Independent, The (Newspaper) - January 24, 1856, Portage, Wisconsin 4 A J C Or Jit g lity An T 1 j UM to iff 1 TM tm AT THIS OFFICE IKJ AC UJ Ml ibr C 1 tit fl Tbe exquirite poem was published iu this two in drunk at the you do wH aud Adams the aud of were both ati known to all Portage the effusion was with interest bj the people in thu while iu worth rendered it at- as a gem of literature It has been very extensively copied and we nuking a to the t al Anthony ati u ham that M M iho wf ULTIMA IBB AX Abijah was a verdant youth Palmer i to went on TWy to tell a it now by of borne and for the gratification of all cur readers i bv a her political or word Shall thai tonue re- At Store of B J on Mutt will MUtti to tbe of all He to liu cue tad dooe Coutry T I AK IX Will tui to the of in uA Court of SutU mA Coon of the bud C H tod in on went stivet Block at law fm CITT in new block L COUSTY WK lUvan ftf aad late IB auA County will to the elimination of and of Bod of taro mt In Land mt aww block CITT WIS dwire Corner of Conant anil streets CITY B A CO Haw jrad Cape Shirts Ac Ac Clothing made to Block HAND AT LAW WIS and at Portage City Trill prompt and faithful to all to las care tut near Mam 1C CITT Store C G Dealer ia Oils Provisions also Hooka and Stationery VIS W 8 X ABBOTT aai at law POSTAGE CITT f Plato to A of tod in d TU at law CITT Dry BovU awl in WiaM near Kate Tww SKm DeWitt at Ac him BARBER SHOP f be found readr all who favor him wilt call Ued iu Hall turn The Sump Act on- older bat just eat and didn't Bat after that a thousand strung eame to HIM Bailer boarded at never could Abijah or be pre- tl and carry them tbe for warm ia upon to sit at the table trial and hip bud of Freedom HIM Abijah aud Palmer and little thai early up the and hitched town militia came together before it on to of to go up to daylight for training A tall Rogers mann after a load of hay Tbe the uniting at and tie You all 19th uf April 1651 tun an man at Sa the only tongue m which tube ablate forever and that scourged m his jail while the hire enthralled him were with a large and a high wide was by hath many mow important their last their who had seen the road they to travel on mind be at sc them into W thought a ride in the would sticking type after type I busman do MKM Boiler always at Ami now although jean pa tied and Palmer it br off and Judge of Probate the knew him He Mil be Men m i i 1 1 1 J uini am H Jan law aud appointed guardian Jf orphans kidnap numbering about and better than to wit menu tbe bUve males M-d You i 4 t R uiui ju our word The cannot forget Uwse things no I will order shot ma'am talk that way it made thus a tingle I oa a act Honorable miw t I 1 f quarters of he of in aad er our as -en p rt a crime our eren Dow over ha miad worthy manhood lie BO hoaie to Mad to Any and nokt at nif ht in abd out- in whatever corner could at Satom but no LILT lolt oh How life cje to o'er beart to throb for Ko t of To tent Poor Kod with all hu In ing Ko part thine MVC here and then A lonely broken Ko but a fied of Ko no proud Ko Ko pride of manhood on thy brow ia tatao itself godom brought Daniel Webster to General took away the his e at a mighty arms of Boston Judge Curtis jng despise the Law of the Soul he would j mus God but that sin of Gomarrah it A thing then in earth or heaven a Whereto wretch And hast sold if manhood Keel Nor ky That in tne street The unholy price mar name Tne brow that won the Ned of elarie The head that bore BO envied Tbe owe That from the rung And of tby Bed Upon ite manic Ah those comrades then When beat thy heart ao high E'en in thy life-time Sod how That manly head would be And they then poor Ned That void be to For charity Eat Alas tW it kbould to bay etill more and more Of Pennies to bnj a death A to porcnuseftmrniid shame In the day of And shall thy name the honored name A fond proud 60 in foul dishonor Kcd Into a The name mother So of yore Iu the out hone thy loved On Erin's Thy a Scd And will I know tis ram To mind of things Of tbe main Tu too IfU no wakening reach thy dull Not till tbe judgment trumpet peak Will FOOT or bear Aad When people Tbe city Me think there wiH be then for bloated wreck like thee Said not the white robed angel Nod To John on Isie The streets of New Ko abrald Oh they cawed tau Who this rain The of aa Heaven And te the baad That Head bv to Of thy turn tarn UH lart traM hi God wilt IB fce van baa a little aad a fiak im it of a H wiH bold two or how provided there is ia ft let tbe tin What if DMT am or white borier or Let tlM tin fire the with his kinsfolk and subtly active with bis force this work Wbm Mr is full of drob only took away the Charter of Judge Curtis law they jar the him feel mighty Don't fire fired want to a abort Abijah felt all over ia one tpot Abijah cut dirt urmen and pat on a Manding dickey but riding with tbe of such as before had pledged green fen tuat runs one faltered but if th let it begin ben what fortune and their sacred to tbe older to in letters they beckoned and Freedom of America and that day gar affected -i 17.11 Dimarif in a at Hall That cry ion out of Standard of put the Hon Benjamin R Curtis oa this above the Fugitive Slave Bench gate him his judicial power to yom mwt not even to God in your evince an express liking for the deliverance of an innocent znan whom tut family seek to transform to a beast of burthen and sacrifice to the American Moloch Decide according to your own Con- t construct his to indict and try me Try No Gentlemen it is yon wives and your children who are up for swift condemnation this day Will you wait will you add sin to sin till God shall I rain fire and brimstone on your heads and a Dead Sea shall coter tbe place ing mercy cannon and the sciences Gentlemen not Gentlemen of the Jury I must bring I once so green and blossoming with this defense to a close Already it is I American Decide your own too long for your patience though too When the Judges are let tbe the mighty be and we haves ii tbe Freedom of which yob to decide upon I have shown you the aim and purpose of the Slave to make this vast Continent one huge House of Bondage for can Americana a House of Bondage so for Americans I have ed out the course of Despotism in archic England you have seen bow there the wicked kws or of Justice is secure For wicked awn nearest to their hopes tike godly man is furthest from his ures Ton know my I have confessed more than the ment coald You are try tbe Nation by twelve Delegates is present here to-day In the name of when that resource failed how they j America of mankind you judge reached indirectly End and of tne LaW awi tne and Ap appointed officers to the law to plication of the Law to the Fact Ton rein the people how are to decide whether yoa are to spread tbe J tbe law to how base men as j and tbe Consequences and how wickedly an the North whether Boston used their position and England all the North shall scorning alike the law of God aad the Mp other Elten Crafts other Thomas of Man The Judges in their gims other Anthony itinerant says an old Sharkey and Grier and Kane and au lie more to Uie people to obedience being to speak of the long would him sacred titles as if their tis shall be tyrants over ding all Freedom of Speech or er and Justice the Christian Be- to must the natural service of the Infinite aanly be laid upon the foundation of the God shall bless our wide land with the people's debasement You hare not forgotten Saunders and freys and Scroggs Sibthorpe and waiting you will remember nouncing eternal damnation on such aa refused the illegal tax of Charles 1 or evinced an express disapprobation of his tyranny Gentlemen you recollect how the rights of the were broken how jurors were threatened with trial for perjury insulted fined and imprisoned because would be faithful to the go to jail I should fully counting it m numberless Beatitudes of Humanity Should you command me to be fined and ould take it very it more honor to be in- side of a jail in the austere silence of my dungeon rather than of it with a faithless Jury guilty of such treason to their Country and to their God But forgive you cannot com- mit such a crime against Pardon the monstrous figure of my k not also possible Judges coald Law and their Conscience You speeches their actions that Charge ter how the tyrannical king clutched at j indictment proves all you the people's purse and their person too yom You the and smote at all freedom of speech of the People tbe Country whik the purchased Judges were alwa s idiotic in and the ready the tools of despotism But you know what it all came could not eater raw tike law through tbe doors of Hall so she tried it at aad Worcester aad with her Invincible Ironsides took by meant of pike sad gu hnd his guilty bead on tbe block James II only escaped the same fete by timely flight If not decree tice than Civil War will for it must be in Gentlemen I am a of ion It my faction to teach what is absolutely true and right I am the servant of old ever venerable and widely spread J claim the tame Rights with ther and with and hommed yes with and the unamenable right to serve the God No natter if you a candle to witb for what a light glowing coak make rendering ing the room done and a battle a ing Mercy Gentlemen I have shown yott what Uw Slave Power of America aims Despotism which is worse for this than the Stuarts tyranny for that time see He successive of ment Behold what it within tea It baa made ia Florida has annexed a Slave State as big tbe kingdom of f baa fought tbe Mexican war with Northern money and spread age over Utah New Mexico and the wl I preach to Human Nature as I h which the In- finite God writes Hie Infinitely Perfect tbe keeping of body bj law He has oa the loving and Many I do for which I must ask the of Bat do you I keep tbe Fugitive Slave obey them and kid nap my own is no part it also their lives I was born in that tle town and bred acid the memories of that day When a boy my mother ed me up one Sunday in her religious patriotic arms and held me while I read the first monumental line I ever to ami On Since then I have studied the rial marbles of Greece and Borne in an ancient town nay on Obelisks have read what was written before the Eternal roused up to lead Israel out of Egypt but no stone has ever stirred me to each emotions as those rustic of men who fell Tbe hay rack had a seat and of coune the sit oa H and the muat tit there too wise Abijah usually drove bnt tbe idea of sitting by the side of the ma'am made his heart palpitate Peter Pratt so much more the vibration of a tail that be knew be likely to be overcome So when Him Butler commenced to clamber into Abijah told Johnny Abijah hoped that Palmer help tbe Palmer hoped Abijah would help her Palmer awl Abijah both knew that to have the ma'am straddling and clambering without assistance when two good ing young men like them wen standing by was not gallant by any manner of means Bwt step mind offer to ah that WH tbe Bwt MUM p in aad aad aat tbe with Palmer while Ahijah tod clow to In At of God mrf Gentlemen the Spirit of love of Justice waa tanned into a flame in my boyish heart That meat covers the bones of my own folk it was their blood which reddened tbe long green grass at Lexington It is my own name which OB that stone the tail captain who his fellow farmers and into stern array and spoke brave and dangerous words as opened the War of American last to leave the my I leaned to read out of Bible and with a musket be that day captured from tbe foe I learned also another extension of the lipier limbs end of the hat and didn't dart to talk to look tal and both wished that the were either afoot and out of that or elae the was half a mile that they might go clear to tbe back end of it and thereby be farther from the ma'am kept all the while ing that his clean off lesson that to is TO GOD I keep both to Liberty aad the Eights of Mankind to USA them both In the Sacred Cause of God and my Country Gentlemen of the Jury and you my of the North I leave the matter with yon Yon cannot do it Say Not Gailty know you will for you remember there is another Court not of Fugitive Slave Law where we all tried by the Justice of the Infinite God to the last verdict as ye have done it unto one of the feast o these my brethren he done it unto me How TO TUAT ing that certain Lad asserted that he a bod man I shaft take care to to live that no- body win believe them And Plato did so live Over two thousand years have passed by since he lived yet Plato is an honored name wherever learning and virtue are held ia esteem Nobody UH derers of Sander five if tet It loves and thrives excitement it Take flo of it and it win starve Tbe soon loses bis pains when object of bis insensible to at- tacks He only bites a file and destroys his own teeth If one wishes to suffer from ovs attacks be to IT uon endeavor to trace the author of tbe stories told to injury and make tbe matter a common talk It is just dewed shafts have bit tbe mark and be Whether are tra or Use they have produced a flattering aad there will be enough to Plato's method better A good will not long safier from but at that time they seemed to him jut twice as long as they ever had He felt he felt mean be felt as though he should in met They arrived at the Stopped For tbe space of about two or three or four or fire or six seconds no one stirred couldn't well get out alone Abijah hoped would help her Palmer hoped Abijah would hoped one or both of them wonM Abijah Palmer ought to because te was the oldest Palmer thought Abijah ought to became he only tbe and Abijah the son of Jacob and Jacob was a good deal of a man and bad been Sheriff whether Jacob had been Sheriff or not or whether Palmer waa tbe hired man or tbe SOB of make one pewter difference with the at that time She ed to get out tbe looked around to tbe twain swains ia tbe back end two swains looked imp at one another and then the Neither of them ted so tbe did She went to tbe fore end of prepared to leap dm she looked back If this bone sat I my it to that kit HUH WM not and also that at that time near the WM So didn't Palmer saw that had spoken of the thing to be doae of rash for Kiss She banded him her dinner and at tbe maw time jump would have lam ed Butler if him time bat as it my tbe dii into eternal mother bore me age Do think I CM Com- Cams and riaf to steal my f of my and even ia own JM booe Gentlemen when God bids tbe Hew it has tea and Court bids me for a scrip ef worthless f sot to Oda et ia tmt Tbe editor of tbe addresses bis Where M We of paper tbe ad- aar Thew tlw to make M willing to wiB mwh a lOtov smile at ibw I linn often revert to the time wbn be pat oa a tn Miss to in a aad i manner which Palmer It is an thing bow a will who is lo I was once opening a rom the a to wami saw to warm witb my when a remarkably clear and deliberate voice spoke oat behind me Goess be talk so if knew that air 1 were bant clean t From that I on Tbe people in front began ul roar in my war and there a loud and I dared not mj position lag f U lug a SOTT I am for delay and aat orator it was only a mean all There WM matin witb OsA ba might bar soap aad CT r i er tbat i S at aad iff OB of maa tba same individual it to make a living power in so great during the year of 1 erery was filled each Bight with travelers Every eler at flat time win tbe of obtaining a bid te of the hotels even if be was with two or threw strange Mil The Bev aa minister hotels in Ana could have a room to keeper toM him be should be w mil W it ry to pot early bow and to sleep Halloo you do want what you tot mat take yom mad yeiT Whr yea there is ami X Tb bed him to bis tarn to THE ago a exhorting the moat for half M bwr ami
