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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-08-26
Dlnville, Aug. -, 1917.
Extract,

The Rev. Mr.. Allen, professor in the Worces-
ter Asylum, in an address given before the Wor-
cester Central Association upon the subject of
Slavery inquiries -
"Can that, then, be right, be well-doing-can
that obey Gods behest, which makes a man a
slave? which dooms him and all his posterlty,
in limitless generations, to bondage Ito unre-
quilted toll, through life-to the will of a despot,
with no purpose of his own, and only another's,
to rule his destiny, from the cradle to the grave
which makes fear the great motive of his life
which forbids his interest in property, of eve
ry kind, making the hope of tomorrow, no OBJ.
lect of to-day, or if an object at all, one that the
fear of anOther's arbitrary and caplcious will
makes next to none (which allows him nc
country whose government he can hope for pro
tection-none whose government, as %ludicially
construed, is not his sworn foe (which denie.
him in childhood, manhood, and old age a volun
tary home, and whatever that full word imports
which cuts him off from parentage at his birth
which robs him of the fixed necessities of hi
social nature, ~abrogating domestic relations, ant
forbidding the comfort and solace of wife or chill
dred, whatever may betide him in this rugged
world (which makes the body liable, withou
distinction of sex, to the resistless, questionles
infections of a masters, or an overseer's whims
and cultivated passions (which furnishes tn
soul, seeking to keep the mind ever vacant of it
proper nourishment, and to hold its unmanne
possessor but a step, the shortest possible, from
the brute (which takes from him the common
est motives to virtue, and reason the whole foun
datlon of his nature, urgent and lasting lnceu
tives to vicel-which makes him suspected b
and suspicious of those for whom he is dali
driven to toll, aud on whom, for his coarse allow
ance of prOvender he every day depends !-whic
f tempts him to p~rowling stealth, and to pllfer, a
Y a virtue, when not detected, from his master
: store, the earnings of his own unpaid toll 2
which excites him to acquire the longed-for boo
of freedom, by venturing through the most me
t ciless dangers, or to vindicate his right to it, b
e the broadcast seal of blood (which represses I'll
upward aspirings of his nature for immortallt,
- making a sensual world the sphere and bound
:, ry of his vision (which keeps from his hanC
4 the word of life, yields to him a reluctant, VI
n certain, unspiritual Sabbath, and all but Who'll
; leaves him without a hope and without God
i the world % y
"Why has there been, for SO long a perio'
5 why yet is there, to so large an extent among II
{ churches and ministers, a seeming if not a re
apathy-a want of decisive interposition in b
+ half of millions of their countrymen whose co
d dition and prospects claim their instant earne
d regard-their united ~resolute efficiency? Ca
e it be for want of heart to feel, or will to do
the general cause Of human welfare This
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-08-26
Good Butter.

is your butter good?' said | to a farmer.
'Good! my wife has made butter these twenty
years, and should think she ought to know how
to make good butter by this time!
He was evidently offended.
We'll let us examine it, The cover was tax.
en- off the tub; the clean white cloth (which had
been wet in the brine) rolled up, and the yellow
treasure revealed. 1t certainly did look good.
1T tastes sweet, but how very salt it Isl
We have always made our butter salt, to have
1t keep at this season.
Let us see if the buttermilk is as well worked
out as the salt is in
Some of the rolls were pressed down with the
ladle.
Now, my friend, if your wife has made buttel
these twenty years, she does not know how tc
make 1T good; for no butter can be good until the
buttermllk is worked out. If that is done. yor
need not salt it so much to keep well in an,
place. A very little care and labor would have
made this butter excellent; but lacking that lit
tie, it is only a second quality, as you shall ack
nowledge when | show you a sample of gooC
butter
We went in, and took up a roll from a crocl
OF f%lrst-rate butter. 1t was smooth, clear anC
handsome; the hand of woman had not been OF
1t from the time it had left the churn until nov
all the work had been done with the ladle.
'lfyou get a drop of buttermilk from that but
ter you shall have the whole free. Now tastt
this and your own; say, honestly, if you wouIc
not give a higher price for this than your own
Look at it; see how clear and transparent thes,
minute globules are, and how intimately blend
ed with the mass. Until all these disappear, tn,
butter will not keep long, when they are S,
slightly colored by the milk
The farmer simply remarked that there was
difference in all butter, and left me to find a les
critical and more ready customer.
1t is STANCE, that when every body loves goo,
butter, and is willing to pay for it, our farmers
wives and daughters do not take pains to max
a better article. 1t is the fault of the womeI
generally, that e have poor butter, and we shaI
hold them responsible.
1t is perfectly easy to make good butter. TIL
only thing requisite is care. Good butter wi
always command a good price in the duIle:
market, while poor butter is a drug at any price
When any of our lady readers make butter
gain just let them imagine that | am to have
nice bit of bread and butter with them and thu
shall detect the least particle of milk, and thu
| ain not fond Oftoo much salt!-GemeSee Farm
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-08-26
Facts for Farmers

There are some things that farmers should
know.
1t is an error to plant seeds from a state further
south, In a cold season, only the the seed of a
colder climate will ripen well.
Often breaking up a surface keeps a soil in
health; for when it lies in a hard bound state en-
riching showers run off, and the salubrious air
cannot enter.
Weeds exhaust the strength of the ground and
if suffered to grow may be called garden sins.
Never keep your cattle short; few farmers can
afford 1t. If you starve them they will starve
you.
1t will not do to hoe great field for a little
crop, or to NOW twenty acres for five loads Of
hay. Enrich the land and it will pay you for it
Better farm thirty acres well than fifty acres by
halves.
In dry pastures dig for water on the brow o
a hill; springs are more frequently near the sur
face on a height than in a vale.
Cut bushes that you wish to destroy in thu
summer, and with a sharp instrument; they viii
bleed freely and die.
Never plough in bad weather, or when tn
! ground Is very wet.
When an implement is no longer wanted TO
the scasoa, lay it carefully aside, but first let il
be we'll cleaned.
Obtain good seed, prepare your ground well
SOW early and pay very little attention to tn
moon.
The depredations of birds are fully compensa
ted by the services they render in preying upol
insects.
A bare pasture enriches not the soil, nor fa
tens the animals, nor increases the wealth of tn
owner.
One animal we'll fed is of more value than tw
poorly kept.
Sow clover deep; it secures it against tn
drought.
Weeds that grow unmolestcd round the fence
stumps, and stones, scatter their seeds over til
flrm, and are very likeIv to grow.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-08-26

We have two or three, nearly or quite insup-
objections against supporting Gen. Tay-
for the next presidency.
The first is already stated, and we emphantic-
ally repeat it. He is another stakeholder to be
added in case of his election to the most unreas-
enable inequality by which such men have claim
ed and held office in this republic.
The second is: 1t would be another Jackson
day party, founded on nothing but successful bat
ties in an unjust cause-in a war got up to e-
tend slavery, and assist the party now in power,
to trample on the rights of the northern free
states.
Wepray our northern wing friends to consld-
err, and not rush beforehand into the arms of
southern slavery, and aid in riveting their own
letters. Just look at Mr.. Calhoun's letter in this
paper and say whether there is a northern wing
who is ready to succumb to another southern
slaveholding President at this time, over and a.
bove all the inequality they have already enjoy
ed.
We say nothing against General Taylor-we
doubt not that he is a great man and would de-
spise the low arts by which the party now in pow
err manage the country, but the manner in which
he has been employed, should not recommend
him to the wings. We do not want a military
hero in a war like this, for President. Nor is
he the man to keep out slave territory from this
Union, when he has been the chief instrument
in conquering it!
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-08-26
Thus is Life,

If we die to-day, the sun will shine as bright.
ly and the birds will sing as sweetly tomorrow.
Business will not be suspended for moment.
and the great mass will not bestow a thought
upon our memories. els he dead ~ will be the
solemn enquiry of a few, as they pass to theil
pleasure or their work, But no one will mis-:
US except our immediate connexions, and in
short time even they will forget us and laugh as
merrily as when we sat beside them.
Thus shall we all now in active life pass away
Our children crowd close behind US and they
will soon be gone. In a few years not a living
being can say 81 remember him." We lived il
another age, and did business with those who
have long since sIumbered in the tomb. Thu;
is life. How rapidly it passes! o, blessed are
they who are held in everlasting remembrance.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-08-26
Influence Of Slavery,

The Apalachicola Oily Advertiser speaks in
this wise of the influence Of slavery.
In this small community, we have a sad in
stance of the influence which the employment Of
slaves will have to diminish population, and so
reduce the wealth of the community. In 1888,
when we first came to this city, there we're but
few slaves, and they were mostly owned by our
own citizens; at that time our population a.
mounted to about $500; the high rate of wages
here, and the reduction in the value of slave la
Dor in Georgia and Alabama, sent gangs of ne
groes from those States to be hired out here, in
opposition to the white laborers-the result has
been, TINT our population has been reduced to
400! while the quantity of cotton shipped since
1898 has been quadrupled. The white labor
ers could not subsist on the wages paid to the
slave-they were driven away. But the evil was
not confined to them alone the merchants who
supplied them with food and raiment, and the
landlords who rented them dwellings, have felt
the effects of diminished demand for whit they
each supplied. The wages of the white laborer
were dlfused by him through the whole commu-
nity-he was a consumer as well as producer
he boarded up bnt little but the wages of the
slave labOror were sent to enrich his already
"Ou''HJ III NCplS 81" uhu Aldpdlid, HOI Il
dollar of it ever returns here
We desire to encourage the honest, industri-
Gus whites from the interior of the State to come
and settle in our city, and perform the labor now
done by foreign negroes, many of whom are a
curse to the community. 1t is an evidence of a
want of that feeling of sympathy which we should
possess for our own color, thlt while many hon
est, industrious white men and women in our
city are unable to buy decent raiment, and can
scarcely make two ends meet in the matter OF
bread and meat, there are in the city, negro men
and women revealing il plenty, who fluat by
us on Sunday, shining in their gay attire, turn
ing up their noses at those they call poor white
folks We hive had applications m1de to US,
and through us to others, for work, by white
men and women, to be enabled to get food to
put in their own and their children's mouths,
which they had sought in vain, while we could
look out from our windows upon the habitations
of negroes who were surrounded by every com
fort, and whose dress surpassed that of almost
any white laborer, or white laborer's wife in the
city
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-08-26

Old! call you mel All, when the Almighty
spoke creation into birth, | was there. Then
was born. Mid the bloom and verdure of
paradise, | gazed upon the young world radiant
with celestial smiles. l rose upon the pinions of
the first morn, and caught the sweet dew drops
as they fell and sparkled on the boughs of the
garden. Ere the foot of man was heard sound
ing in this wilderness, | gazed out on its thous-
and rivers, flashing in light, and rejecting the
broad sun like a thousand Jewels upon their bo-
SONS. The c~ataracts sent up their anthems in
these solitudes, and none was here to listen to the
newborn melody but /! The fawns bounded
over the hills, and drank at the limpid streams
ages before an arm was raised to inlure or make
them afraid. For thousands of years the morn
ing star rose in beauty upon these unpeopled
shores, and its twin sister of the eve famed in
the forehead of the sky, with no eye to admire
their rays but mine. All! call me old Babylon
and Assyria, Palmyra and Thebes, rose, -four
tshed, and fell, and | beheld them in their glory
and their decline. Scarce a melancholy ruin
marks the place of their existence; but wher
their fine stones were laid in the earth, was
there! Mid all their ~splendor, glory and wick
edness, | was in their busy streets, and crumb
ling their magnificent palaces to the earth. My
books will show a long and fearful account a
gainst them. | control the fate of empires
give them their period of glory and s%plendor; bu
at their birth, / conceal in them the seeds O
death and decay. They must go down and b.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-08-26
Sound Advice for Young Men.

Some sensible thinker lays down the follow
ing rule to govern young men in business. They
will apply equally to young and old Let the
business of every one alone, and attend to your
own. Don't buy what you don't want; use eve
ry hour to advantage, and study even to make
leisure hours useful-think twice before you
spend a shilling, remember you will have anoth-
er to make for it; find recreation in looking af-
ter your business, and so your business will not
be neglected in looking after recreation buy
fair, sell fair, takecare of the profits look over
your books regularly, and if you find an error,
trace it out should a stroke of misfortune come
upon you in trade, retrench-work harder, but
never fly the track confront difficulties with
unfinching perseverance, and they will disap-
pear at last though you should even fail in the
struggle, you will be honored but shrink from
the task, and you will be %despised.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-08-26

contradicted by too many decisive proofs, to
make it questionable except by skepticism of the
will. But while their faith and zeal thread gloo-
my wild to reclaim the rowing savage, while they
explore the wretchedness of far off continents,
and scan the misery of lonely islets dotting the
Pacific waters, while they thus traverse the globe
in enterprises of love, which difficulties seem on
ly to carry forward with more abundant resolu-
ton and success, how happens it, that a victim
of oppression helpless and wailing lies neglected
at their very door though half that faith and yea
would, years gone by, have circumscribed hi:
growing wrongs, and at this very moment, would
have seen his letters broken, his manhood lifted
from the dust, and anation joyful in the common
deliverance."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-08-26
The Widows Daughter.

One, two, three rings on your fnger-tour,
ive-yes, true as we live-there are five gold
,ings on your fngers-and Monday too-the re-
}ular washing day. Well be bound to say you
lave not been to the wash-tub with your mother
p-day. A poor girl as you are, whose mother
an hardly earn enough to make both ends meet,
nd with gold! SHINE on you! What could
gu do, if she should be taken away! You are net
t for a wife, aud as for being a lady, it out of
he question. You have not beauty to recon-
mend you to some wealthy fop, nor industry to
ecure an honest mechanic, What in the world
re you proud of? Why do you dress so ex-
ravagantlyl Every body knows that your moth
r is not able to support you in this way, and
our neighbors will tllk so long as YOU behave
% like a fool.
Oar advice is, t;kc every ring from your fling
RS, and commence an apprenticeship to the
rade of housewitcry. Learn to sew, to knit, tc
bake, to wash, to cook. You have nothing tc
Expect from rich relations, and the only chance
before you is, that you my become the wife O
some honest mechanic. This chance will slip
f you are not careful, and you may be thrown fol
support on the town. Believe it or not, NAM
a foolish and naughty girl like yourself, has come
to such an end or a worse one. flour advice il
worth any thing, take heed to it, and the mex
time we call upon you, we shall find you NOR
happy in ~spirits-cheerful and Commemorative
York Paper.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-08-26
SelfiShneSS.

God has written upon the flowers that sweeten
the air-upon the breeze that rocks the flower
OH the stem-upon the rain drop that refreshes
the sprig of moss that lifts its head in the desert
upon the ocean that rocks every swimmer in
its deep chambers-upon every p%encilled shell
that sleeps in the caverns of the deep, no les.
than upon the mighty sun which warns and
cheers millions of creatures that live in its ligh'
Upon his works he has written-"none of u
liveth for himself" And probably we're we wise
enough to understand these works, we SHOULD
find that there is nothing-from the cold stone
IN the earth or the minutest creature that breathe'
which may not, in some way or other, minis
ter to the happiness of some living creature
We admire and praise that flower that best an
swers the end for which / it was created, and be-
slows the most pleasure. We value and praise
that horse, which best answers the end for which
it was created, and the tree that bears fruit thu
most rich and abundant; the star that is the mos
useful in the heavens is the star that we admir-,
the most.
And is it not reasonable, that MAN, to whom
the whole creation, from the flower up to tn
spangled heavens, all minister-man, who ha
the power of comforting deeper misery or highe
happiness, than any being on earth-man VIII,
can act like God if he willis it not REASONABLE
that he should live for the noble end of living
not to himself but for others!
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-08-26

Tsnacity Of We.-A toad, which was buried
under a reversed flower pot, three feet beneath
the surface of the ground, on the l4th June,
1916, was on the 14th of June last, disinterred,
and Immediately commenced skipping about
Its mouth was closed up by a white skin, but its
eyes were as sparkling as when on that day twelve
months, it was put below the ground.
Horace WaIpole tells of a Lord Mayor ofLon-
don in his time, who, having heard that a friend
had been sick twice with the small pox, and had
died of that disease, gravely asked if he died the
first time he had it or the second,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-08-26

The harvest in the empire of Morocco is end,
ed, and the produce has been so abundant that
corn had fallen to one half of the price at which
it was previously sold.
Two persons committed sbicide at st Johns.
on Thursday, under the influence of fever.
We are pleased to learn from the last Greer
Mountain Spring, that DR.. Wesselhoeft's Hydro
pathic Establishment is nearly full. The whole
number of patients in the Dr,s. House and in the
village is 1874. Among the arrivals the pas
month we notice the names of Lieut.. Brasher o
the Navy, Judge Bronson and family of Florida
and Hon. Alvin Stewart of Utica.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-08-26
TO Protect Grain from Rats.

An individual of much practical experience,
informs us that green elder deposited in and a.
bout the mows of hay and grain, will prove an
%effectual preventive against the depredations Of
mice and rats. These animals are frequently
very destructive in their rayages, and if a RENE
dy so simple and easy of attainment is %efficaci-
GUS, it deserves to be known and remembered by
all. There is something in the odor of this plan
that is as disgusting to their ratships as was the
leek to ancient PistoI-'they cannot abide it.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-08-26
MloraI au0 Religious.
From The Peoples Journal for June.
Gloon and |.

Cleon hath million acres
Meier one have |;
Cleon dwelletL in a palace
Ina cottage l;
Cleon hath a dozen fortunes
Not a penny |;
But the poorer of the twain is
Cleon, and not |.
Cleon, true, possesses acres,
But the landscape |;
Half the charms to me it yieldeth
Money cannot buy;
Cleon harbors sloth and dulness-
Freshening vigor l;
He in velvet, | in ~fustian,
Richer man am |.
Cleon is a slave to grandeur
Ere e as thought am l.;
Cleon feeds a score of doctors
Need of none have 1;
Wealth-surrounded, care-environed,
Cleon fears to die;
Death may come. he'll find me ready
Happier man am |.
Gloon sces no Charms in Nlture-
In daisy 1;
Cleon hears no anthems ringing
In the sea and sky;
Natu re sings to me forever
Earnest listener /;
State for state, with all attendants,
Who would CT ange?-Not [.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-08-26
Agricultural.
HarVGS

Up and away! while the diamond dew
BesPangles the bending corn;
And gaily we labor, the while we WOO
The bracing breath of morn;
And under the shade of the beeches green
Wen rest at noon Of day;
Hurrah! for the sickle and scythe so keen!
Away to the fields, away!
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-01-01
DIR CIRCULATION.

TIVE mean TO keep the following paragraph S'di
ding for the benefit of all whom it may concern:
ADVERTISEMENT would commend the io'o"l's
fscts to the attention of the advertising community
The Wilmington Journal" crculates upwards oil ONE
rBousANp COPIES weekly Its circulation IN the to"n Vi
wilmington is large as that Of any other paper pun
lished in the place We wond further s'a'e '',"s i
circulation in the couhes which trade 10 tlS pfuoo
TINES as large as that of any other paper publish
al IN North Carolina and that It's list daily increasing
We saw therefore, without the fear of contradiction,
that II is the best vehicle for advertising which the peo-
pe of Wilmington can select One other observation
We think, that although large majority OF the readers
of the journal" are Democrats, still THEY occasionally
do little trading as well the readers of the whig pa
We have written the above merely for the lnfor'
.,or n those who are most deeply interested-busi
meas men of all professions and all political crecds
7vgo WANT CUSTOMERS.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-01-01
NEW MAIL ARRANGEMENT.
Post Office. Wilmington.

NoRrHERx MAIL, by Rail Road, due daily at 10 A. NJ
aud close at lOevery night.
SOUTHERN MAIL, by Steamer from Charleston, is due
daily at A. NJ, and closes etll A. NJ. every day.
FAYErrzvILLR MAIL, by Rail Road, is due on Mondays
Wednesdays and Fridays, at P NJ, and closes on same
days at 10 at night.
FAYErrEv1LIE MAIL, by Prospect Hail. Elizabethto"h
Westbrooks, and Robesons is due on tuesdays hhurS
d,ve and satnrdays at A. NJ and closes same days
atl0P.M
s,,rrHyrLrE MAiL, by Steamer is due daily at A. NJ
and closes at l2t p. NJ every day.
TAyLoR's BRIDGE LONG CREEK, MooRE's CREEK, BLAcR
RIVER CHAPEL and HARRELLs STORE MAIL is due every
Thursday at 6 T. NJ, and closes same night at TO-
OssLow CoURr HOUSE, STUMP SOUND, and ToPsAII
MAu. is due every Monday at P. NJ and closes every
Thursday night at Top NJ.