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The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-09-09

II Bank StFeet, CIeVeIand, o.
P.S. Our Springs can only be procured in this
city, at the General Depot. 81 Bank Street, W here
citizens generally, and ladies' in particular, are in
yited to examine them. Itf
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-09-09
sWariietp.
(From the KnicI s.boexer)
THE SWORD OF ETHAN ALLEN.

At East anville, on Grand River.
some twenty miles below Grand Rapids,
Michigan, lives family by the name of
Hopkins, and here, in possession of an
aged lady. niece of Gen. Ethan Allen,
is his sword. Aware, says our infor-
mant, who saw it two years since, that
the leaders of the revolutionary strug-
gle were often selected for their weight
aud mettle, as we'll as other military &C.
eomplishments, We were not surprised to
ind their arms of a similar. The sword
in question was without ornament, and
might be a hundred years old by its ar
pearancei very heavy, with IN iron hilt =,
on which is engraved in rude characters,
as if cut by a jack knife, the name of
"Ethan Allen" the blade 10 e, straight
and single-edged-a veritable "Damas-
Gus blade Though the strong rust
spots we're proof that the long term of
peace is cengenial to weapons of war,
this relic Of tie olden time seemed to
possess in peut-up silence, all the fire
that flashed from its surface when wa
wing in triumph over the gates of Ticon-
deroga. One Of orr company intima.
ted to the owner that if fifty dollars
would be any object, he would like to
present the sword to his father, vino WIS
an intimate friend and adviser of the
General, with the assurance that it
should descend as an heirloom of much
value through successive generatious.-
She, casting a glance at the huge logs
OF which the house was built, with a flash
OF the eye, said to be peculiar to the
General and his family, quietly remark
cd: ssThere are some things in this house
that money will not buy-this is one of
them"
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-09-09

Agencies.
Having unlimited facilities for manufacturing,
and supplying any demand which may be made up
on US, we are now prepared to establish Agencies
for the sale of the Springs. upon the most favorable
terms, in every city or town throughOutthe State.
Public Houses, Steamboats,, &c. supplied in guam
titles, upon liberal terms. All communications in
reference to Rights, Agencies, or otherwise. should
be addressed 10
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-02-21
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FEMALE SLAVE

We noticed this work some time since and re-
fer to it again to say to our readers that it can be
had Of Joel Mcmillan, Salem. who has recently
received a supply of the books.
The Liberator in speaking of the writer, says:
The author Of this remarkable work is Miss
MATTE GRIFFITH, of Kentucky, 1.-THE daughter of
a deceased stakeholder a young lady of rare per.
sOnal accomplishments and Of brilliant promise,
who, ignorant of the radical abolition movement
a. the North. out of the depths of her own soul
brought forth this thrilling testimony against the
hideous slave system. Most of the incidents re.
corded in this Autobiography came within her
own personal knowledge; many Others, still more
heart-reuding, she has purposely suppressed, on
account Of their shocking character. Every effort
should be made by the friends of the oppressed to
give this volume the widest circulation.
The writer has laid the scene of her story in
Kentucky. and her pictures are 50 to the life that
they are recognized by the Shareholders of that
region. We extract the following from the Louis.
vile Journals notice of the book.
The tone of this book is exceedingly objections
BILE; it lie filled with the foulest abolitionism that
has ever been uttered. 1t contains the concentra-
trated fanaticism of Garrison and Beecher and
Phillips and Fred. Douglas, but the story itself is
full Of thrilling interest and artistic finish. 1t is
the production of O practised pen. 1t abour1s in
oeauuIul tnouBhtS ana nlGuly poeuc expressions.
Considered merely as n literary production, indie
pendent Of its gross misrepresentation, false the
cries, and most disgusting ultra. an,i.slavery nspi-
rations, it evinces a high order Of talent and liter
airy genius. We much regret to witness such a
perversion of ability. We are panied to see a
great genius thus grovelling in the mire of fsrati.
cism and soiling its brilliant plumage with the
filth Of ultra abolitionism.
There are incidents interviewer in tho story
which will be recognised by many Of our readers
rs exaggerated statements of events that have
transpired in our own city within n few years
past; and the descriptions of some Of the minor
personages introduced, although greatly distorted
and perverted. are evidently intended for some
who have been and others who yet are residents Of
this city.
This book will doubtless have even a greater run
than any Of its predecessors. 1t will be read at
the North and at England because it panders more
than any other book that has yet been published,
to the anti-slavery prejudices which are there op.
idemic. 1t will be read in the South to see how
much more slanderous a publication than Mrs.
Stoves Uncle Tom can possibly be conceived.
1t is only to be regretted that the writer has
made it SO fascinating that evory one will want to
read it. but while its readers will DO charmed with
the highly artistic performance and the literary
excellence of the story, they cannot fail to be thor.
oughly disguised with the effort to represent its de-
tails as a picture Of slave life in the South Lou.
isriHe Journal.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-02-21
NTI.SLAVERY AGITATION IN NEW
YORK.

Tho agents of the American Anti. Slavery
Society who have been laboring in the Southern
part Of New York. have encountered no small
discouragements though their labors meet with
appreciation from a few. Rev. VIM. IL. Fish
writes to the Practical Christian as follows:
Cortlandyille, n. Y, is one Of the most relig-
iously old fogyish and stereotyped regions that the
writer has ever visited and j: has seldom been
much disturbed, until Of late, by any radicalism or
''heresy." The Priests Of Theology and of Com.
merce have had unopposed sway and the many
have been led blindfold by them-bo,h parties sin.
cere, perhaps. but traditional and superstitious,
Within q few months past. however, various per.
sons have visited the retired and pleasant place,
whose evident mission ID to "turn the world up
side down." and they have produced a consider.
able commotion among the elements ecclesiastic.
Tho's X. Beocher, Joshua X. Giddings, Beriah
Green, and Ralph Waldo Emerson have lectured
to us, and have all given the Church a shock and
the Community q most healthy infusion of Hu-
manly. And the people outside Of Zion have
generally given them a warm response-and some
few inside of her who dare be free. But Stephen
). Foster has been among us also The and Ben
jamin 5. Jones and his wife Mrs. Elizabeth. And
though the weather was very cold, the previous
arrangements and preparations for them unpropi.
tious and their meetings small, they created much
interest in a limited circle, and left a good impress
sion upon those who had the independence to hear
them. Had ! time would give q fuller account
of their labors, but l have not now. Mr.. Jones /
had never seen before, bu. liked him much both as
a man and as a speaker. His wife spoke little but
yet well. Mr.. Foster did in the general region
about as usual--at Cortlandville remarkably we'll,
especially on the closing evening. He made an
address that was very powerful and very much nd
mired. 1t was certainly pleasant for US to meet
these true reformers. W. II. F.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-02-21

towards self-extinction, NIL the legislative enact
ments that can be thought Of all the slave-eodes.
however severe, that may be adopted; all the en-
enlargement that may be held out to the importa
ton, and all the obstacles that may thrown in the
way of expectation, of negroes, cannot arrest its
progress. All Abolitiondom could not root
slavery out of Missouri, unless aided by the coop
GRAFTON OF the intrinsic Laws Of slavery itself, so
the intcnsest Pro- laveryism that can be brought
to the task, cannot keep the institution in the State
when once 1t has commenced to extinguish itself.
II decay is eating at tho heart of the system, out
ward piasterings and appliances while they may
retard, will not suspend the action OF the disease.
Then let there be no bitter agitation. If slavery is
about to abolish itself in Missouri, il viii! do so
without the aid of Emancipationists, and in spite
OF the opposition Of Pro-Slavery men. Let the
Free Sellers and Anti-Slavery men keep quiet, and
not set up n great howl of eIultation OF the prob
able self-extinction of the system, claiming it as
their work; for the event, il il ever occur, will not
be due to their efforts, but to the operation of nat
ural, normal causes.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-02-21
LAUGHED OUT OF IT..

Indiana is cursed with most fagrently wicked
provisions in her Constitution, oppressive of the
colored residents or visitors in her State. S,me
members of her Legislature, DESTROYS Of carrying
out these provisions of the Constitution more fully
than the humanity of the people has hitherto per-
mittod, introduced a bill into the Legislature for
that purpose. Mr.. Kinly very properly and affec-
tually ridiculed the movement, by moving the fol.
lowing section as as amendment:
"SEcT.-Any negro or mulatto who shall be
known to use his ordinary powers of locomotion
so as to transfer himself from one place to anoth-
er within this State, without the consen. of the
nearest stakeholder. either in principal or practice
mulatto, shall, without trial or delay, DO hung BY
the neck, to tie nearest tree, until be is stone
dead"
The amendment was adopted.
In our own Legislature a similar course was
adopted with the like result. The constitution of
Ohio provides that all 'Vhle males of a certain
age may vote, and the Supreme Court has decided
in view of this provision that a white" person is
one who is less than half "of African decent" or
in the language o: Senator Monroe's speech which
we publish to-day, 'fftv-one hundredths and o
quarter white blood makes a man a citizen" Our
Democratic legislators have undertaken to reverse
the decision of the Supreme Court, by making it
penal for any person with any amount. the email
est, of African blood in his veins to offer q vote
at an election. In pursuance of this patriotic pur-
pose, two bills were introduced. the one into the
House and the other into the Senate. When the
Senate bill was under discussion in that body, On
the 9th inst. Mr.. Taylor, of Mahoning, presented
some amendments which altogether change the
character Of the bill. The amendments met the
~facetious mood Of the grave Senators, and were
adopted. Our readers will understand the joke,
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-02-21
by reading the Bill. Mr.. Taylor's amendments
are in italics enclosed in brackets.

oy reauing the Bill. Mr.. Taylors amendments
are in italics enclosed In brackets.
A BILL
10 prevent persons who are Of African descent,
either 10 whole or in part, from exercising the
privilege Of voting at elections.
SECTION l. Be il enacted By the General Assem-.
oy q ne State Of Ohio, That the judges of any
election. held under the authority of any Of the
laws OF this State, in determining the question
whether any person, Offering TO vote Mt such cleo.
ton, is a white person, shall ascertain by proper
inquiries addressed to such person, 20 be answered
under oath, or by other legal testimony to be I'D.
duced before them, whether such person is reputej
to be, (~neither) in whole or in part, Of An lean de-
scent; and if the said judges are satisfied that
such person is rsputed to be, they shall reject his
vote.
SEC. 2. Any person who is reputed to be, (neither)
in whole or in part, Of African descent, who shall
vote at any such election. shall, on conviction
thereof, be i'm prisoned in the county Jail Of the
proper county, not more than six months nor less
than one month.
SEC. 8. ANY person who shall procure, aid, as
sist, counsel or advise another TO give his vote at
any such election, knowing that such other person
is reputed (not) to be of African descent. either in
whole or in part. shall, on conviction thereof, be
fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dol.
lars, and be imprisoned in the county Jail OF the
proper county, not more than sir months nor less
than one month.
Sec. a. All prosecutions under this act shall be
by indictment in the Court of Common Pleas of
the proper county; ana it shall be the duty Of the
jud ges of the Court of Common Pleas to give this
specially in charge to the grand jury at each term
of the court.
Sec. S. This act shall take effect from and after
its passage. (but shall not apply 10 any county
having less than one hundred and fifty thousand
inha6itants.)
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-02-21
STRENGTHENING SLAVERY IN KEN.
lucky.

We published a few days since an extract from
a communication in the Frankfort Commonwealth
proposing to exempt slaves from execution for
debt, in order to strengthen slavery in that State.
La the next number of the Commonwealth the Ed.
itor, commenting upon that communication, says
such a course would not strengthen slavery, as the
non-slavehoiders now are opposed to emancipation,
and nearly every person able to own u slave is now
q NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. being but Al 600 in the State
now Shareholders. The Editor says:-[C Cleveland
Leader.
1t is a self evident fact, needing no demonstra.
ton, that slave property 10 not comparatively prof.
liable in Kentucky, and the laws Of political coon.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-02-21
THE ANTI-SLAvERY BUGLE.

and the inevitable progress of the North in ex-
tending the "area Of freedom, 10 disregard OF the
pdri passu principle the flush Of mingled shame
and indignation is on its brow. The heart Of South
Carolina palpitates with the suppressed excite
ment Of a coming battle. Texas is ready to bare
her brawny arm for the conflict" The chivalry OF
Mississippi that true Southern manhood which
acknowledges Davis and Quitman rs it's leaders
is prepared for the issue, and only awaits the
toscin's call,
$50 land and life, for child and wife,
To do what it can do"
Throughout tho South the noblest and most in.
t%elligent spirits nre oppressed with q sense Of past
outrage and anticipated wrong. The rank and
6le of the Southern Democracy feel an instinct
i've dread Of coming treacbery. Confidence and
hope are scarcely anywhere doubt prevails, trea'
son plots nearly everywhere and the friends OF
the South can enjoy no holiday henceforth until
the 6nal issue is Joined and the great battle lost
or won. Many Of those who, during the last can
vass, eensured the Delta for it's skepticism in regad
TO the all.suficiency to the South of Mr.. Buchan-
an, and platform annexed, are beginning now to
see and ackno rledge, rs we long before predicted,
that his election decided nothing and that the dark
ness which surrounded US under Gen. Pierce's
Administration would be deeper darkness under
that of his successor. They refuse to join in the
denunciation OF what was fippantly styled our
~ultraism, for they perceive that every blow aimed
at the obnoxious Southern extremists is directed
against the very heart Of the South. There are
many others whose blood has not been chilled by
the shadow of Wheatland, and who have always
refused to acknowledge the Federal capital MS the
political Mecca of the South. To those men Cal
houn still lives in the grand thoughts he uttered,
and Gu itman and Davis are of the stuff they want
in leaders and while VIC have such men with US
and thank Heaven, their number, we believe, is
neutrality-suspicious. and dew shall not be want.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-02-21
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

The National Intelligencer recently had q very
excellent article on the progress of human i'm
oroyement during the past century. and in estima.
Ing the changes made the pas, hundred wears. thus
sketched the state of Europe a single century from
tho present date.
In ,ho ,.or ,75e wosb;nn,or than :, ~.
49, sn - Ia 49, 5. 10
nIan,;nr for;s aiona ,bo fror,;er: &c SH;sss;n"
han he haunt Of nrowI;nr savaoss F;eldesmar'
ri 49, Ma-a.;S 81 Non, n;.a r..
0smono osaaId;nu ,ha s, Iam,"n"o . co. Or
,or;o "a s,,nnn,han;na Co.. po;nt and IT,
49, co...sia - "a Aha"nn -
H. 1r;,;sh - 80 n.ru;.a ~ Adhan|' "
a y %hmJ, - fua n ~ h'y "
Sm1t;no t oe0;;r IN if7s T"I EnrIaya nud E, n"ve 0een zen
nsnIns = I 10 10Y nas,auu " rrance, an,
,ha Ola W., hose Tho naw-" Georaa ,hs S,o"nd
sat On The R,,,i.h throne amnd Ion;s The F;SteentS
had be.n Iona enon,b kin of Fronca - $50,
,ha I'll. nf s,,.i boionad6 r;,h - Nv tos
been orseted bv his rov,l snb;srts sonn .ftor h;s
success;on 70 Lom;s The Morn;scant EnnlonS
f.;rs g Fronca Nv Tho, ;nn;n;.nt d;ssoI".;n, "t
morals which Ieocbed ;ts acme in the parca,rl
c.rf and the Court In Enniaod Charias Ioma.
Foy artsrwards Lord Ho,jan5 wos tba nrom;ar oI
of H. Cah;nat ,hOrah o,nsain ,as.a psaSa
erful rival william P;,t aftaywards Ear1I Of ' oh.
am. who before The close of The year succeedsG in
a. 80 ~. 60. ~
RritiGh M nhlafppre Wlfhnuf nnmharo yrara dio
cuss;no ,he eIned;encv of Sefond;nn ~ Ps;,;sh
nossessions in America $50 far b,ct in a.. ;n.a
Flor mart, NJ Nortb Amer;,a A.. the r;var Ohio
the Great Lake and thu Falls If N;aaoro D ond
monv were found 10 maintain that territor;es So
remote mioht hettsr he ohondorod % ,ha Eronoh
rs a worthless domain. Politicians were dabate.
inc the wavs and means Of nrnsecnt;nn thu ~a,
w;1b Froncs whs,bor hu nniI;n" ,hss moma
m;i;,;a or hn nor;nn s,ES;d;as CO. uo n"un
In The ;ntsr;or II EnaIand Mans beor,a - n"ES a;I
inc than for fear Of g French INVASION the nroh
ab;i;,;ss and rssrl,s Of rh;ch WOW" All. - pavo
sJ in had nrose and wor'. ~ y,ha MAI,
t.rrsnean tbe Island Of M;norca w, iesaS hv ,s
EranoS Ia 49,. r. 800 Uuoy w
rnrs ~ an rnnonmiar WNi;ns,w ms "pp a. S.
sorvire snccsss or do;nn snSb. ~ ,omm " i !; :
had Ied tho countrv ~ ernsc a NOS, conSdan,in ,ha,
y;ctorv would evsrvuheps fni,"w ,ha Ry,;.;sS
a. ~ "'" :" D'
r. ,;,sr.trre n. con,o;s.rr hn an. TO-.
continnsd 70 delisht the Iondonsrs ,honoh I,
nsrus,I was ~, npattended With d;snnr Ivy ~
roants or ,ba No., Of ,hos. mho h"5 rso" vU;
on hot rolls and The Snectotor instead Of ES;n
burn and The London Onar,ar,;os th. .Won,hi,
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-02-21
From the 81. Louis Central Christian Advocate.
EMANCIPATION IN MISSOURI.

This subject has for several days passed en-
crossed the attention and time of The Legislature
of this State. to the exclusion Of almost everything
else. The discussion has been incidentally called
up in the %eleotiun Of officers by the JOINT session.
but has, nevertheless, been discussed with u thor
o~ughness and spirit which shows the thrilling in.
tersst felt in this great question by the citizens OF
Missouri.
The dignifed fsarlsssness With which q number
of the members grsppled and handled The thing,
would do credit 10 any deliberativs body in the
land. We would deplore any strife or vicious
feeling which might arise from the agitation Of
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-02-21
From the New Orleans Delta.
THE SIGNS.

We read it in the volcanic upheavings of the
Southern heart, here and there, from Virginia to
Texas; we read it in the ominous cloud. yet scarce
~ bigger than a mans hand, which hangs over
TIE Federal Capitol We read it in that suscurus
which. signing through the forest, presages the
coming storm-we read the prophecy Of a section
al convulsion, wider. deeper and more decisive
than we have yet seen. and the issue of peace in
earnest or war in earnest, mere distinct and moro
practical than has yet been presented, among the
events which the next four years is big witbal.-
The Southern Rights wing of the Virginia De-
mocracy is growing r%estiye OF the fate Of Kansas
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-02-21

'omy will efectually prevent the increase Of ne.
groes. to any considerable extent, in this State.
The citizens Of Kentucky cannot generally DO.
come shareholders" because the larger portion Of
inc people OF this State are not able to buy . sim
gle negro. We, for one, would wish to see COM
mercs and manufactures so thriving 10 Kentucky
that white laborers and seyvants,6 provided they
were OF native growth, would DO induced to "im-
migrate INTO Kentucky" and stay there. Such i'm.
migration would increase the wealth Of our State
and give US more importance in the baIls of Ina
FEDERAL Government. The same causes which
would confne immigration ito those who expec,
to become slave owners" would drive out those
who are not able to own slaves. According to the
brought into the State keeps one white lsborer ont.
certainly then every negro brought into tho State
drives out one white laborer who is now q citizen
Of Kentucky.
1t is the interest Of Kentucky TO keep her hardy
sons at home. Too many of the hope and sxpec.
fancy OF our fair State leave her borders every
year for the far West. In this manner il Ken.
tucky kept in the rear Of many of her sister States
which possess nothing equal to her resources,
whether OF agricultural or mineral wealth. 10
order to retain our present position among the
States, inducements for white laborers must 30
held out In order to fully develope the countless
wealth OF our mineral regions, our own sons must
be induced to stay at home, and these SAINT white
iaborers, whose presence our correspondent 90
much deprecates, must be invited to our soil, for
this purpose negro labor cannot DO successfully
employed. We envy Massachusetts, her wealth
and industry, her manufactures and her FREQ
schools, instead Of looking down upon her with
We are jealous OF the progress Of
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois in railroads and other
facilities of rapid communication. In order 10
compete with those States we must have intelligent
white, as well as slave labor.
But that cannot be. Intelligent white labor
cannot be had where slavery is tolerated. If Ken.
tucky's prosperity depends upon reconcilins those
antagonisms che may despair of that prosperity.