Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-07-16

adjustments which may be made in Tariff of du
ties, any of which may be exceIien. as far Rev.
enue is concerned, and yet. yield golden crop of
cotton 10 yourTexas lands, while il opens the flood
gates of foreign pauper labor to sweep away or
manufactures, and turn their present operatives
upou lands to add to our already surplus aericul.
lural production. 10 fine, adjustments which will
enable your slave system 10 monopoise all the
wealth of commerce, leaving to the oceans sons
of New England, the poor privilege of being your
'beasts of BURDEN aud to The farmers of the ives,
The privilege of providing the molly of corn on
which you rneanly aud s;ingily Starre your labor
ing. aud therefore most honorable and useful pop.
u'ation. We wish every voter in our population
would consider this subject earthly for we pledge
our reputation as prophet, that ere two more
sessions OF Congress, The people ofthe North will,
however unwilllngy. be compelled to look Dis
union, "nh all its deforlnily full in the face We
are not talking treason, for in whatever strait the
whole country shall fall by the fault of its rulers
we say. stand by 1t. If war come. while we
shall insist on exercising the common right of A
mericans. TO decry its Injustice If we think it is
UNJUST aud seek TO avoid 1t il we think il is unne.
cessary, we shall nevertheless cheerfuliv share
The common peri! and danger of cur countrymen
in our country's defence; & our fellow citizens of
the "Derocralic" party, may rest assured that
those ftheIr would be leaders who tell them that
Wings are pledged not 10 aid aud assist the coun-
try IN the extremity OF war, are Shameless liars,
an0 are only laboring 10 create an odium against
portion of their ow-cltIZens for their own ad-
vantage. But The common suffering of common
danger, no matter what The cause, is quite differ
ent thing from the suffering of The consequences
OF partial aud slaveholdDg system of Legislation.
system which seeks 10 degrade freemen TO The
serf's condition; such system as caa and we
venture from Wedge of the actors. to say
beforehand sciU be made out of this "Revenue
Tariff. When this system is clearly evolved
aud embodied IN the shape of Law, aud its i'm
position upon assisted by the BIigands of Tex
as, then it will be time to calculate The value of
the Union. Then il will be time to ask .--Sha
ali the advantages of Government be sacrificed TO
perpeuate a worse that useless name?
DEATH BY LIGnTINING.-Goom was thrown
over our village on the afternoon of Sunday last,
by the sudden aud very singular death of one of
our numter. The day had been excessively
ed by shower which fell in the forenoon, unac-
companied however by any appearance of cleo
tricny. In The afternoon, similar shower SEEM
ed to be appros chihg from the Northwest, the
cloud lot being sufficient cover the fourth pat Of
The hemisphere. No inliaalion Of the presence
of electricity was perceived until suddenly as The
upper disc Of the cloud attained altitude nearly
perpendicular with the Northern part of the VII
'age, a single discharge Of the fluid took place
which struck in several di fferent places, in one OF
which it was attended with loss of life. The
person killed, Miss Mary Sco6eId. was standing
close TO the trunk Of small hickory tree. down
which the fluid descended until it reached the lev
ell of her head when part leaving the tree. struck
her 10 the face, slightly breaking The the skin, and
killing her instantly. Mrs ScofieId we in
formed, on seeing her daughter fall retained suffi.
cient presence of mind, TO dash water over her,
and on the arrival of assistance, which was not
delayed many seconds, the usual means of res
toring animation, was resorted TO without success.
ii, was such as 10 give The impression that death
had been as instantaneous as the IightnUgs fash.
Immediately afer the discharge, the cloud as tho
repealed by the earth, now n positive electrical
state. passed rapidly away to the North. aud in
few mnu es no cause oil death by lightning was
apparent in the heavens.
The air at the time being perfectly still, all the
phenomena of the approach of the cloud its dis
charge, and retreat, was in the strictest accord
ance with the laws of electricity, as illustrated by
electrical machines. Though the report which
followed was not uncommonly loud, the quantity
of fluid discharged must have been very great, as
persons standing near on the ground, describe The
flash to have been instantly followed by sensa-
ton such as one perceives when standing on the
insulating stool of a powerful machine. The tree
under which Miss Scofield was standing is only
Two or three feet from the house, and had she not
unfortunately been near it, would have been the
means Of protection instead Of danger as its heigh,
Is so little above the roof as to render it certain
that the bouse would have been struck had not
a Tree an, oil. e