Richland County Observer (Newspaper) - April 15, 1856, Richland Center, Wisconsin RICHLA i I I I I ISRAEL EDITOR AMD tit all in ONE VOLUME I. HASCAL Attorney Counsellor AT Wis. 15 J. W. COFFIN ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT CONVEYANCER AND NOTARY Office in 1IADGER. It. PRIEST ATTORNEYS AND AT AVD SOLICITORS IN i WILL attend to collection of ment of obtaining locating nnd till business connected with our profession and a general Lund Agency The price paid for Land Nov. 1855. 2 y D. B. Notary attend to all business entrusted to pertaining to the in tho Court JAVID DAVID 3. 11 STICKLAND Attorneys at SOLICITORS IN Till THIRD ILL attend to entrusted to their euro with promptness and fidelity Will also to tho collection of debts the ment ot examining titles and lands or G W. P. Eclectic April 4, 185G. at L. 1> K U CJ 1 S T Wis. Eclectic E and dwelling in Court Wis it r jj R N c i; s Prof. M J M. D. M D J S M D Now D mil Richland Win E 1'. A December 10, 1855. 4y Jacob M. D. OFFERS services to nidi ay are afflicted with Residence south ot Riehland on Pine River AMOS Physician and S. W. Physician and WIS. at the American Office tho Coin r M s f r. A n W ILL attend to all to him pertaining to the duties ol the Deputy County IS prepared to attend to calls for surveying arid in all adjoining ALBERT Justice of the Peace AND Richland American BY ALBERT N E F F Richland Dry AND HATS k READY-MADE At Richland County Richland December 1st, 1855. 4tf O. Wagon HIGHLAND RICHLAND WIS Join douo on short Job Printing Done this office at pricat HIGHLAND HIGHLAND APRIL 15, 1856. NUMBER 22. LIFE'S let tho soul Us slumbers Arouse Its senses and To boo how soon Ulo Its glories glide And tho stein footsteps of decay Come stealing And we the Down w Inch oui flowing minutes glide as Let us the present hour And dream a joy Already Lot no hope deceive tho No let us hope to Om golden Like them the pi shall Like them Oui lives like basting sti earns must That into one engulfing Aio doomed to The son ot loll king and and And swallow Alike tho river's lordly Alike the glide To that sad wave Death levels and And rich and pool side bj side Within Our Is but a starting Lite is the of tho And death tho Theio all the toys are That path of all Is lound ot 6ay then how poor and little woith Aio ua heio of a sleep thai death must It bids us Ye eie tho damp of death can check's pine glow ot passed Youth smiled und nil was AIJO t laid lus finger And Is the that spurned Ihe step that lolled so blithe The is tho step is And glows When comes THE USE OF The motives which induce men to together in movements of a partizan character have their origin in the ence of and taste in different in- of a feather flock is a and men acton this principle Aom feelings of natural in- No man cares about associating intimately with another whose feelings and ideas aic mostly contrary to his it would neither of them that ment which of social But the more closely men resemble each other in sentiments and ideas tho more they are at- acted each other and find in each other's society a mutual pleasure that binds them together in As no two men are constituted exactly so no two will think and act alike on every But if they think alike on some one important subject which occupies a good share of while that subject is tho theme of talk and they can act together with pei feet and so long as no er question arises upon which they differ in views they would bo bound together by the of But let the question upon which they have acted together become and another issue be raised upon which they differ widely in then unless they aie held by the strange delusion of party or by the er of public they will become as bitter and in their op- position to each other as they formerly were when acting in When we look at man's the changeability of human and the development of the we sec that an absolute necessity exists for a change of and whenever a change of ideas and issues take place in social or political and he who would reject every new doctrine of religious or cal faith merely because it is new or will not give it a fair and candid but clings to old no matter whether they have been exploded or established beyond is em- an and he can be such as well in religious as in political If he will not go he might as well go backward a century or and take up one of the controversies of that and hoist for his Opposition to Salem In so doing he would show just as good practical sense as in standing still at the present for he who stands still is not but is constantly But on the other hand it would be equal folly to grasp with eager avidity every new swallowing without 01 criticism every that a fanciful or senseless mind may suggest until a candid observer would imagine that his intellectual stomach could contain ing but intellectual This is em- i an age of but gress does not consist in shutting one's opening his and running It is with parties as it is with for parties properly ered are but the collective strength of in- dividual the means of giving force and power to individual and So if the ing men who compose a party are behind or of the if they do too little or too if they bring to their aid sound reasoning and stubborn facts or shallow sophistry and flimsy guesswork they will stamp their party with the same This however is no sure indication that their party is destined to like nah's in a If men of ent bring forward and urge with senseless many of lesser minds will always be found to echo back their This age is said to be a more thinking than any which has preceded and no doubt it but we have yet to learn that the evidences of human gullibility which the present day affords are less sinking and peculiar than we find re- corded in the pages of As a of this let us look at a simple and see if the days of fables and omens can surpass it. A few years ago an lying loafer in one of the eastern suddenly pretended that he was a prophet of that he was di- by Him to dig in a certain and that by so doing he had found buried theie the word of Who would think that from such a foundation there could spring up a religious party of any influence even a person could be found in whose cranium there was such a depth of gullibility as to admit for truth such a Yet with this wo a few years Joe Smith and the Mormons and though the et Joe has gone up to give an account of his pious on we find the sect which he founded still increasing in bers and and fast even in the Old a numerous and But Mormonism is not the only illustration of the extreme folly which can be palmed upon tho credulous world for and made lo attain a gantic strength by means of party Instances without number might be Ono important essential to the success and proper development of the strength of any is able Without those a party is like a man without a There must be men who have the confidence and the ability to stand expound and enforce their doctrines with zeal and men of iron will and enduring who can bear the ft of the world without and battle fully and powerfully against all Such men there must be to lead on and be as it of partisan This at seems in strange contrast with the idea which every man asserts for of perfectly independent thought and Ask a man if in party movements he thinks and acts for and he will feel insulted by the He thinks he is his own and thanks nobody for advising him and yet he is as far from being in- dependent as the East is from the To prove mention some wrong which his party has and see how quick he would commence excusing or denying and for arguments to prove correctness of his position will lean upon the opinions of his party Herein consists one of the greatest es of evil resulting from party Men say they are yet they are independent only to condemn other parties and principles and to cling blindly and tenaciously to their and follow as apologists and defenders in the wake of party Under such unprincipled and talented men often gain such a control over their and use it for such vile and hellish purposes that after generations cannot comprehend how such power for evil was obtained over I speak not of parties organized for evil but of those organized with high or holy and which have become perverted to do the Devil's dirtiest The Ro- man Catholic particularly as it stood two centuries is a striking ex- ample of such But we need not look as far in the dis- tance for solitary We can find them in the parties to which we be- both religious and though quite so We can find men who aie as blindly attached to as were ever the who would commend or excuse a wrong committed by their if committed by their they would hold up to scorn and these are generally the men who boast so strongly of living in a free who My father was a as the case may and so am who always vote the straight party and don't believe in who are so very independent that nothing the opposite party can say can influence them to change their vote In- indeed I They are the most dependent of the greatest slaves of They invariably shape their political course and opinions ing to the direction of party they are the very class of men upon whom demagogues always rely for their they are the very class who from time immemorial have been the de- supporters of vice and crime in high When I hear a man say have ways voted the straight party ways intend and don't believe in I cannot help setting him down as being no more intellectually qualified or morally entitled to the privilege of voting than a If there are any who are inclined to think this is treading on their I am to hurt their but I can't help the boy said when he was pelting the You had no business to have been a I can conceive of no rightful use to which a party should be applied except to give force and power to correct and it seems a duty that every in- dividual of a party should not but his own party and those whom he has helped place in and be as willing and urgent to condemn in them as in The world needs to realize fully the importance of making party subservient to principles instead of principles subservient to Our right or though the watchword of but is the basis of the or rather the want of which has always guided the action of the A more heinous violation than this of the principles of of man's own of real and ot the individual liberty of thought and action which un- derlie the foundation of our government cannot be Yet men will stand up and prate of their reject without every new doctrine that comes and boast that they stick fast to the creeds and parties of their they are just as much so as a rat in a independent to stand still and The child just has more manliness about for he has independence enough to try something new on his own while they are completely ed by the of They are useful for one but for they serve as milestones by which the rest of the world can mark their It is time that such things were done away and that men should consider parties in their true light as means by which to accomplish the triumph of In this respect we have reason to be thankful that the world is The Liberty of the Masses and Universal Education are infusing into those masses the thinking principle which is the element of real Democracy and Universal It needs no great knowledge to discover that in this respect the present century is far ahead of the and is improving in a rical May we not reasonably be- lieve that when the present generation is laid in the and time has silvered over the locks of their that our much boasted Independence and Democracy may be to that generation not merely a personal and in thought a vainglorious but a living ever-present L. I. March 25th, 1856. THOMAS While this distinguished patriot and statesman was Vice President of the United it was customary for the individual holding the said high office to attend to business more an person than the refinements of more modern times will It happened on one occasion that some important matter required his attention in Philadelphia and some other places distant from the In those days a journey to Philadelphia was not to be performed in a few was two or three days and not of the most pleasant sort On his return he stopped at it was about four or five in the afternoon when the Vice President rode and to the A Scotchman by the name of Boyden kept the of late so much improved and now so ly sustained by our worthy The bucks of the town were assembled in the large hall cracking and otherwise indulging in the etceteras of the Boyden was at the bar examining the and doubtless making calculations in reference to his future ferson had delivered his horse into the hands of the and walked into the to make arrangements in regard to his Some one touched Boyden on the elbow and directed his attention to the who was standing with his whip in his striking it occasionally upon his muddy Boyden turned round and surveyed him from head to and concluding him to be an old farmer from the whose company would add no credit to his he said have no room for Jefferson did not hear the and asked if he could be accommodated with a His which was ing and occasioned another survey of his person by the honest whose only care was for its He could not in his plain pretty well covered with anything indicating either wealth or and in his usual rough he 'A room I should like to have a room to if I can get replied 'A room all to we have no there's not a spare room in the house all can't accommodate Jefferson turned upon his called for his which by this time was snug in the mounted and rode off. In a few minutes one of the most wealthy and distinguished gentlemen of the town came in and asked for the gentleman who rode up to the door a few minutes Gentleman said there has been no gentleman here on horseback this and no stranger at ex- cept one common looking country fellow who came in and asked if he could have a whole but I asked him out of that mighty I tell I told him I had no room for such chaps as No room for such chaps as him by the no room for any body that don't look what are you talking man He is the Vice President of United President of the United exclaimed almost breathless with Thomas the Vice President of the United and the greatest man what have I Jake where are you all fly you and tell gentleman that we're forty at his service By George Vice Thomas tell him to came back and he shall have my best own room what have I done Here clear out the family he shall have the best and all the if be wants you put clean sheets on the take up this hurry up with the boot By what a For fifteen minutes Boyden raved like a and went fifty timet to the door to see if his wished for guest was The Vice President rode up to Market where he was by many of his and by them directed to the Globe which stood somewhere near the corner of ket and Charles Here Boyden's vants came and told him their mailer had provided a room for him I have engaged said Poor Boyden's mortification can be better imagined than the chaps who were loitering about the bar and the large and had laughed ily at the disappointment of the muddy had recovered from their and were preparing to laugh at their downcast After some time he prevailed on some friend to wait on Mr. Jefferson with his and request that he should return and take lodgings at his promising the best and all attention should be given Mr. Jefferson sent the following an- swer Tell Mr. Boyden I can appreciate his kind but if he had no room for the muddy he shall hare none for the Vice The Cleveland Herald tells the ing A friend whom we shall call tells a good one upon but an idle he was called upon one day in a country and the question suddenly propounded to him by the how many Gods are there Pat was not a distinguished theologian and years have made him no ter very in such but he promptly your thundered the and in five you don't an- swer correctly I'll welt you The probationary period and taking the hesitatingly slated the number of gods at He received the and a re- mand to his seat for ten minutes further Ten minutes and Pat was up and satisfied that he hadn't fixed the ber sufficiently high he He saw the ferule and bolting out of the door cleared a five rail and broke like a quarter horse across the Panting with he met a lad with a book under his and with the look of one who descried tho of knowledge under are you going said Pat. was the you said ly many gods are there answered the you'd better go down You'll have a good time with your two- I just left there with and that enough to save me from the el est licking you ever heard PURE about two and a half minutes all the blood contained in the man amounting to nearly three traverses the respiratory Every who breathes an impure atmosphere two and a half has every particle of his blood acted upon by the vitiating Every particle has come less less capable of repairing or of carrying on functions and the longer such air is the more impure does it and the blood necessarily becomes more I planted some potatoes in our said one of the smart youths of this generation to his and what do you think came up 1" of No There came up a of hogs and eat them The old gave The use of knowledge is to make of The mind may be com- pared to the beautiful statue of its eyes were the countenance seemed and sad but the moment you removed the most serene and enchanting smile diffused itself over the
