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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-02-21

ure. It's influence is greater than leigions of
armed men-building up, proPagating, dis
seminating, and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS great
revolving wheel that moves all things, sus-
tainingan renovating manhind--as soft as
the down on the signets wing foaling on
Kgean wa,es--hssteniDg away the cares Of
life with syren songs. The smile of domes-
tic peace and low sweet words Of kindness,
and all that throws on the storms of life, Is
luled to forgetfulness, as if we had drank Of
Lethe's fabled fount. A. 8. s.
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PASSAGE OF THE FRENCH SPoLIATIoN BILL.-
The French Spoliation bill finally passed the
Senate, on Tuesday, bya vote Of q to H.
The responsibility of giving vitality to this
long delayed measure now rests with the
President
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The Committee with an due respect TO
the memorialists think not for the follow
ing reasons:
Morally and physically, man is free
agent, aud any law which seeks to control
his volition, is an insult off-red 10 his dignity
and his undersi anding. A man may write,
speak, and publish his sentiments upon all
subj .cts with impunity being responsible for
the abuse Of that right And why then at
tempt to interfere with that which a man
may choose to cat and drink?
The right of eating and drinking whatever
the appetite Graves, is one every man holds
dear, and will never surrender it without a
struggle.
Nothing is so delesable to people, as a
meddling governmental government that
tells them what TO read and write, and what
TO eat, drink. and wear. Our fathers, with
in our own knowledge, could not tolerate
it. and we now are not more patient than
they.
Mans right to the use Of the gifts Of God
is fundamental doctrine; and he canno
but regard any law interdicting their use
as depriving him of his natural rights; a
contrary to the spirit of the institutions un
der which he lives, and over whose base b.
reads in characters of living light, his impre
scriptible right to life, liberty, and the pun
suit of happiness.
In the state Of nature, unconnected wit
Society only required that he shoGa EffR
der what was injurious to her interest,
mans altered, civil condition; and was ;
war with his own happiness and peace
The right to eat and drink was never surrel
dered, because to surrender these, wou
strip him of bis free agency, and chang
him Into mere automatic machine. contrc
led by the will of the law making power
The right of personal liberty, personal S
curly, and private property, is secured
the citizen, BY the Fundamental principles
the common law and your Committee b
lie>e the enactment Of such law as wou
! satisfy the memorialists would operate me
injuriously TO the peace and welfare Of t
< people.
t But suppose the Legislature had therigl
!, and thought proper to exercise it, what go
|, would it do? Is public opinion prepar
for it? Your Committee think not.
= would be impolitc and unwise, as, we belle
n it would be unjust and illegal. Such
v course would excic our worst fears-pl
Q ducing jealousies and heart-burnings, VIII
: time could never heal.
/ Whenever force has been used, it
3 been unavailing there is not single
: stance on record, where sumptuary or p
e hibitory laws, have attained the object de
a red. England, Scotland and Ireland, La
y ched their bark upon this untried sea, g
5 the laws were regularly enforced; tt
d efficiency was nulli6ed.and they were 6na
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motucf yzsssu CdusSu ho"ei" - '
thorns only grew.
1t has done more it has driven the tempter
from public tables -disarmed the inebriate
of his violence. 1t has made love and char
i,y the.inseparable companions of its mis-
sion, and shed the lights of hope around the
abode of the truly unfortunate. Why then,
your Committee would pointedly enquire, dc
its advocates seek to draw to its aid, the
strong arm of the law' Why this feverist
anxiety to put in motion, power which has
so signally failed, and has produced so much
mischief when in operation Is it because
it has not accomplished all its advocates an
licipatedl
The reformers must remember that it re
quired more than one day to give form Il
this world, and should know that reformation
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ACCIDENT IN NoRTHAMPTos.-Ah house, on
the plantation of Mr. Jas. B. Brantly, was coR-
sumed by FIRE on Sunday night last An aged
negro MIN, who was unable 10 escape from
the asvsvriRg element. was burnt to asats.
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eyes to the painful facts evel5 where visf65ifte
10 social and domestic life !; affecting wife.
kindred, homes--all that binds man to his
fellow n-desolating hearths. beggaring
children, and in it's ravages, sweeping to an
untimely grave countless nuRhers of the hu-
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THE vow.
CONCLUDED.
CHAPTER V.

Aud now 70 prove that thou art true
'Tis timo these features were uncurtain'd too"
NEmEp PROPnET or knoRAsaAY
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man race. The:
and it were folly
But the mem
some law to st
ruinous eReca
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interdict, by pd
in ardent spirits
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14
General Whitfield.

No one is talked about in this neighbor-
hood, for our next Representative to Con-
gress, but Gen. J. w. Whitfield. He is
regarded as sound pro-slavery man, of
a high order of talents, and one that will
honor our young Territory by representing
her in Congress.
We suggest the propriety of holding
meetings in every district in the Territory,
and the appointing Of true men to repre-
sent us in the Pro-Slavery Congression
Convention, to be holden at the Shawnee
Mission, on the 29th inst. Ali delegates
should be instructed to vote for Gen. Whit
field as our first choice; which he unques-
tionably is, and the efforts of few de-
signing men to defeat this staunch defen-
der of Southern Principles, will prove
abortive. 1t is only necessary for General
Whitield's friends to act promptly, to Sc.
cure his nomination, and triumphant elec.
tion.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14
Weston High School,

We have received the 'sfirst Annual
Catalogue of the Officers and Pupils of the
Weston High School, From this docu-
ment we learn that the above named school
is in a very fourishing condition, having
exceeded the expectations of the most SAN
guine of its friends. At the close of the
year ending, July, 1856, there were in the
male department, seventy eight pupils; in
the female department, forty; making a
total of one hundred and eighteen. Among
the names in the catalogue, we notice sev-
eral residents of Kansas Territory. The
Weston High School is large and beau
tiful building, with every convenience de-
sired for the comfort of pupils. 1t is situ-
ated remote from the business portion of
tine City of Weston, in a pleasant and
healthy neighborhood. The following
named persons constitute the Board of In
struction. Rev. William G. Caples, Cen
eral Superintendent. Ashbury C. Red
man. Principle of the Male Department.
The services of competent teacher to
take charge of the Female Department
will be secured before the commencement
of the Session. Miss Kate Hubbell is the
Assistant in the Female Department, and
Mrs. Louisa Miller, Teacher of Music
and French.
"The very hattering encouragement af-
forded during the first Academic year, in
duces the belief, that the. Weston High
School is destined to take position, second
to no similar institution in the West" The
next session of this School will commence
on the first Monday in September, when ii
is to be hoped, that it will receive that sup
port from the community, that the eminent
qualifications of the Board of instruction
as Teachers, entities them to. Further
particulars in relation to this school. can be
had by addressing Rev. William G. Ca
pies at Weston, Mo.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

j If these views and this course of conduct
render me unfit TO preside over the State
University. the sooner I am removed from
my present position the better: for the
State of Missouri as too poor to compensate
me for an opposite course or. eren to Pasr-
chase msy silence on, this thrilling fopac.
If it is desirable to have Freesoilism
taught In the University. the people of the
State will do well to instruct their Repre-
sentatives in the General Assembly, next
fall, to suggest. to the bitter end, the effort
that will undoubtedly be made, by my pres
ent calumniators, to remove me from of
fee. per .fas, a,a aefas, right or wrong.
If office, or even life be sacrificed In an
effort to save the Union, for its own sake.
and as subservient to the regeneration of
the world, ] can conceive of no better cause
to which it could be devoted.
Pro-slavery journals every where are
requested to publish this card; also such
Freesoil paper as have aided in assailing
me are expected to copy it as an act OF
Justice. JAMES SAANNON,
President of the University
State of Missouri.
COLUMBIA, Mo-. July 9th, 1855.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14
FOR RESI- IDEN T,
Hon. David R. Atchison,
of Missouri.
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS,
GEN. J. w. WHITFIELD
Subject to the Decision of a Pro-Slavery
Convention, hould one be held.
Exciting Election News /!


In another column, we publish late Tel
egraphic Reports from the elections in
Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
AS far as the returns are given, they go
to show large increase for the Demo-
cratic Ticket. There can be no doubt OF
the election of the entire Democratic State
Ticket in Tennessee, and the election of
six Democrats, and two Wings to Congress
from North Carolina. In Kentucky the
Democrats have done nobly, notwithstand-
ing the attempts of the mis-called Ameri-
can Party, to prevent the free exercise OF
the elective franchise, by collecting in arm
ed mobs around the polls, and shooting
down every one who dared to vote contra
ry to their wishes. The Democratic Par
ty have made large gains, and have proba-
bly, carried the State.
The scenes enacted in Louisville at the
late election, are as damnable as they are
disgraceful. Instigated as they We're by
the free soil party, under the lead of Prem
tice, they should receive the unanimous
denunciation of the Pro-Slavery press,
throughout the Union. We cannot but look
upon this riot as premeditated affair
concocted by the traitor Prentice, to allay
the just excitement against himself. May
law and order once more be restored, and
the perpetrators Of these foul murders meet
with the punishment their conduct so justly
deserves.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

g91 Judge Elmore has Ieen removed
from the Judicial Bench of Kansas Terri
tory. 1t is also rumored that Col. Isaacs
our efficient and able Attorney General,
is to be removed to satisfy the demands of
the Abolitionists of the North. Judge
Gilmore and Col. Isaacs are both gentle
men of marked ability, and their official
acts have been approved, and applauded by
the citizens of Kansas Territory. There
can be no excuse offered by the President
for this act, save that he must appease the
North for the removal of Reeder, by the
removal of two Southern men.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

B8- From our Legislative Reports it
will be seen that the permanent seat of
Government of Kansas Territory, has
been located at Lecompton, new town
situated on Kansas River, about forty miles
from the Missouri River.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

O. a Russian imperial ukase has inst been
issued, ordering that baptised Jews. who have
hitherto been exempted, shall furnish thirty re-
cruits for every one thousand souls to the Rus
sian army
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

EWA committee of the New Hamp-
shire Legislature to who was referred the
resolution of the Maine Legislature On the
subject of slavery, has reported in favor Of
a union of the free States to demand the
restoration of the Missouri Compromise,
the abolition of slavery in the District Of
Columbia, the repeal of the fugitive slave
law, SC.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

A Lock OF WAsHINGToN's HAIR
The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, has
in possession lock of WasiIington's hair.
1t is kept in golden casket. covered with
glass, and has been regularly transmitted
from the hands of one Grand Master to
those of his successor, who always has it
in his personal charge. So says the Bun
ker Hill Aurora.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

e~We understand from good autho'-
ity, that two Of the Judges (Lecompt aDd
Elmore) and Gen. Isaacs. have given or
soon will give an informal opinion, to the
effect that the acts of the Legislature st
Shawnee are legal, and Squire Reeder is
wrong-whilst Judge Johnson refuses to
give an opinion at this time; it will be rec
objected that he is the Free-Sol Judge Of
that Territory.-( Southern Democrat
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

BLAcKwooD's MAGAzINE.-Leona
Scott, & Co., of New York, have issued
their reprint of the July number of this
old and popular Magazine. AS this peri
odical has become familiar to American
readers, weTdeem it unnecessary to say
any thing more than to state that new
volume commenced with the July number,
and the present is favorable time for new
subscribers to begin. The contents of this
number are:-
The Imperial policy of Russia; Zaidee,
Romance; Notes on Canada and the
Northwest States of America; Letters to
Eusileus, once upon a time; Modern light
Literature Vernier; The Story of the
Campaign, written in tent in the Crime
ra; Two years of the Condemned Cabinet,
and Administration Reform of the Civil
Power. Terms, $500 per year. Ad-
dress, L. Scott g. Co., New York.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14
Our Parer in the South.

By every mail we receive accessions to
our subscription list, from the South. A
very substantial favor in the way of four
teen cash subscribers, we received by the
last mail, from Lexington Mississippi,
through our old friend DR.. III. c. Middle
ton. The Doctor is a thorough going Pro-
Slavery man. and one too that uses his in
huence to promote the cause he advocates.
Would that there were more men in the
South, like DIR Middleton. Below will
be found an extract from his letter:
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

g1 Our subscribers in Bryan, Saline
County, Mo-, are informed that their pa.
pers have been regularly mailed to them.
The fault of their non-arrival, is in the
Post Offices on the route. Where is the
screw loose
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14


SLAVE BURNING IN MASSACHUSETTS.
The Washington Era, an abolition pa.
per, having commented strongly upon
late Lynch faw outrage in Alabama, whel.
a negro who had first violated and then
tortured to death little white girl, was
seized and burned alive by an infuriated
mob-an Alabama paper retorts as fol-
lows:
"In recent biography of the late Rev.
DIR. Codeman-an eminent clergyman Of
Boston printed by Mervine s Whipple,
mention is made of one of his ancestors
who, few years previous to the rerolu.
ton, was poisoned by three Of his negro
slaves; Mark, Pnillis, and Phebe,' The
biography says:
The two former were convicted and
executed. The place of Marks execution
was on the northerly side of Cambridge
road, about quarter of mile above the
peninsula, and the gibbet remained until
short time before the revolution. Phillis
,ras burned at the stake, about ten yards
from The galloacs.'
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

e. An exchange paper calculates that to
furnish timber to construct a single seventy
four gun ship, requires the matured crop of for
ty-four acres of wood land, or two thousand
two hundred full grown trees.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

CO There is one firm in Maiden Lane. New
York, which melts down, in the course of one
year. in gold and silver. s1-550.Go0; and firm
in Fulton street. silversmiths, who used $780,
600 in silver year.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

contradicts" the statement of the New. York
Herald, that General Cass approves the platform
of the majority party in the late Philadelphia
Enow- Nothing Convention.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14
~ The number of clocks made bv the /

G. The number Of clocks made by the Je-
rome manufacturing company of New Haven
is 100000 year, 20 600 per month, and 500 per
day, embracing fifty varieties. To produce
these, they annually consume 2 200, 600 feet of
pine lumber, ,00o, COO feet of mahogany and
rosewood, $4,000 glass plates, 1000 boxes of
glass, 1900 casks Of nails, 600 tons iron, 500
bbls- glue, 100 bbls varnish, $50 tons rolled and
cast brass. 35 tons zinc.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

E| There is to be a meeting of the
Squatters of Kansas Territory. at Doni-
phan, on Saturday, the 18th inst, to ap-
point delegates to Pro-Slavery Conven-
ton, for the purpose of nominating a can
didate for Congress. Let there be gen.
eral turnout.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

STATISTICS OF LOWELL, MAss.-The
capital invested in the manufactures of
Lowell, on the 1st of January, amounted
to over S14,000,000. There are ffty-two
mills running, 81 1873 spindles, and H.
407 looms. At these and other depart
ments of the woolen and cotton manufac-
S,729 females and 1912 males are en-
ployed. This working force produced
weekly. 2.23s,00O yards of cotton cloth,
80 900 yards of woolens, 25,O00 yards of
carpeting, and fifty rugs, consuming there
for, 735, 900 lbs. of cotton, and so, 900 lbs.
wool.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

MAssAcHusEFTs.-T can be no
sUnion" with her. She is withered bud,
whose rottenness SO stinks, that the per-
fume of the fourishing flowers blooming on
the same bush is not appreciated. She
should be piucked from the vine.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

s@The duties on packages at Mon
treal has been removed by the Colonial
Government. This is the duty against
which the United States Government late
" demonstrated.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

10 The Hon. d. r. ArcHIsoN of
Missouri, is spoken of i'll different parts of
the country as Presidential Candidate in
1856. Should he receive the endorse
ment of the National Democratic Conven-
ton, he Will be triumphantly elected.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

B@ We are under many obligations
to MIR. A. W. King, ESQ.,. foreman of the
Government Printing Office, at the Shaw
nee Mission, for numerous favors In the
shape of memorials, bills, and other Leg
islative proceedings. We hope he viii
continue to favor us.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

s1 A tri-weekly mail between Atchi-
son and Weston is much needed. 1t is to
be hoped the Post Office Department at
Washington will faver the citizens of Kan
sas with mail facilities at the earliest mo-
ment possible.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

~ In an old man who lately died at the BIZ
cetre, the left kidney was found absent re-
markabIe phenomenon. There was neither a
renal artery nor vein on the left side, and the
bladder showed no traced of a left artery ever
having existed.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

gy Several new Houses for rent, will
be put up in Atchison, in very short time.
The contracts are already entered into by
the different parties. Families who are
now living in tents, can then be accommo-
dated.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

ia Rattle Snakes, Bed bugs, and
sharp biting Gnats, are the staple products
of this Territory. Fleas of no inferior
size, are also numerous. Bad country this
for the Paddles.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

ia We are under obligations to the
clerks of the fine Steamer James III. Lu-
cas-. for late St. Louis papers, from which
we gather much interesting news of the
late elections.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

LOOK OUT FOR LONG WAR.-The
London Times says:
"Whatever delusion Ministers were in
as to the duration of the last year, we now
know that it is wise to make up our minds
to twenty years at the least, and that we
are much more likely to shorten the war
hv an under estimate
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14
Effects Of Abolition;sn,

We copy the following marriage of
'sBuck Nigger" to White Womoa fro~
one of our Northern Exchanges. Such
occurrences will be frequent HERE, should
the Northern fanatics succeed in exclud;no
the institution of Slavery.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14
News from all Quarters.

e There are four hundred idiots and luna
tics in Texas.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

E@ Whitfield men! Do not fail to
attend the meeting at Doniphan, to be
holden on Saturday next Atchison should
be well represented.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

s The following toast was drank at
the recent celebration of the Fourth, at
Whippy Swamp, South Carolina
Kansas.-Adapted to slavery by physical
laws-let the South make it Slaveholding
by human laws.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

eE At military funerals in California, it is
said to be the practice, after burying the dead,
TO have the band 90 to the residence of the de
ceased and serenade the widow
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

THE PREsIpENCy.-The Litchield Conn
Republican hoists the name of Hon. Daniel s.
Dickinson for President, and Hon. Howell
Cobb, of Georgia, for Vice President.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

V James Gilmer, Youngest son of the late
Gov Gilmer, of Virginia. was severelv injured
at Charlottesville recently, by an explosion of
gunpowder.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

sBrThe grand jury at Washington city
are engaged in examining witnesses to as
certain who it was that destroyed the stope
presented by the government of Rome for
the Washington Monument.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

Copper cents are not illegal ten
der" only gold and silver coins being so
declared. Copper circulates only by
general consent.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

ey The British court, it is said, are setting
its face against racing, and the prize cup is to
be discontinued.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

c. Since the dog law went into force in
New York city, nearly four hundred dogs day
have been impounded.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

Gv BY a law of France, temper cent. of the
money taken at the doors of public entertain
ment goes to the poor.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

sP Gen. Scott is reported by the N.
York papers to have remarked, on reading
the news from the Crimea, that, in his
opinion, the most formidable obstacle the
allies had to contend with was divided
command.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

E@Seven slaves belonging to VIM. Ne.
Coy and others of Pendleton county, Va,
eloped few nights ago, each one taking
horse with him. They are Doubles
making their way to Canada. A consd
cradle number have run away from Pen
dleton and Hardy within a year or tive,
and some of them who are in Canada are in
the habit OF corresponding with their friends
In their own neighborhood.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

60 The brass cannon belonging TO theState
We're spiked at Worcester. Mass, on the night
of the third by some aholitionists, to prevent
their use for salnte on the 4th.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

E~ Peter Besancon, one of the CON-
panions of Lafayette, who came with hlip
from France to join our revolutionary ssrns'
gle, died recently at Warsaw. New YORK
He was present at the execution OF Malos
Andre, and remained in the army UNI
the end of the war.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

ia Land in the vicinity of Atchison
commands a high price. Claim holders
are asking from eight to twenty dollars
per acre, for land that has not yet been
thrown into market.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

"a To Ben. v. CLINE, the attentive
clerk of the fine steamer F. X Aubrey,
we are indebted for late st. Louis papers.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

FsS1 It is stated as q curious fact, that the
Queen of England is now the temporal monarch
of more Roman Catholics than the Pope, and of
more Musselmen than the Porte.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

@ The North Star, of the Vanderbilt Eu-
ropean line, lately made the passage from New
York to Havre in ten days and twenty hours.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-08-14

EWFGen. Lane, the Democratic nomi-
nee, has been reelected Delegate to Con-
gress in Oregon by 1000 majority. The
Wings were weakened by their Know
Nothing allies.
The question of the formation of a. State
Constitution was submitted to the people al
the same time, and there is supposed to
be majority in favor of the measure.