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Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-02-21

tI'O UCuu OdICdSS OF yICfIStII' IT 10 d5StT
ted that this added 80 or more votes to the
old Hunkers. The truth is Tecumseh
has strong hold upon the rank and file,
to which Van Bmren has ever been a
stranger. The Johnson men assert, with
out disguise, that if Van Buren, IS forced
upon the party by the old party hacks,
certain defeat is inevitable.
To break their fall. the old Hunkers
placed Col. Johnson on their ticket for
the Vice Presidency, but the Radicals
went for the bess Tribune.
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-02-21
Making the sum Of

Making the sum Of
actually paid to the printers
for advertising the tax lists.
But Mr.. Hammond reports to
have paid
Leaving not paid to print
ers, in his hands,
Add TO this The "stealins"
above
Making the sum Of
The State Administration
consists of
JOHN s. BARRY,
JOHN s. BAGG,
R. P. ELDREDGE.
G.. G. HAMMOND,
J. j. ADAM.
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-02-21
THE OAKLAND GAZETTE.

Our friend Coleman, late of the Flint
Herald, has commenced his labors anew
at Pontiac IN the true spirit Of le40.-
The second No. of his Oakland Gazette
has reached us, and the way he walks in:o
Locofoco Free Trade and British Van
Buren, Democracy, is caution to those
political sinners, who are ever ready TO
Cypress the labor and industry of their
own country, by giving preference to thai
of foreigners, provided i, will IN return
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-02-21
l,575 ID

Making the clever sum of S4,575 Ia
clear profit. Verify, the Office of Audi
tor General must be good one. The
salary is, we believe. $1,000 90
The stealIngs in one year,
ore 1915 IA
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-01-11

jays address to the non-slavehold-
els, and William Birney's statistics
Of the distribution of the offices of
the Federal Government. He com
planned bitterly that the non-slave-
holders were ruled politically by the
slaveholders-spoke of Cassius M.
Clay as the greatest man in Ken
lucky, and inquired particularly for
news from the free States. He said
that many of his neighbors thought
as he did about slavery, &C.
Not long since q gentleman in
Kentucky made application to us,by
letter, for a large number of tracts
for gratuitous distribution in this Sec
ton, as the people were anxious to
have all the light possible on the
subject. Another from that State
called at our house the other day,
and supplied himself with a consid-
cradle number Of copies of our pa
per. And still another of the same
State, of most substantial character;
requested us to republish in tract
form, for circulation, the address of
President Young, of Danville Col
lege, Kentucky.
These are all discreet, sober
minded, responsible citizens of Ken
lucky, deeply interested in its well
fare, and fully impressed with the
necessity Of acting with wisdom and
patience. We wish them abundant
success in their efforts to diffuse
light. Let our brethren of Kentucky
engage heartily in the work of free
ing themselves from a curse which
is weighing down all their engeries,
and the work will be we'll done.-
We know enough of Kentuckians
to know that they generally are hos
tile to slavery; and that even among
the shareholders are to be found ma
ny of its strongest foes. Nothing, it
seems to us, but the want of a COM
mon understanding among them,up-
on this subject, prevents them from
taking some decisive step in relation
to the question:
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WHOSE FAULT IT..

A month since we called attention 10
the fact, that the Slave Power was maxi
ing arrangements to fill the Chair Of the
House OF Representatives. Several can
didates were suggested, all shareholders,
Nobody cared. The party presses do not
speak of such matters--it would Interfere
with President-makng.
A little while before the session of Con-
gress, the Washington letter-writers, with
their usual wisdom, began 10 speculate
largely on the prospects of Mr. Wilkins,
of Fennsy lvana. and some Influential
Wing editors predicted that he would be
the Speaker. The Liberty men were too
familiar with the exactons of slavery,
and servlity Of Northern parties, 10 be-
lieve any such thing. Well the time
comes - and, sure enough, there are but
two candidates for that important chair:
John w. Jones of Virginia, and John
White of Kentucky-bolh Shareholders!
The former receives l28 votes; the latter
40; and Mr.. Wilkins, the free. State man,
one J.!
The free States number some ten mill
ions of people. and on the whole are
toerabIy intelligent. The Shareholders
number some two hundred and fifty thou
sand - but so accustomed are they to
govern, that they would dash in pieces
ten thousand parties, before they would
part with the sceptre; and so well drilled
are the Representatives of the ten mill
ions to serue, that even they appear 10
think it reasonable, 10 vote for any one
not belonging 10 this, our American arts
tocracy. .
From 1869 10 l843, period of Sd
years, the Speakers chair has been filed
by members from the Northern States only
IS years: from 1910 to l843, a period o:
SO years, it has been filled by Northern
men, only years. Not single non
Shareholder has occupied it, since 1926,
and now the Shareholders claim nerspec-
tive right to ia claim watch our mem
bers from the free States have not the
courage to contest. And for this simple
reason, it pOuId break up the Wig or
Tie Democratic party organization, aohicA.
eter might haze the hardi4OOd 10 try such
an experiment!
This fact alone is reason enough in
favor of Liberty organization.
For two years longer then, the business
Of the House Of Representatives is 10 be
by the shareholders, and for
two years longer, the free people of the
United States are TO be gagged, and the
right of petition to be n~iLity. Whose
fault is this? Where lies the remedy2
PhiLGnthropiStt.
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D. S. MURRAY, PRINTER.

war TO "protect" the chivalrv" Of VIr-
gnla, in the business of breeding human
cGtIe No war for the "rights Of Tie
'o@ap no war for the "dignily" Of th:
0UcrSeer'S lash.
" Detrimental to our interests w Never.
Every blow struck at slavery is 10 the
advantage of the whole people of the
whole Union. Its abolition must come
some time, and in some way, and Until
then, diverse Interests chickering's, and
heart burnngs between the free and The,
slave S'ates--the rival questions of Tariff
and Anti-Tariff, Free Trade aud Prolec.
ton, will be agtated ad intGnitum. The
sooner we get rid of it, the sooner will
we indeed be united people, with one
common interest and institutions.
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From the Pittsburgh Gazette.
THE MESSAGE..SLAVERY.

The Harrisburgh Telegraph, in com
menting on The Presidents Message, has
some forcble remarks in reference to
Slavery. Speaking of the Presidents
emark, that this Government is bound to
ee that Texas is left free to act, "espe-
peciaIIy in regard TO her domestic affairs"
the Telegraph says:
Especially in regard to her domestic
affairs !" Why not have said domestic
institution" at once--the domestic inst-
tulions" of Slavsry! And so we are
given to understand that il England should
bring about a compliance Of terms
for the abolition Of Stacery in Texas, it
would be "detrimentGi 10 the interest Of
the United States NJ Will anybody loan
US magic microscope! We can't for
the life OF US see in what way the United
States are 10 be injured by such meas
ure, though we can see that the sIGce
interest might be weakened considerably
thereby. Speed the day we say from our
innermost heart, when j: shall SO be weak.
ened as TO give up the ghost in pure ex-
hauslion. Curses upon the cause! The
maIediction of every free heart should be
upon its existence, any where and every
where! 1t is making us the scott of the
civilized world! The ban of Christen-
dom is being cast over US BY every
mail from Europe we hear the shout of
shame upon us from the indignant lips
of citizen and prince, from prelate and
statesman, ministers, and people. The
South itself is staggering and grooming
under it as of the nightmare. The in
stiIullon " is weighing it down politically,
intellectually, physically and morally
And yet we are to be told - WE, apon
whose records stands the declaration in
letters of fire, that "oU men are created
free and equaL'-and it would be "det-
rimental 10 our interests TO have Eng
land interfere, in another land, to abate
the infamous affar:"- and gracious
Heaven that, zoe will not quietly per-
nit such interference" Genius of Lib
erty, what a mockery The President
of the boosted L1nd Of Freedom threat
ening War for tbs 2erpetuation Of
Stavery! Thank Heaven, it is only John
Tyler!
For ourselves we say, and for the peo-
pie of the whole of the free States we
may speak-God speed England In her
interference! If through her means, the
" black banner of slavery" is torn from
one of its ba,tlements, glory and honor be
hers - be her motives what they may.
Such an achievement will help to redeem
her from the dark stain OF the original
prosecution of the slave.trade. II will
help 10 balance her dark catalogue of
crime against the liberties Of The human
race, which is written in bloody charac-
tiers upon the roll of time. 1t will serve
to lay the avenging spirits Of the millions
which she has sacrificed to her ambition
on the plains of Hindostan. 1t will stand
as a bright oasis among her records, OF
more than the details of WeIlington's
saug hter, or Nelson's carnage upon the
waves.
Nay-nay-Mr. Tyler. The People
of this Union go 10 no aoar for SIa0ery
! No war 10 rivet the chains Of men and
weeping women, aud feeble children nc
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1t has been wisely said that one false
step-such is the penalty of error-al-
ways leads to another. The deplorable
fall of Rev. Fl. G. Taylor is an instance
in point, and should prove warning to
the strong as we'll as the weak, 10 beware
of the first false step. He was in easy
acknowledgement and beloved
an nclive and honorable member Of socie-
ty-beneVoleut aod useful-dnd devoted
to the great work Of doing good But
in an evil hour, he took the first false
step, and he nov confesses and mourns
his crimes in degraded feon's cell, while
multitude oil the friends TO whom he
had knit himself as with hooks of steel 10
the days of his uprightness, are pierced 10
the hearts core that in truth
He was a man
Who stole the livery of the court OF heaven,
To serve the devil ill.,"
We learn that Mr.. Taylor states that
his first false step was taken about two
years ago.-He was employed 10 go TO
Washington and wanting more funds than
were in his honest possession, ne made up
the deficiency from the Evangelist Office
with the intention of accounting for it on
his return. en- arriving at home, and
learning that no suspicion rested on him,
instead of refunding the money he took
another step in crime The road 10 mia
my became broader and swifer at eact
successive step, until the outward mask o
virtue was finally lifted BY the boldness o
undetected and increasing depravity, ant
revealed to a shocked community the de
formed and loathsome bypocrite.
Bea0are IF The first false step.-CleOe
land Herald
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Religion and Politics.
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eft is necessary TO preach politics,
if it is only to dispel the delusion
that men can, in their political rela-
tons, innocently do that which in
their other relations they wonld
shrink from as highly criminal
The voters of this country generally
act as if feeling that they have dis
pensation to do as they list at the
polls-as ii feeling that Gods juris-
diction does not extend to the polls.
This comes from the dreadful mis-
take of drawing a line between re-
|ligion and politics, and of allowing
men to fancy that their religion is
better than their politics ; that their
moral character is better than their
political character. scarcely need
say before an enlightened audience,
that God requires as much holiness
at the polls as elsewhere. | scarce
ly need say that it is as wicked, in
point of fact, to make, or refuse
to repeal slave laws, and TO elect
men to office who will make, or
refuse to repeal, such laws, as it is
to build ships for the slave-trade, or
to forge manacles and letters for the
victims of that trade.
American Slavery must soon die.
The evil can become but little great
err, ere it will work its own destruc-
ton. If the pulpit of this country
shall, without delay, preach Bible
politics, the people without delay,
adopt, and act upon them; and then
through the peaceful power Of the
peaceful ballot-box, slavery will die
a peaceful as we'll as a speedy death.
We shall scarcely have abolished
the national parts of slavery, by
which I mean slavery in the District
of Columbia, in the Territories, and
under the national flag, ere State
slavery, then no longer protected,
countenanced by our national pro-
slavery example, will die quiet
death. But let us delay a little
longer the remedial application of
righteous politics to the gigantic evil,
let the politics which bind and out
rage and crush our brother, contin-
ue little longer to be our prevail
ing politics-and our country will
furnish the bloodiest chapter in all
the book of time. There will be
snch a reckoning for deep and dam
ming wrongs-such an out-bursting
of smothered, pent-up revenge, as
living man has never seen. There
will be, in Apocalyptic language,
blood even unto the horse-bridles.'
l close my remarks with the most
deeply earnest entreaty to all minis
tiers OF the gospel to preach politics
to urge their hearers with all the
power of which they are capable, no
more to vote the lash on the back OF
millions, but to vote it of-no more
to vote the bible out of their hands,
but to vote it into their hands-no
more to vote their continued subjec'
ton to, but their immediate exemp'
ton from, system Of horrld whole
sale murder"
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FLOGGING.

Two slaves had been convicted
and hanged for murder: the follow
ing punishment was dealt out to one
who happened to be i'll the house at
the time the murder was committed:
| had often seen black men whip
ped, and always, when the lash was
applied with great severity, heard
the sufferer cry ont and beg for mer-
cy-but in this case, the pain inhict-
ed by the double blows of the hicko-
ny was SO intense, that Billy never
uttered SO much as a groan; and [
do not believe he breathed for the
space Of two minutes after he receiv-
ed the first strokes. He shrank his
body close to the trunk Of the tree
around which his arms and legs
were dashed, drew his shoulders up
to his head, like dying man, and
trembled, or rather shivered, in all
his members. The blood flowed
from the commencement, and in a
few minutes lay in small puddles at
the root ofthe tree. | saw fakes of
flesh as long as my finger, fall out of
the gashes in his back; and l believe
he was insensible during allthe time
that he was receiving the last two
hundred lashes. When the whole
five hundred lashes had been count
ed by the person appointed to per-
form this duty, the half dead body
was unbound, and laid in the shade
of the tree upon which I sat. The
gentlemen who had done the whip
ping, eight or ten in number, being
Joined by their friends, then came
under the tree, and drank punch UNI
til their dinner was made ready, I'M
der booth of green boughs, at a
short distance.-Herald of Freedom.
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How CAME IT THERE2-The ST. Louis
New Era of the 28lh ultimo states tina; a
piece of cedar has been exhibited TO the
Editor, the history of which is as follows:
Ia digging we'll on the property Of
Smith, Brothers & Co., at Bunker Hill,
ILL.,, at the distance of Gfly-three feet be-
low the surface, they came to log. EN-.
bedded in the earth, and extending across
The well. 1t was cut off; was found to
be five or six inches through, and was in
a state of good preservation. The town
of Bunker Hill, as many persons know,
is situated in the middle of large and
level prairie; and the gentleman who has
it in possession, who is bit of Yankee.
" wants to know how that log OF cedar
got down lhere2"
We, really, can't say.-Boston Bee.
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THE EYE.-At the last meeting
of the Paris Academy of Sciences, a
very curious paper was read from
The pen of DR.. Plouvieur of Lille, on
the application of the cornea of one
animal to the eye of another. The
Doctor states that he has rabbit
which was blind, but to whose eye
he has applied the cornea of another
rabbit, and that the hitherto blind
animal now sees perfectly.
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g o IS e & * a
For the Voice of Freedom.
TO AN ALBUM.

Go lilsie book-for send thee not far
On pleasing errand bound,
| send thee where fancy and feeling are,
send thee where hearts are found
Go and ask my friends thy sheets TO adorn
With the lays of early youth,
For the strains that flow in life's merry morn
Are the artless strains of truth;
And let beautys hand often grace thy page
With some rich, poetic boon,
That The gift may endure through many an age
Though beauty must fade so soon
And sweet will it be in after years,
Thy leaves to peruse DER and DER,
To think Of the scenes which remembrance
endears,
When those scenes are enjoyed no more.
Dec. 1913. MN.
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WHITE SLAvEs.-There are three
white men in Massachusetts,, who have es-
capped from slavery in Kentucky, brothers,
by the name of Clark. They are lectur-
ing, and are said 10 be talented. The
True American advises all who think
"they can't take care of themselves to
attend their lectures, for they will hear
human cattle" discourse as they never
heard property talk before.-M III,
Bap. Reg.
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From the N. Y. Evangelist.
THE SLEEPING WIFE.
BY JOSEPH L. CHESTER.

BY JOSEPH L. CHESTER.
Delicious task! to sit and watch
The breathings Of a sleeping wife,
And mark the features of that state
Dividing Death from Life.
How sweet her sIumber! on her lids
The angel-Peace-hath set its seal,
And to her couch the guard folbids
An envious care to steal.
How beautiful! She would compel
The tribute of a stoic's kiss -
Angelic purity might dwell
In such a shrine as this.
And here il dwels-unstaned and bright,
Though half concealed by modest fear:
Yes, were this soul disrobed tonight,
I'd see an angel here.
How sweet her sIumber! None but those
Whom Heav'n hath numbered for its bliss,
Have promise of SUCH calm repose-
Such perfect rest as this.
Unconscious of the woes and cares
That weigh US down in waking hours,
Her gentle spirit only wears
burden now of flowers
She dreams Her radiant features speak
Of themes that waken deep delight,
Aud smiles adorn her lip and cheek
Smiles beautiful and bright.
Oh could lift the jealous vail
That doth those joyous thoughts conceal,
The spolless page sinless tale
Would presently reveal.
And bark! Her parting lips disclose
Some cherished secret long repressed;
Mark how her cheek with bushes CLOVIS
How heaves her swelling breast!
She breathes name amid her dream
The soul of love is in the tone
Her cheeks with deeper bushes TEEN:
That name-it is niy Otcn!
Joy joy my bliss is perfect, now
The boon craved is mine = is mine;
Upon my Bonded knee bow,
And thank thee, God Divine.
BY night or day awake-asleep-
The signals of her love see;
know that love is pure and deep,
And centered all in me.
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J. HoLCoMB & D. S. MURRAY, PUBLISHERS.

stantly in his room, and is greatly
emaciated. His intellectual facul-
ties, however, are unimpared.
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Accounts from the Hermitage
represent Gen. Jackson's health to
be very feeble, He remains con-
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you like him! Will you vote for linn or
for them? Aye or nay. No lodging
Be honest with yourselves your better
natures, and sell yourselves no more to
slavery or the tools of slavery. G.
The following article confirms
the opinion so often expressed, that
correct sentiments and right feelings,
on the subject of of slavery begin to
find place all through the vallies OF
the South. Uncompromising foes to
the vile system are springing up in
every Slave-State in the Union
Their voices grow louder and bold
er. There will be ere long, two
parties at the South, the one for Lib
erty, the other for Slavery. The
facts given below must be cheering
to all the friends of the oppressed
The emancipation, in copying the ar
ticles has the following remarks:
KENTUCKY.
We shall, doubtless, soon have
to turn our earnest attention again
to this important State. The move
ments of Cassias M. Clay are but
small part Of the present workings
in favor of emancipation. The day
is not distant when Liberty electors
will be nominated. Perhaps not in
1914, but it would be strange if the
movement should not ripen prior to
the presidential election of 184s.-
And we here venture TO predict,tha
whenever the cause shall be sulfi-
GENTLY advanced TO allow fair
nomination of Liberty electors in the
several Districts, Mr.. Birney will
get the electoral vote of his native
State, the first time he comes before
the people. The Liberty party is
the very support, the rallying point,
the leader, that the oppressed white
non-slaveholders of the South re-
quire and must look to, whenever
they move for the recovery of their
rights. We copy the following arti-
Gle from the Cincinnati Herald as a
confirmation -
"LIGHT IN KENTUCKY. The
people of Kentucky, though silent,
are not asleep on the subject of slave
ry. We have means of knowing
that the cause of human liberty is
steadily, though slowly, gaining adj
herents in that noble State. A gen.
tleman in one of its populous coun-
ties, well known, and at this time in
public station, writes to us in a let
ter dated October 31st, as follows:
Il am decidedly anti-sluvery.-I
Your paper converted me some years
since.
The Liberty party movement is
dreaded here more than any thing
else you have done: and is destined
to be the most powerful auxiliary in
the hand of Providence for the over
throw Of American slavery
There is no reason for dreading it.
1t seeks a noble end by Constitu-
tional means. We hope yet to see
the day when a Liberty party shall
unfurl its banners in Kentucky.
Another gentlemen, a native of
one of the South Western Slave
States, travelling through Kentucky,
in letter written in one of the CEN
trail counties, and dated October s3d
speaking of some of the houses he
visited, says:-
In two Of the houses did we see
the paper of our mutual friend, DR..
Bailey. AT Check found a
man who had been made one of us,
by the Doctors Facts for the Peo-
ple,' and he was chock full of Judge
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DIsTREssEs OF MoNEYBD MEN.-They
say that bank in New England having
twenty thousand dollars lying here, which