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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-09-07
MONTPELIER, VERMONT,

The commissioners SO appointed, met at New
castle. on the 18th day Of November, ITS,
and, not being able to agree, separated. After
further litigation and delay, the whole matter
was settled by mutual agreement between the
surviving heirs Of the original litigants.
In the year I76I, Mr. Charles Mason, of the
Royal Observatory, was sent to Pennsylvania
with all the needfuI astronomical instruments, to
measure degree of latitude. That duty he
performed, and a report of his proceedings was
made to the Royal Society Of London, for tho
year 1867.
This Mr.. Mason and Jeremiah Dixon we're
appointed to run the line in dispute, which ap-
pears to have been done in conformity with tho
Lord Chanceors decree. This is the famous
" Mason and Dlxon's line," and the boundary
between Pennsylvania on the south and Mary.
land on the north. Any one DESTROYS of more
detail information, will find it in Douglass His
tory of America, published in Boston in 1851 :;
Proud's History of Pennsylvania, the Memoirs
Of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and
Vesey's Reports 352, Penn, Lord Baltimore.
Little did the actors in this matter think that
in altertmes the line established with so much
trouble and expense would ever be connected
with subject calculated to shake great nation
to its centre.
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A Cheerful Religion.

1t cannot be requisite to mans being in earnest,
that he should wear perpetual rown. Is there less
of sincerity in nature during her gambos IN spring,
than during the stiffness and harshness of her wintry
gloom? Does not the BIRDS blthe carolng come from
the heart quite as much as the quadruped's monoto-
nous cry? And is it, then, altogether impossible to
take up ones abode with TRUTH and to let all sweet
homely feelings grow about it and cluster around it
and to smile upon it, and hold light and merry talk
with it, as with loved brother Or sister and to fon-
die it and play with it as with child No. otherwise
did Socrates and Plato commune with truth No. 9TH
erwise Cervantes and Shakespear. This playfulness
of truth is beautifully represented by Lander, in the
conversation between Marcus Cicero and his brother
an allegory which has the voice and spirit of Plato
On the other hand, the outcres of those who ex-
claim against every sound more lively than bray or
beat, derogatory to TRUTH are often prompted, moi
much by their deep feeling of the dignity of the
truth in question: of the dignity of the person by
whom that truth is maintained. Our grave faculties
and thoughts are much chastened and bettered by a
blending and interusion of the lighter, so that the
sable cloud" may turn forth cher silver lining" on the
night; while our lighter thoughts require the grave
to substOntiate them and keep them from evaporating
When your feelings tell you anything, and your I'M
derstanding contradicts them, more especially should
your understanding be merely echong the verdict Of
another man's-be not over hasty in Sacrificing what
you feel to whatyou fancy you understand. You can
not do it in real lfe running stream is not to be
gagged with paper Archdeacon Hare,
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Mason and DiXOn'S Line"

What was the origin and purpose of it? We
hear it frequently spoken of as connected with
slavery, and as originally relating to that subject
Nothing can be further from the truth-at the
time that line was established, slavery existed on
both sides of ii. A brief account of its origin
may he of some interest just at this time.
AS early as the year 1882 dispute arose
between William Penn and Lord Baltimore res
pecting the construction oftheir respective grants
of what now form the States of PENNSYLVANIA.
Delaware, and Maryland Lord Baltimore claim.
ed to and including the 4Oth degree of north
latitude; and William Penn mildly, vet firmly
resisted the claim. The debateable land was
one degree of SO English miles on the south of
Pennsylvania, and extended west as far as the
State ITSELF The matter was finally brought
into the Court of Chancery in England, and, af-
Ter tedious delays on the 18th day of May, IL
so, Lord Chancellor Hardwicke made decree
awarding costs against Lord Baltimore, and d.
lecting that commissioners should be appointed
TO make the boundaries between the partes.--
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miscellaneous.
A Fathers Love.

Some feelings are to mortals given,
With less of earth in them than heaven
And if there be human tear
From PASSIONS dross refined and clear,
tear so lmpid and SO meek,
1t would not stain an angels cheek,
IT'S that which pous fathers shed
Upon duteous daughters head-ScoH.
We have read these lines thousand times
We have repeated them, and medtated upon
them, until we could almost see the limpid tears
falling upon the cheeks of some fair girl. There
is beautiful sweetness in this truly poetic thought
which touches tender chord in every sympathi-
zing bosom. 1t is gem sparkling with senti-
ment and feeling refined and spiritual.
The fathers love for his daughter seems more
pure, more exalted, than his love for his son.
She is the mothers counsel-the mothers assis-
tant; and when the wife has gone to that bourne
whence no traveller returns, it is the daughter
who takes her place, who wipes away fathers
tears, and cheers the responding heart by kind
attentions IT'S she who watches over her young
brothers and sisters-who imparts to them the
lessons mother taught her when child The
father regards such being as more than daugh-
ter, and if any feelings have " less of earth in
them than heaven" it is those with which he
watches her seEsacri6cing devotion and faithful
ness She is a treasure dear as the hearts warm
blood and the affection she merits Justly entities
her to
A tear SO limpid andso meek
1t would not stain an angels cheek.
Temperance Star.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-09-07
The Little Words,

A little girl who had been at school not much
less than year, was very fond of reading to her
mother, and her mother was always glad to hear
her when sitting at her work. But the little girl
was apt to read very fast, and to leave out words
the little words of which she did not
exactly sec the importance. She would make
little mistakes too, such as calling Of, on and
for, from; and to, no. When her mother cor
rected her, and told her to read the sentence
over again slowly, she would sometimes become
fretful, and often said, 81 can't see the use of
being so very particular about such little words"
Her mother soon convinced her that the small
est words were often of most consequence, and
that say no when we ought to say yes, or yeS
when we ought to say no, had been the means
of ruin to thousands upon thousands
Be careful, my young friends, how you use
the little words, for they have mighty power.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-09-07
HOME,

Home is the choisest flower that blossoms in
the golden fields Of terrestrial happiness-the
most attractive, the preeminent charm that adorns
the vast panorama the imagination. To rosy,
artless childhood, it's earth's peerless Eden, en-
bracing with its sunny precincts all the rich
wealth of delight; while to maturer years It's the
bright and beautiful oasis, glowing in lovliness
on the lone waste of lfes adversites. Vener-
able old age, around whose furrowed brow the
vapors of the tomb are lowering, turns with rap.
ture to this eIysium Of earth, with ecstacy points
to the spot where he was born. Nor are its Joys
confined to place, or dependent on fortune. As
radiant are its charms in the lowlest cottage Of
poverty, as in the princely abode of magnificent
grandeur. The mariner as he guides his gal
liant bark DER the restless waves OF the deep,
combats with the fury of the elements, looks
fondly back to the yine-wreathed easement, the
glen and the wildwood haowowed environs of
home. ALFRED in more than primal beauty, it
graces the dreams Of the captive, the wanderer,
and the exile. Hometown sweet the sound
some latent echo borne on seraph's wings, from
off the hills of paradise.
But, alas for the hapess orphan, it is left to
realize its worth, in all its plenitude. Surround
ed by the selfish, cold, and heartless world, when
its breath comes like whitening blight over the
spirit, chilling the finer feelings of the SOUL how
does the chrushed heart bleed for mothers
.ovel-in the bitterness of sorrow exclaimed, l,
too, once had home--once smiled around a
fathers ireside Reflect iu memory's fair mir
For, how watchingly beautiful, glow the ffOlic
hours Of childhood, when our associates were
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The Blind Mother.

Say, shall I never see thy face, my child?
My heart is full of feelings strange and wild;
A mothers hopes and heartfelt joys are mine,
My soul is filled with gushings half divine;
And never more, my child am alone,
Since thy young heart doth echo to my own.
But shall | never see thee? Can it be,
That all may gaze, my precious boy, on thee;
And yet the heart that loves thee best forego
The dearest pleasure other mothers know?
This--ths is anguish--agony refined!
o God! forgive me! Baby, am blind
Yes, yes! | never--never knew before
The depth of my affection. Ofor power
For one short thrilling moment, child, to gaze
On thy sweet, tiny face, which others praise;
And yet must not murmur; God is kind
Nay, do not start my child, 1t was tear
That hit thy brow! Thy mother, boy, is here;
And though may not see thee, yet feel
Thy velvet cheek against my bosom steal,
And none can harm thee there; nor hand unkind
Shall touch my darling, even though Pm blind!
Llst-llst 1t Is tiny fathers step hear,
Now let me smooth my brow, press back the tear;
He shall not find me weeping, when SO blest,
With thee, my darling, Graded on my breast
But could only see thee! Yet Gods will
Be done! Peace, throbbing heart--be still!
We are alone again; he never guessed
What yearning anguish filled thy mothers breast
When he did praise their features, half defined
He quite forgot that his young wife was blind;
And yet, when his fond arm was round us thrown
His lip half trembled as it met my own.
o! should he e'er repent him he hath wed
A being burdened with a woe so dread;
Should he grow tired of one, so frail and weak,
My heart in that dark hour would joy to break!
Or should his lip grow cold--his hand unkind-
God help me, baby, then indeed Pm blind!
But shall never see thee? Yes, my boy,
Some future hour my heart shall know that joy!
1t may not be on earth, but in the Skies
I yet shall gaze, my darling, in thine eyes;
So will patient be, for God is kind
For in yon heaven not one eyeis blind.
Boston Journal.
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Brandon Vt, july 5, 1913,

Brandon Vt, July S. 1848.
In the morning "packed up" as the saying is, and,
with my family took pleasant ride through the beau
tiful valley of Otter Creek and Lake Champlan skirt
ed with their evergreen hills and mountains on tho
East-while along our pathway lay rich fields and
green meadows, showing in their very face, the 70.
suits Of skfu, intelligent, well directed abor-LabOr
nocoerced for anothers benefit but checrully perform
ed, by thrifty, contented and free people. In the
afternoon that new and splendid steamer the Omitted
States" came CALAMITY up the Lake with colors flying
and touched" at "Chipman's point" or "Shoes Land
ing" as it is sometimes called, in Orwell. With
grasp of the hand and "FrelOeH" left the dear OBJ
ects Of home-stepped on board, and as the boat
ceded from the shore something besides mere curiosity
directed my attention to black eyed boy the shore
who hand in hand with his sister, and taller form,
whom I have no doubt they addressed with dearcr
appellaton- with eyes ntently fixed on me AMI
the boat, until both disappeared in the distance.
There Is something undefnable in the feeling at
parting with intimate frends-and especially with
those to whom connectedby the dearest earthly
ties, even for few weeks on long journey; subec,
all are in much less space of time, to accident and
death. He who can ranain unmoved on such an
occasion is more or less than human.
The "UMTED STATES" is the largest and feetest
sailing boat on the lake. Capt Davis with whom I
became acquainted, is something more and better than
a "genteman;" he is a mana man who seems 10
treat all his passengers and every whom he meets
on terms of perfect cviliy and equality All on his
boat far as he is concerned, without distinction,
receive equal and attention and all enjoy the
privileges and accommodations. This cannot fail TO
make him, as he is, popular commander. The ride
to Whitehall is pleasant, and would be very shoi
one, were not for the vexatious navigation of the
short crooks angles in the narrow upper end of the
lake called "Fiddler's Elbow"
The most interesting scenery to me on the "Packet
Boat" along the Champlain Canal is beyond Glen's
Falls and thence by Fort Miller to Saltwater The
fine view of "North River" and the adjacent scenery
among the hills, where occurred 50 many struggles
and stirring events of the Revolution and within sight
of the battle ground of Saratoga, renders this part of
the route an object Interest to the traveller.
No traveller can visit Troy without many words of
commentator in behalf of that fine and public spirit
ed city. We arrived in the cars in the evening; and
as the Rrailroad runs through the principal River
street. the cars stopped at each of the hotels Amy
passenger could get out at the House he desred-n
servant takes his baggage without charge, and he can
then walk Immediately to his lodgings without noise
or confusion Every thing is STILL quiet and system
ATTIC. To those who have, at every depot and wharf,
suffered the attacks and been Aeeced by set Of
noisy, greedy, hack drivers carriers hangeraon and
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the brooks, the butterflies, the birds, and the
flowers.
"The songs learned in childhood,
The lips are cold that breathed them,
The blossom wreahes of the wild wood,
The hands are cold that wreathed them.
The wild wood dells are dressed in flowers,
The same loved so well;
But where are chldhoods's happy hours?
All, mournfu memories, tell ~
Yet there is home where the weariest spirit
shall find rest. Where dark treachery can new
er enter to shed its fendish smile DER the with
cred wreath of friendshp-where the buoyant
rainbow hopes, which vanish here like the NOR
ning's winged dream" will be crowned in frui-
tion immortal. Where no long farewell is spo-
ken, but the spirit of loved ones will greet u.s. to
gladden. our presence forever.
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How shall we ESCAPE?

You can refuse present obedience, but can you re-
fuse eternal vengeance? You may say, will not
come under Christs yoke but can you say, will not
come under his wrath? You read of some that call
for the mountains to fall on them and hide them from
the wrath Of the Lamb, but all in vain "How shall
we escape, if we neglect great salvation % mark, il
we neglect he doth not say, if reject and renOunce
itfwe Scof' at and deride tiff we oppose and per-
secute it; no. but if we neglect it.--EiatheU Mead
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When breakers are round thee, mid wreck and mid
roar,
Eve closer the compass, be fervent in prayer;
The Savior Almighty can help thee ashore,
And songs Of salvation be sung by thes there
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ole TrapeIer,
For the Freeman.
Pencil Sketches Of a Trip

P6nCIl SKETCHES OF a Trip
Through NelO York, Western and Northern Ohio, amt
Northern Indiana
FROM TRAVELLING CORRESPONDENT.
NUMBER /.
Rochester, N. Y, July IL, 1848
AS it is the object of the writer to confne his re-
marks principally to very interesting portion of tho
Western Country, which fell under his immediate
observation and personal examination from day to day.
and which he is persuaded has, hitherto escaped that
attention which important and fertile a portion
Of the western world is entitled, he will, therefore, OIL
ly glance at some of the prominent objects which
arrested his attention in his journey through the En-
pre State.
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H. D. HOPKINS, associate ED1roI
LIST OF AGENTS FOR THE FREEMAN,

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,u,,,. p ONE q $780, ~
Barton: F w Kimball
ICraftsbury; L Wheeler
Glover; S S Blanchard
Greensboro; b Comings
IIrasburgh; L C Kinball
Lowell; j ID Harding
IN, Troy; M k Eastman
charleston; O Warren
Brownington: Rev. w Scales
Coventry; ] Hurd
IWestfiejd; o Winslow.
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Cavendish; J c Spalding
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sIuy s airo 3 Mo,co JF""U
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Rr;dgw n;ep. 7, Ravnond
Wnned " och T. Ricbmond
Iso do IaIe
IiN WI U I'M T'horrd;lse
Brownsville; NJ b Perkins
lSheddsville: Mai. Farwell
Hartford; A Nichols
w. do S 7 Steele, P. M.
louechee Village; G Tinkham
IHartland. Fl ID Osgood
No. do JIM Willard, ir.
IRornard: l. Blackmer
M, do. L Belknapp
Snowsville; L Hazen
POmfret; G Harding Cd
So. do d Chandler
IStockbridge; Rev. Mr.. Daily
Gaysville; ] M Bennett
prr,,vn 10
Rntlopd.R R Thran
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-09-07

WASHINGTON Co.
Waitsfeld; o Skinner
Worcester; F Johnson
Warren; d Upham
Waterbury; J G Stimson
Woodbury.; A Town
Calais; ] Mower and A Pierce
Plainfield; DIR. Rates
Marshfield; S Pitkin
Barre; G s Johnson ....
Mortified; w II Smith
Fayston; Z Ii Baxter
ORANGE Co.
Bradford; J d Clark
Brookfield; d Kingsbury
L do SM BigelOw
Tunbridge; ] Il Woodland
Chelsea; H Hale
Corinth; Rev. s Comings
w Topsham; B Aldrich
L do ] T George
Newbury, Rev. s Sias
Randolph; II Parkhurst
u. do N P Brooks
w. do NH Sessions
Post Mills; L Hinckley
Vershire; DR. Tyler
Orange; P l. Lord
Washington; IL A White
STAFFORD; d S Barrett.
CHIrTENDEN Co.
Burlington; ] LisCun
Charlotte; w s Baldwin
Huntington; II Beecher
Hinesburgh;J Allen
Westford; T G Beach
Jericho & Underhill; L S Barne
Richmond; w P Briggs
Williston; w Il French
ADDISON Co
Ferrishurgh. o ShOles
Vergennes; DR. A Sprague
Monkton; G Cook
Lincoln; Or Kent
Middlebury: Il L Fuller
Bristol; H Needham
Cornwall; b T Haskell
Addison; w Reeves
Hancock; A G Allen
Weybridge; M Stowe
FRANKLIN Co.
w. Enosburgh: NJ Dean
" Falls; Col. Kenda
Montgomery; J Martin
Bakersfield; G G Stone
Berkshire; A G Comings
Franklin; G FELTON,
st. Albans; l. Brainerd, Jr.
Fairfield; L w Sherman
L. do J Foster
Richford; s B Golf
CALEDONIA Co.
Hardwick; w Wheatley
Lyndon; Skinner & Foss
Walden: S Framework
So do L G Foster
Danville; T Howard
N. do w Sias,
Sutton; Dea. Bean
Groton; M Neld
Peacham; B 7 Jones
McIndoe's Falls; REV ] MCArthl
Ryegate; w l Gibson
Cabot; @ Cook
] Mclean.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-09-07

Live for the good of others and your own salvation
will be secure.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-09-07
VOL. '. NO. 96.

Power in 1886, you say-well, he is not, like
Gen. Cass, vassal oft, Or like Gen. Taylor, its
embodiment, in l848. On the contrary, he is
its open direct antagonist And was he ever
known to violate i'll Office principle he had
avowed, or a Pledge made, while a candi-
date? Did his political friends ever have &C.
casion to charge him with treachery? You
say, he committed himself to opposition to all an
ti-slavery measures, as a candidate in 1925: did
he not maintain perfect consistency in that wrong
policy, so long as he was President He is non
under new circumstances, with increased light,
committed to the cause of Freedom: what reas-
on is there to doubt his fidelity!
Where was Hale in the time that tried the
souls of anti-slavery men? Among their assail-
ants. Where was John Quincy Adams, from
1888 to 1847the antagonist of the Slave Power,)
when Negotiator or President? Did he not
strenuously insist upon all the claims of Slavery,
not because he was friendly TO Human Bondage,
but from mistaken view of the rights of the
South? Did this fact abate our respect for his
anti-slavery efforts, as member Of Congress?
Do you imagine that we, anti-slavery men,
brood over wrongs done to ourselves? That we
would revenge ourselves on those who have pur-
sued mistaken policy in relation to our cause2
We bear no malice, we cling to no prejudice
| What man liveth and sinneth not? Who needs
not the forgiveness of the Most High for offences
committed at some period Of his life, in some
form or other, against Justice or Humanity? Our
business is with present scenes, present duties,
present actors. What great work is to be done
nOw--what agent is best qualified for it, and will,
in good faith, undertake it, nOU? These are the
questions that concern us.
Mr. Van Buren, is unimpeachable in private
life; and in public, when committed he keeps
faith with friends and foes. He is statesman of
great experience, eminent ability, and clothed
with the dignity of an Ex-President. His expe-
rience and ability, and the whole power ofhis po-
sition, he has pledged to the establishment of the
Just and Christian policy of No-Extension of SIa-
very. He, alone, of all the principal candidates
for the Presidency, represents the cause of Free
dom, Free Labor and Free Soil. We shall trust
him. Principle, Honor, Interest combine to make
him trustworthy. No true Democrat, no true
Wing, can object to him, till they present candi-
dates as well qualified, as openly and honorably
committed to Freedom, as he is. No true Ameri-
can, who believes in his heart that the we'll being
and honor of the Union depend upon the restric-
tion of Slavery and overthrow Of the Slave Pow
er, ought to refuse him his support and Christian
men must regard with special favor the claims of
him, as a candidate for the Presidency of this
Christian nation, who stands pledged against the
establishment, in new, vast empire, of relation
repugnant to the spirit and great law Of their D-
vine Faith.-Er0,
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inesc are thrilling words and let our friends through
"" inc Union obey the admonition AS in the moral so
700 IN 'he political world we should be ever on the alert
Inc mora1st pocaims "Dont stand still ;" if you do,
'V' VIII De run over. Motion, action, progress-thesc
Wv Tue words which fill the vault of heaven with
"e" SURFING demands, and make humanitys heart pull
n NV WIN stronger bound Advance, or stand aside
NOT block up the way, and hinder the career of others
'"e'e TOO much to do to allow of tnaeion anywhere
or in any one
'''' "ol'on' action, progress, friends OF the consu
n" anu laws-"now's the day and now's the hour"
DOu' stand still Be in motion Your principles are
80" On uial You must defend them to preserve them
ADVANCE or stand aside" Let the polls be well guard
w. De' out every voter Are there any who cannot
give them ride. Lei us have clear track and
"a" ua and we will soon see whether our ot-repeated
reucuon will be verified, of an unexampled democratic
victory on the 7th of the approaching month.