Olney Times (Newspaper) - August 27, 1858, Olney, Illinois OLNEY TIMES the Price of Liberty VOL 8 OLNEY ILLINOIS FRIDAY AUGUST 27 1858 WHOLE NO 112 TIMES IS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BT WILLIAM H BECK EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Warma SEAR M E CHURCH Olney Illinois 50 00 00 TERMS In three months 2 Clubs of ten in adrance 1 RATES OF ADVERTISING One square 10 lines or less one inser 50 insertion 50 square per annum 800 six months n three 3 00 tne column twelve months an 40 00 threa months 20 00 A liberal discount will be made to jpST For advertising wives first insertion 200 each subsequent insertion CARDS William M Beck ATTORNEY AT LAW OLNEY ILLINOIS ill attend to the Debts paying Taxes Ac BEELER HOUSE VISCBSNEg INDIANA OPPOSITE THE OHIO MISSISSIPPI R R T J BEELER PROPRIETOR H GUNN SONS GROCERIES PRODUCE Flora Clay County Illinois GEO A BANCKART TAIL OH MAIN opposite Dot s all work in his line promptly and to or der ard intuits it to bo well dune Cutting Tailoring Scouring Give him call Ot B E D WHEELER BIGGS WHOLESALE DEALERS IN GROCERIES WINDOW GLASS A GLASSWARE S o 47 Mam street between First Jt Secom Evansville Ind- Sept 19 ly enry D Allis Lewis Howes ALLIS HOWES AND COMMISSION of and ale dealers in and domestic Flour Grain Vater street second door above vine EVANSVILLE IND Sept LODGE NO F A MASONS hold their regular comm u- on Saturday evening on full moon in every month W M BECK W M N WHITNEY Secretary br S D No 426 S ofT Jeet at their hall in Olney every ay evening C M HOOVER P T S R HIGHLAND LODGE NO ISO I 0 0 F hold their regular meetings at the Lodge Room Dr Stor on Mam every Monday evening A general attendance of all the members who nn make it convenient to do so is earnestly E KITCHELL Sec N WHITNEY N Sorace Hayward Edward ace Wayward HAYWARD KITCHELL Real Estate Agents OLNEY RICHLAND COUNTY ILLINOIS attend to and Selling Land VV Paying Taxes Examination of Land Ti ties Writing Deeds Mortgages Prompt attention to al Business connected with Rial Estate JSf Office West side Public Square N B We have employed in our the valuable services ot Mr formerly Sheriff of County Mr Wolf is a practical Surveyor and familiar with almost every Tract of Land in Richland county D T CLARK Justice of the Peace Sumner Lawrence county Ills WILL promptly attend to the acknowledgements of deods j frum a distance will prompt KEPLY TO FOX MB In your last issue appears a communication from who thinks I have done the County Court injustice and calls upon me or proof of the charges made in our paper of the 13th I should very sorry to make any charges gainst the County Court of our public officers that cannot be and if you will allow me the space necessary I think I will be able to convince made no false charges and that the facts fully justify all that I have said in my previous communication The only charge made against the County Court in my communication of the 13th is that they are petent to transact the business of the county in a satisfactory and to prove this I think it will only be necessary to refer to some facts in regard to the advertising and ting of the contract for repairing the Court House which are familiar to the most of your readers It is well known that the usual mode of advertising for proposals is there is a paper published in the publish a notice of the letting a few weeks in advance s o that all the citizens of the county may have a fair and equal chance for submitting proposals and then to award the contract to the lowest re- sponsible bidder anfi its actions and Hofman If this be so his evidence is not entitled to much credit coming as does from an interested witness and if the Court is to be under the control of one man Clerk the sooner we abolish adopt Township fee better I know the people of county are not disposed to their officers of or ness it the discharge of their duties without cause It has been the tom with them to go to the polls and elect their officers and relying on heir integrity and ability to dis- charge their duties to neglect any in- of their official acts but sir it is a custom more honored in the breach than the and it would be well for the people of the county to keep a watchful eye upon all their public officers and should they scrutinize the Attorney Counsellor at Lav Flora Clay WILL attend to the collection of debts m the Fourth and Twelfth Judicial Circuits Buying and Seilng Keal Taxes 91 IT Ac Ac PAVILION HOTEL Adjoining Steamboat Landing watch kept tor river tra-vol J K WASHINGTON HOTEL Corner Third and Main OPPOSITE THE COURT Only Three Squares from the and four from the Railroad EXCHANGE Mam St Evansville Ind The of nnd the public are reaped full -y informed that at this wUi known ent cnn be found of the season game of all received by ex press and in to suit Sept 19 ly THEODORE American House NEWTON ILLS JOSEPH The eler will find it this House every attention cumulated to make him comfortable JAMES Jr C HI HOOTER Mam Street Olney Ills announces to the citizens of Olney and that he keeps on hand a general assortment of Clothes Flannels Ac Alao an extensive of Spring md consisting of Coats Pants Vests blurts Collars Cravats Boots and Shoes and in fuel necessary te complete a All of which has with great care EXPRESSLY FOR THIS KET to order and all work attention will be gives cutting garments Persons disposed to guc ic a call will be fairly dealt with may 21 WHOLES ALE AND DEALER GAS TINGS Japanned and Wares South side Main between Water sts the old Scate Bank EVANSVILLE MfD cept 19 3m ISAAC POTTS JUSTICE or THE PEACE Lawrenceville Ills fILL give prompt attention to all V A E Kitchell ATTORNEYS AT LAW ILLINOIS attention to business in tha Supreme and Inferior Courts Collect Taxes paid nil Title s examined ic A will be found at his office ths Depot ind B Kitchell M his office west HOI SB Olney Richland Co Ills WEST OK THE COuRT HODSE GOOD ACCOMMODATION AND A Stage for Newton Jasper Co leaving Olney 1 and Horace Hayward AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW Bee on Main street one door east Olney House OLNEY IL TEBRE HAUTE BOOK ft JO NO OFFICE AND MANUFACTORY K B SIMPSON Co Proprietors Terre Haute Ind All work la the best style aid at reas- May 14th SAMUEL ORE Water Street DEALER IN Iron En plate imo Copper Tools Tools Baggy and Aries Woodwork Waggons Ac South East Corner Public Squar B W HARRIS HOllACE HAYWAED KITCHELL Estate Agency OLNEY HIGHLAND CO ILL attend to buying and selling Land V Paying Taxes Examination of Titles writing Deeds ic Prompt attention given to all busi ness connected with real estate W est side of the public Square N B We have employed m our the valuable services of Mr John Vi olf foi mer of Richland county Mr is 1 practical and acquainted with almost tract of land in conn March 21 57 ly Largest Hotel in Evansville WASHINGTON HOTEL BY FELKER corner of Main and Third Streets EVANSVILLE IND The only free Omnibus running to and from the watch kept for boats sep 19 ly Q P E GWEBSTER Co WHOLESALE DEALERS AND OF BOOTS SHOES Leather Morocco and Shoe Trimmings 92 Pear street Walnut and V in Cincinnati 0 Main Street Olney Ills fTl HE undersigned having refitted and 1 made large additions to the mw House and refitted and with new Furniture Carpets Ac would respectfully to the Public that he is to accommodate his Guests in a style superior to nny other house in Southern Illinois Ne pains will be spared to make his house entertaining for Boarders and Traveler Will be supplied with the best the Country His STABLE is amply sufficient ber for Horses and is supplied with plenty of Nothing shall te lucking on his part which contribute to ths comfort and satisfaction of hi Guests JOHN Newton and St Mane Albion and The only place to secure se ats CLAY CITY HOUSE HARRIS THE UNDERSIGNED Pro of in the new and thriving village of Clay llll City just laid out immediately on the Ohio Mississippi R R opposite Maysville in Clay County call the attention of the travelling public to house and its accommodations Situated as Clay City in a fine country and on an excellent thoroughfare north and south it is the most convenient point for travellers on business m this part of the State to The best accommodations will be forded the August O and GROCERIES Ills Until very recently there hds been but one paper published in the ty and being Republican in politics it did not very high in the of the County Court and in their anxiety to keep the public ey out of the pockets of the er and put it m their own I am told they adopted the following el mode of When a contract was to be let they one of body to riJe over the county and let the people know that such a letting was to take place and that they could send in proposals for the work After acquainting as many of his friends as he saw er he presented his to the ty and was allowed so much per day for the time so occupied In this instance they used the County as a walking advertisement to make the wishes of the court and although I must acknowledge that lit is an excellent advertising medium and has heretofore achieved quite a notoriety in that respect I that in this instance he failed to sustain his well-established tion as it s well known that a large number of the citizens in town and them some of the most nent mechanics did not know that a letting was to be made until after the contract was awarded But sir the work was to the est bidder but to a good Democrat which they perhaps considered of more importance and as it was let at an price it was able to expect they would require the work to be done in a substantial and workmanlike manner but in hi too they utterly failed the work i a disgrace to all connected with it the house ib in a worse condition than it was before it was touched and stands a monument of the folly ol the County Court I do not think any blame at- tach to the contractor in this matter If he saw proper to take advantage of the incapacity of the Court to drive a good bargain and put money in his pocket it is what anybody else have done and it is perhaps all right but I do say that it proves beyond al question the total incapacity of these men to transact the county business But Fox brings forward Mr Hofman who he says is a man o sense and considerable influence in the County Court acd who says they heve done their Now as Mr Hofman makes U a point to be posted in regard to bus iness it is but reasonable to suppos that knows something about the business of the Court and we are ready to admit as Fox says tha he is a man of considerable ence in that body in fact some an so unreasonable as to believe that h entirely too much influence and we have heard some of tLe friend of Court contend they ough not to be held responsible for all th blunders committed because ther is a power behind the Court great er than the Conrt itself guiding proceedings of the County Court aad see whether business of the county is conducted in such a manner as meets their An investigation into the past acts of of a majority of our present Court would show that the contract for re- the Court House is only one of many blunders on their part I might go on citing instances until they would fill the columns of your paper but as I have already made this article much longer than at first intended I will refer to but one other I believe the Court take a great deal of credit to themselves for ing built the present jail and so far as external appearance is concerned it is perhaps all that could be desired Bnt how many of the citizens of the county know the amount of money expended in building The le were told at the time the con- ract was awarded that the price was ss than thirty-eight hundred dollars ut any person who will investigate ic matter will learn that the con- received forty-four hundred and an additional ure of two hundred was required it was considered safe to trust prisoner in it and it has been roven within the last two weeks Mt they need stay there only hours if they can procure a to dig their way O T From the Speech of Senator Trumbull DELIVERED AT CHICAGO In the process of time it was supposed that Kansas would wish to be admitted into the Union as a State Her people you ber had formed one constitution known as the Topeka establishing a Free State It was necessary to meet this with something and a was prepared in the Senate of the United States by Mr Douglas authorizing the people of Kansas to hold a tion and form a constitution eral amendments were offered to that Among others an amend ment was offered by Mr Toombs of Georgia and that passed the Senate Now tellow citizens I make the distinct charge that there was a preconcert ed arrangement and plot entered into by the very mea who now claim credit for opposing a constitution formed and put in force without giving the people any opportunity to pass upon it This my friends is a serious charge but I charge it to-night that the very men who traverse the country under banners proclaiming popular sovereignly by design concocted a on purpose to force a tion upon that people I have brought along with me the evidence to prove the charge I a charge of a sernus character like this might be controverted by the men who claim credit for popular sovereignty un- less 1 brought the evidence with me I hold in my hand the biil brought into the Senate of the United States by Mr Toombs on the of June 1856 containing a clause re quiring the constitution which the Convention should form to be to the people for their or rejection That was referred to the Committee on in the Senate of the United States of which Douglas is chairman Judge Douglas five longer and Now what did this party design by the policy inaugurated in I have shown you how have gone on step by step advancing rst one opinion then another and does any person believe that if he County Court had been composed if men possessing the smallest ible share of business qualifications hey would have allowed a building o cost forty-six hundred dollars which vas contracted at do not wish to be understood as making any charges against the sty of these men I believe they are honest and their intentions good and if they have been elevated hrough the partiality of their to stations nature never them to occupy certainly no blame should attach to is an error of judgment on the part of he people and the fault being with them it is for apply the edy Whenever the people look to a can fitness and qualifications for office when go to the polls and vote accordingly regardless whether or not it is agreeable to the and who have assumed to dictate in these matters and who really have less in- terest in them ihan any other class of people in the county because they pay less they throw party aside and apply the standard is he is he then we will have our public offices filled with men capable of transacting the business in a creditable Then when contracts are awarded they will be drawn in such a manner as will secure their fulfillment and long bills of extras brought in at the winding up to put money in the ets of the contractors will be un- known TAX PAYER days afterwards reported back the I hold in my hand making rious alterations in it among ers striking out the clause ing its submission to the He stated that on consultation with Mr Toombs he had made these A VOICE whom did he make the Mr made it in the Senate of the United States and it is reported in the Globe and sir if you are a Douglas SAME am sir Mr you want to satisfy yourself that he was in the plot to force a constitution upon that people I will satisfy Cries of good good hit him again and cheers I will cram the truth down any honest man's throat until he cannot deny it And to the man who does deny it I will cram the lie down his throat till he shall cry enough cheer It is is the most damnable effrontery that man ever put on to conceal a scheme to defend and cheat a people out of their rights and then claim it for it of Hurrah for him with all such That is not all my Douglas is not all I myself humble as I am and making no pretensions other than to have performed my duty to the best of my ability to the State that has honored me by placing me in the Senate pointed out two years ago Three cheers for Trumbull were given with great en- I stated that it was a little too much to call a convention in Kansas before knowing what was the wish of the people and then to allow the fifty-two men which were to compose the convention ing 0 that to put any sort of a constitution upon the people out allowing them to vote upon it A did Mr las say to then another until they had got slavery into Kansas denying first the power of Congress to exclude it then denying the power of the people of a Territory while in a Territorial condition to exclude it Next they will deny the power of the people when they form a State constitution to exclude it and that such is the next step to be taken is manifest from the Dred Scott de- I wish fellow citizens to get before you if I can a clear idea of that Dred Scott decision and what is decided in that case The case was man by the name of Dred Scon brought a suit for his freedom in the United States Court in Missouri on the ground that he had been taken by his ter to Bock Island in this State and there held for some time and afterwards taken to Fort Snelling Minnesota which was then a tory and part of the Louisiana purchase from which slavery was excluded by the Missouri com- promise and he insisted that by virtue of the laws of Illinois anc the laws of the Territory in which he was at Fort Snelling he was free man The defence set up this That Dred Scott was born a negro from parents who were imported from Africa and as slaves and being such negro he had no authority to sue in the States courts and therefore th court had no jurisdiction in the case Now the defendant didn't set that Dred Scott was a slave mini you He said he was a negro de from slave parents A a nigger there too MR presume the person that made that remark be longs to the African Democracy and is in the habit of calling ou nigger to every body else whil le is bugging a nigger under eacl arm cheers and have heard of just such men be lore and they aie in the habit o calling out woolly aboli such epithet jeing the only arguments they have to expose that man ANOTHER not a man him be MH want to hold your class of men occupy hat is the kind of argument our have used have done with you sir and will iow turn to the Dred Scott decision Vociferous I was about to explain to you what the plea set up was What lid the Supreme Court decided that a person of the Character described in the plea bad no authority to bring suit in the States Court and they dis- missed the case for want of stating that the court had no to enter any judgement in he case because a negro had no right to sue in that Court Now was not that the end of the ought to have been the end of it but for political reasons the judges on and give their opinions upon the of Con gress to exclude slavery from the in which Fort Snelling was located which was unnecessary to up reverence for it and They cannot tbe decision case did not The result determine cf the whether bim up before this audience and in doing so will expose a numerous class like him He is one of our Douglas men I take it I will hold him up here and let you see him with the woolly heads around him I will expose him in all his nakedness This is just as good a place to expose the of that class of men as See if I do not state him fairly He is one of those who believe in the Dred Scott decision the right to take slavery into a a Territory and cries out at the same time ular sovereignly and He goes and North Ca he owns a numer of negroes and marches up to Kansas Hd is going to emigrate there and some of his negroes are as black aa the African with flit noses thick lips and woolly beads and some are a little whiter and some are mulattoes and some of them are so white you can hardly guish the negro blood in them Well he marches up 10 Kansas and when he gets up to the line the white men of Kansas meet him and say we do not want you to bring these niggers here we don't want that population here Scott was a slave or a free man acd the question of the of Congress to pass the law excluding slavery from the territory north of 36 deg 30 min vas not Involved because if the negro bave derived his freedom from be- ing in a region of country where slavery was prohibited by law he had it by residing at Rock Island The State of Illinois bad abolished slavery and if the fact of his having been brought within a free tion gave him freedom he had it by residing in this State But the judges for political purposes go on and express their opinions ing the authority of Congress and a Territorial Legislature to pass laws excluding slavery from such opinions are extra judicial and of no abiding force 1 state this for the benefit of that class of zens who are very much disinclined to make any attak upon the decision of a court These are the opinions of the judges given upon the questions not before them and are they not to be censured for ing out of the case to express such There is no importance in these opinions as judicial at all and they are important in this respect they have been adopted by the great Democratic party so called as a part of its creed and Mr an says that slavery exists in sas and Nebraska as effectually as it does in South Carolina and Georgia under these Hence it becomes very important to look to these opinions as these as pointing out the creed of the party which is now in power and which they are now ing to enforce upon the 1 should have no sort of respect for peal from the decision cf the court to the people the source of all power but they can appeal to this at Cincinnati And I will not undertake to describe that Convention Col Benton once de- scribed it I would sooner have the decision of the ple than of such s set of mea But I find I am spending to much time upon this slavery question that I am becoming somewhat hoarse and as I wish to say thing to yon in regard to tie of the government ind show that the party in power is u false to its other professions M it is to those it haa at different times set up on the slavery question I will pass for a few moments to that sub- ject The expenses of the govern ment as you have probably often heard have increased enormously within the past few years The amount of money at the disposal of government for this more than one hundred millions of lars This I know haa sometimes been disputed but I have here the official statement made by the Clerk of the House of Representatives showing that mare than millions were specifically ated at the last of G and there are indefinite ions to pay claims the precise amount of which is not yet known amount at the lowest estimate to three millions and half malting over eighty-four millions and appropriations amounting such a decision there had been in any event a decision of If the conrt upon the point when ly before them that Congress had no to pass a law excluding slavery from a Territory 1 would have treated that decision in the particular case as binding but I would have treated it with utter contempt as applied to any other case I have no scruples IB ing the infallibility of the men who wear gowns of that's and great Despotism is despotism whether practiced by crowned heads TOM CORWIN the Republican Congressional Con- vention for the 7th District Ohio Hon Thomas Corwin the great champion of the old Whig Party and the friend of Henry Clay was unanimously nominated for Congress KrAsa Gile of Readfield has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of Maine Mr He was silent as the did he grave and voted for the It passed the Senate but was de- in the House you now this was before the Presiden- tial election and It was before the thunders of the Fremont vote had rolled down to Washington and frightened the men that were there It was before the free people of Illinois had swept the plunderers from the State Capital and in their places free men and the friends of free men It would not do to risk that policy much resolved it But he an- in Kansas and have shall not come here swers I am for popular and the Dred Scott and I will introduce my negri You are woolly are abolitionists negro worshippers And has his whole drove of n all sorts of blood around i or by men clothed n ashamed to appeal from obiter dicta opinions of Supreme Judges subversive of the Constitution Fellow citizens I acknowledge a power Presidents high er higher than its and to that power ne is the I will fe make Presidents and and calls free white men who do not want anything to do with negroes woolly heads Pretty subject he surrounded by negroes with every kind of blood in their veins to talk about He wants to introduce them in among free white men and they say they will have none of his groes Talk about popular and negro worshippers when every free white man in Kansas stands on the border says yon cannot come in here with your You shout popular squatter and under Dred declare you will force your mixed breeds into the Territory in spite of its That is the then is an unexpected balance of made last year to more than millions These sum altogether make more than one hundred lions of dollars at the disposal of the Administration for the present fiscal year I know it is said that it is unfair to charge all this to the present fiscal year that a surplus will remain at the end of the year to be carried to the next list but I think it is much more likely that the Administration will come in with m and ask for some ten millions more as they did at the last Congress than that any will remain The expenses of tha government during the tion of General were This it more than all the expenses of the government from when it was organised for thirty years together including the war with Great Britain in General Pierce expended more ey during four years of peace than our government expended for- the first thirty years after its tion In 1823 the expenditures of the government for all purposes exclusive of the public debt Wire 59 In 1657 Use ex- penses of the government sive of public debt were 559 79 The pr rota to the population in 1823 waf cents on each individual rata in 1857 was two dollars and twenty-eight cents per cents to lation Mow tl attract the country hut perhaps if state in de- tail of this sonio of the means by expenses have been it would strike some more forcibly I will calif row attention to the City of cago You have a custom house located here In 1852 or for the fiscal year ending June 1853 the last year of Fillmore's tion there was collected at Chicago 86 Six men were em- ployed to collect it and they were paid 12 That over two per cent For the fear when tyranny takes of those they have placed the people who are and who are above all their servants will take the power into i their own hands good of i that's The Supreme Court of the United States has repeatedly decided prior to the Dred Scott case that Congress had power to pass laws governing the Territories When it was presided over by shall the Court held that in the government of the Territories Con- gress possessed the combined power of the State and the Federal Gov Those people who talk to us about appealing from the de- of the courts to a popular what have they Why over here at Cincinnati when they met to lay down their creed and declare what they were said in so many words that Con- gress had no power to establish a national bank The Supreme Conrt had decided that Congress had the power Whew wu ending Jane 30 1856 collected at Chicago 40 Sixteen men were employed in its collection and they were paid 349 28 for doing it Now 1 ask yon living right here as you do ii there any reason for this increased Can you tell me why it cost ten per cent the last fiscal year to collect the revenue this port end only over two per cent years Is there any reason for it- cxoept that the government wanted to shower the money upon there is I dent know ir is Democratic be sustained I think that is tbs I think that is heft reason They most sustain the Bat Chicago is only ft ease I have the official report and I will few other easts to how the ex pends money er points where for i
