Liberty Herald, Volume 3, Number 10, Plymouth, Marshall County, 16 March 1854 — Page 1

S I: 1 ;. J i J

T LIBERTY, IA., TMIFlIfX: ft f

APPLETON & CASTERLIN E At $1,50, tajiille in ndvnuce.

Rates of Advertising. TRANSIENT ADVERTISING. First insertion, per line, 5 cts. Each additional insertion 2 1/2 Thirty-three per cent discount will be made to those who advertise by the quarter. Circuit and Common Fleas Court, Administration and other Legal Notices, must be paid in advance or amply secured. In no case will we await the issue of a suit for the printers fees. Attorneys will be held responsible for the legal advertising ordered by them. when a small alteration is made in an advertisement, twenty-five cents will be charged; and if the alteration be considerable, double the compositor's fee. Announcing candidates for office of every description, $1 to subscribers, $2 to those who are not-payment incariably in advance. Advertisements not marked on the copy for a specified number of insertions, will be continued until ordered out, and payment required accordingly, unless they refere to a definite date, when they will be inserted to that date. If marked "till forbid," they will, of course, be instered until ordered out, at the usual rates. All advertisements from strangers or transient persons to be paid in advance. Special Notices, Puffs and Communications designed to promote private interests, will be charged $1 per square for each insertion. Marriages and Deaths are announced gratuitously. No advertisement inserted without compensation. APPLETON & CASTERLINE, Poetry For the Union Herald. A TRIBUTE. Inscribed for the bereaved friends, of Miss Addie E. Smith. That grave so fresh and lonely, What sleeper resteth there; Where the moon is sadly casting, Her beams all pale and fair? The breezes softly whisper, A loved one sleepeth here, A sacred trust, a holy. All bathed in sorrow's tear. We linger here to guard it, To breathe our peaceful lay; The sere leaves round it falling, We bear them all away;'Tis a hallowed shrine, a holy, Where grief may fondly stay, Yearning for one sweet vision, Of the pale, but precious clay. That home but late so cheerful, Dark sorrow broodeth there; The star that gave it brightness, And smiled away each care, In other home it beameth, And the ear may list in vain, For the song of winning gladness, The happy, gushing strain. A vacant seat still waiteth, Within yon Classic Had, But ne'er that willing footstep, Upon the ear may fall;Ne'er from the crystal fountain, Of pure, unfathomed lore, The large, the gifted spirit, May drink and thirst for more. Dark-dark the pall that shroudeth The tearful, thorny vale, Yet music soft, etherial, Like harp Eolian wail; Comes stealing o'er the spirit, While Hope, bright Hope appears. To lume the dark'ned vision, To wipe the falling tsars. Though pass'd from earthly vision 'Tis bless'd to feel her near; To clasp with holier yearning A name to memory dear;Step gently, ye who gather Around this hallowed shrine, To plant your fadeless emblems, Of the strong, the gifted mind, And leave your sacred tokens, For holier love to rear; For hearts in anguish bleeding, O'er the precious sleeper near;A broken band a stricken, Will bless your pledges fair, O'er them, the warm tear gushing. They'll live in beauty there. Oxford, Ohio. E. T. K. By request. TO A FEMALE FRIEND. O may thy virtuous soul disdain, The transient sport of this vain world, And all that causes grief and pain, lie from thy thoughts foreves hurl'd, May friendship's dearest ties entwine, Themselves around thy candid heart; May those affections e're be thine, Which neither life nor death can part. Franklin says, "A poor man must work to find meat for his stomach; a rich one to find a stomach for his meat." "ALL IS FOR THE BEST." --Dr. Johnson used to say that a habit of looking at the best side of every event s better than a thousand pounds a year. Bishop Hall quaintly remarks, "for every bad there might be a worse, and when a man breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck!'' When Fenelon's library was on fire, 'God bb praised,' he exclaimed, 'that it is not the dwelling of some poor man!' This is the true spirit of submission-one of the most beautiful traits that can possess the human heart. Resolve to see this world on its sunny side, and you have almost half won the battle of life at the outset.

Communications.

For the Union Herald. Objections to a Prohibitory Law. No. 2. In the last issue of the Herald appeared the first of a series of letters on the above subject, which was prefaced with a single case of the evils of intemperance -one amount thousands-which might be selected from the pages of history, written in letters of blood; and deeply engraven upon the hearts of many, not to be effaced by the touches of time. In that article the charge was made, that the people sanctioned these foul deeds and heartrending evils, which flow from th:s prolific source of crime; and the way in which they sanctioned it was also intimated, namely, at the Ballot Box. However grave and serious the charge may appear to some, it was not made without reflection, nor without being fully convinced of its truth. For the platform which I there laid down, If true, (and I court investigation) will always, under our form of government, lead us to that conclu sion: viz: ' That which the people condemns, can not exist.' There may be a few, after having witnessed for a series of years, the very ineffectual restraints of legislation which have been brought to bear upon this mat-ter-that have almost come to the conclusion that the evils complained of, are not within the purview of government; and can not be effectually controlled. If there be such, we have only to remind them of the positive declarations of the Word of God-'That His word has gone forth, and shall not return unto Him void that the time is to come, when unrighteousness and sin shall be banished from the earth; and universal peace shall reign, from the rising to the setting of the sun.' And that, in accomplishing this great work we learn that man is honored in the hands of his Creator, of being instrumental in its attainment. These facts are readily granted by all, and right here arises in the minds of some, that which is considered and used as an insuperable objection, to the enactment of a Prohibition Law, on the subject of intemperence; namely, that we must "use moral suasion." In answer to this first great objection, permit me to say once for all-that, for the reformation of the inebriate, and restoration to society of the fallen and depraved sot, as Temperance men, we never expect to use any thing else. As christians and Philanthropists, we fully believe, that 'moral suasion' is the fulcrum, upon which must revolve the great lever of Reform, in this, as well as all other great subjects, connected with our present or furture welfare, and as such, we repudiate and renounce any and all other principles. But to talk of bringing 'moral suasion' to bear upon that particular class of person for whom it is desired is idle in the extreme. Or even upon confirmed inebriates, while under the influence of this "theif that has entered into the mouth, and stole away the brains." You might as well talk of bringing 'moral suasion' to bear upon the starving Hyena, in the act of pouncing upon his victim, or the deadly rattle-snake having already assumed the fatal coil, and given the death signal-as to think of reaching a man, who, in the face of the deeply heartrending evidences of the iniquity of his business-will engage in dealing out this liquid damnation to his fellow men-with the sole object of making money. Such men are dead to the claims of humanity and religioni; and if they yet have any conscience at all-their animal natures so greatly preponderates, that it can not be reached, with even tears of blood! The lives of such men, are a living comment upon their own unmitigated villainy-a bane to society, the enemy of god and manthey move about a mass of filty corrup-tion-without God and without hope in the world. They generally die a premature death, unwept, and fill the dark and gloomy drunkards grave! For such we ask 'legal suasion.' Hence our motto is, "moral suasion for the drunkard, and legal suasion for the drunkard maker." Temperance men only ask and desire, that their rights be respected, and protected by our Legislature, in common with that of the whiskey seller- for be it known unto you, that they have rights(I mean ought to have,) such as being permitted to educate and raise their chilren, without having them murdered before their eyes-and that according to Law,-if not out-right-in that way which is even worse-in the gradual manner

given in the first article on this subject.

But it is said they have a redress. Yes, and the redress-so called-is only adding insult to an already irrepairable injury. do you ask what it is? Go read your Revised Statute, and see the value that our Legislature has set as the price of blood! of ruined hopes, and blighted prospects of your childrent-and called it wisdom! O, let wisdom blush and hide her head with very shame, when such atrocious deeds are done in her fair name. And you, my fellow-citizens, before you cast another vote at the Ballot Box, which shall effect in some degree, the interests of every man, woman and child in Indi-ana-do you consider this matter well.Think not to escape this question. Politicians and doughfaced parties have been trying to doge this matter for a long time, but now the tug of ware has come, when "Greek must meet Greek"-it can not, longer be evaded-you either vote for it-or against it. The next objection which we will notice as, it follows as a matter of course, is, "that this is a 'moral question,' and we should not mix it with the muddy waters of Politics." What a subterfuge!Now, Dr. let us thinks a moment, of this second great objection. What is Poltics? May it not very properly be definited, moral action compounded? What else are politics, than the actions of 'moral agents,' combined, and systematiized, and so concentrated, as to operate in their results, in the enactment of laws, for the protection of the whole? Hence, Politics, after all becomes, and is in fact, a 'moral question' itself. And those champions of rum, who use the above objection, manifest a degree of knavery or stupidity, by no means to be envied or coveted. And how differently too, do these fellows talk now, from that of other days, when the license system was in its full blaze of glory amoung us. When a temperance man, or a deeply injured wife and mother, when to those legal murderers, with all the power of 'moral suasion'-they were refered, with all the pomposity and independence of a Nabob, to the Law that this was no 'moral question,' but one of legal rights-a question of Politicsand now that we have concluded, in this particular to take their advise, what a 'change has come o'er the spirit of their dream.' I must crave your indulgence, before closing this letter, in telling a little anecdote, which a friend at my elbow has suggested, which very appopriately illustrates the position of our disconcerted opposers, as the present time. It is that of a slave who was sent by his master with a very fine pig enclosed in a bag, as a present to a special friend. on his way, he had to pass one of these rum holes. Whereupon it was agreed by those present, to have a little bit of fun at the expense of the poor slave. Accordingly the pig was clandestinely removed from the bag, and the young pup as secretly placed in its stead. After restin a while at the doggery, and possibly wetting his whistle a little, as do very many of our opposers-he shouldered his burden and trudged onward-big with the message and his masters compliments, to be delivered with his fine pig. But which, when turned out of the bag, to his great surprise was not a pig, but a pup. Of course he was immediately sent back with a view of clearing up the matter, and on his return, passed as a matter of course by the same grocery. While tellin of his tale of disappointment-as clandestinely as before, the pup was taken for the bag and the pig replaced. But what was his inexpressible surprise upon arriving at home, and telling his tale of wo, when upon opening the bag, out came the veritable pig itself! When he gave vent to his feelings by exclaiming, "bress de Lord, him boph pig and pup." So with the objectors, this question with them seems to be both "pig and pup."It was first a "Political question" - and now not a "Political question" at all, but a "moral question." NAVILLUS (to be continued) For the Herald. Dunlapsville; March 3rd, 1854 Mr. Editor: -- I did not anticipate with the "wildest vagaries" of my imaginaination, a biographical sketch as so early a period of mn life. It is somewhat congratulating that such is the case, and it should be esteemed fortunate for any one, in thus being afforded the precious opportunity of finding out how their qualitities and opinoin are appreciated by others. I feel that I am peculiarly blessed, and

earnestly hope that I may be profited there by. I am told in the first place of my harsh and vindictive style of commu- nicating,--that the jist of my controversy is against religious literature, and the church, and that it is apparent from my writings that ideas of reform are crowdof reform are crowdin my brain to great extremes of precipitancy, and in the effort to be relieved of from some errors, I am in danger of being drivien into the fields of while incoherent speculation, doubt, mission, and hypothefields of wild coherent and hypothe- sis, where rationalization, truth, morals, and practical utilitiy have neitherfounda- tion, sheer circumference or center, and mental and moral sentiments will become a prey to all the wild vagaries of uncertainty and deception, that haunt the unhappy victim of the unhallowed phan- Alas! grattions of scepticism and unbelief." r words are inadequate to express the gratto express itutde I should feel in being thus kindly apprized of those while fields of mission

hope

,!t...

and hypothesis, the refuge of those who and the are victims to the unhallowed phantoms If this be

of striving to b? rtliered of error, inco - herent speculation iti ! !. B:t t !;-a t is not all, I om wanted further more, of ihf error, descried l-y d::reil tmigiiat"on upon the h'hwars td' l,o ijubr.n, gJ:o,t, and spectres of intudcn d U;co:i', and cauiioncd of bulling from salutirjr restraint, and knotk'n out tho ccntc-r pin of the reformatory apparatus, and John Gilpin like undertaking to outride the world, in racing down error. Wish all pIX - raring and tautit.tts tlv-intil to bnirftt the crowds, d condition of tl.e brain together with the fijftnna:c circumstance of our location wejdiouh! re jo'cc wish exceeding great joy, fat it su that we are doubly bit -s-scd Faio-t-J a we are in l.ieg so n ar Dunl ipsriUe, which has become as wa are verity told the Athens of happy, proud Ambries, it darkness of error Lt-ing d'sH Ued, bv the glowing and sparkling illum'nation of a new rrr given in tiie fulness of time, to the constellation of moral science, h transcendent ray of Pght permitting Ihe beams of pure philosophy to shine upon uv Yet wo are not ytir?'.-icntlv Jdcssr-tl. Ik hold a star lias arisen in the tast, gKt. tenng and sparkling in etherial purity to gu.de us in our " Mossed, improved and elevated" condition and graciously wurn . e . i. l . . . i ii--. ...... . . i us oi utu iiuugum.ii, giius's, rtnu spectre that haunts the souls hal!tat'o;i of ti u- ? vho resolve in tlr: sacred asp'tation of Ihe heart to do battle rgiinst error and trrong. So graphically is the- ;host searing scene depicted by th s promising orb of the cast that a disiorh d imagination tan fancy they almost hear the chattering talk of grim spectres slwrcriug in the dark n;ght winds of error nnd s hk rstititm Horrifying and frighifui b. y( r. 1 de-' .'.tinrt is uroMo awaiting t!ioi who ' go .Id with prog rj'n, and Ixdt f.om the salut.try restraints of tlaetry, knock out tha center pin of sectarianism, and kirk- into the dust tho prinrij It s of war. They are fcolled nt, persecuted end denounced as heretics, opposed to religious littcrature, Christianity, end the bible and are bound to tl.o slake of itJhUlittt the lagots of scepticism applied and then burned to death with 'die rtlig'ou fin' of pious revenge. But why this unhallowed pcturo of hobgoblins m l ghosts? Why should it be applied to my communication? Becausa it denounced sins embodied in tho chunk. Ti.'s daring net w a-? sunicii nt indication of my wi'Jfttss, ti'.i'i that I was s:ra)utg to the in -o;,t n r;f ir'i'Js of doubt and mistioii, where truth and morals have neither foundation, sheer, circumference or center, !. r.so the terrifying scene was ortraycJ to act t s a sabttiiry rrttruint. Now I ant rot so easily actuated by A ar as Doctor Cat' tline migfit hopef.dly supje, an! it is a liitle unforlunate for those ccnlrrtd. cirttirnfereuced friiu'tdis of f.il,-' purity of fouiuhu'oti he would very gravely infer he oossessed, that he f.i !od in Ibis scaratire remarks to produce a r' ti men's in their favor. Vhanhnmagcri.t 1 may have its influence, yaM'a.stYiJ w h'ms their impression, and an nbracaJat r,t its controlo of th-J mind, but at this ge ol the world we must have something nsoto rca"r.&blct more rational than thcet to jl.u. and govern tue tiiouvcs o! men. Tho mind of nun vibrating in deep commotion, wiih lovo and philanthropy its liugh billows surging on.1 fiiaking the world, agitated 1 y sut !i p.r.:s as a Harriet Becchcr Ftowe, Thcodoro Pa;kc r, and Henry Ward lleceher, must 1 i e something moro real more tubs'antial f r religion, than ti.o dreams of by poi'.a d s with the tccursod institution of tlar 'y, intemperance) war and tfrtaraniVfli. -If

f " . i - i . r ; it r,t n. r,- uMif !!'.'' !. t 'i cr t " fi'c t ' h; --id to ii -. :-J !. .! t- .ri '!i ' r Lv ri" ; v.r! c Z i" t l' a ii v 1 1 I f " . f . S f , - ' t. T I 1 t f i : , r i ." jt ; , vo c. r ,-'o: ti I! i I I t" T ! ' ' i ! -': : J f' 'rr ! M h J 1 r.f t If : it 1 t : iI : i . , t ln' - 'umnt tatl htl. I i -.f.,!l m do rV'. v j cbrjtian in tVr; ss f.- .; " hep; c.f : J GihI sipnJ side bv '," U f.'.?!4 to n-move ii. - t l.tj 11 ! . ! I v. : ; f ' - r. ?. s an i'r ' !'acry from ih- c!. .:.. t" !op with tho church i t 1 i . ! v ' thus inik"ng mock a k ! the d.xtiints t f (SI.: ',ifi!i curse that I am hyy!.-c ti. lk-n, jet fay t. of the el, urch ah r si. i;;ai.Si-n If 1 1 t f t!a se w ar masmg, t . ji. ing CfHirthc are ii.T.'i:- ;. cluistianity, the Ioid l v n s"nncrs, Th ehurch c'i".- r trlnc of chfit t-Jt iti f . -. Ii -cepta and txarr.idcs. i i1 -A would da un'.a a!! nen a the ru to do ti-i'j us is its fiitdi i - b uwr. aiul yet w ith the d- '. .. t f . ,'. la.rnr.g us h--h folv .o,i : ii V, fellow I ! in a' j- ct fin, rv ft.' d'scouragirg eidt r ;e cf w f.'C.i Si.'iv' ever a l if Oi"mankind If ih? f?..-'t x; .! I '. ." gum jit ran prevail ia do'.-g .-J i y ' case &t all, excu t. I) t if I . g-st lis application to l!,." rtfr; rr tf sJaveholding church- 1.. think the ui.ti $ of si.c'i tif rrn n a'd : i . .. . i nave inesr una-r.ni! J "lo'iu'.nm itre amc:ian In the v',t a-. I f haunted tt;h l orrii" J .! ; ar.t . " t goMlns feelingg!:of, and cir , of c b:uku It f a ', ii, 1 a2 O J I sous. t IUKo;i and e!jfiI as tht ti!.l powers t f re : rr i Lt i'-c fi'o! Mi 1 mc-eli'r'i I r!.i : ( whit ?', : cal, as to th.-dr uv-T-y. I J j w ii not feci under ;.' S jv.'.-a tf s,-. to contend t r to frl'.'c t an ci !a if my credulity oi th- ,"r ht I if. J: ii 1h d.'.scottre d ffii j-,r rr msrk j. i SO 'U I-. Si'ete in chsc-lute p cs c if it be true that to i l.zr C (l.nrc jf.,i' pro-rej'i-n ha tct:i"i.'r I t : rt .. opetativc in jour cue Voa t i ; in for rtf. rni', but w 't to r:. : .. t'.. inoap that will teevt d t! s1. U ch'.!rth A 'orr 7, r .ii-nxl c. rurr.trllifig ebonh t' ! sr. 1 1 -, can Ik : kii i; an-. :.:.! t.i1 U.s:T.s"t o;s,cr t.ic i 1 ,,I ' t t w ' S i be pro!iing"d til! tl;" cI.s ihe tiiiiUr:ntum w .ii h. . , ..c J. ?L STAN ru Tu. C.MTrst-!, JIb; Yoa r so doiiht, already awara, that I ttiy :i wrile f'f " the ptjjvrs, for c:,q or iro tt-iy pHi.l rr trsn. 1'irat, for ihc mint nf capability and 'cr.n!, flr ih wtnt tf matter that oy! J at a'f tttcrcst she re adi;;g public. Bo! there has cf h:e len a subject agitate.?, r.J i r.aw Vc'r i:ated in our County ar.ti 5itr, thxt f.o..?v C5d foith a puLIc cx;wr;"o:i fori t ,-ty tiu'j hncr of Wnarntj; namly, a jt fiibiiifry Uqv&r Lit. When intetr pCMnee Is ttalklr- a? -rc-ivl all over our c-'hrrw e lotcjr t4 i land, when man i' - X 1 we re I. - d 'i t st:d gTicro-f Icf! :u . a". ! c n : 'e ', w h v one ' j -o; .r tra'.' d f. 1 r., fxJ I v i J- s t . cr.: . wl c i we s a ti 3 l :-i ei.'" t) ; ,a 1 t c 1 1 e c ep t c -i i I i ; 'i i'j J 'j t ', I. r din & V m .... , k . ft j, s I. I f t c a-I r t-r cf r tr" r" t i p f ' I : ! it-1 , r : IT ! iff

y r

t

1 t V 1 1 ' T I. i ', i t; t. i r ; a- ! ; t .it t x a i i i X' J ti ' - ' i l y v i: I U' a - t ! i ! tic, i 4. jf 1 t ..-: 4 i :t t t , ' , .r r :. 1 1 e j" i ; 4 : . : - j . V . A '1 v l'!l t O Si 'I t:c i y ' c '""(. I . v , 1 t'c I 1 C i she t c i ' t x C I I 1 A MV J