The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-10-28
NO 3O4.
EXTRACTS FROM OUR CORRESPONDENCE.

kiibOurn, DeiaWGre CO. Ohio Oct. I. 1852
There is cheering prospect for Freedoms
cause in this region. The Fugitive Slave Law,
s6~far as ! hear an expression Of opinion, is
unanimously condemned The Baltimore Dem
OcratIc and Wing fnality resolutions are repu-
dated by those who still intend to vote for
Pierce and Scott. There is great apathy in
the Wing and Democratic ranks and many
who have always adhered TO those parties now
express their determination to vote for HALE
We confidently expect Hale's vote in this town.
ship will be three times as large "a that given
TO Van Buren, in lS4S-One who voted for
Taylor says it will be from FIVE 10 ten times as
large; and were the people TO act in accord
ance with their principles this estimate would
probably prove correct. But the usual appli-
ances will be diligently employed and no doubt
with considerable success, to prevent a deser-
ton from party lines
What our friend says in his letter, from
which the foregoing il extract, concerning
reported remarks of Mr. Hale, he must not
credit. An edtoria! in our last number fully
explains, We think, the origin of the misrepre-
sentation-Ed Era
Rochester, Beaver CO.. Penn. Oi 10 1852
Heretofore this borough has never polled a vote
for Liberty but, from present indications. am
encouraged TO hope for one dozen at least
Jacksonville, Indiana, Oct. 8, Is52-The
friends of J. p. Hale here feel in fine spirits
though we do not expect to poll a large vote
yet from the favorable accounts we hear from
the North, we are encouraged To believe that
the good time IL coming" when our princ-
plies shall become the ruling principles of the
In nd In tton L..
ligent Democrat who has served several terms
in our State Senate, he stated to me that he
believed the Free Democratic party would event
ually become the ruling party, and that which
ever party should be defeated ut the coming
election, that party would mostly fall in with u.s.
LenoT, Ohio, Oct 4, 1852 suggest that
the Era publish the Fugitive Law with the
| yeas and nays, and that all Free Democratic
| papers copy, 1t seems to me tins would be an
| important document to circulate before cleo
ton. If you think it not best to publish the
law in the Era for want of room or other cause
please give the yeas and nays Wing and Dem
ocratic, North and South.
will only say there is n dispute here i'm re-
gard to the number Of Wing votes given for
the law, and all parties agree that the Era
shall decide do not want the above suggcs-
ton published, US it would be indicate for an
obscure voter to make suggestions Mr. Gid
dings and Mr.. Wade spoke in Orwell on last
Thursday. The full proceedings you will receive
| In due time. Five thousand in the field
LoueH, Oct IL, lS52.-Can you inform us
whether Scott is II Roman Catholic or not and
1t nc Is not, please inform us what is his reli-
| gious faith
| General Scott, according to a statement
made in the newspapers by the Rev Mr. Pyne,
an Episcopal clergyman of this city, is a regu-
lar attendant of the Episcopal church, and not
n Catholic We regret that a candidates de-
nomlnational connections should be brought
into question in Presidential contest
Ed Era.
Postscript-l wish to call your attention
to the following scrap, which | copy from the
National Anti- Slavery Standard of October 9TH.
Is it true that General Scott has ever written
or spoken 80 very periodically?
Aft ever, as General Scott nj the head of
the armies of the United States, as plain MIR
Scott deprived of my commission, or as Presi-
dent Scott if it should please the people TO
elevate me to that high position if ever do
anything calculated to impair the efficiency of
the Fugitive Slave Law, or having tendency
to Its repeal, then write me infamous before
my name, and kick me into the gutter -
General Scott 10 Mr.. Upton Of Louisiana.
We cannot say whether General Scott is
reported correctly or not The truth is, we
have generally declined to give mere hearsay
reports, or the reports of private sayings of
either General Pierce or General Scott We
prefer to judge them by their authorized ex-
pressions of opinion, and by their acknowl-
edged acts.
South Prospect Name, Oct. 9, IS52-Tbe
work goes brdUeiy on in this State Documents
| are eagerly sought for and read In this town,
where there have never been dozen votes
bthrOwn for liberty, from Is to 100 will be
| thrown for the gallant Hale The two copies
of the Era got in here last winter, think
were the first Free Soil papers taken in town.
The campaign papers now subscribed for go
into the hands of reading men, who will be
certain to renew their subscriptions
CuSh Post Office, ClearfeM CO., Pennsylvania
called at the post Office the LIST of this month";
rs thought agreeable to your directions in the
Era, and paid the postage for six months for
the paper paid 10 cents for each of my pa
pcrs--the postmaster was out, | paid it to his
deputy. The next week he told me himself
that paid only for one quarter, as usual-that
when it was not paid at Washington, the post
age was IA usual. For some time past no
charged me two cents for sending the Era TO
friend, after reading it myself about sixty miles
in the adjoining county He said it was over
weight; he has no scales from Washington,
but has some of his own for weighing calomel
and arsenic. VIII you be SO kind as TO state
in the Era whether we must pay the postage
at Washington, or if we can pay ut the Office
where we get the paper
The postmaster is wrong. He has been led
into error, we perceive, by the first publication
Of the Postage Law in the Washington city pa
pcrs, which omitted this very important clause,
"Or at the Office ,rhsre delivered" A day or two
afterwards, these papers published a corrected
copy of the Law, which declares that the post
age on newspapers is half cent a number
when paid in advance, quarterly or by the
year, at tho office of publication, or at the office
uhcre The paper is delivered. The postmaster
at Cush office will please take notice Of this
fact and should no neglect to do 30 and act
accordingly, he will receive instructions from
hcadquarters--Ed Era.
Providence r. l.. Oct 10, lS52.-We have
started a weekly Free Soil paper, called tho
Rhode Island Free Democrat, with Hale and
Julian ut its head. We are in fine spirits here,
and are confident Of doubling our vote Of '4s,
and have hopes Of trebling and even quadru-
ping the same. The Wing and Democratic
papers here have endeayorcd to get us to sleep
by saying nothing about us but since our pa