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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-27

man shp respects himself will be found in your
company. Nay more, you may be induced to
follow the example of Others and partake occa-
sionally ofthe pleasant cordial or agreeable wine,
until you have planted seeds Of inebriation in
your sysem. Beware We have seen the
downfall Of bright, active, intelligent and high
minded youth, and from their sad tales Of wretch
edness and woe would caution you to be on your
guard
CaB you read? There are thousands of vol
umes at your command-not fictitious and we
had almost said licentious trash, which is daily
poured from the press under the name of cheap
literam2-but works of merit, which you can
obts4 almost any where. Read :hose and be
%proited, during your leisure evenings. We would
recommend Histories, Biographies and narratives
to your attention. Read Rollin, PIutarch and
other historians, and fyou once acquire a taste
for reading, you will never better enjoy yourself
than when p~erusing some useful volume.
Can you write Put your thoughts on paper.
This is pleasing and useful exercise. If you
commence early and habituate yourself to COM
pose, you will soon acquire a taste for writing,
and express yourself on paper with perfect free
dom.
There are other ways in which you can pre-
ftably and pleasantly pass your evenings. Be
careful then of this portion Of time, remembering
that you are forming your character for life. 0,
be faithful to yourself and when you take an &C
tive part in the concerns of life, virtue. will be
your support and integrity your guiding star
Portland Tribune.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-27
For Young II Ell.
How do Won spend YOUR Evenings!


Young man, how do you spend youl eve
ningsl Answer this question, and we can tell
you almost to certainty, what will be your fu-
ture character. In our view, more depends up
on the manner in which young men pass this
season, as it regards their course and conduct in
years to come, than upon anything else. We
have been an observer Of men aud things, for the
last twenty years, and can point - many ayouth,
who has caused weeping and sorrow in his fami-
ly, disgraced his name and is now an outcgst in
the world, or has sunk to a dishonored grave,
who commenced his career Of vice, when he
broke away from wholesome restraint and spent
his evenings in the company Of The abandoned.
On the contrary, we know many estimable Young
men--lhe pride and hope of their frlends-who
are working their way to favor and wealth, who
spend their leisure evenings in some useful pur-
suit.
Young man, listen to us and take heed to our
words-not that we wish to deprive you Of a
single pleasure, or debar you from any innocent
amusement. We entreat you to be particular
0here and how you spend your evening hours
If you lounge about the bar-room, partaking OF
the vulgar conversation that is introduced and
Join the ribald song, or stand at the corner OF
the streets, using p%rofane and indecent language,
you will soon habituate yourself to low black
guardism and vile conversation, that no young
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-27
From the Christian Citizen.
TO Mrs Virginia;
Dear Old Auut-

Dear Old AuR:-There is q
story circulating about here that you don't take
GOOD care Of your children; that you hayn't got
any school houses, and don't give them any edu-
cation, but let them grow up like wild asses'
colts. The newspapers are telling round that
YOU have nearly sixty thousand Of grown-u2
white children in your family that can't write or
read their names! Now good old Aunt, that is
rather a hard story. Our mother here tells US
that you had the best setting out of the whole
American family of thirteen sisters; that you
had the largest and best piece of land in the
whole homestead, and that you have always
dressed and lived in an aristocratic fashion,
looking disparagIngly at your younger and poorer
sisters, who were obliged to wear homespun and
live on Johnny cakes aud roast potatoes. Now
what do you think the world will say Of you, II
you go on raising up a large family Of children
in this way! SupPoe that your sixty thousand
grown up men and women, who can't read their
a. b. G., should get together some day, and the
little black children that go to our schools should
point at them, and say, ''There look! there are
some of the children of old, proud, aristocratic
Virginia, who is always Boosting of her noble
descent, and of what her dead relations did -
There they stand, tall men and women, and can't
read, cant write, can't spell bag or baker
proud as Lucifer, Dragging all the while Of their
mother, but can't spell her name, nor their own e
either Now, dear old Aunt, wouldn'tSit hurt
your feelings to stand by and hear little black
boys and girls with primers in their hands, say
5 ,ch things Of every twelfth son and daughter
of yoursl to see them point their dark fingers
at them in this wayl l don't want to say any
thing to hurt your feelings, but if you 60 on IN
this way much longer, you will not only be
ashamed Of your children, but they will be
ashamed Of you, and deny that you was ever
their mother.
With ~sorrowful respect,
am your
dutiful nephew,
EzExlEL HyMFHRET, \,
The Old School House,
Cornwealth, Nov. lS45.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-27
SPY r%eceding from the M. E, Church.


For the Green Mountain Freeman.
MEssRs. EDIToRs:-Notice was given in this vii
lage of an anti meeting at the Court House in
the evening of Nov. 18th; and the Court being in ses-
sion, it was hoped that it would be emphatically an A
merican meeting; and we had encouragement that sew
eral respectable lawyers would address the meeting
and we are informed of their starting to come to the
meeting. But they did not arrive, and our American
meeting proved to be u wing meeting; and the wings
who attended were 50 determined against th2 anneXa-
ton of Texas that they would neither demonstrate a.
gainst it, nor suffer others to do it, if they could pre-
vent it by arguments, with which they were filed,
which contained neither truth nor sound reason.
The truth is, as far as we know, or have reason to
believe, that the respectable people, Of all political dis
%tinctions, who were attending court, were really intend
ing to be present and aid the object of the meeting in
procuring signatures to the remonstrance, but were pre-
vented by information that certain wings of the baser
sort, living in the village, and d%ictlting the policy of
the wing party in the village, were mastering to make
a row and defeat the object of the meeting, and they
would not be present to witness the degrading conduct
of their political associates.
1t was expected and hoped, that men oil the several
political parties would attend the meeting; but it was
hoped they would come without their distinctive politi-
cal names or prejudices; but would come as Americans
and JOIN il an united effort to prevent a great national
evil. But it now appears that we have some among us
with whom party must live, if its living brushes and
destroys the vital interests of our country.
UNION.
Woodstock, Nov. 10, 1916.
P. S.-Further particulars Of said meeting are I'M
necessary, at present, because by the movement and
vote of those who controlled the meeting, the whole
are to be published in the papers in Windsor county,
signed by the president and secretary. U.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-27
OCTOBER.

Solemn, yet beautiful to view,
Month of my helrtl thou dawnest here,
With sud and faded leaves to strew
The summers melancholy bier.
The moaning Of thy winds | hear,
As the red sunset dies afur,
And bars of purple clouds appear,
Obscuring every western star.
Thou solemn month! l hear thy voice,
1t tells my soul of other days,
When but to live was to rejoice,
When earth was lovely to my gaze;
Oh, visions bright! oh, blessed hours
Where are their living raptures now?
/ ask my spirits wearied powers
| ask my pale and fevered brow.
I look to nature and behold
My LIES dim c%mblems, Iustling round,
In hues of crimson and of gold
The years dead honors on the ground,
And signing with the winds | feel,
While their low pinions murmur by,
How much their sweeping tones reveal
Ofliie and human destiny.
When Springs delightful moments shone,
They came in zephyrs from the West:
They bore the WOODLANDS melting tone,
They stirred the blue lakes CLASSY breast
Through Summer, fainting in the heat,
They fingered in the forest shade;
But changed and strengthened now, they beat
In storms, DER mountain glen and glade.
How like those transports of the breast
When life is fresh and joy is new;
Soft us the halcyon's doWny nest,
And transient all as they are true!
They stir the Leaves in that bright wreath,
Which Hope about her forehead twines,
Till Grief's hot signs around it breathe,
Then Pleasures lip its smile resigns.
Alas! for Time, and Death and Care,
What gloom about our way they fling!
Like clouds in Autumn's gusty air,
The burial-pageant of the Spring.
The dreams that each successive year
Seemed bathed in hues of brighter pride,
At last like withered leaves appear,
And sleep in darkness, side by side.
# Willis GAYLORD CLARK, formerly the ]
or of the Knickerbocker, n. Y.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-27
Woodstock, Nov. 70, 1916.
Agrippa Hull.

In the village Of Stockbridge, Mass. lives a
black man by the name of AgriPpa Hull who
served in the Revolutionary war. AT the close
of it he was honorably discharged, in testimony
of which he shows a certificate signed by Cen
eral Washington, He was for some years the
servant of General Kosciuskc, of whose gener-
Gus and humane character be speaks with love
and admiration
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-27
THE FREE NJ N.
For the Green Mountain freeman.
A Voice from Springfield District.

MEssRs. POLAND g. BRIGGs.-By a vote of the
Preachers Meeting of the NJ. E. Church, on Spring
field District, holden at Chester on the 28th ult, I was
ordered to forward to you for publication, the append
ed Report of the Committee on sl.very. cannot a.
dept all the phraseology of the Report, but do approve
the general sentiment.
Yours in behalf of the slave,
E.B. MORGAN, Sec'y. Pr. Meeting.
The committee to whom was referred the subject of
slavery beg leave to present the following resolutions:
Isl. That American slavery is, in principle and prac-
tice, a violation of every command in the decalogue-
an intolerable disgrace, and horrible curse to our ma
ton, and especially to the church.
2nd. That we cannot, with a good conscience, and
therefore will not, admit Shareholders to the pulpits Of
which we have the charge, or to the communion we
administer.
8. That the cry of millions of suffering bOndmen for
our sympathy and aid more deeply affects our hearts,
tien the cry Of peace raised by Dds. Bangs md DIN,
and that we pledge ourselves to pursue this system Of
black villany by our investigations and rebuke, howev-
er much those who are engaged in it, or their sympa-
thizers, may cry " Let us alone"
4th. That we regard the late secession from the NJ.
E. Church, in the south, as the natural result ofdiscus-
sion, which is to separate the precious from the vile
and we rejoice that the Wesleyan Methodists of Eng
land-have somewhat plainly expressed their viewof the
subject, by refusing to allow a member Of that body o.
seceders a seat in their conference.
9Th. That any appropriations of money by the Bool
agents to Conferences represented in the Louisville
Convention can be justified only on the ground thu
said convention transends the trusts committed to Their
by their constituents and unless the southern confer
ences express their disapprobation of the doings Of thei
representatives, they can have no claim to any proper
ty of the NJ. E. Church.
&c. ASPENWALL, Chairman.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-27

the human frame-Good or motion. Were the
exercises of the whole of the body attended to
in a corresponding degree with that of the mind,
men of great learning would be more healthy
and vigorous-of more general talents-of more
practical knowledge, more happy in their domes-
tic lives, more enterprising and attached to their
business.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-27
Exercise,

Throughout I'll nature, want Of motion indi'
Gates weakness, corruption, inanImation and
death. Trenck, in his damp prison, leaped
about like a lion, in his letters of seventy pc lnds
weight, in order to preserve his health, and az
illustrious physician ohssrves:--"I know no
which is the more necessary to the support o
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-27
THE PRESIDE.
I Try!

Il can't do it, Yes you can,
If you try and try again;
Ifyou'd be a sterling man
Move your limbs and stir your brain.
You will conquer ifyou try
Energy a never fail
Delving earth and rending sky
Gloriously it will prevail.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-27

Some men get on in the world on tAe pane
principle that a chinney-sweeP' pasees unlnaesS
ruptediy through a crowd
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-27

r. WILLIS GAYLORD CLARK, formerly the Ed
itor of the Knickerbocker, N. Y.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-27

| am your
dutiful nephew,
EzExiEL HvMPHREv, i,
The Old School House,
Cornwealth, Nov. IS45.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-04-17
THE STATE SENTINEL
weekly

is published erery Thursday Office on Hinois ST.,
Second Block North Of Washington.
1.-The State Sentinel viii contain a much larger
amount Of reading matter, all subject, Of general
interest, than any other newspaper IN Indiana.
TERMS.-TwO dollars year, always in advance
In no instance viii more than one number be sent t
the money is received Subscribers viii receive due
notice few weeks before the expiration of each year
or term and if the payment for succeeding year OF
term be not advanced the paper will be discontinued
This rule viii be strictly adhered to an all cases.
Five Dollars will be received for three years; or.
three copies will be sent year for the same
One dollar will be received for six months-dtrGys
az adfance.
ADVERTISEMENTS, win be inserted three times
at one dollar square, ESQ ems) and be continued at
the rate Of % cents square weekly. Quaserly adj
vertisements inserted at 50 a square of $50 ems.
Yearly advertisers viii be accommodated on rea-
sonabe terms, which should always be made in writ
ing agreed upon.
All advertisements from abroad must be accompanied
Jy the cash or no attention will be paid to them.
Postage must be paid
OTPostmasters allowed to frank letters con-
aiming remittances.
Grin ranking, Postmasters must not forget to
write their names in full under the word free"
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-04-17
"The 1Iother and ChiId. >,

Goethe relates, that he met, in the Campagna of Rome
young woman nursing her child seated the remains OF
an ancient column lie questioned her the ruins with
which her dwelling surrounded She ignorant OF
every thing concerning them being wholly devoted the
affections which filled her souls she loved and to her the
present moment the whole of existence
"Temples, and monuments, and cTumbling fanes,
Atlas and broken shafts are scattered round;
Ages long past have sanctifed these plains
And stamped this sacred spot as classic ground
While Art and Genius here their home have found
Bst see where these old sculpured marbles rest,
A mother clasps her infant TO her breast;
She seeks not here TO learn what minds unknown
Carved these immortal forms in breathing stones
She smiles in joy upon her infant fair
And that sweet babe to her glad spirit seems
Holier than scuptured forms poets dreams;
And in such bliss, oh wherefore should she
Who reared those haftsby whom those towers piled
The present fills her souhcr heart with her child %
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-04-17
DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES

a simple and frugal Government, confined within
strict Constitutional limits.
strict construction fthe Constitution, and no as
sumption Of doubtful POWERS
No National Bank TO swindlc the hboring populs-
ton.
No connection between The government and banks.
Diplomacy, asking for nothing but what is clear
~ right and submitting to noting wrong.
No public debt, either BY the General Government,
OF oy the States, except for objects Of urgent neces
sity.
No assumption By the General Government Of the
debts OF the States, either directly or indirectly. by
distribution OF the proceeds Of the public lands
Revenue tariff, GIscrim mating in favor Cf the
poor consumer instead Of the rich capitalist
No extensive system of Internal Improvements -
tie General Government, by the States.
constitutional barrier against improyident State
loans.
The honest payment of our debts and the sacred
preservation Of the public faith.
gradual return from paper credit system.
No grants of exclusive charters and privileges by
special Legislation, to banks.
No connexion between Church and State
No prescription for honest opinions
Fostering aid to public education.
progressive reformation of all abuses.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-04-17

MENTAL SUFFERING.-It is curious to mark the
many shapes taken by mental suffering. With some
1t at once assumes the mask and the manner, puts
smiles and forces the gay and brilliant word These
are they who sensitvey alive TO the opinion Of
others, who having once been called animated deem
that they have a character to sustain Such shrink
with morbid susceptibility from its being supposed
how much they really feel; and vanity-vanity, by
theby in its most graceful and engaging form, usu-
ally native to such characteristics them to support
the seeming. They cannot endure being thought less
agreeable; and only in solitude give way to the
greet which Expresses them-then exaggerated to the
utmost. All none know the misery of such solitude
but those who have felt it. The reaction of forced
excitement is terrble pale, spritess, and exhaust
ed, we are left Suddenly alone with our memory
which on the instant acquires almost magical pow
er of creation every sorrowful passage in existence
retraced anew, every modification rises up in dou
bic bitterness; Sights are magnied, and even invent
ed-they almost seem deserved; for we ashamed
of ourselves for having acted part We feel lonely
neglected, miserable, aggrieved; and all that but one
half hour before bad been cxerting ourselves tc
attain, appears to be utterly worthless.
1t is easy to say that such State Of mind is NOR
bid and mistaken; but before change our feel
ings we must change nature and tempera
ment of this sensitive and excitable kind is of al
others the most difficult, nay, impossible, to alter ant
| to subdue.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-04-17

WHITEWAsHlNG ExTRAoRDINARY.-The Rev: Mr.
Williams gives, in one of his narratives aughable
of tile effect produced the natives Ut one
of the South Sea Islands, by an attempt which he
made to convert the coral of their shores into lime
After having laughed at the process Of burning, which
they believed to be to cook the coral for food what
was their establishment when, in the morning, they
found the missionarys cottage giterng in the rising
sun, white as snow! They danced they sang, they
shouted, they screamed for joy. The whole island
soon in conimotion given UP to wonder and curl
osity The bon ton Immediately voted the whitewash
cosmetic and kalydor, and superlatvely happy did
many swarhy coquette consider herself, could she
but enhance her charms by dab of the white brush
And party spirit hign, it will do in more
civilized counties, as TO who was, or who was not,
entitled to preference. One party urged their superb
or rank and riches; second got the brush and were
determined at all events to keep and third tried
to overturn the whole that they might obtain some OF
the sweepings They did not scruple to rob each
other Of the little share that some had been SO happy
as to procure. Bot soon lime was prepared, and
in week not a hut domestic uens, war club,
or garment, but white as snow not an in
habitant but what had his skin painted with the most
grotesque figures; not pig but what was similarly
whitened; and even mothers might be seen in every
direction, capering with extravagaut gestures and
yelling with delight. at the superior beauty of their
whitswashed infants"
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-04-17

Speaking of the recent savage performance of tie
elephant at Baton Rouge, the Advocate Of that ilk
says:
1t is supposed, that the original cause Of the ele-
plants fury, piece Of tobacco which had very
imprudenty been given him by some of the specta-
tors at the exhibition, on the day previous. Tire
traordnary sagacity OF an animal like the elephant is
not TO be tampered with. And here we will relate
an incident in proof of this well known fact Some
years ago during our soourn at Monroe in this State.
menagerie, having elephant, (probably the den-
teal one spoken of above) stopped at the town TO
hibit for few days. One afternoon young man
clerk i'll store, offered the elephant piece Of tobac
CO, which, taking with his trunk he placed in his
mouth, but quickly perceiving the imposition to which
he had basey been subjected he grew vehemently
ragged lashed his trunk furiously about pierced the
air with his neghings, and would follow the young
man with his eyes. during the rest Of the afternoon.
That night about twelve o'clock he brook loose from
his Station, and, if guided by some secret know
ledge, made directly for the store in back room of
which his tormentor slept and tearing up by the roots
several large china trees in front of the building he
then battered down the door, effected his entrance and
rushed into the room where the young asleep,
giving him barely time enough escape with his life.
The monstrous midnight invader, after performing
sundry works of mischief left the store and proceed
ed to the Ouachita river which he swan, and
after travelling for miles the opposite shore,
was finally captured by his keeper.