’ my illness— the hoys have gone hack in their flogging—I feel a strange feeling all over me—is the new pupil come ? 1 trust I have done my duty—and have made my will—and left all,” (here his head wandered again,) “ to Mr. Sou ter, the school bookseller—Mr. 'faddy I invite you to my funeral—make the hoys walk in good order—and take care of the crossings. My sight is getting dim —write to Mrs. B. at Margate—and inform her—we break up on the. 21st. The door is left open—I am very cold —where is my ruler gone—1 feel—John light the school lamps—l cannot see a line—O, Mr. Taddy—venit bora—my hour is come—1 am dying—thou art dying—he is dying. We are dying— you are dy .” The voice ceased.

rate, he will he fit to take the Presidency m less than a month. To-morrow 1 will endeavor to impress his mind with the idea of a Tariff. He has a shrinking dread of the word “ SubTreasury,” which is rather suspicious for our purposes. Yours, &c., But, to contemplate this matter in a serious light, what would have been the indignation of that party, if a locoloco had even insinuated a want of qualification in Henry Clay. And yet the same party loudly exults over the humiliating fact that their candidate is now engaged in attaining the rudiments of knowledge, which he should have possessed, in the. highest degree, before presuming to offer himself for the. Presidency.—Baltimore National

Democrat.

A Mother.—There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood; that softens the heart and brings it hack to the feelings of infancy. Who that has suffered, even in advanced life, in sickness and despondency— who that has pined on a weary lied, in the neglect and loneliness of a foreign land—hut has thought of a mother “ that looked on his childhood,” that soothed down his pillow and administered to his helplessness?—O! there isan endearing tenderness in the love of a mother to her son, that transcends all other affections of the heart. It is neither to

He made a feeble motion with his hands

as if he was ruling a copy book—the , - passion strong in death,”—and he chilled by selfishness, nor daunted expired. ( l an » c L nor weakened by vvorthAn epitaph composed by himself,; lessness, nor stilled by ingratitude.— was discovered in his desk—with an ^he w ‘" sacrifice every comfort to his unpublished pamphlet against Tom I convenience; she wdl surrender every Paine. The epitaph was so stuffed pleasure to Jus enjoyment; she will

with qutations from Homer arid Virgil,

glory in his fame, and exult in his pros-

and almost every Greek and Latin au- P er ' l fy; ant * '* adversity overtake him, thor beside, that the mason who W as lie will he dearer to her by misfortune;

consulted by the widow declined to lithograph it under a hundred pounds. The Dominie consequently reposes under no more Latin than Hie Jacet ; and without a single particle of Greek, though he is himself a Long Homer.

Vermont.—Cassis dead in the Green Mountain State, Taylor can't get the electoral vote. If Van Buren does not get a majority over all, there will he no election by the people. The Legislature must then elect, and as there is a majority against Taylor, and as the Free Soil men are for Van Buren and nobody else, the Free Soil ticket must be elected, or none.

and if disgrace settle upon his name she will love and cherish him; and if all the world cast him oflj she will be

all the world to him.

How it Works.—At the commencement of the American Revolution the number of slaves in the thirteen Stales was computed at GO,000—after the lapse ol about GO years the number has increased to 3,000,000. At this rate of increase at the end of the next period of GO years the number of slaves will amount to 15,000,000; a number exceeding that of the whole free population of the United States, as found by the census of 1840. The slaves give to the South now twenty-one representatives, then upon the same ratio, they will give to the slave holder one hundred and twenty-live to one hundred and thirty representatives to Con-

gress.

Has not the time now come, if ever it is to come, when an effectual harrier must he exerted against the future encroachments of slave power. From the Northern Freeman. Hunker Articles. The Tribune recently alleged that the Hunker wire-pullers had under advisement, the project of withdrawing their own electoral ticket and voting for Van Buren in this State, for the purpose of securing New York beyond a doubt to the Buiialo ticket.— This it is calculated would throw the election into the House, where Cass stands the best chance. The Courier and. .Enquirer also re iterated the allegation, and'gave plausible reasons why the project was really and seriously entertained.

The Albany Argus tells a story of an old lady, whose horse run away with her, that very well illustrates the present position of the Taylor and Cass parties in this State. In relating her sensations, she said she felt very much alarmed while dashing over hills and valleys, “but she put her trust in Providence till the britchen broke, and then she did not know what to do.” So with these parties, though very much alarmed at the demonstration made by theother, feltagood share of confidence till the People’s Convention met, and then they found the “frrilchenT was broken, and that their nags were in a fair way to carry them both to perdition.

—Mass. Spy.

Din it a purpose.—An honest old farmer had an unruly hull, which had a remarkable love for him “ in a hbrn,” and a singular penchant for giving his acquaintances and friends a “ lift in the world.” One day the old farmer was driving the hull home, much against his inclination, and getting enraged lie suddenly hoisted the old man across the fence into the road, but fortunately only slightly hurting him. The old man gained his equilibrium, and then lie saw the enraged animal sawing the air with his head and neck, and pawing the ground. The good old man looked steadily at him a moment, and then shaking his fist at him exclaimed: “Cuss your apologies—you need’nt stand there, you tarnal critter a bowing and scrapin’—you did it a purpose,

darn you.”

Most of the leading Taylor men in the North—it was so in Milwaukee when the ball first opened—declared their first preference for President to be Henry Clay. Their love for Mr. Clay reminds us ol’ the affection of a certain woman for her sick husband. The clergyman having called to see him, and unexpectedly found him dead, inquired of the wife the circumstances

attending his last moments.

“ Oh!” said she, “ the poor man kept groaning and groaning, but could’nt die. At last, I recollected that I had got a piece of new tape in the drawer; so I took some of that and tied it as tight as 1 could round his neck, and stopped his nose with my thumb and

. ft B.—Why then, I suppose you ; „ nJ . evel ,. Ounl! pHn n nk a J uial ***’ he 0,1 l,ke

vo 1 e ,or n »*> f* V ’ 2® largest; more or IWs positive. The Trilmnr ‘ Umb ' rum-seller ,n Boston, for Mayor, to however , 0 ' nds wi , h thc fo |, ovving

carry out temperance measures? i c |j lu .| iei . .

A general gullaw and hurrah ran , through the market, in the midst of

A short time after a Tennessee election. a distinguished politician who re-

u iimiivci m uiu (im|ai wi . (Kr 'The True Sun vehemently con-j eeived about 500 votes lor Governor, wWcT. tradicts ou . r s!alem(>nt ,hat tl,e Hunker! was walking the streets of Nashville, mose( l Chronotype. managers in our Mate have incontem- and encountered Monkey Sam, a little 6 ' ^ J plation the concentration of their votes , negro race rider, who importuned him A Coinciienck.—Daniel Webster in on tl1 ? Va !Yj^ un : 1 } electoral ticket, so fora dime. The old gentlemen was

his Marshfield speech, in speaking of

Gen. Taylor, says:

as to keep New York from Taylor and : very aristocratic, and placing himself throw the. election into the House,; uiion his dignity, asked Sam: “Do you

«T Tl-t’l\'r t it,' Tim vfp v MTir'M w ^ iere ^ ass ' s morally sure to succeed. I know who you are talking to, sir ?” —

a ttt? 'no r vit i mi. /'vit i He repeat our assertion, that this plan

ASHE SEEMS TO THINK OF I /Ja, canw/wn/mrifiBg the cdseirM-

ers in our State, and that some, of them

HIMSELF.

Gen. Taylor in his letter to J. R. In-

ge rsojl, says:

have boasted that by it they could secure

Cass's election. ”

“Oh yes, sir,” replied Sam, “you is de gemma.n as made a. sma/Esperimenl for

gov noi

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en. Taylor and the Wilmot Proviso.—The following is an extract from the “Address of the N. Orleans Rough

“IGRLA'l LY DOt B i MY QUAL- p is a matter of no concern to us ; lb IOA I K)jYS to I HSCIIAIUjE I HE but common sense teaches that, were

DUTIES PROPERLY, of an office the siory a wholesale fabrication, it was and Ready Club to the people of Louiswhieh was filled by a Washington, a unworthy the formal arid serious at- iana,” just issued by the friends of TayJelferson, as well as several others of tempts at refutation which it. has called lor in New Orleans: thc purest, wisest and most, aceofn- forlli. ' ‘ As regards the Wilmot Proviso, ?/;« plished statesmen and patriots, ol this! i need not remind you t/uit, being himself or any other age or country.” Highly Important ! —The A than v ! slave-holder, a native of Virginia,

Argus says that tho hunker electoral

a citizen o f Louisiana, with every feeling and interest identified with us, we hay e nothing to fear; in him will WE EVER FIND THE FIRM DEFENDER OF

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The Wisconsin Barn burner says, that ticket, in this State, will not be dropped. at a meeting ol the citizens ol all par- This assertion of the Argus is indorsed ties at Prairie du Lac, on the 14th inst., ( by one of Cave Johnson’s Post-masters ! alter a lull discussion by Messrs. Par-j at Albany--a Mr. Wasson. So that those rights. ker, Woodle, 1 lodsen, Col ver, and oth-j the Tribune was mistaken in its remark '

ers, the following was unanimously ) that the hunker ticket would he ahan-i “Free Silk.”—A big Hoosier wagon adopted: doned. The free soil papers will oblige appeared in our streets yesterday, with Whereas, Gen. Cass lias no show for ! riy publishing this statement, so that it ^ic words, “b rec Soil in large letters

an election, and Gen. Taylor ought not may he generally known, and that the to have; therefore, j few Cass men in the State may have

upon the side. The driver, a sturdy old fellow, being asked if lie was a Cass

Uesohrd, That this meeting, this an opportunity of proving, after the' man, poinledsignificautly tothe motto, town, this county, and this State go for| f Iecllon ,s . over > ,hat thc "' rind ( sa '^ ^ go trial and nothing else. Martin Van Buren and Charles F. Ad- rieen runnimr. We don’t want anv ad-! -1 here isn t much else but free sile in

ams.

don’t want any ad-,

vantage in this contest. We want to ,li ese diggins.—U/mv/go Tribune.

, say, after the election is over, that we I ' 7* Southern Testimony.—“ The whigs have beaten our opponents. But if Git AN D Sentiment.—“It is no longer at the North affirm that General Tay-j they are allowed to swear that their! h: ' nks ; md tanlls which are to occupy

lor is in favor of the Wilmot proviso. ‘ candidate did not enter the race, we Every body in Louisiana KNOWS I couldn't crow any over a victory, that Gen. Taylor cannot he in favor of [N. 1. Globe.

any doctrine or measure which would Write Lepoihly.—A clergyman in Massachusetts, more than a century

afford the slightest countenance to the machinations of the abolitionists be-

llow Consistent.—The Whigs are in agonies lest Liberty men should vote lor Mr. Van Buren, pledged as he was in 1836 against the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. Look here, gentlemen; in 1841, Gen. Harrison reiterated the same pledge in his Inaugural Address after his election, that Mr. Van Buren gave notice of in advance; and where is the whig that condemned him for the act? We pause

for a reply.

cause he is the owner of atleast TWO, ago, addressed a letter to the General HUNDRED SLAVES, which he i Court on some subject of interest that WORKS on two plantations, one in was under discussion. The clerk read Louisiana and the other in Mississippi,! the letter, in which was this remarkaand not long since he added to their i ble sentence : “1 address you not as force by PURCHASING A CONSlD- magistrates, but as Indian deals. ” The ERABLE NUMBER of NEGROES clerk hesitated, looked carefully and from New Orleans. ^0 It would be said—“yes, he addresses you as Indian strange indeed, if Gen. Taylor under deviisN The wrath of the honorable such circumstances, could be so far body was aroused, and they passed a forgetful of the safety of his property vote of censure, and wrote to the revand that of his family, as to aid the erend gentleman for an explanation ; enemies of the South.”—New Orleans from which it appeared that he did not Courier, a Taylor Paper. address them as magistrates, but as in-

dividuals !

Cooper in Trouble.—A clergyunan in Albany named Tiffany, has sued Fennimore Cooper for slander, in calling him a liar and a scoundrel, and unfit to preach. Fennimore has put in pleas, justifying his charges.

the foremost place in our discussions, and to give their tone, sounding always with the chink of dollars and cents, to the policy of thc country. Henceforth, PROTECTION TO MAN shall he the true AMERICA N SYSTEM.”— Chas.

Sumner, in Faneuil Hall.

Massachusetts.—We think thisState certain for Van Buren. He will lead Taylor, and if it devolves on the Legislature to elect, he stands the best

chance.— Wis. Barnburner.

Anti-Taylor Wit.—The Boston Republican, in noticing the attempt of the Taylor press to make out Gen. Taylor’s letters forgeries, exclaims: “What an idea, that any body should undertake to forge letters on Gen. Taylor! His worst enemies can only wish that he may keep on writing genuine ones.” Betting.—The N. Y. Courier & Enquirer, says that Mr. A t an Buren will not obtain a single vote in any State. The Evening Post offers to pay the Courier $10,000, if it in return will lay down $1,000 for every electoral vote which Mr. Van Buren may ol - tain. Mr. Van has a chance of obtaining 36 in that State at least.