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The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-03-17
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Small at First but Mighty at Last.
BY CHARLES MACKAY.

A traveller through dusty road
Strewed acorns on the lea;
And one took root and sprouted up,
And grew into a tree.
Love sought its shade at evening time,
To breathe its early VOWS;
And Age was pleased, in heats of nocn,
To bask beneath its boughs.
The dormouse loved its dangling twigs,
The birds sweet music bore,
1t shed glory in its place,
A blessing evermore.
A little spring had lost its way
Amid the grass and fern
A passing stranger scooped we'll
Where weary men might turn.
He walled it in. and hung with care
A ladlc ut the brink
He thought not Of the deed he did,
But judged that toll might drink,
He passed again, and 10 the well,
BY summers never dried,
Had cooled ten thousand parching tongues
And saved life besides.
A dreamer dropped random thought;
Twas old, and yet twas new
A simple fancy of the brain,
But strong In beng true
1t shone upon a genial mind.
And 10 its light became
A lamp Of life-a beacon ray
A monitory flame;
The thought was small, its issue great
A watch-fire on hill,
1t sheds its radiance far adown,
And cheers the valley still.
A nameless man, amid the crowd
That throngcd the daily mart,
Let fall n word of hope and love,
Unstudied from the heart
A whisper on the tumult THROWN,
A transitory breath,
1t raised a brother from the dust,
II saved soul from death
o germ fount 0 word of love
. Othought at random east
Ye were but little at the first,
But mighty at the last
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-03-17

Mr.. K. w. EMERsoS has been engaged
to lecture six Sundays to Theodore Par
ker's Society. which will probably pay
him $50 Sunday. The Society finds
no difficulty in raising money. the inter
ests of their Sabbath services has by no
means died out since Mr.. Parker's re.
GREETED retirement.
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-03-17

To TAKE GREASE ovr OF CLoru.-
Make mixture composed Of an ounce of
liquid ammonia. and four ounces of al.
cohol. to which must be added an equal
quantity Of water. There is no better
preparation than this.
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-03-17

Mynheer Drinkenof makes a distinc-
tion thus Too much whiskey is too
much, but too much lager is shoosl
right g
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-03-17

Mrs. chibbles on board Sound Steam
er)-O, good Mr.. Sailormau, do you
think there is any fear! Old Salt-Sar-
tin, marm, sartip lots O. fear, but not
bit of danger,
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-03-17

On the llth, the Texas farmers were
planting corn, peach trees were in bios
som, and the wheat was looking WE'LL
There is a large emigration into Texas
this spring.
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-03-17
Bills Passed by both Houses Of Congress

The following Apr priatior Bills pas
sed both Houses of Congress, and were
approved by the President
Payable from Treasury,
of u s
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-03-17
came to me

Soulc ~ llc -
al know that age to age succeeds,
Blowing noise of tongues and deeds,
A dust of systems and of creeds.
/ cannot hide that some have striven,
Achieving calm, to whom is given
The joy, that mikes man with heaven
Who, rowing hard against the stream,
See distant gates of Eden CLEAN.
Who hear, by secret transport led,
The murmur OF the fountain head"
With natural reverence for the long
tribe of Holy Fathers, and for all the
wise and good who have endeavored to
expound the doctrines of the Bible, pant
to drink from the fountain itself, not from
its tributary streams. All the cumbrous
systems of theology of which the world
is burthened, are only the opinions and
specuations of men, upon truth already
explained, or upon mystery which only
eternity can reveal. Far be it from me
to scorn the conscientious faith of any
soul, but this, observation and experience
have taught me-that the church of the
present day too often contends for forms
and dogmas, at the expense of the mind
which was in Jesus. If it were possible
for any one. or any combination of finite
persons. TO possess all truth, then they
might. with bitter reason, condemn, or
at least pity, all the rest of the world liv-
ing in darkness. But while we know
that error mingles with all human know
ledge, that in this world the most spirit
ual sighted see only as through glass
darkly, does it not SAVIOR of human arro-
gance that any one body should assume
TO possess the exclusive standard of or
thodoxy The central, saving truth of
Christianity, lives far above all sects.-
There have been always many to expound
the doctrines. and few to exemplify the
spirit of Christ. From the beginning,
the pharisee and hypocrite have occupied
prominentplaces in the visible church,
and the severest words which ever fell
from the lips Of the Incarnate God, were
uttered to them Wo unto you scribes
and pharisees. hypocrites for ye COM
pass sea and land to make one proselyte
and when he is made, ye make him two
told more the child of hell than your
selves 1t is comparatively easy to say !:
l believe-this, or that'-tO build great
creeds and systems upon the simple faith
of Jesus. 1t is deeper and holier work
to drink of His being until the soul and
life are imbued with the meek and quiet
spirit of the divine Master. This is Or
thodoxy-this Religion-this Christiani-
ty. This the mission of the true disci-
pie, OF whatever name or nation. Christ's
sermons were very short. very practical ;
SO were his prayers. He never wander
ed into the region Of abstraction, forget
ting the poor humanity at his feet. De-
spising the emoluments of the world, he
went about, being, doing good. Aud to-
day. single holy life, no matter how
lowly. or how obscure, is worth more to
the world than ten thousand disquisitions
upon doctrine, however eloquent, pro-
found or sound"
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-03-17
Orthodoxy.

The Springfield Republican has New
York correspondent, undoubtedly fe-
male, whose letters evnce more than the
usual amount Of ability, and whose OBJ
seryations upon men, manners, art, sci
ence and theology, are original. interest.
ing, piquant and forcible. The following
is extracted from her letter dated Febru.
airy 22d:
/" Through mud and mist, we made
our way to Plymouth church last Sab
bath, yet heard not the inspired boy,
but his brother. DR.. Edward Beechel
made an apology on rising to speak. He
said that heretofore he had refused his
brothers invitations that he should sup.
ply his place, because he did not wish tc
disappoint strangers who had come from
distance. Two reasons had caused him
to turn aside from his usual course, viz
his brothers health, and desire to re-
fute the many assailants who bad recent.
ly called in question the soundness of his
brothers orthodoxy. could not but
smile at his words, as remembered that,
if judged by the conservative doctors o.
the law, the author of The Conflict o.
Ages would not be considered a viii
sounder in theology than his BROTHER
One of DR.. Beecher's first statements
was, that in the church at present, all
who dared to think for themselves were
called unorthodox'-that the first object
of his discourse would be, in following
back the course of history, to inquire,
who is this church !? who the orthodox
who arrogate for themselves the exclu-
sive right of forming the creed, and OF
judging the faith of all the rest of the
world 2 He said that the majority ol
Christians are shamefully ignorant OF
church history, that opinions were i'm.
posed upon them, of which they are not
prepared to judge, and that, if he could
only rouse them to read and investigate
for themselves, his sermon would not be
failure. The discourse, both long and
able. and replete with historical facts,
was listened to by thousands of people
with the deepest interest. As I sat and
heard, these were the thoughts which
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-09-29
From the Wooster Republican
EasOn Dare Not Meet Galley.

On the same day that DR.. Galley was
nominated as the Republican candidate for
Senator, he challenged Benjamin Eason,
the Democratic candidate, to debate the
questions now in issue between the two
parties, before the people of the District.
Twelve days have elapsed, and DIR. Galley
has received no reply from Eason, and tho
belief is general that he dare not meet Dr.
Galley before the people. Already some
of Eason's friends declare their intention
not to support or vote for him, unless LIE
comes out manfnlly, and meets DIR. Galley
in the discussion of the questions before
the people. Our opinion is that Ben, dare
not meet his oppnent in an open fair way
of discussion, but prefers to sneak around
and villify and plackguard DR.. Galley and
the Republicans. But we shall see what
course be will pursue. The following is
the challenge sent to Eason by DR.. Galley:
WOOSTER, ONO, Sept. 10 1859.
BENJAMIN EAsoN, Eso.-Dear SIR
As you and / are the candidates of the OPP
posing parties, for the office of State Sena-
tor, l propose to discuss with you the
points at issue between the parties, at such
times and places, as may hereafter be
agreed upon by us. If this proposition is
acceptable 10 you, please inform ME at
your earliest convenience.
Respectfully yours. R. R. GALLEY.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-09-29
Worse and Worse.

The Locofoco press have got hold of
another lot of startling facts against Judge
GHoLsoN. A gentleman lately from Mis-
sissippi, of "good character as they tell
us, informs these truthful gentlemen that
if they will put him on the stand be is
read- TO give his affidavit" that GHoLsoN
when in Mississippi sold slots" of niggers.
Some of these gentlemen of the press are
for giving this last witness the go-by. They
think that they have already overdone the
"afidavit" business, that there is such a
thing as proving too much. We hope
their councils won't prevail, that the Mis-
sissippian will be sworn and his affidavit
published. Don't let your consciences
trouble you gentlemen, when the election
is so near at hand. - @ -fs
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-09-29
The Vengeance OF the ChivaIry.

Henry Winter Davis, of Maryland, in q
recent speech at Baltimore, said:
81 repeat again, our interests are with
the Opposition of the North. We grow
neither cotton, sugar, not rice; neither dc
they. We are interested il agriculture,
commercial and manufacturing pursuits,
and therefore our interests are with the
North, and with them alone. l will fur
ther add, that Maryland interests are sus-
tanned by the Opposition party of the
North, and voted down by Southern Demo.
crats."
Whereupon the Richmond Enquirer in
vokes southern vengeance as follows:
We would call the attention of South
ern merchants, about to make their fall pur-
chases, to the following paragraph from a
late speech by Henry Winter Davis, of Bal
timore. + < Her representa-
tive having announced that her 'sinterests
are with the Opposition of the North" we
take the city at the declaration of MIR. Da-
Wis, and call upon the merchants of Vir-
ginia and the South to leave Baltimore
trade to the Opposition of the North.
Will any Southern merchant again seek
Baltimore to purchose goods after this dec
laration of her abandoning tho Southern
States?
But Yankee shrewdness is nothing COM
pared to the sharpness of the Chivalry in
turning an honest penny out of their po-
lilical excitability, and the Enquirer, while
invoking the vengeance of those 'who are
about to make their fall purchases" on
Baltimore, displays similar frugality to
that which in the economical arrangements
of Mrs. Gilpin, for their celebrated pic mic
so elected the admiration of her husband.
John Gilpin kissed his loving wife,
Reioiced was he to find
That though on pleasure she was bent,
She had a frugal mind"
The Enquirer improves the occasion
and shows its frugal mind, though on ven
geance bent, as follows:
Our Wholesale jobing houses are supplied
by direct importations, and by large whole
sale purchases from the manufactures of
the North, and Richmond is prepared to
supply, on favorable terms, every customer
who may give her a call.
Let every Southern merchant give Rich
mond n call before purchasing elsewhere
Let them avoid the Southern city whose
Interests are with the North alone"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-09-29
EasOn Backs Out.

1t has been already intimated that R. K.
GALLEY, Esq, the Republican candidate for
Senator in this. District, had challenged
BENZ. EAsoN, Esq, the Democratic candi-
date, to debate with him the principles at
issue between the two parties. EAsoN
backs out! He Is afraid to meet DR.. GAL
LEY on the stump before the people sohose
votes he asks. After all the blowing and
bluster we have heard about the "splended
talents" of EAsoN, he refuses TO meet a
man whose abilities they have decried, and
who has been represented as unfit to fill
The post of Senator.
EAsoN has done well in refusing to de-
bate with GALLEY. He has not the ability
to cope with him and the principles he sup
ports will not bare an investigation.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-09-29
New York Politics.


New York the Hards, under the lead OF
Fernando Wood, got the control of the Or
ganization by movement which was said
to be q little in advance of the time. The
Regency party undertook to elect new
chairman and begin de novo. Their extra
chairman was struck off the platform,
whereupon they withdrew from the Con-
vention, and it was telegraphed over the
country that Wood had come there with
Heenan and company of New York pu-
gilists to control the convention by force.
The boilers waited until Woods conven-
ton had adjourned, when they returned,
organized, and when they retired from Hall
secured the key and retained possession.
1t now turns out that Heenan and the
most notorious of the fancy were there at
the instance of the Regency party. Hee-
nan has published an affidavit stating that
he was the guest of Capt. Rynders, and
was admitted to the convention on tick
ct from Peter Cragger; so that Rynders,
Cagger, and the Regency party set up a
howl about bullies controlling the conven-
ton only to cover up their own practices.
This was their sole justification for boiling
from the convention, and, as this was a
fraud, it is probable that proceedings of
the Wood convention will be recognized at
Charleston, and that delegates elected by
districts, as it recommended, will present
better claim for admission than the pack
ed delegates of the Regency convention.
That the government Of the country
should be entrusted to such party as Ell
ther of these factions of bulies and knaves
which both call themselves the great dem
ocratic party, suggests moral which is
too patent to need comment.-State Jour-
s,o1
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-09-29
From the Mshoning Register, Sep -
More Concerning Judge Ranney
and the Fugitive Slave Law.
The Proof that He Denounced 1t as I'm
Constitutional in 1850!
READ! READM READMl

Since Judge Ranney's emphatic denial,
at Cleveland and elsewhere, in his discus
siens with Mr.. Dennison, that hs ever de-
nounced the Fugitive Slave Act as uncon-
stitutional, or even characterized it as un-
Just, or advocated its repeal, we have taken
some pains to look little further into the
record upon the subject, to discover, if pos
sible, whether his sentiments at that time
had been misrepresented. For this pur-
pose we have hunted up the files of the
MahoniDg Lnder, Democratic paper pub
iished by John R. Church, Esq, in Can
field, at the time the indignation meet
ing" was held, at which Mr.. Ranney was
present and spoke. In the issue of that
paper bearing date November 1, 1850, in
addition to the official report of the meet
ing heretofore published from the Ohio
Republican, we find the following edito-
rial article, reviewing the proceedings, and
giving brief report of the various speeches
made upon the occasion. Mr.. Church,
who is still resident of Garfield, and one
of the most esteemed citizens, will testify
to the correctness of the report then made
by him of Judge Ranney's remarks. Be
sides, Mr.. Ranney was attending Court in
Garfield at the time, and undoubtedly saw
the article, but did not attempt to say
he had been misrepresented. Further
more, the editor would not have dared to
misrepresent him, when there was such "a
cloud of witnesses" to testify to the facts
We give the article entire:
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-09-29

Bench, received the unanimous response
and amen of the mighty mass there assem-
dedi Read it, and adopt il, then; for if
we must continue to snccumb to the dc
tation of the infamous slave holder OF suffer
death, let us not only suffer death, but
even the death of the Jewish cross!
The resolution referred to above reads
as follows:
Resolued, That come life or come i'm
prisonment, come fine or come death, We
will neither aid nor assist in the return of
any fugitive slave; but on the contrary,
we will barbor and secrete, and by ali just
means protect and defend him, and thus
give him practical God-speed to liberty.
The above, then were Judge Ranney's
sentiments upon the Fugitive Law in 1850,
reported by paper of his own party, and
attested by host of persons in this vicini-
ty who were present at the meeting. 1t is
only necessary to show Judge RS utter
subserviency to the behests of his party,
even to the denying that he ever entertain
ed or uttered manly sentiment upon the
subject of slavery in his life, to give his
answers at Cleveland, last week, when in
te.rogated by Mr.. Dennisson upon the sub
ject. During the discussion, the following
among other questions, were propouuded
by Dennison and answered by Mr.. Ranney.
We copy from the National Democrat:
Question-Did you, in 1850, deny the
constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave act
of 1850!
I did not.
Question-Did you, in 1850, denounce
the Fugitive Slave act as unjnst and should
be repealed!
I did not. l said 10 the gentlemen then
as | would say now-that if the law did
away with habeas corpus and the right of
the trial by jury, then it would be the pro-
per subject for an appeal to Congress for
an amendment. But l said that thers is
nothing to be done under government
but an appeal to the law making power,
for remedy for abuses.
We ask, in all candor, is man who SO
stultifes bis own record upon question Of
humanity, worthy to be elected as the
Chief Magistrate of the free people OF Ohio
Let the answer be given at the ballot-box
in October.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-09-29

Doctors DIFFER.-A number of the
Democrats in the North who have fallen in
with the "Squatter Sovereignty" doctrine
OF Mr.. DOUGLAS, say that if practically en-
forced, no more slave States will come into
the Union. Inthe South, the Slavehold-
ers claim that it will carry slaves into the
now Free States. The Philadelphia Press,
Mr.. DoueLAs' Pennsylvania organ, says
that DouGLAs' theory has been tried in
"three or four new Territories, with success,
some of which are free and some slave
The Shareholders will yet all fall in with
the doctrine of Mr.. DoUeLAs, for it is
practically, Just the thing they want.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-09-29

MEMORY OF DouGLAs AT FAuLr.-The
Chicago Tribune gives the Little Giant
the following gentle reminder: ~
Douglas made aspeech at Wooster, Ohio,
on Friday last, and among other things
said, "that Illinois stands the only Northern
State that has never faltered" in spstain-
ing the Democratic party.
The Judges memory is little faulty
In 1854 Illinois elected Republican Leg
islature, which turned Shields out and put
Trumbull in the Senate. Mister Shields
has vivid recollection that be heard
something drop" when Illinois faltered.
Two years later, in 1856, straight Re-
publican ticket was elected by six to seven
thousand majority; and two years subse-
quently, when Douglas himself was can
didate, be and his party were beaten four
thousand and upwards on the popular vote.
In fact the State of Illinois has "faltered"
ever since he invented the Squatter Sow
ereignty dogma; and it is passing strange
that he has never observed it,
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-09-29
Keep it Before the People,
Keen pit Before the People.
Douglas Democrats, Please
Read,

For the special benefit of our Douglas
squatter-sovereignty friends, we publish the
following article from the Chicago Herald
the leading Loco paper in Illinois. II
is headed "Slavery in the Territories-Mr.
Buchanan's letter of acceptance" and reads
as follows:
The Squatter Sovereignty papers attempt
to serve their purposes by quoting from
Mr.. Bucbanan's letter of acceptance, in
which he said that ''the people of Ter
ritory, like those of State, shall decide
for themselves whether slavery shall or
shall not exist within their limits" Let
US see what this amounts to. Mr.. Buch-
anan said this in connection with bis ac-
ceptance and endorsement of that part of
the Cincinnati platform which refers to
the subject of slavery in the territories
He but repeated what that platform, in
substance declared, and what the Kansas
Nebraska bill guaranteed. Both that
platform and that bill placed the whole sub
ject, as they were bound to, "subject to the
Constitution Of the United States" and
no man of sane mind believe that Mr..
Buchanan did not mean his remark to be
governed by the same qualification. With
this fact in view, the ultra Squatter Sow
ereignty advocates can find no comfort in
the Presidents words, for the Constitution,
as interpreted by the Supreme Court re-
stricts the control of the people to the ter
ritories over the subject of slavery SO that
they cannot prohibit slavery ''within their
limits" until they form a constitution pre-
paratory to their admission as State
The qualification appended to the words
of,the Kansas Nebraska bill and the Gin
cinnati platform, and of course, recognized
by Mr.. Buchanan, who endorsed both, has
been clearly defined by the Supreme Court,
from whose decision there is no appeal,
and the principle is now permanently set
tied so that hereafter Democrats can have
no trouble-can make no make no mistake,
IN determining, definitely and distinctly,
the doctrine of the party, respecting slave,
ry in the Territories.