Litchfield enquirer., 1845-07-24
FOSTERS POWER PRESS. From tke KeRtascLrY True .Asaeyican.

1 FOSTERS POWER PRESS. From tue Kentucky True American. We invite our pro sHaue1y friends, for we are the enemies of Sl0Uey, not of shareholders; to come and see this beautiful piece of mechanism, the product of free labor. If any man is proud of mental achievement, let him look on this, and re- fleet that slavery deprives us of such as these. If any one IS covetous of wealth, let him seek this, and reflect that slavery has sent millions of our mo- ney to free Stutes, to purchase machinery that l ought to have been made at home. If any body is fond of the tOiIing milliOns,'' let him show his faith by his works, and to it, that our own mo- ney shall be spent among our own "people." Let those men who have spent the peoples school fund in building locks and dams, and turnpike roads, over which there is nothing to be carried, remem- Der that there are thousands of Fosters in Kentucky who, for the want of proper education and enCotr- agement, are lost to the world first make your articles of commerce, and then the means of con- UeyG0ce.
 Those who take pride in large cities; ask yotir. selves why we have been compelled to send six teen hundred dollars from Lexington, the older to Cincinnati, the younger city, for press and print ing materials. Those farmers WI o want home markets and high prices. can know why their beef and pork, and other things have to be carried to distant and uncertain markets. Where the manu- featuring mouths are, there is the market also. " If pious parents are grieved that their sons or daughters are spendthrifts and profigates, how can they blame any one but themselves !? Make labor free, and you make it honorable. How ma ny starving at the desk, at the bar. at the counter, who, like Foster, might have been useful to themselves and honor to the country, if slai very had not made manual labor u',f ',fashiOna6le." If any man deems us a fanatic, let him look uip- on this press, the result of free labor: the source of light, liberty, civilization and religion and then ask his own secret emotions, it he should be re. garded enemy to his country, who would wish that Lexington too might make these.
 Above all, if there is any father of ten sons, so unfortunate as.to have one poor, miserable, sum- burnt, foxy-headed negro let him come and see our press, and go with us, and make Kentucky tree NOT RICH. BUT GENEROUS. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Native American writes as follows:
 | The last time was in Boston, in passing dowr Hanover, below Fleet street, saw son of Africa sitting on pile of wood just sawed, and eating ap- parently with keen relish, some fragments of | bread which had just been given him for his work should probably have passed him without further notice, had I not been struck with the appearance of woman who was standing little distance from him, and watching his operations with eager interest. She was white woman, dressed in the thin garb of poverty, who. in spite of her emacia. who had seen better days. Curious to know what interest she could take in his movements, stop | ped moment to watch them.
 The wood sawyer noticed her fixed look, ask l ing her what she wanted. | Pointing to his meal, spread upon the log, she replied, i" have not eaten so much as that in two weeks"
 ] We'll, sit down here, and take bite," said the negro, " although aint rich, 7 IGm generous P'
 With tears in her eyes that seemed just before sealed up from weeping she drew near the hum- ble table. did not interfere to deprive the wood Ar of act, (lor generous it in him to share his only meal with another,) but after privately slipping a piece of money into the poor woman's hand, con- tinued my walk
 But I could not shut out the scene from my thoughts, and the words of the African, a not rich but generous" kept ringing in my ears.- What must man have been in his best estate, thought I, when degraded ss he is, human nature is so full of kindly sympathes But if riches consist in the means of happiness. what fund of wealth has man, whom God has blessed with a sympathising heart for where is there greater | that prefaced his sumptuous dinner with long grace, found no richer blessings at his table, that day, than did the wood sawyer upon his log.
 A great u,,kno,cn (says the St. Louis Reveille.) in an exchange paper, relates, in very touching verse, the opposite fates of two early ffiends the little tale has great moral :-
 One took paper. and his life
 Was happier than kings:
 His children all could read and write, 1 And talk of men and thinks
 The other took no paper. and ] While strolling through the wood, l tree fell down upon his crown, | And killed him-as it should
 Had he been reading of the news, At home, like neighbor Jim,
 I'll bet cent that accident ... | Would not have happened him.
 Tribute 10 .Me,it.-A large number of the friends of Law and Order in Providence have uni- ted in presenting to the Editor of the Providence Journal service of Plate, in token of their appro- bation of his services during the conflicts which years The plate is of pure silver and consists of an oblong waiter ot twenty.two inches in length and sixteen inches in width, with heavy embos- sed border and handles, and richly wrought engra.