The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-05-12
EXTRACTS FROM OUR CORRESPONDENCE.

EXTRACTS FROM OUR CORRESPONDENCE.
Louisville, Ky April % 1853 Enclosed
you will find three dollars. two Of which are
for my current subscription for the Era. and
one dollar for your new " Facts for The People"
like this new idea of yours very much. as il
gives us an opportunity Of getting the impor-
tant Anti Slavery arguments and fac.s Of the
day into convenient form for preservation
and future reference. ! was subscriber 10
the former series published by you in Cincin-
natl and having taken the care to preserve
them In convenient form, found them Of
great advantage, both to myself and others,
during the discussion of the characterization
question in this State.
Another advantage possessed by these month
ly tracts is their convenience for distribution. |
have now in my minds eye dozen or more Of
our good citizens, who will take home and read
a convenient sized quartc, made up of well.
written and pointed articles on the Slavery
question, who would scarcely tolerate the Era,
because Of the abolition ooloro which it is
supposed to carry with it,
As do not often get time to write you,
cannot let the opportunity pass Of congratula-
ting you on the success OF the Era. Ttoenty-
eight thousand cash pdying subscribers is some
thing not only encouraging to yourself in O
pecuniary point Of view but also most en-
couraging fact for every true hearted Anti-Sla-
very man. That twenty-cight thousand ind-
Gates growth and activity in at least one phase
of the Ant-Slavery movement; and for my
own part | read the Era with more eager
zest, and with a much pleasanter and heartier
feeling than | should do if, in its struggles for
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voluntary assistance Of its friends or the cor
rupting influence of Government patronage.
would conclude this letter, by wishing you
at least SO 900 subscribers to the Era, and
double that number for the monthly Facts :"
but in that case, dear Doctor, lchat lcouid be-
come Of our glorious Union 2" Yours, for the
truth, KENTUCKY.
South ThomGstOn, Maine, Apra 81, 1853
Two young men are supposed to have BEEN
lost from this town last week They started
on fishing excursion, intending to DC absent
for few hours as several days have elapsed
and no tidings are received from them, they
have doubtless persisted
Our Legislature has adjourned, after q three
months session. The principal business trans
acted by that body, was not to elect United
States Senator, to make some amendments to
the liquor law, to create nineteen new banks,
increase the capital stock of ten more, and
charter host OF corporations for carrying on
every species of business that Yankee ingenu-
| ity can invent. Shade Of Andrew jackson
what is the Hard Money Democracy coming
to?
| Mrs Stoves new work, The Key TO Uncle
Tom" is producing greater sensation than
| Uncle Tom himself in this section. 1t makes
| no Ia md cla ahi
ticians vince to the very marrow. Yours,
LIBERTY
BloomingviAe, Ere Co, o., Aprii 90, 1853
| wrote you, in January last, the number of
votes (six) cast in 1914 for the Free Democracy
in this township We concluded, at our late
spring election, to keep up our organization.
We agreed upon ticket we thought we were
not ashamed to vote for all of whom, as we
supposed, voted for Halo last fall, or agreed
then to 20 the ticket But two of our candi-
dates got nomination on the ticket supposed
to be able to cast three votes to our one, and
denied voting for Hale and we had to substi-
tute other names at the eleventh hour. Think
of that-denying voting for Hale Why,
should as soon thought of denying Christ in
the garden of Gethsemauel And all for n
township Office, the emouments of which can
not exceed five dollars year But, after oil,
we elected our Justice of the Peace, Treasurer,
and one Trustee-the same substituted on our
ticket in the place of the one that fzzled
out :" and that, too, in opposition to a regular
Wing and Hunker Democratic ticket
Two of our neighbors, B W, Esq,
and R R, have just returned from the
Rio Grandc. Esquire W says he would
like to settle in Western Texas, if he could
take 200 families with him, such as he could
choose; that the people of Western Texas
would like to form a free State; but the
strength Of tho population being in Eastern
Texas, they will oppose it, a. of course, will
the whole slave interest. A man there owning
20 900 acres of land and dozen negroes, get
about as good living as the day laborer here
: Washington, Pa, April 26, ls53.-Enclose,
, see call for County Convention whcl
I, please insert and call attention. We have m
organ in this county, and therefore receive bu
q little information ON the subject of Free De
mocracy, except through the Era and ViSter
have therefore been thinking of proposing te
our Convention to send on for some 500 or
1000 copies of Facts for The People, for cir
oulation in this county A great work is to be
done between this and the next Presidential
election, and the cause could be advanced
much more rapidly with local papers; but we
have tried the experiment here, and it failed
We must now do the best we can with other
instrumentalities. | can think of none better,
at present, than "Facts for The People'
Troy Centre, Wisconsin, Nay I'd, 1853
The Free Democratic cause is quite prosperous
here. This spring we ran straight Free
Democratic ticket in town against Hunker
Union ticket and elected all our candidates by
large majorities-lSl votes polled-our vote
100 and upwards; Hunkcr so and downwards
Our opponents are dispirited, dead our friends
full OF zeal and hope for the future.
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This is first rate opportunity for students,
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A correspondent asks us whether this adver-
tisement is an imposture. We presume il is
not. The recipe to be sold is an excellent one,
and there are few whom it would not benefit.
| But let us now say, once for oil, that this
class Of advertisements has given us 30 much
trouble, and opens the way for such imposi-
ton, that henceforth we shall decline them
This will be the general rule. There may DO
exceptions, but it is not likely there will be-
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