Richland County Observer (Newspaper) - February 5, 1861, Richland Center, Wisconsin An Independent Devoted ifo in l ii i I1 u v r jJ I UMBER ItT OBSERVER Center -One copy M Out copy cunts Ono copy moulds 50 CO G 9 i -i 00 11 i 1 week 10 00 1 1 1 30 oscomAin'i lines 85 of tlum linos by tho fib There is a host o I meu who boast But every mighty power I i It world aSi As does mighty thing And men ears Kingi HA VLD S HAMILTON ATTORNEY County Wf to at hin T E No 39 in Mull ill b o clock M visions tills MM Iwk brow ov daign to bow To But INK lius built its Where hiind Us tributes God's most gifted intellects Shout is King the Thought No abject skive it victims chains l In every clime in coining Will men proud anthem? And found the float That ib I 1 1 THE MISTAKE EASTLAND Jj 1 S Conler ATTORNEYS and Counselors nt 11 will promptly to nil business to in ami u DR A L E R i n D Goods G roce nVs nnd Caps Crockery Books and Viry CRAWFORD Wisconsin ill Court given to Down's L F- f 0 WOOD M D PRACTICAL Sur X won le u Iho Physicians mil lura had vonra In or with lln of of Will to culls or duy of Centur The carriage stopped at the door and in a Margaret Hale en- tered the apartment whore her husband sat wholly absorbed in pouring ovci day books and ledgers tiresome accounts she exclaimed Will you never find time anything but business Have you no taste for anything beyond figures but tho sadness in the tone was unheeded as she hud such a charming evening at Mrs Capt Hill related many interesting incidents of his residence in Egypt and Mr Warren the famous young poet read and some of tho most beautiful passages in Aurora Leigh 1 must read to you some of Thoughts on duty She went hastily to the chamber for the volume When she returned her quiet entrance was by her husband whose pen was rapidly moving over the almost interminable columns with a noble iheerfully the way out for aitd waited He obtained a situation a had known his faithfulness and untiring devotion to his duties won the confidence of- all who knew him of her widowhood his mother v had aught a private for young and it was the boy's of this her the rest her feeble health required I you all his privations his willing Sacrifice df every recreation his continued that ho might lighten the burdens of those so dear to 1 Year after year success has ed his efforts In the village where had passed the first years of her childhood and the first years of her married life lie purchased a pleasant for her and then a lucrative ss being opened to him in the West he came here J tho time of removal here accident revealed to him tho fact that tho widow and invalid daughter of one whose fortune by his fathers advice risked in that unfortunate speculation which had so changed his own life were living in extreme poverty To him they are indebted for the pleasant home that now shelters them and for the delicate thoughtful ministration to their daily comfort Now when tho commercial world is clouded and crowd thick and upon him as upon others his turn to the mother and sister in the little village Margaret a proud and wrote cannot guide when I my strength when I friend do I not owe you for revealing the mistake which had most wrecked the happiness of both National 1 HOME Ah do vl remember that roofed cottage with its white walls and dormant windows shaded in the rear by the branches of a and gigantic elm among the boughs of which the summer birds never failed to warble their sweetest lays and in front there was of locusts where in spring time the drowsy hum of the honey bee was heard all day long while sipping tho from the white blossoms and there was tho beautiful flower garden with its many hued flowers and the dear old apple orchard where m autumn we gathered rich harvests of luscious fruit and the little brook that wont dancing by its low murmur keeping time with the ino hearts that clustered that L I Elf to In mi in tlie by VV Tl Dowin MASONIC NO TICE No GG li of P A M imd f ol ouch In Hull IJ V L- f or Benjamin ns boon appointed Deputy of ii iid will be lu in liis lino of business A C EASTLAND nt nnd ii thn O H Wood Centur i Centur Wisconsin nil of on terms WILLIAM FAR LIN A Counselor m nnd Will ly to nil nt Ihu Union HI oil A ROBINSON Maker J and Make Conter Clocks in Work LAND TITLES D Gupe Son nt r Lunch In ml to all business Juli Public ltd ml anil Court Abstracts o CODS 45 WILSON JOHN oo T AWYERS Lund of figures With an expression of almost of scorn resting on her face she hastily turned away And is the dreams of said fihe as she reached her room He has a taste for drudgery His pursuits and tastes arc all commonplace and I must go from home to find the sympathy I need to find those who will appreciate with me the books I love and the beautiful in art for which ho had neither eye nor car Why did he not marry a woman who had neither heart nor mind to be satisfied she Hale sat hour after hour till his brain was weary and his eyelids drooped Then laying aside books he remained a long time in deep thought pod he prayed and give me strength to bear all Give me power to make her happy far away all thoughts of her nobleness of i jealously preserving tho memory of in their tastes and Margaret cherished the spirit of discontent till it embittered every hour of her life and sent suffering she never dreamed of to the heart of her husband who gladly have every earthly good for her bomo whose comfort depends upon him to tho other lonely fireside TO which his constant thoughtfulness im- paita its only light and to his own home and the young wife whose is dearer to him than life For this Ralph Halo gives his days to incessant toil and willingly sacrifices the social pleasures he is FO eminently fitted to enjoy f I boon in those thiec homes With a that is almost his mother and sister speak his name and with fall hearts thank God for his life life is filled with tho beauty of self-renunciation The widow and daughter whose hearts he has made tell of his numberless acts of home Oh the merry clays of they arc as bright from which there is a sad awakening to real life But time wore on the happy ty of our home which had so long flowed on the gontle ripple of a silvery was broken tHe stern relentless hand of death entered our door and leveled his shaft and one flower yielded up her life and with glad kindness of his delicate and unceasing watchfulness and daily they ask God's blessing on him whoso life is a to t Win in Supreme mid sUlu or Court ness c D STEWART at Law ond o Will In tho Courts ot iml pay Taxus 1 lcs Hon M Center Jaon Hon Point Ohio worth B w F H ADDER M D 1ST City Wia C II Muck K P f j CASSELS m n N and Surgeon tenders Ills to of tone Rock Country lit Uio House and 1 A t Tnwri anil oil promptly Town Kill T ill nud miU oly c A and severe came to her while Ralph was in a distant city -One day during her slow recovery agod minister who had baptised her in infancy was sitting by her side he said after ly her troubled are unhappy I have seen it a long time I should not recognize in my once cheerful happy i May I not know what groat sorrow has corne Then with sobs and tears t told hkn all her After a short silence the old man spoke again and there was almost sternness in his voice Year's ago Margaret a wealthy New York merchant became in a suddenly him the of to regain lost lingering In his own home the mft lovo should bless him whoso gentL should comfort and strengthen coldly from him because lib prefers the happiness of others to his own gratification because the pressing duties of lifo claim all liis waking leaving him little leisure for the claims of or for the high which few attain whose I lives are not to it tk I have I have so misjudged said the weeping wife The old man Continued Some talk poetry some write it iii land it in The i poets the of and of i ceaseless devotion to have and consigned to her dust Again death came and the manly form of our sire bent beneath its chilling And thus it was found rest and peace beyond the whilo sought wealth and in distant climes One far beyond the Rocky Mountain range sought the glittering of mines others sought tho famed north-west where the wild door of the forest roam at will and thousands of silvery icy cold sparkle in the glittering sunlight and on o'er gravelly bods and grown rocks to mingle waters with the mighty ocean One other sought a homo on the wide-rolling o'er which myriads of wild flowers shod beauty and bloom and balmy breezes gently fan the heated brow All are gone and the wall that once echoed to our glad voices now back to tho voice of the recognizes right of the owned man to and his Claimant must prove session or he session any owner but against the of- the property it owns itself other singular attributes of property inhuman flesh bone's and brains which makes it a sui and incapable of treatment according established laws of property having its basis in natural right Property in man by conflict It is a of latent war li ible at any moment to Be- come active when the holder the erty take his chances of being killed or in turn enslaved In such a struggle the sympathies of kind arc with the property that is struggling for a human position and human treatment and the impulse of unperverted human nature ia to the side of the rising property and strike manfully in its behalf If men take tho other side it is either because they are interested in the same variety of property or have made a compact binding them to conquer their dices It is obvious from tho very nature of this property and its anomalous tion to both men and at the same time that it can be nothing else than the creature of brute re- spect to the individual and if it be- comes recognized and protected by tho state it can exist only by positive law to that effect II is not a sort of erty bears transportation Outside of the limits of tho law establishing it it does not legally exist as it does not man black or that such legal only within the positive law The never having slavery by law nf the tional domain can have no legal ex- istence Its introduction or there on the past of the al government ia a usurpation and a di- rect i attack upon the rights of the non- slaveholding citizens of most dangerous character Such a cannot safely be tolerated for a Re- publican HR YE ASS AGO The editor of the Illinois State nul has been looking over some old newspaper files in the State Library and finds a speech made by Abraham Lincoln in the Hall of the House of Representatives in December 1839 in occurs the following apposite I know that the great volcano at Washington aroused and directed by the evil spirit that reigns there is ing forth the lava of political tion broad and deep which is sweeping with frightful velocity over the whole length and breadth of the land bidding fair to leave unscathed no green spot on its bosom are like demons on the waves of In the first year of his tion a tasty tout States in following spring lie fhe Southern it is as a o or living thing rightfully exist anywhere if there be any such thing as GOT been their inspiration Ralph Hale has Homo Oh what a little word and yet what a world of meaning in its depths How few appreciate value of a home often docs tho heart of the wanderer thrill with den and intense emotion at the lection of the home that cradled his infancy What hallowed associations are linked with the name and memory of home Home tho dearest spot on earth whether amid the lonely in the crowded city IK MAM Slavery a violent suspension of tho natural Justice iand mart know that its advocates ht and wrong in human relations and the words justice and equity be not wholly or This point been en labored and would seem to be plain enough to any ma a who recognizes in himself live right to his own body and soul Half a century ago nobody dis- those truths North or South But now we have a national tration and a supreme court and a ty both advancing the strous dogma that property in horses and pigs and that this right may be lined not only where special law for it has been made but where there is no such law of the of the fate of this property by the constitution The monstrous is as novel it is abhorrent to all right minded men Yet the dogma is ically in tho ascendant and tho al government is administered in cordance with it By its sanction very itself into the territories without law and itself by the federal power in defiance of the es and interests of the people and un- der a new application of it the right of the sovereign states to abolish is about to be denied by the court We even see a date for in Massachusetts ar- guing before the people that property ia men the constitution of the United States in precisely same The woman who has won the love of snch ti heart should r r i reverently and gratefully cherish it as richest of her life In the twilight of that day et her husband's return Amid that 1 i it J i gleamed a now and light purposes were aroused within her divinely real in her life beautiful ideals had her heart with live for and first of all for she so JT T J i f ilt A hurried then on the and the 1 J J hat voice faltering with recently attempted to place it on nigh ground right Some including learned northern of divinity and presidents of col- leges have attempted to out that has commanded the en- of the Africans and that it is therefore But this is the mere insanity and fanaticism of gal position as property in pigs Is it that this wild an guilty tasy should be boldly met and ed How much farther can it go without sweeping the liberties of white and black alike to a common in Already southern politicians in- sist that slavery is and condition of the white as well as only the power is wanting to an exhibition of the sincerity of tho southerners in this doctrine The recant hunting down of the poor whites in Louisiana by the tbe imps of the evil spirit and taunting all those who resist its course with the hopelessness of their effort and knowing this I cannot deny that all may be swept away Broken by it I too may be bow to it I never will Tho probability that we may fall in struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause which we deem so just it shall not deter me If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its almighty archives it is when I contemplate the cause of our country and I standing up boldly and alone and hulling defiance at her oppressors Here without con- before high Heaven and in the face of the world I swear eternal fidelity to the just cause as I deem it of the land of my lifo my liberty and my love And who that thinks with me will not lessly adopt the that I take Let none falter who thinks he is right and we may succeed if after all we shall fail be it so We shall have the proud consolation of saying to our con- science and to the departed shade of our country's freedom that the cause approved of our ed by our hearts in disaster in chains i in torture in death we never faltered in defending KAUST SAHLY At the commencement of the Re- form Medical College Gra an oration to the graduates was delivered by 0 A Lochrane The following eluding remarks are applicable to all classes of young As a means of resisting the tions of youth I would only repeat a conviction that young manners traveling With his own horses The Slated at that time numbered A population of about cities Boston werer small of industry were almost a force guarded the Indian frontier there was single vessel nor government the This of things but ill the son thai which we now behold in the American Union thirty-three States some of in of the and two oil the Ocean a population of ions a commercial tonnage inferior to that of England alone if inferior even to that a highly advanced condition of the great industrial pursuits a able military establishment j a creditable progress in Slid literature Yet the United States as Washington saw them on his tour in 1789 and 1790 presented such trast with the colonies as he traversed them on his way to Boston in 1756 as was probably never brought within the experience of one man and within so narrow a compass as Life of Washington Dear a pleasant a pronoun of possession signifying that the being spoken of is one's sacred personal possession as With natural selfishness one would desire io hold the thing most My a satisfactory total I rather object to as a word implying and therefore never td used where comparison should not and could not exist as My dearest er or dearest wife as if a man had a plurality of mothers and wives whom he chose the one most As a general rule I dislike fir fetched expressions of affection set down I once knew and honorable with the tenderest heart that ever nian had and which in all his life was only given to one his wife told never even in their courtship days written otherwise than as My dear ending or could he desire Miss who will speak lordly cotton and sugar planters shows they honestly think are obliged to the only right lation of master and slave is the light that might makes this ground which basis for slaT jt 1 very r the black may enslave the a thank God you aio safe now my TORNEY at in nil Courts ot promptly to 4 boy of sixteen had finished his Jn all made f clear strength or cunning man having thus acquired brute hi same This is brie of the peculiarities of sort of that remains undisputed 1 er page of life wae turned for them the portion of white men who are not fortunate own They tie up and whip those poor whites with as tie compunction as if they were grpes from Guinea them died under tho it are erable fact slavery is t planters even recognize their legal and hunt and were negroes or brutes 1 white men of this country understand the conditions of their safety arid men should marry early in life and commence its cares with some loving heart to lean upon and the inspiration of some sweet voice to nerve hini for the conflict of care into which he en- ters Let her be no painted butterfly to hint along the path of pleasure but let kindness warm her heart fection beam in her eye truth cling to her lips and above all her intelligence be linked with religious With her life's darkest hours will brighten with hope its worst fortunes be met with courage She will bring heaven to earth to cheer you with its promises and oven through her tears will a bow of happiness to span your future and betoken a brighter morrow for your fortunes i Jones was riding up in Jn September last and r nailed up on a tree in the had stopped at a store nr souri to purchase some little article when my attention was directed ah old lady who was examining calico pulled it- arid that as if she would tear ifc to held it light in spat on a corner and rubbed it- be fingers to try the were She not entirely satisfied At last she apiece scissors and handing it to a tall looking girl about sixteen standing Here Liz Jane you lake n that ef Jt Liar Jane put it into her and fully went to work juror's was called by the clerk The man desk and said I should like to Judge a faton house with the sign Farm Tor Sail Always ready pleasantry and seeing a woman in checked net an chips at the in front of the house he very t4 Ctn ll f She went themselves there jist J Anywhere more vexatious to the claimant white black or and that such wind 1 ed It is said the Judge But Judge if you knew my I'm quite sure sir continued what do you Well Judge if I it I've got the itch The Judge exclaimed scratch that man The Americans of Australia asked to erect a Hberty which the banner Would put The request was declined said tEe crowd let's raise stick the flag of all nations Arid so they did what said yould do and a petticoat waved from the liberty pole