Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-09-20
SEW METHOD OF ELECTION

Asa specimen of the. last and most noyei POI
litical device for propagandism, which this over
heated campaigr, has giveI, rise to, we clip the
following from the n. Y. Post:
ES SoNERvILIE, n. j., Sept. 10, 1856.
q movement has just been started IN tins town
and county, which is spreading rapidly, and IS
destined no doubt to extend to all the free states
in very short time. 1t viii solcmnly conse-
crate forever the whole North TO freedom, End
will produce q greater enthusiasm in the present
and futurs elections than did the hickory trees
and hickory. sign posts of Jacksons tiEne, OF the
log cabins of Harrisons campaign MS move
ment consists simply in marking The trees along
the highways, lanes aud streets OF to%ns, WIN
the enthusiastic word FREE.
The Republican Association of free state in
fluence Of each county employs carpenter or
some handy man with tools, who is enthusiastic
in the cause of Freedom and Fremont, to traverse
the county and to mark the beautiful and lofty
trees ON the public roads with the single word
FREE Chiscls of three or four sizes are lisea,
and plain but neat letters are cut rapidly IN the
bark of trees, to grow IN them ana 10 oe reIu
for years to come.
The carpenters marked in this manner $50
trees in the last two days, in this and the ad-
Joining county, and the work still goes bravely
on and is spreading with great rapldlty. It IS
common to mark q tree every quarter or half
mile apart, that they may thus stand Ike sent1-
nels of Liberty over the whole North OF course
when the plan becomes general, 1t IS expected
that millions of trees will be marked by their
owners as every in favor OF free states free
speech. free press, freedom and Fremont will be
proud of one of these liberty frees on his farm,
or in front of his mansion.
ut is cheering, indeed, and shows that the
masses are properly aroused, to travel the streets
and roads, and to see on your right and on your
left the beautiful and enthusiastic word .tree
indelbIy fixed in the very face of nature ITSELF
In the present desperate contest this word
will have double meaning, as it will stand for
freedom, andalso for Fremont, our worthy stand
ard bearer; but it must be remembered that we
do not intend as really the name OF a man,
(Which it is not,) but the name ofan everything
principle that all mankind hold dear, aud con-
seduently its influence will be equally as great
in future elections as in the present. She Dor
der-ruifian slavery propaganda Buchaniers pro-
fess to the people of the North to be in favor of
freedom, and they should be invited to assist
us in marking the whole country with the word
FREE, and thus prove to the people the truth of
their declaration. But it is not to be expected
that they will do this, and they will not do it,
ace mill s74a
This plan enables every man to do something
forliberty, as a few minutes work will cut the
word free as sign on the trees, in front of their
houses, to be read by thousands previous to
the elections, and for ten years to come. Spread
it. then and let it circulate through alltne veins
| of your vast empire.