The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-06-17
Correspondence of the Register.
Description of an Unhappy Vii
lage-Its Remedy.
CANoNsBNRGH, Pa. Nav 1857

CANoNsBNRGH, Pa, May 1857.
That Storm and Sunshine are strange.
ly commingled in the cup OF human exis.
tence, is quite apparent to any shrcwd
observer, Of passing scenes about him.
This remark applies not only to individ.
uals and families, but to whole commu.
mites Evils are sometimes real and
sometimes imaginary--the former are of.
ten less oppressive than tho latter,
In the South Wstern corner of Pom
sylvania. a score of miles or more from
the iiginia line, is Caponsb burgh. very
pretty village, on the Charter river, cit.
uate upon the Southern lope of high
bill. 1t is village of Teachers an d
pupils, an academy, Female Seminary.
and College-Jefferso College the
Oldest institution of the kind ives. of the
Alleghanies 1t is a thriving village,
with eight or ten merchants, half doz.
en- churches, a large steam Touring. mill
book stors or two, a savings bank,
which commenced with $40, and now has
$40, 900, and has never made q loss Of
one dollar. But Canonsburgh the lit.
erary and scientific village of Canons.
burgh
g Is so very cunning and so wise,
None but itself, can be its parallel"
Fear makes her vassal, lest Eman.
cipation should food this white village,
with darkies aud wcnches, and the beau.
" anu ar'S'ocracy of the town bs Il done
too" forever
Brother fearful good soul, would like
to have the slaves free, but he don't
want them free to come to Canonsburgh
Oh !! no he can't bear the thought of
that. If tLey could be colonized some.
where by themselves, Brother fearful
would hold up both hands to make the
slaves free. Sister worry Is in deep
trouble. The Abolitiouists, (not the
Republicans, for sister worry is repub
lican,) are about to destroy all nice dis
tnctions in society, and colored man
or womon is to be ranked according to
their character, just as white folke are
That village Of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES is
there another like it ? Stoutly opposed
to the extension of Slavery, from the
core to the intogument, yet hating eman-
cipation most heartily. The Sisters of
Charity there, form sewing circles and
work their finger ends of, 10 send relief
to the heather in Siam and Afghanistan,
and offer prayers, and heavs heavy sighs
for the oppressed in America. Poor
bleeding Kansas shares in their sympa.
thies, and the heart and the pocket are
taxed with sighs and sixpences on her
account. These goodly sisters, and they
are pretty and good, and charming dream
terrified dreams, and see the convert cd
Shareholders of Louisiana sailing up the
Ohio, with fat boat full of sniggers,'
and marching them into tue country, and
filling every noighborhood around Can.
onsburgh with the sooty critters" :"
Others are seen sliding down the slopes
of the Alleghanies, from Eastern Vir.
ginia, and the whole country is to be
overrun with "m ancipated niggers
The papers are searched daily by these
sisters of grief, to know whether insur-
rections arc rife, and what viols of wra tn
are to be poured out or Canonsburgb.
job, the great aud good Job, never could
come up and picture such sorrows as those
which exists in solemn Canonsburgh,
The wickedness of the abolitionists
grieves them to the very heart of hearts.
Afflicted village Some strolliug organ
grinder-soms actress would prove
great blessing there. Even circus
with clown, might do much to relieve
the sad people of CaDonsburgh from
their overwhelming sorrow
1t has been suggested, that this un.
happy village be included in the field of
domestic missions, that the good sisters
thero, who are sewing up wooden pants,
and wooden shirts, and knitting socks and
mittens for the free state men in Kansas,
and the copper colored tribes west of the
rocky mountains, be themselves made the