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True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1857-04-22
Mr.. L. Robertson.


We had the pleasure on Tuesday eve
ming of last week 10 listen 10 discourse
pronounced by this young gentleman in
The Associate Reform Church Of this
city.
The discourse was founded upon the
first six verses of The fourth chapter OF
the epistle to the Ephcsians--
IL therefore the prisoner of the Lord -
&c.
The speaker tarted off with the prop
osition,. that it was the practice of the
first messengers of the cross of Christ TO
devote much of their time and labor to
the Spiritual interest of the inhabitants of
large cities. These were the strong
holds of The adversary, the fountains
whence issued the foul streams, which
spread desolation far and wide, could
there be purified, righteousness and peace
would flow throughout the land, as a
mighty stream. In view of the accom-
pllshment, Of this great and glorious OBJ.
ject the Apostle Paul laboured much al
Ephesus. Here the speaker gave true
description of the literary and moral con
di'ion of Ephesus, in the Apostolic age
II was a place of vast wealth and much
learning, but shrouded in great mora
darF ness. He then noticed the grea
moral change which was effected by III,
preaching of this Divinely commissions,
messenger of God.
After pronOuncing sublime eulogy up
on the character of the great Apostle o
the Gentiles, the speaker entered upol
the discussion of his subject, by stain!
the two following propositions.
First.-The exortation of the Apostle
in the lst 2nd and Sd verses.
SecondIy.--The reasons why Their
should be compliance with this exorta
ton as set forth in the 4th 9Th and 6tI
verses of the chapter
These points we're dilated upon in
very clear and happy manner, and wha
added greatly to the interest Of the dis
course, was the humble and devotions
spirit in which it was delivered.
We have but seldom listened to tria
sermon-for such we understand was th
character of this discourse lin whic
there was more true ministerial tallen
evinced. The Presbyiery went into ses
sion after the sermon was delivered, an
the discourse passed through the ordeal {
very severe criticisms, by some Of III
learned divines who we're present
: was then accepted by unanimous vot
of the Presbylery. II we had been.
member Of the body, we mos, certaihl
] would have cast ours in the affirmative
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churches where ministers. either from
attachment to the peculiar iDstilution,"
or through fear Of injuring their popular
ity, have been even afraid to pray thai
oppression and the evils connected with
il, which are covering many portions Of
our land as with u death pail, shall cease.
We love and respect the minister OF
the Gospel who is not afraid to do his
duty in this respect, and we cannot but
pity that man, occupying that sacred and
responsible position, who is afraid to do it;
and the history Of the church shows that
the class the editor of the Democrat char.
ges as having left their daily walk with
God to join hands with the Devil" are
not the I" New England preachers"
We publish this article for the special
benefit of our neighbor, hoping tina! he
will, now that he has been informed in
the premises, cease 10 expose his own ig-
norance Of, and malignity towards, so
highly respectable. digni6ed and useful a
class of men as the ministers of the Cos
pel.-ProgreSSiUe Age.
True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1857-04-22

ST. LOUIS, April 17.-Santa Fe ad.
vices to the 18th ult. are received
The Democratic Convention has pomin;
mated James L. Collins for Governor,
and Mr.. OterO, late DELEGATE to Congress,
for reelection.
Considerable excitement was OCCASION
ed in Santa Fe by a collision between a
Mexican named Gruber, and soldier
Gruber ahot the soldier and gave him.
self up. and was taken TO Jail: party of
troopers entered during the night and
fired forty shots, killing Gruber and an
other prisoner, and wounding TWO others.
Some soldiers who have been identified
will be tried for the offence.
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Book Notices.

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for March, contains the usual number Of
able, well written articles. The subjects
are varied and the style mastery. ....
GA Crow Plucked with Mr.. J. BULL"
is filled with subtle sarcasm, that will
touch many d tender spot, in the Scared
hide of the venerable old animal. We
always considered Black God as severe.
but impartial in its criticisms on friend
and foe, and each additional one but con.
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@THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA must
be patient set Of donkeys, ifthey submit
to the insulent schemes of the Slave.
ocracy, for preventing Eli Thayer and
his family from buying up and settling
the unoccupied and Improbable lands of
the state, SO as to render them productive
and profitable by Free Labor. We can
scarcely believe it possible tha! those
Virginians, owning few or no slaves, but
having large bodies of land now utterly
waste, which men outside of the state
offer to buy a: fair prices, and cultivate
so as to enhance the value of all property
in the state, increase her revenues, relieve
the people of burdens of taxation, caus-
ing the very "desert TO bloom az the
rose," erecting the school house, the
church, the work shop, the busy hamlet,
town and city, with the attendant comforts
and blessings, in places now barren and
unlruitlul, we say we cannot believe
that the Virginia people thus to be bene.
fined, enriched, by the hands of Industry
aud Thrift. will suffer the poor, silly acts
and threats of dronng politicians and par
ty presses, TO blight all this promise, for
the sole benefit of few hundred slave
hoIders-thal these few may continue to
impoverish all the rest of the state, while
they derive their revenue almost solely
from the accursed system of breeding and
rearing slaves for the farther south.
The thing is too monstrous-lhe peo-
pie Of Virginia cannot be SO blind-and
we verify think that the Richmond pres
ses and politicians, should they succeed
in preventing Mr.. Thaycr from settling
in Virginia, and drive him to other loca.
tons will have done that which will
sink them deeper into the political grave
than if they should proclaim the most ul
ira doctrines of Abolition.
Why are the people and presses o.
Western Virginia standing idle, while
this important matter is being impudenlly
settled against tie vital interests of III,
whole state, by the hnmdrum papers ant
politicians of the east side of the Ridge
The old state is dying, wasting away, be
fore the pesIilent breath of slavery. Mel
offer to restore her to life, to build "
her waste places, 10 put her once agail
where she stood in the revolutionary err
among tie proudest and most flourish
ing of states-and sensible men sit slen
while their offer is being spurned wit
threats of indignily and violence!
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Another Specimen.

"Never in the history of our coun.
try. was there congregated in the Halls
OF Congress so base and unprincipled a
set of williams as the Aboitionists and X.
N, majority in the late House. And
etthat majority was composed of the
men for whose election the 1900 Preach
ers in New England, openly went into
the contest and for whose success hun
dreds of pulpils in Ohio were proGanely
desecrated! Comment upon this fact
is unnecessary and it behooves thu. e.edilor
OF the Age, and every other editor, to de-
nounce the blasphemous example Of
carrying politics into the pulpit! Look
now at the effect Of their conduct upon
the churches There is a widespread
and tesolatng Spiritual famine in nearly
all the Churches of the Nation! And
vice and crime are spreading like pesti-
lence at noon day. And all this is just
ly laid TO the charge Of preachers who
left their "daily walk with Cod" to
Join hands with the Devil--in overtime W.
ing the Democracy OF this Nation Un.
til they have confessed their sins as pub.
licly as they were committed, and repen.
ted in sack cloth and ashes" the Ark o
the Lord will not be returned unto Israel. u
The above we clip from that delectable
sheet published il,this county. called the
2" Coshocton Democrat" Several times
Of late the editor has given vent to his
hatred of ministers Of the Gospel in the
same chaste style, and we notice the ar.
ticle now merely 10 expose its falsehood
Now the editor has wilfully misrepresen
ted that class of ministers and churche!
which he intends 10 injure, or he is gross
| ly ignorant-either Of which renders hin
entirely inexcusabIe, for public journal
ist should be informed before he publish
es any matter as facts, that they are really
so.
We have read much during the las
winter Of the history of the churches du
ring the past year, and find that the pub
lished accounts entirely falsily his stale
ments. In the city Of Boston, and in th
whole state Of Massachusetts nearly, ant
in many other parts Of New England
there have been extensive revivals of re
ligion during the past winter; also in tn
state Of New York, and in many churche
in our own State, especially on the Re
serve-and we would inform the edito
that, from our knowledge Of many Q
those churches and Of the character o
T their ministers, we can state that the min
listers and churches that have openl.
opposed oppression and its attendant evil
have to great extent been blessed by III
Great Head Of the Church, and that tn
spiritual famine" Of which he speaks
Iexisls almost, if not entirely, in thos
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Corre.ponasaes Of tho True Amsrlsau.
Rock ISLAND. April ls, 1857.


Mr., hsAN Dear Sir-We started
from Sleubenville about the 1st of March,
and alter tedious trip Of fourteen days,
landed alKeokuk, Iowa, about l4O miles
below this point. Although SO early in
the season, we found every boat crowded
with emigralts for the West--principally
for Kansas. We had the opportunity and
observed that nearly all Of the Kansas
emigrants were from Slave States--Vir-
ginia and Kentucky-men who were in
favor Of and confidently believed that
Kansas would become Slave State. If
we may Judge from the emigration on the
river, from Virginia and Kentucky to
that Territory, there is some foundation
for that belief The emigranls from the
Free States almost invariably settle in
Iowa or Illinois, while those from the
Slave States push on to Kansas. 1t will
not do for the people Of the North to re.
lax their efforts and 60 to sleep with the
belief that the battle is over and Kansas
safe, or they may wake up, when it is too
late to work, and find her in the hands
Of the Shareholders.
We have been here but a short time,
yet, we think, long enough to form cor,
rect opinion of the country. 4.
The advantages Of coming west, have
been greatly exaggerated. This we know
by personal experience, and the expe-
rence Of many more with whom we have
met. We advise all who have comfort
able homes, to stay where they are, and
be satisfied with what they have, or if
they must come West. 60 to Kansas,
which is all that it is represented 10 be.
To man with capital there is great in
ducements offered, but to the POOR man,
every inducement to stay away. IT'S
true that high wages are paid, but the cost
of living more than balances that. Rents,
board and everything else are enormously
high. We know great number Of young
men who came here, with the delusive
hope of making their fortunes, who have
gone home disappointed, and others who
would 60 tomorrow, if they had The
means. TO the men with capital, we
say come, 10 the poor man, Let well
enough alone" Besides all this, man
as almost sure to have the ague. Though
they deny it, they have il in nearly eve.
ry town. Go into any place and enquire
if they have the ague there, and, like as
not, some saffron. faced individual, who
has just got over the shakes" will say
no; but that they have it in this, or that
place, and you may hunt the country
over, and never find it, until it finds you.
The fact is, this is side of the picture oI
the West that people do not generally
see until they come here, and of which
they seldom hear; but if any doubt it let
them come, and learn from experienc,
who though often dear, is good teach
er Yours, &c. II. G. S.
True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1857-04-22

BUDS. ~ am afraid" said friend
of ours interested in fruit growing, - that
tile open weather which has prevailed of
late, will cause the buds to start too soon
for safety, and that there will be another
failure Of the fruit"
How Illustrative Of the experience of
human life Many are the buds of hope
destroyed by the frosts Of adversely, ere
The blossoms are fully blown, SO that the
fruit never comes. '
See that young mother with her first
born. 1t is the bud of parental bliss to
her. In her dreams Of its future. and of
the frui. Of its grateful love. she is hap
by as mortal can be. lis every motion,
and its every tote are watched with de
light, and the beams of its conscience,
are as the rays Of angels eyes to her
soul.
Would we could insure the unfolding
Of that bud even intD childhood's bloss.
ON, to say nothing Of the frnit Of d ma.
tnrer life. But we cannot. Ere the
spring time has gone. the frost Of disease
may have nipped and blasted il utterly,
or, iwbatis worse left it to exist as de
cFppid sulIer through long years Of ago
nyis
Sse that bud & girlish beauty. Wba
promises i gives nf Tuition, Iich AM
rare. IN woluahhod. Whatexultant ex
pectation IN The part Of doling parents
what admiration on The part Of scores o
admirers. They impaliently await hel
escape Itim The restraint Of the schoo
.rDnm, ail, the removal Of other barriers
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The Canvass in Tennessee and Ken
.... tucky.


We are gratfied to observe tn at active
preparation are in progress among the
Americans in Tennessee for the canvass
during the coming summer. We bid
them God speed in the good cause. All
around us we find cheering signs of en-
couragement, and reason to believe that,
though defeated, the American party of
Kentucky aud Tennessee is not discour-
aged, but is ready and anxious, aye; and
determined 10 battle on for the promotion
of American principles until success shall
crown all its efforts. Those who were
lately opponents, even in the very hour
of their victory, are crushed in spirit and
humilated at the discovery Of the base
ar ifces by which they were enabled to
triumph over Amercanism. They are
already weakened and dispirired, and con.
scious that another such victory would
bring degradation upon them aud utter
ruin upon the country. Bd: the Ameri-
Cans may walk proudly among their lel-
low men conscious of having performed
a patriotic duty, and gratified to witness
even their opponents forced 10 acknOwl-
edge, before deceived and betrayed peo-
pie, the justice and propriety and emf.
nenl patriotism of the principles and poll
cy of the American party.
We believe that the Americans Of
Kentucky than whom a truer or frmer
or more devoted band of patriots cannot
he found, are beginning to al ouse them.
selves to the importance of the approach
ing canvass in this State and 10 prepare
for it. Our Slate Council, which will
hold its session in this city on the secont
day of April next, will bring together
a full representation Of the party through
out the State. and the canvass here will
commence Immediately afterwards. lJ
Wherever elections are to be held i
should be remembered by The American
party, that, to win success and to make
our success permanent, it is actually ne
cessary to bring out rs the American
candidates the very best men in the par
ty for all Offices to be filed. Let III
present to the people such for candidates
as will convince the nation of the super
ior fitness Of Americans to rule ou
country, and let harmony and concert O
action prevail throughout our ranks.
| The American party has never occu
} pied prouder position, nor one NOR
! full Of promise of brilliant success than a
present. If Americans now will be tru
to themselves, true 10 their principles
and true to their country, they will sure
ly be successful. The skies are -brigll
!. with promise, and it nov needs but on
Q more earnest, active, united, and deter
/; mined effort and victory will perch upoI
1 our standard and our Union will be safe
A Lou. Jour.
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Gelegragbits

WASHINGTON CITY. April I7.-Mr.
Sayers in the street made a violen. as
sauli upon George R. Herriek this Nor
ming, in consequence Of the laller's com
munication in the New Yord Herald,
commenting severely on the Assistant
and Secretary Clayton, in connection
with the payment Of Thompsop's Indian
claim, Mr.. Sayers is arelative Of Mr..
Clayton.
Mr.. Denver this morning entered on
his duties as Commissioner Of Indian Aft
airs. IS,
A special dispatch 10 Washington da-
ted New Orleans, April l6th, says that
official advices have been received in that
city to The effect that the Mexican gov
eminent had admitted that the contractors
engaged to open the Tehauntepec road
have complied with the Original contract
and that the government officials have
received the road. = ~
rhe Jail at Haggerstown Nd, was en-
tirely destroyed by fire this evening"
The prisoners are safe.
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to her acquaintance and favor.7 Alas !
they wait in vain! That hour may nev-
er come. See already, the hectic flush
upon her cheek 1t makes her appear
all the more beautiful But it points to
he sepulchral vault rather tn an the bri.
dali hall. Consumption has already
been sent, as messenger from death
himself, 10 claim another victim. The
fruit of her maturity viii never come,
Verify, uncertain are all the iruitions
promised by the buds of human hope.
True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1857-04-22

C1NcINNAT1, April l7.-Flouris is held
firmly at $5, ,50a$5, 55, cut the demand is
only moderate at these rates and the
market closed dull. The receipts are
more liberal. Whisky firm at 22ac.,
with sales of $500 bbls. Nine millions
of shingles sold at 1915 and $3.50 per
thousand. The supply is but moderate,
and the stock in yards is light. Provis-
ions are held with increased irmness as
the demand increases. Hence not much
has been done, the prices asked by hol-
ders being fully &c. higher for bulk
meats and bacon than they would have
cheerfully accepted last week. Buyers
are willing 10 pay an advance of 4c. sug-
ar firm and in good demand. Coffee
steady. Moasses firm.
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Hon. T. H. BENTON.

This celebrated statesman delivered a
discourse in the city of Wheeling on last
Wednesday night. Being in Wheeling
on business, we ayailed ourself of the
opportunity to listen to the venerable
gentleman, at an expence Of rs cents, for
ticket. Our first intention was to take
notes, in view of publishing a synopsis OF
the discourse, but soon became satisfied
thai 'cap rs in our Office would be found
entirely TOO scarce, and we abandoned the
design.
The speaker-after delivering short
address upon the subject Of temperance in
general, and the disuse of tobacco in par
ticular, in which he presented himself
as demOnstralive proof of the happy ef-
feet Of temperance in all things, upon the
phsyical and mental system-proceeded
to state that he had spent the last
win'er in travelling and speaking in the
New England Slates-lhat his theme lad
been the Union of the states of this
confederacy-the dangers Of a division ol
the Union, with the disastrous consequent
ces attendant upon such result-he had
been listened to with great interest by the
intelligent portion of the people, and his
speeches had produced very strong i'm
preston in favor Of the preservation oI
the Union. Equal blame was to be at.
tached 10 the Fanatics of the North, and
the DisumioniStS Of the South, for produ-
cling the agitation by which our country
is in its present distracted condition.
South Carolina had taken The first step
in 1882, when in the Senate of the United
States, HAYNES presented proposition
for ihe establishment of an Independent
Southern Republic. He was successfully
repelled by DANIEL WEBSTER in the Sc.
nate and the insurrection quelled by the
indomitable JACKSON. South Carolina
however, still labOring under The delusion
that there is an incompatibility of interests
between the South and the North is in favor
of disunion. Statesmen in every section
are in favor of Union-PolihtiMS are
for disunion-the masses of the people
are loyal TO the constitution and are with
the statesmen. WEBSTER and BENTON,
although members of different politica
parties were always one upon this grea
constitutional question.
The speaker was opposed % the in
stitution of SlaUery-he believed it tt
be wrong, but was nevertheless apractica
slaUe holder-"Oh consistency thou ar
Jewel. lie had voted IN favor OF The
Missouri Compromise, and against its
repeal, and was uncompromisingly oppo'
sed to the extension of Slavery into Ter
rtories now free. He had paid the pen
atty for his vote against the Kansa,
Bill, and he intended that it should re
main paid-he had nothing to relract-
if when he passed from the stage of &C.
ton, his friends deemed him worthy ol
any mark of distinction, he desired il
should be engraven upon his Tombstone,
and cut deep into the Marble, thatit might
not be Obliterated by the hand of time
THOMAS II. BENTON voted against the
repeal Of the Missouri Compromise.
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Cloths, Cassimeres, Vestings, &c.
lust Received by Dougherty " Bro,
- for spring and summer Trade, very
large and superb stock of Goods in this
line in which may be found everything that
is new and desirable for Men and boys.
JIG. BARR, who superintends the bus
mess, will make to order, in the best style
and with promptness, any garment at lows
er prices and which will compare IN style
and workmanship with any establishment
in this trade. f.
READY MADE cLoTHIN0.--We nave o.,
ways on hand large and superb stock q
Ready made clothing Of our own manuiac7
ture, which we will warrant, and sell at
as low prices as can be found anywhere
DOUGHERTY q BRO.,.
aps Third and Market sts,, Stepb,
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GROWING WHEAT CRoP.-Ihe wheat
crop in Northern Georgia and East Ten
nessee presents very promising appear
ance. The Chattanooga Gazette says
an unusually large amount of wheat has
been sown, and If nothing happens to it,
there will be crop gathered that will
astonlsh the people. In Michigan and
other Western States it has passed through
the winter with much less damage than
in former years, and the most flatterng
expectations are entertained Of the COM
ing harvest.