American Freeman (Newspaper) - September 15, 1847, Prairieville, Wisconsin FREEMAN o VOL 3 DEVOTED TO LIBERTY POLITICS TEMPERANCE EDUCATION AGRICULTURE MECHANIC ARTS AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE WAUKESHA WISCONSIN WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 15 1847 NO 45 FREEMAN CO BACON THIRD TERMS year if paid in advance or within three months otherwise canM m for three wiH be All and remittances tout the Post Office must PAIP rci 1 j It Co POLITICAL SHALL WE DO WITH IT The of occupation of the Mexican capital for the present on a very slight Yel lhal event has not been al alt doubtful sinca tle of Gordo A repulse would ensure it We have given up the matter I certain since that deplorable The only that could prevent it was a previous negotiation for peace and for our government seems lu waited till its patience only gave assurance to enemy There is therefore no doubt thai Scoli cither has taken or will take Ihu cap- ital of the Aztecs Mexico is in our power Tin only question is what shall we do with il 1 he answer would be very if our were a monarchy in form Bul lo such a republic as ours il is a very ferent thing We take thai for which ihu war and go aboul our for no knows whal that is The governmental functional it's whom we have been very n la Anna whom we past for thai ex- not make peace us for if they hxd any such disposition they would have il before lhat was We plunder the of every thing valuable and i bring il home because we me u republic We have no king to play I rogue io lhal manner and are Dot quite aud independent enough to du it- The public sentiment would nut yel permit them lo do that though il would be consistent with the old man discipline to do it thing will he lo make peace and to end he will have lo make ment nol a difficult operation in Of course with a government we can make pace on our own Mich j a peace wilt ba submitted lo peaceably throughout Mexico is inconsistent wuh the I fact that peace has thus far been j refused by nearly nil Mexico Il is j not possible lhat such a peace can be ob- served after cur bucks are turned Il will only 11 bile we enforce is just as il has existed while we have been conquering il wt are to have wilh Mexico thus dictated we the spectacle of a republic thai dis- cards standing armies supporting iwo or three to enforce a foreign this lime probably not a short one in which we shall bj enforcing peace in Mexico we may he enjoying a slice more or lest of Mexican territory on i the annexation plan But us there must In an end of our military pence cither hy w is not lo bo hoped or hy j thorough conquest and subjection of conquered territory the question uf may as well al unco This ii a quite different question Irom Ibat j of annexation of Texas for lhat try else than n wilderness Austin and bis liisi set their feet ir it U has towns much less ties But the moment wo annex tlie whole or any purl of settled country what shall we do with population sign them in our Shall we them as we did people we them and make them This might answer if we had taken them forty years ngo but for lust twenty years people of have been in relations wholly incompatible wilh our southern institutions mixed tion been free and equal in political rights The Iwo races which our ern statesmen Cloy and Calhoun assert can never live together on terms of equal i- iv are there doing no Are free Indians and free us well us the of Spaniards to be admitted lo our chip It is or exterminating probably I The only plan which possibly lhal Ibe colored Mexico shall be us a tion for the admission of Mexican Stales into our free and glorious Union How operation will be effected by what co-operation on part of the rent of the civilized world is not for us to soy We he of a steam guillotine to cat off of all the Mexican races without leaving a greaser or a grease spot of the whole of them would be n much more feasible plan for it must be bered that before n mart can be enslaved he and before the and could be all locked over and thoroughly combed out last day would come If admit Mexican to our Union without tuch preparation they catch or we are They may make what they restoration of fugitive slaves for such Stales but it will bo waste paper Mexican population will absorb ways like a sponge The lately of slave property in a country out of the Only labor can be there and only from free can there now frae are Such and complicated is the tion we lo do wilh Mexico now bava got U If the do not curM their stars lhat they ever urged army across the we will consent to be put in any corner of Bedlam which they may select If we their opal enemy we could not wish them than they have bid up But we are hot and though we Ibat will be than promoted by war for iis wo the which it is cost not only the South but he whole ROCK COUNTY LIBERTY CON- VENTION The above Convention met at Janesville on 1st day of September ding to previous notice The following is B list of delegates present from the ferent towns A L Hawel A A Wood Cyrus A James Peck John fll Daniells John Wallace Crane Janesville Joseph Spalding Alien Woodle Ml Anson Dickenson Phineas Arnn Kcv Khen Childs Joseph Dean Foot Cushman Codding On motion Thomas of Beloit was called to the and K P Crane chosen Secretary The following dates were then nominated to he ed the election For of of Joseph Spalding Woodle of villu Thomas Tuttle of Be- loit Clerk of Board of ion Jacob Cuxhman of Rock County Joseph Dean On motion That this tion of the of I D kee and as to t tit of of to Congress THUS H P Crime Sue We thank friend Wright for so just a and so well laid on Tlie reader must not fail to rend the ing We hardly prepared to believe our own senses when wt read the of as seen below is the arch of this world Did he always stand out in his own drapery of sable and soot thero would be trouble with hnn he takes the of of spirituality even of freedom anil liberality is one certain of hisi presence Jt is the At dial sail bourn all inan erase there un- the bow lets fall the battle and j weeps with J full heart over the brother laid in his long sleep eyed bends over collin tiers all deeds and and for- i gives ill ones But there i- that comes wilh nnd lips plucks aside this winding sheet every j scar mill del and spurns collin vi ith ii ol That is No il clothed in the ol the fi must j ii Ji liend that kindled till the da JLS and j livid mul invented all screws thai have jet been used in the surd woik ot making all men think alike i To HO foul a fiend is not a ant task for a tine summer's day in lie j year Hut it may bo a tusk winch one can not null a gond I We have n on hand to-day The i public generally lire well the i late Amos A Phelps was uf the most practical working men that the movement has called him more than to any il ii that facts luken possession of every corner of the tree If ho hnd never vanl or written n himself this would be true had a faculty of mid setting at Did any document appear It was by hit toil ami energy thai a copy of it placed before every leading mind in the country It was by his that 1 any and body was j 11 fof the of great subject ha wrote and spoke j much and himself lie was prudent and wise in this but no He never lacked courtesy or bul no man can say thai he ever concealed the j of truth He gave up for stave a in Uis tinn which high as thai of any bi's of his in the tie stood hy of such men us Garrison anil and Thompson and Aithur Tappan when public indignation and ly clamor were holiest against Aud he never breathed the thought that there was any merit in thit He never ed of his ut Bul he never up his religious faith Ilu was n faithful man and peculiarly hopeful Cut he was by religion ists of his und uncompromising as he wos in rebuking them he never gave up their forms of doctrine He was an ortho- dox minister with a mind liberal enough ami n heart to work in a good wilh Unitarians Infidels or any body Vet he dilit red with of his laborers as to proper mode of ing the American Anti-Slavery Society he was right or wrong in that difference is not 4 of any moment to onr present point He took one side and Garrison and took the opposite on several questions more or lau connected with abolitionism but nol to of it The general opinion come to be that there lome wrong and some right on both The difference in the of two anti-slavery societies in- stead of one Mr though much of the time since earning in spite of erty and proscription his bread by pro labor never abated his zeal in anti-slavery cause At very time he was deriving support flam the orthodox he was dealing more powerfully and faithfully than any other man wilh great orthodox idol the American Board of ers for Foreign Indeed those of all other who best knew him may be if lied on to testify that no man ever more plainly consulted his of duty rather than his interests in all lhat he did But supposing he had yielded to his pressing necessities to wayward sions to his instilled His reer is closed and his enemies might be expected to be at pence with him Not so the Liberator under the editorial cure of Edmund Quincy Etq who claims to be a scholar and n gentleman and of course is not of the Roman maxim mortuia nil bonum Thai noticing death of Mr Phelps gives qualified praise for his career up to and closes thus We need nol recapitulate the events of ihm disgraceful period or pail he look in them Verily he had his reward Ha no doubt in some degree believed the of his clerical brethren that if Garrison and his crew were discarded they were ready lo come in and make anti- slavery and respectable He did the work of him and found despised and neglected for his pains by very men who appointed him his task He losl his self respect and the respect of Ins old associates who he knew had been his Ir je friends and he gained only contempt and neglect of the men he wished to conciliate tie was never for- given hy the of his sect for his cirly fidelity nnd he remained a man to end of life Poor he had treatment no- worse lie deserved but not al hands lie had the Fiee Church in the Marlboro Chapel a very subordinate situation for a few months and was insulted at ils by the most ister of his denomination in Boston He was afterwards appointed to feed swine ol his as minister al large sunk lo be editor of the American the Foreign Reporter at New York and were nut enough ended life Could woise fin lull Keillor of the Kra M Washington Hi is put down in the of as having died cf pulmonary consumption but if the seeds of his disease could bu ced to their origin we believe they would be found to have laken rool in those long He sensibility enough anii knew the value of personal honor He felt loss of the he had for- and was conscious that he had de- served iho loss of the good opinion upon which those friendships were Audio lose il all for His con- science was nol of so robust a complexion us that of some of his compeers nnd these things preyed upon his soul We believe they shortened his life Had he been an abolitionist or had he remained we no he would have been sull in midst of life His fate was a one but not without its of E Quincy Esq I noble and gentle the well descended I nnd the man who writes anti- slavery articles in a England palace and lives on the of money earned by bis ancestors For He upon whose coflin you thus spit your ly venom worked his passage and paid his in which you will bly never do lie might by flattery anil fawning have kept certain valuable shins bul il is considered iu he could differ from jour Holiness mid yet he It is I possible lhat he did nol afterwards get the special favors of his old friends ihu bard Dr Andersons because he would nol flatter them It is in short that lie was an independent and j honest man This being the case thing bul black bigotry be- besl ami weeps over his grave Had your anti-slavery ness his funeral and thrown street on his coffin it would not have been more shocking to every right-minded son than the base and dastardly tions which you have thrown upon his fair fame and through thai upon fair fame of every anti-slavery man and man bolh of the organization and the old We are unfeignedly sorry to SCR the shame of such narrowness of soul and abominable bigotry resting upon any mortal But as a man a journalist an abolitionist and a friend of deceased we could not refuse this to have it rest where it belongs So far as Mr Quincy is con- cerned it appears that death is to be no termination of unhappy feud between old and new organization but lo the last sand of eternity men who presumed to direct a machine the Emancipator result of own oil and money are to be pursued by advocates of highest wilh charge of having stolen it because could nol count noses against a load of Boston abolitionists There is this in in thin intolerance is now confined lo or three persons NEW IN YELLOW FEVER TIME olent of life in New Orleans you find blank Here you see a solitary citizen who through his business is obliged to remain tugging at his and another who from or potUi occupation after him in the name that a polls his load The vee is and tbe forests of masts thai skirled it have dwindled down to most nothing The that in the Winter tima were filled wilh all sorts of happy joyous persons aro now si most and in tact the whole appearance of our city is sadly against the prevalence of health It is useless to conceal tlie fact are now in very centre of an O Delta 14th ult a contrast it makes lo j compare our city the time wilh what it U io the Winter One may look upon populous streets that during other are crowded wilh brave the beautiful and ble and yet now could scarcely find thing lo relieve trm eye your gaze from SI Paler up of finding filled with ail that is SEPT 7th 1847 Dear Codding The following question haa been put some of our in ibe Ministry who are members of M E Rock River Conference What was done wilh address aud documents relating to lUe slaving of two yaung women by Mr Mitchell which the Liberty Association of Wisconsin forwarded by a committee lo your Some of of the Conference simply return to thia question the following reply The com- who presented after the ness had progressed somewhat withdrew them j This answer involved mailer in some obscurity to the mind of at least one of our leading brethren Rev N A brief of the fads of the case however removed the lhat were settling il and as other minds might labor under the same ty and might be relieved by the same process 1 propose by your courtesy lo present to public I made to him not intending by this however to anticipate Ihu which committee on the case will malte at next annual meeting of the Liberty Association During the session of Conference in August I visited Chicago and through kind agency of Br Peck of placed in hands of Bishop Waugh the address and documents agreeably lo the arrangement of the committee and the der of Liberty Association The op staled from his chair to the Conference of documents and address which hi had received and by a of the Conference they wece referred to a which committee had been previously appointed lo a matter of difficulty existing between Mr Mitchell and the official members of the street Church in Chicago stage of proceedings a nent member of the Church one who is an active Liberty man gested to me of my drawing the documents which bad been presented to the Conference slating aa a reason fur my so doing that a committee pf the Church broughl in be- fore the committee to whom the documents were eight charges against Mr Mitchell and that specifications under one of charges were lhat he had sent two free young women from Wisconsin into chnllel it was possible lhat Mr Mitchell denounce whole ment as being persecution bul lie could not do this if the documents were withdrawn and they might then be called up by of evidence In reflecting on the subject it appeared to me that the efforts of the Clark street Church would secuie Conference action which the Liberty Association ing to hence that ing of documents would be justified by Association il il tended to thul provided that no unfavorable j would be produced by such dru There was danger however lest some minds should seine upon the fact of the withdrawal and use il in such a manner as to biing odium on the Liberty tion by asserting thai it was unable to maintain the position il had assumed in re- lation to Mr had backed out in a disgraceful manner and they might possibly adduce of as a proof of innocence of Mr Mitchell For the purpose therefore of ing on the one hand as far as I could con- wilh our brethren who hau undertaken in behalf of God's poor I consented lo withdrawing of menls fur two or three days and lo guard on the other hand against any ble impressions which evil-disposed or uninformed persons might endeavor lo produce 1 f expressly that the Inight be considered as withdrawn fur two or three mly and ut the eud of thai tune they would be presumed again and thai if il was necessary to obtain a vole of Iho Conference in order that I might do this then 1 would on no account draw them as 1 feared the impression that such a vole would create The member of the church who proposed the withdrawal agreed wilh this sentiment and I proposed to him to lake charge of mailer and act for me as agent On entering the Conference the morning 1 was surprised to find a spirited debate going on a motion before the body thai leave be given lo the committee lo withdraw the documents Very ly however to the relief of my the molion was 1 informed that a tion passed in tbe that be and then returned to the committee who presented them In debate above referred to James Mitchell John T Mitchell end Slebbins strenuously advocated the sity of retaining the documents and having a thorough investigation When er the committee came to lhal charge in the list of Mr Mitchell staled that he not prepared to go into a trial reported ibis matter to stating that to Mr had declined going in- to an of the matter and the appointment of a committee to try the case The Conference ed to appoint a committee of five before whom the trial is to take place when Mr Mitchell in ready as parly preferring the charges were ready at the Conference Mr Mitchell has been superannuated for one year This 1 believe is the first instance in history of the Methodist body where a member has been wilh charges Which he was not prepared to meet standing against him It is duly of the committee on his case to henr the of bulb parties make a record of them and report to the next Conference when each parly will additional testimony if they desire it and address the body and then will the of the Conference be taken One additional thought Three ears spoke in favor of the retaining of the documents and urged aa a reason for so doing the of the mailer and ils extensive agitation Three other speakers urged the appointing of a committee of five to try case each of whom argued the necessity of it from the agitated of the public mind relative to it From this it will be seen lhal the ments are lo be copied and the copy is lo be reserved by the committee to be used in the trial Yours for Liberty EDWARD MISCELLANY POUGHKEEPSIE We have been anxiously wailing to see the book of young Davis or some notice of it ever since seeing in the New York pers the glorious and almost impossible objects which il promised to realize The following candid and able we lake from the Weekly It must interest the curious among our readers Our readers will remember that our New York Correspondent announced some weeks ago a remarkable book an ing lo be The Principles of ture her Divine Revelations and u Voice to Mankind by and through SON DAVIS the Seer nnd Clairvoyant Published by S S Lyon William The bonk is an octavo of about 800 pages and the of we shall now of il will bear no sort of proportion lo the labor il has cost us We have searched through these 800 pages wilh aid of midnight oil and without lhal of any foregone conclusion and have uot been able to find any thing believing which was not revealed before Nol lhal there is nothing in it worth believing on the contrary it contains a vast amount of glorious in att admirable spirit but expressed in an bose anJ almost insufferable We are ready lo concede lhat it must go to form a part of the Mesmeric in our days which so far as il has gone is surely worthy After u examination of book not u thorough one but as much so as a week's leisure permit nnd some with circumstances thai have surrounded the up of it we see no way ing conclusion lhal Mesmerism does put its subjects into a condition more able than tilts natural or normal one as il is technically called for the exercise of reflective How far it can confer new powere of perception or enhance the far it can enable its subjects lo see in past present or future out use ol corporeal senses what they could nol see wilh we gut not much light on from book Mr the scribe of much on this point He would have us believe that young and uneducated Davis has in Ibis book slated a vast number of fuels which he had never perceived in his slate and the knowledge of which owes entirely to the new condition in which he was placed by Mesmerism But to our mind the book as a whole does nol prove t that he lo Ibe knowledge of any new facts by his perceptive faculties while in Mesmeric slate We iire inclined lo admit that he was in in which he could remember nnd reason better than in his state We know not how to avoid he conclusion thai elevation of reasoning faculty was caused by an almost disjunction from the body for a lime This is admitting a great deal Establish this and a strong light is thrown on greatest of future but it can not be said to be new tight nor does it come now wilh any er than heretofore Great pains is taken in the quite able in- to show lhal Davis was a ple unsophisticated of good moral character bul of very humblest ry pretensions And abstruse lations and scientific lenns which form the staple of his are referred to as proof that Mesmerism conferred on him the power of perceiving that of which hn was profoundly ignorant nay of traveling in a moment lo the most worlds and even back into past HOI Ids not tfi say forward into future ones and teeing occurrences iti We think ibey prove no such sincerity of any of parties j concerned we believe are entirely mistaken The book just whal one would from such a enormous size is no matter of der for it embraces all possible subjects de ommbat rebut el as they say at and is no more ihao have entered at this age of world into the mind of any lad of age and from conversations preaching tic and especially into of a Mesmeric subject thrown as mailer of course inlo company of ultra There U a certain thread of order in the general arrangement of thu book but in the particular lectures then is tautology and the important siona are mixed up with nonsense It is evidently work of an uneducated mind in remarkable elate of mental mind full of which ii does not know how to express and of remembered of which il not know he use by side with the most important truths first developed in commonly called or in those of or Fourier Of Dr Channing or Theodore Parker are the such might bo looked for in a school composition by way goes lo convince us that Mr thu scribe has been ful and if lo make the book arid readable he had used the erary acumen which he displays in his in- lie would have pruned it of at half ils wordy exuberance As il is the book has not the chance in lo become even so much as and prolix of which in spile of their very interesting doctrines have lain buried in for a couple of generations The of popular Theology may smooth down their hair and unfasten tongues from of fur there is not slightest danger lo creeds from when done up in a book as this We fill our for weeks wilh most satisfactory of what have said copied from book bul we lo leave our to read lor themselves If it should turn out that we are ken and lhal Mr Davis has added lo the stock of his knowledge and as tlie book will not lhat we by proved any better worth A- a deal which no doubt the honestly believed he vpirilually saw nnd but which we set down as idle and dreaming there is n deal of important fact and rational conclusion There is a moral tone and temper a calm catholicity of spirit which is admirable The motto of tbe first part of the book is itself worth its price ever that may be But if some mailer of English had taken io hand the leading of the great writers which thine through the misls of Davis's Revelations and thrown them into a compact readable of one quarter the size he would done a much greater service to We look upon Davis's book as an effect than as a cause It shows what tin great seeing and minds are doing for Ihu world They make a far deeper impression upon the mass than is perceived Mesmerize any fair recipient mind any where in broad Christendom under nny false creed or system and er it from the old surrounding influences anil we presume you will find in it lhal calm faith in God lhal hope ot progress and deep brotherly love which have been in young Davis In ibis sense the book before us is a revelation The world gels leal as fast us it is reaHy to receive them it is ready to receive false ones much faster than it gels When WB say this book will not win a popular reception we the that H is nol whal may be called nn imposition except so far as its authors have imposed upon themselves even and a small rut in made the wheel of a loaded will along the ends for MOM before il will lita Of- lo the lop of tag on direction rovd but iflhe wheel cannot move two feet forward without coming square the of a printing plunk ty of gelling tin the mad is American ALL is WELL hum of ness has ceased n a populous fanner nnd mole Bruits mil and Heavy uf this straggler upon ihv pavement u solitary nnd unearthly v lien ed and I bul who in that moment from fruin the peals hour not been Ly cry all from the guardian watchman of the night soothed and calmed by the ic of AH not ike young mother us she leans over and the drath damp from brow of her child nor with ry of pleasure as he prays for dawning of light hoping pain by the cup mvi tlut wall tells him ning deeds of gone noi with the oppressor of tlir widow aud orphan ns he the of his with the the of power and the diadem of glory the gambler in saloon as chaffing rw seizes with gaunt and the j of a home once rendered dear I but for his own And the heart of his wile and which clung to him and will fondly cling lo him o the lasl To all that cry sounds like a funeral brings hope nor consolation when the last of man haa Ireen life in the et Happy the person who run look ly back to the past and pulling hut tion to his hear the gladdening Iho heart cheering response the unerring monitor within all it THE BIBLE How comes ii lhat litlle volume composed by humble men in n rude age when art and science were in their child hoed has exerted more influence on the human mind and on social system than all other books put comes it that this bonk has achieved such mm velous charges in opinions of kin banished idol a- pul down poly- gamy and the condition of women raised the standard public for families lhal blessed thira a Christian caused us other triumphs by causing benevolent in- open and expansive to spring lib as with tin wand of What sort of a hook is Ibat even winds and waves of human passions obey Whal of social improve meril has so long and yet of its il appeared many boasted plants of amelioration have triad and failed many of dence have arisen run their and expired Empire after empire has been launched on the tide of time nnd gone down leaving no trace on the But book slill going about doing society wilh the sorrowful wilh its the lew encouraging the the troubled smoothing pillow of death Can such a book ba of a human Does not the lency of the power to be of M PLANK of feet long and four inches thick are laid crosswise on tbe road on four square The earth broken up and made fine and ibe are bedded in- to ic and surface graded smooth the plank are then laid on the care being taken to have the earth op to and touching the plank at every point is ant lor if any left for air under the or along the dry rol follows The plank having been laid the thing is to grade a road ten or twelve feel er by taking earth from the on each side and bringing it by scraper just up to and even wilh the of Ihr so lhat ifa wheel TOM off Ibe track it smooth of earth The ends of plank should nol be even but a pail should project fiom lo four inches by the linr lo pre- vent a rul being cut junt slot g the of If the dent of the Lowell Couner from Charleston S Since been here I have visited is called the work house but properly prison here aru deposited safe keeping who aro 1 brought to market for sale also those that have run away arc brought here t J put lo breaking stone others on the read mill When I was in there were three mm nnd one woman net the wheel and a driver by wilh whip in hand this wheel ID mill stones and in this way they grind hominy In a room in the building is a whipping apparatus White I examining w is n brought in by his master ID lie whipped Ii appears lo be lie custom when are to be lo bring lo this for which Ibey pay one dollar The boy was inked Ins feel fastened lo Iho floor his hands placed in a nip over head nud drawn straight by means uf blocks then a cap drawn ever Ins head and face I The hoy I should think was not over 111 years of lie u tupped very nl blow Afler ho was let down and was out 1 his master whal lind been doing lie he had run dny before and gone lo the 1 thought it rather considering how popular here 1 told thai number had been there that be for tying within our reach the oilier beyond it One- her man's From God's Hereafter we me by tlie death by all mysteries of another nnd spiritual from onr own we aro nol rt nil be- long lo have grown lo cver mystery bf it lhal transparent curtain al moat within our lench and ready our will if that will be varying from in thickness which no man may see lo of kindling air u hen the suii is up lo our and the uf our faith Try E LOST One of the hour glass of time is beyond comparison more precious than gold In Holding more ruinous or mure lo bring on- availing lo throw money than moments for tunu is much more than money As lose our we incur nn increasing souls The life blood ul ibo soul out in waded lime The years which hare winged flight have gone to the recording and whal is the report they hornn lo heaven record for or us the throne of Kan of M m thall be sent and the books lie A GEM did much work for God in n silent ntn he labored bul did nol spoil his work when he wrought it by ostentation When he had charily in of mercy and bounty to men he would up the glory of it will tell nn man Mult viii 4 Ho oo popular air Oh Imitate your work hard for God nnd let mil pride blow it when you hare done It cult fiT man to do much und nol value loo much fur il What changes an in 9 Our and every
