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Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16
IA God Forsaken Country"

The black Republican presses and
Clergy of the New England States have
denounced with no mild terms the late
decision of the U. S. Supreme Court in
the bred Scott case. Some of them
have gone even farther, and raved in
language BETTING the followers ofSatan,
rather than Christi against the Judges
who. in accordance with theirsworn duty,
pronounced the decision they had made
after the fullest and most deliberate in
vestigation of the question involved
4 northwestern contemporary, under
the caption of "a God Forsaken Coun-
try" who seems to have been born in
the land of notions, thus refers to New
England and its factious spirits. The
editor says:
at was in New England they burn
ed the blue lights to assist the British,
towering alongthe coast, in their schemes
of rapine and plumber. 1t was there
the Harfort Convention was cencocted
and held, and the blue laws were enforc-
ed. It is in the New Enslandchurches
where they take up contributions for
Sharpe's rifles to shoot down American
citizens. New England is to day one
vast Know-Nothing Lodge, organized
and led on by priests who o~ffciate at al
tiers. take and prescribe oaths, denoun-
cling all religions but their own, and
prescribing all men offoreign birth, ex-
cept Niggers.
NJ, E,J,oI fIo Cpnctitn-
ton of the United States is boldly repu-
dated by the passage of a mis-named
Liberty BILL and open treason stalks
abroad like the pestilence at noon-day:
a God F0rsaken Comatry,' truly, and
we thank God and our liberty loving
mother, for making our escape from that
country when but six months old. A
land where the people, to get a crop OF
sterile cobble-knolls, have to shoot the
seed into the ground. The May Flow
er made a great mistake landing at Ply
mouth Rock. 1t would not have done
so had it not been lost in a fog. Ii she
had landed further South, or como
through the gulf o fist. Lawrence to these
upper Lakes, New England would have
been another Labrador, inhabited only
by dogs and Esquimaux. Politically
and r~eligiously this Puritan country i
a failure. its rocks are worn out. it
rivers arc Gwindled down into rivulets
its inhabitants have become so priest
ridden as to degenerate into fanatics anc
fools. 1t is a good country to emigrat'
from.
I'VE of the West want nothing of it
products or opinions. We want mel
and minds like our lakes and rivers
large and expansive-that can take II
at one view our whole country as an ex
t~ensive prairie, and see in the whole HUI
man race but one people and oned destiny
Let us pray to God to bless our free IN
situations and save us from all contain
nation with New England politics, 0
New England priests, or New Engian'
Know-Nothing religions.
ave say to the Democrats ofthatGe O.
forsaken, priest-ridden country. the onl,
free men left living there, come to tn
West! Sell out if you can-that is if yo'
have anything to sell. Better give ava.
your lands and tenements, if you ca
prevail on any one to take them, tina
to remain in such a place"
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16
acknowledgement and Campbell.

We have given up considerable space
in our paper for the tart and spicy cor
respondence, which has passed between
these two gentlemen. To read them
and be u~nacquainted with Campbells
clustering style, n would conclude
something desperate was about to be
enacted, but Je have no apprehensions
of anything more serious than the dis
charging of an immense amount of un-
necessary gas. We hope this matter
will be settled in the which Mr..
vallandigham proposes in his reply, to
wit, by the People. 1t is a fair propo-
%sition, and We don't see how Campbell
can decline, if he believes that he is the
choice of a majority of the legal voters
of this district.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16

MURRAY & LANMAN's FLORIDA Wa
TER.-Ladies being the precious porcc-
lain of human clay" are entitled to all
the elegant Injuries which art, stimula-
ted by ~gallantry, can devise. Among
those which pertain to the toilet, there is
none that surpasses the one named at
the head of this paragraph. Delicatley
fragrant, a bcautificr of the complexion,
excellent, intermixed with water, as a
mouth wash, and as a cure for nervous
ness, faintness, and hysteria, it deserves
a place in the Materia Medic0, as well
as in the repertoire of the Toilet. To
avoid the modification of purchasing
an inferior article, Murray & Ian
mans Florida Water should always be
asked for.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16
Twenty two Niggcrs voting for
Campbell.

In the able speech delivered a few days
since in the Ohio Legislature by the
Hon. A. p. Miller, of Butler county, on
negro suffrage, we find the following:
Gas an illustration of the necessity
of such a law, permit me to refer to the
last Congressional election in the third
district. In the contest between Eallan-
digham and Campbell, it has been ascer-
tanned that tue"y thco negroes cotcd for
the latter, giving him a majority of nine
teen. The case will come up for arbi-
tramcnt in the next Congress. All the
trouble and expense consequent upon a
contested election might have been sa-
we'd by a proper application of the con
stitutional rule.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16
II EPLY
DAYTON. Ohio, !
April 9Th, 1857.


LEWIS D. CAMPBELL, ESQ,
SiR:-Yours of the ID inst. deliver
cd on the 9TH is before me, and [ reply
at my earliest leisure.
My first notice of contest was served
upon YOU at Hamilton, on the 18th OF
October, 1856. This you chose, in a
certain paper writing addressed to me
on the 31st of October, to consider tech
nically premature: bat in this paper
writing as also in sundry public oral
ALLEGATIONS" you mot only invited but
dared me to contest your right to the
seat. threatening in that event, not me
only but the then Administration, with
divers startling and astounding devel-
opmonts. You were, therefore served
again at Washington, upon the 18th OF
December, with the same notice, and re-
piled to it +hat time formally on the 23d
day of january, 1857; your reply being
served upon me on the 9th of that
month.
Notices to take dispositions in Butler
county. commencing on the Sd of Feb
ruary, were delivered to you personally
at Washington, in accordance with the
statute; as also were NOTICES 10 GthS ucp-
ositions in Montgomery, upon the I'd
of March. Under the former, depOsi-
tions were taken on my behalf during
the period Of about five weeks; and you
appeared by counsel. appeared in the
same manner; not prevented, indeed,
from personal attendance, by any off
cIal," but yet by professional engage
mcuts quite as Important. No advan-
tagc in any respect was had of you, Ell
Their there or in this county.
Notices were also served upon you
after the adjournment of Congress, at
your usual place of abode i'll IIamil-
ton. For this the statute expressly pro-
vides; and moreover you attended by
counsel at the taking of dispositions till
their close. Objection comes now out
of time and with an i'll grace.
a. Because of necessary delay ih.the TIA
king of testimony in Butler. l was obli-
gcd to abandon my first notice for Mont
gomcry, and to substitute the Goth OF
March. This left me but eight working
days i'll a county which poHcd nearly
nine thousand votes. McantimeJoual-
50 by your counsel, we're taking deposi-
tons in this county, for the first time.
and beginning on the 18th of March
nearly five months after my first, and
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16

MS Our readers have no doubt all
heard of the cheap goods at LEsH's
Store, but hearing is not seeing, and We
thought we would try for ourselves, and
we are now fully prepared to testify to
the truth of the report. As another ev-
idepce that he sells right, he is now re-
ceiying his second stock of Spring goods.
See his advertisement in another col
umn, and then call and see his goods.
and our word for it, ypp will find all
right thcrc.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16

nRa Editors are still in luck under
the present Administration. Greene, of
the Boston Post, and Gray, of the Cleve-
land Plaindealer, have been re-arpoint-
ed to their respectiue Offices; while
Sharpenstein, of the Milwaukee News,
Brown, of the GAINESVILLE Standard,
Walling, of the Keokuk Times, and
Young, of the Saratoga Republican,
have each received the appointment Of
Post Master of their respective places.
Coming events cast their shadow be-
fore"
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16
Governor Geary and the Missouri
Democrat.

One thing, at present, appears to be a
well settledpoint. Governor Geary has
either placed himself in a most ridicu-
lous and uienviable positions or the Mis-
souri, Democrat stands before the public
a sa Uize slaadeyer and a tiur. That paper
made certain declarations, Purporting to
be the substance of statements made to
the editor by the Governor, while in St.
Louis, which statements were not only
unreasonable, but in direct conflict with
his farewell address to the people of
Kansas. These statements made by the
Democrat, the Governor denies, as may
be seen from the following extract from
the Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun, who says:
Gov. Geary, as 1 learn, had an interview
last evening with eX-President Pierce,
and utterly disclaimed the authorship of,
or any responsibility for, the article in
the st. Louis Democrat which introdu-
ces his valedictory address, and with Sc
rious charges against the late admins
tration. It appears now that Gov. Geary
does not charge the Pierce Adninistra-
-tion N2aE neglect OF refusal to afford him
proper support, and that he threw up his
commission for reasons which | referred
to in my letter yesterday. That his life
was in danger after the Sherrard affair,
if not before, there can be no doubt.
Now, it appears to us that the Dem
ocrat is in a tiqht Mace: and that unless
it can adduce some proof in support Of
its former assertion in regard to Gov
Geary, it must stand before the public
in the attitude ola deliberate. f~alsifcr.
We did not believe, at the time tha'
the Governor was silly enough to make
the foolish statement attributed to hin
by the Democrat, and therefore conf
IDENTIFY anticipated his Denial as above
given. Tt remains now for the Demo
crat to exculpate itself as well as it can
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16
Lord Clarendon and NIr.Ruchan.
saEl.

The following extract, which we take
from a late speech of Lord Clarendon,
the British Minister of Foreign Affairs,
affords a most refreshing contrast, in its
high appreciation of Mr.. Buchanan, to
the coarse and vile abuse which has
been heaped upon him in the Times and
other English papers. Lord Clarendon,
who, by virtue of his Office, had the best
opportunities for knowing Mr.. Blu
chanan, with whom he was in direct in
~tcrcourse when the latter was in En-
gland, took occasion to say from his
place in Parliament:
AZ will not venture farther to tres
pass on your patience, but L should like
to add that ] believe at no time OF late
wears has there existed 70 thoroughly
sound and wholesome a state of feelings
as that which exists at present between
the people of this country and the Uni
ted States. / believe that this feeling l:
shared by the present Government Of
the United States with the same SINGER
ity as by that of Her Majesty, and VT
have the advantage that that emlnen
man, who has been called by the voice
Of his countrymen to preside over tn
destinies of the United States, has bu
recently left our shores. Hei is one VIII
has lived among us, who has miNe'
among all classes of people, and who ha
| been able to ascertain for himself TIL
feelings # respect felt toward-Ats-eeun
try by all classes of people in the Uni
ted Kingdom"
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16
psg~Ex-preisdent Pierce will sctt.

nsgrEx-Preisdent Pierce will settle
down on a farm in the interior of his
native State, New Hampshire, where for
the rest of his life. he Will doyote him:
self to the raising of horses and stock
cattle. Three O fhis horses left Balti-
more last week, in the Boston steamer.
ON their way to New Hampshire.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16
Connecticut observation-disclosures and
Better

The present platform of the Black
Republicans, of resistance to the law of
the land, as expounded by. the Supreme
Court of the United States, and eonse-
quent anarchy and violence, docs not
seem to be very popular with the..peoplco OF
the State of steady habits. That party
allied with Fillmore Know-Nothings on
what was called a "Union ticket" has
received a pretty signal rebuke from old
Connecticut. The Democrats elect two
of the foul members of Congress, while
ON the State ticket the opposition ma
jority is but a little oYcr two hundred
although last fall they had ten thousand
for President. Look at the figures or
| GovArna-.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16
IerisIatixe Items.

Since the decision of the Supreme
Court, that the law of last Winter rcsto-
ring the jurisdiction of minor o~ffenses
to the Common Pleas Court, was uncon-
stitutional, because certain counties
were excepted from its operation, the
Legislature has passed a new law ma
king a complete restoration of the juris-
dicticn referred to, without any exeep-
ton whatever. The law is the r~e-enact-
ment of the former law, with the ninth
section, which is the excepting section,
omitted.
The Legislature has also passed a law
amending. the law of last winter relating
TO the duties of County Treasurers.-
The effect of it is to allow the election
of township and city trcasurers, but al
lows no compensation for the disburse-
ment of taxes collected by the County
Treasurer.
BGg- The following persons were elect
cd to. Office in Twin township:
Rcgular Democrats. Independent
TRUSTEES.
Henry MysOng, 129 S. Meekley, 116
III. Shields, 135 NJ, Disher, Se
j. H. Marley, 100 John Bail, 81
a TREASURER.
n. Davidson, 81 j. Bowers, 1872
CLERK.
p Holtry, 215
q D ASSESSOR.
\. uoltry, 119 T.. gtntler, Ill
CONSTABLE.
Vim. Sladc. 123 81, uaRgwer, %
]. p. yanwiDklo, 100
Benton, In a letter to the St.
Louis Rcpubtican, says that he entirely
repudiates the action of the Abolition
party In the State of Missouri. lie
says his name and influence have been
used without his consent, and in viola
ton Of good faith.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16
L. G. GOULD, Editor.
EATON, O., APRIL 1e, 1857.
WANTED,

At this Office, a good, sober and steady
J~ourneyman Printer. One of this de-
scription, who can do Press-work, can
have constant employment by applying
econ.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16

eM~In the Supreme Court of New
York, on Wednesday, the place of trial
of Mrs. Cunningham and Mr.. Eckel was
changed from the Court OF general Ses-
sions to the Court of Oyer and Tcrmin-
err. The trial will take place on the Sd
Monday in April. as before provided.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16

The undersigned having recently ia,
ken a course of lessons in Single and
Double Entry Book Keeping under
Rev. G. W. Swain of Eaton, take pleas
ure in stating that we were we'll satisfied
with his instructions, and are thus ena-
bled from actual knowledge to bear tes-
timony to his ample ability to instruct
in this useful science, which teaches
how to preserve a correct record of all
business transactions"
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16

Gg~rhe New York JowrnuI Of Com
merce, in noticing the Democratic victo=
ry in New Haven, Connecticut, at the
late election, says:
eve are more particular in noticing
the progress OF Democratic principles i'll
New Haven, because it is and long has
been, the grand focus of agitation, in
the pulpit and out, for the State Of Con
necticut. 1t was there that the bells
were tolled Gall that the shriekers could
get hold of in sympathy with weeping
nature, during a solar eclipse, soon at
ter the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska
Law. It was there that a venerable and
worthy divine threatened to don his cp-
aulettes and march to the tented field
1t was there that a distinguished pro
lessor, in Il public meeting, declared
that he would not shake hands with a
Nebraska man; a hard case for them un-
doubtedly. 1t WAS there that the
Sharpe's-rife meeting was held in q
CONGREGATIONAL Church. It was from
New Haven that the Kansas-Rife Ex-
petition took up its line of march; and
there, for two or three years past, your
Beechers, and Wilson's, and Wendell
Phillipses, and Fred, Douglasses, and
Burlingames, and numerous otherblood-
and-thunder orators of the Black Re
publican Abolition stripe, have held
forth continually. There the pulpit
(not all the pulpits) has been perverted
from its sacred functions and prostitu-
ted to political eleetioneering. And be-
hold the result: The GibcraItar of Wing
gerry, which used to be good for four
hundred to six hundred anti-Democrat-
ic majority, has gone over to Dcmocra-
"y, horse, foot and Dragons"
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16

ED~-A correspondent Of the Cli1n
points out, in the following concise and
comprehensive words, the high duties
which Mr.. Buchanan administration
is solemnly called upon to discharge
That Mr.. Buchanan VIII prove faithful
and true to his trust, we have the clear
est and most cheering indications in the
cautious and wise policy he has pursued
in the first month of his Inauguration;
AN economical expenditure Of the
public funds; a strict observance OF the
doctrine of the equality of the States; a
rigid exaction of the justice and courte-
sizes due us from other nations; the pro
lection of our upon the high
seas, and of the rights Of American cit
liens in every land; unceasing opposi-
ton to odious determinations against
the laboring classes of our country; no
distrust of the capacity of our Instltu-
tions to meet the responsibilities of a le-
Ultimate expansion of u territorial
limit. These are propositions which
command the respect of the people, and
in the absolute practicalization of which
we can anticipate a triumph and a re-
nown such as few administrations, since
the days of Washington and Jefferson,
have been able to claim, and in the per
feet viudication and success of which we
can boast a legacy worthy to be trans
mitted to generations yet to be-
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16

EATON, April i, 1857.
Robert Miller. w. j. Wilson.
w. G.. Banifl. James +. flulburt-
r. Y. Lanius. A. Deem Achey.
Alfred Werner. Is. n. Wa@goner.
Hiram f. Wilson. w. Ii. Ortt.
T. r. Stround. Geo. j. Miller.
John s. Minor. l.. II. Bruce.
w. Ii. Kline. w. S. Stewart.
I opo Ito teach another quarter
commencing next week, if a sufficient
number of subscribers are obtained.
CHAS. w. SWAIN.
April 13, 1887.
neA Those who desire to be taught
thoroughly in the branch of Bookkccp-
ing, will find the above opportunity a
good one. Rev. Mr.. Swain understands
it we'll, and his terms are moderate
E4y-Ifuntington, the forger, has gain
ed fifteen pounds since his imprison-
ment. He drives nails in tho morning,
and keeps books in the afternoon.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16

sGy~Two questions to the slavery ag-
i~tators, who are so Mortified at the late
decision of the Supreme Court, are well
put by a correspondent of the Provi-
dence Post, as follows:
1st, Are the blacks enrolled in ,oul
militia? if net, why?
I'd. Are the blacks excluded from u
jury box? and ESQ. rhy?
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16

pa- Baron Alphonso dc Rothschild,
Gone of the great Rothschilds) was late
Iy married in London, to his cousin Le-
onora. The wedding expenses were
sufficient to support our Government
for a whole year.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16

Franklin only to be heard from.
The Democrats of Connecticut have
done gl%oriously, and the closeness with
which they have run the allied coalition.
shows a rcactionary feeling at the North.
which will lead to the early re-eztablish-
mcnt of our asccndancy in all the for
mer Democratic States.-En4nirrr.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16

HB-Thc late election in Connecticut
appears to satisfy the ABOLITION party very
well. They seem to be easily satisfied
Their majority in the State has come
down from over six thousand to about
one-thousand: and they have lost two:of
four congressman. Another SUCH vic
tory will be the cnda Of them ip2 that
State, .H .iyr5 .a7aaf aUGH
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16

GS~It : statedt that during II eqaarter
ending the 31st March, about 1000 dead
letters have been opened at the Dead
Letter Office, containing money amoun-
ting in aggregate TO over ST 600; and
already seven-eights of the amount have
been restored to the owners. The esti-
mate IF the department. of the whole
number of the dead letters received in
iormer years, under the high postage
system, was three. millions and al half
Under the low postage prepaid systenrit
does not. exceed three millions a year,
although the number oflettefs maildd is
far greater. 4saelg sf3 u5 ~.lai:yfg
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16

@-Mayor Wool, of New York, it is
believed, will resign his Office assoon as
the Legislature shall have adopted the
new charter and Police bills now before
it, and which win probably pass both
branches. 1t will be remembered that
the Mayor, some time since, declared
that in case the Legislature undertook
to interfere in City matters he would no
longer continue in Office. The Legisla-
ture seems inclined to test the sincerity
of his declaration. " -Hta -7i
, 1857-01-02

shall be punished by Imprisonment not to exceed zen
wears nor less than one year o. by ne not TO exceed
Two tbcnsand dollars nor hs than two hundred dol
lars or both at the discretion Of the court aud anE
sucb officer so offending may he charged, proceeded
AGAINST tried, convicted and dealt with in any dis
trict in which he may be arrested or in custody.
Sec, 80, And be Il further sndrfed, That the hth'
sixth and seventh sections Of the act herenteiole
mentioned, approved July twentieth, eighteen hui"
red and forty and all Of the act entitled An act 20
remodel the diplomatic and consular systems o the
United States" approved March first, eighteen nun
dred and ffyiiye, and all acts and parts Of aGts %
whereby any such fees are contemplated 0y the
seventeenth section of this act fixed or allowed
and any usage or law Whereby any attache Is or may
he allowed TO any legation other than such as are PRO
yded in ths act or requiring any secretary Of lcga-
tion to he employed otherwise than as provided by
this act and III other acts and Parts Z" acts SO iar a.
the same are inconsistent with this act be and the
same are hereby annuled and repealed; ana n"
atache shall he allowed in any case, ,norany secretary
of legation otherwise than as provided hy this act
sec "a. And be IL firihr enacted That this act
shall take effect the first day of January next and
not before.
Approved August Is, lN5G.