The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1914-01-30
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THE OBSERVATORY.


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books as We have today, made for
scraps, were not then in existence;
and mine was made by FASTING the
cuttings on to a volume Of The
Laws and Resolutions Passed by the
Legislature of Massachusetts, During
the Session OF 1889" The Boston
Journal was then the great family
newspaper" of eastern New England
and almost all the clippings are from
| it. One OF the first that has caught
! my eye as | again turn its leaves,
was an item | we'll remember by the
impression it made on me at the
time. All through the summer OF
1860, during the Presidential cam
paign, We had been hearing threats
of what the south would do if Lin
| coin should be chosen president; but
had heard my father tell so much
about South Carolina's attempt at
notification" years before, and An
drew Jackson treatment of the at
tempt, that | could not suppose a
President, a President of the I'm
tied States, even one elected by the
South, sitting supinely and letting
any state or states try secession; but
the week following the presidential
election and the choice of Lincoln,
the senate of the South Carolina
| Legislature passed a bill calling for
a state convention to pass an ordi
nance OF withdrawal from the I'm
ion, and here was a dispatch stating
that fac;. Although but q boy |
remember how | read and re-read
it and wondered.
find C1iDDiD,r ta11ip1 bour II ar-
shell V. Johnson, the candidate for
ticket" had once said in a speech
in Philadelphia that capital should
own labor" and then gives an ad-
vertisement from a Savannah paper
of recent date, as follows:
MECHANICS FOR SALE
The subscriber has on hand two
excellent carpenters, three black
smiths and one wheelwright, all
excellent mechanics in their re-
spective lines, young, strong and
healthy, of quiet and peaceable
dispositions, and several of them
quite pious, all of which will be
disposed OF at moderate rates.
Persons in want OF mechanics are
lhNllCh " Vail dliN GAdHlllle THESE,
as they are all desirable work
men. w. G. PENNYMAKER,
No. 40 Canal street, Savannah,
Georgia.
Think of that in our country only
81 years ago! Several of them
pious" Perhaps Pennymaker was
'pious" too, and some of those who
bought them. You carpenters and
blacksmiths, think of being bought
and sold as cattle Oh, how reckless
we are in the use of language! Every
little while we hear some agitdtor
discoursing on the inequalities and
hardshps of labor (and it is true
enough that there are many inequali-
ties and hardships. for | have exper-
fenced some OF them, yet some agi-
tators will say that) they are worse
than those of African slavery! That
the expressions of the capitalists are
worse than Russian tyranny"
Then here is the report of an inter
view by reporter of the New York
Herald, with William H. Seward, who |
was quoted as
"Ridiculing the idea and threats
of secession. How are the south
to effect diSunion2 By force o.
arms? Look at the subject a
moment, South Carolina wishes
to leave the union. Other south
ern states may express desire to
join her. South Carolina appro-
PIRATES the large sum of $4,000
to arm the state for defense She
is without outside defense The
United States government is
ready for almost any emergency.
South Carolina pays her troops
from S. to So month. The I'm
tied States pays theirs from $40
to so. IAnd much more of the
same when he concludes) They
may be very brave and determined
until they see the enormity of the
act they contemplate, when the
lights OF wisdom and reason, and
the dictates OF common pru-
dence, will deter them from pro-
seeding to rash extremities.
William H. Seward was wise man.
'ut not a prophet
There is clipping from the ST.
LOUIS Express which tells of former
'ltizen who went to Camden, Ark,
md Memphis, Tenn, to establish
iSMS uePotS' ana wholly In the way
}. business received an order for 50
opieS OF the New York Tribune, and
lndrtook to fill it; but the fact be-
oming known, he was arrested on a
harge OF circulating seditious and in
endlary documents, was convicted
nd SENTENCED TO BE HUNG
nd was only saved from that tate
then hundreds of st. Louis people
lgned a certificate to his former good
haracter, responsibility and loyalty.
Wen, well! times have changed
In the early Sos one of the Cham
erS Brothers, book publishers O
Scotland, made a tour Of
uT country, both north and south; v
nd tells OF the excitability he found
the south; that anywhere il any S
ne questioned the right, wisdom or .
ermanence OF slavery it would start Z
connocon at once and gave some
muSng examples o. the sensitiveness =
/ southern people, and thought thew =
cted much as one might who lived -
powder magazine and saw peoDlp v
arelesS with fire. And il was hard
or those southern people to Keen