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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
August
Year
1845
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Public Domain
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The annual meeting of the Wisconsin Liberty Association was held at Delavan on' thr 2d inst., and was an encournging occasion, both from the number present and the spirit exhibited. We expect mach from Wisconsin. A subscription was raised of thirteon additional shares in the stock of the Freeman. The executive committee have engaged the services of Martin Mitchell, Esq., of St. Lawrence county, N. Y., and Eider Edward Mathews, to act as agents of the Liberty Association, in lecturing and collecting funds, procuring subscribers for the Freeman, and to prornote the cause of liberty i the territory. - Emancipalor.(t0 lt is in vain for the government f the United States to make war on its c itizens for the crime of carrying letters henper thnn it will itself carry them. - ' he only way to nvoid difficulty will be i o carry them cheaper than any : tiy or private person can, and then it will vill have theundisputed monopoly of the vhole business. The penal provisions, as wo anticipated, are disregarded on the more profitable routes, and the violators of the lnw are in favor with the people. The N. Y.correspondence of the Boston Post wriles: "The postmaster-general of the United States has issued a prosecution against Mr. James W. Hale,for alleged violations of the new postage bill. Private expresses have been discontinued in thisquarter. Far from it. They are now doingl as large a business as ever, carrying letters at half the government rates. And, it appears that they are sustained by ] public opinión. The new postage act did not abate what is called "private enterprise," and the act itself, it is thought, will soon be found to be insufíicient."The Frankfort Yemnan denies the mith of Lhe story to which we referrd Iwo or three weeks since, respect mg Col. Johnson and the bargairï he made with Maj. Fijrg to pass as the rral fci'ler of Tecumseh till the Major I should be a cand.date for office. The Yeoman says:. "It is only necessary to eay that Col. Johnson does nol live at the Grenl Crosfings; that al the dnte of iheleller from him he was on lus way lo Washington City; that General Mc Afee has not been in Scolt county this year, and that two days after the date of the last letter pnrporting to be from Coh Johnson then at the Great Crossings, he dined with the editor of this paper in Frankfort, on liis way home from below, and authorized us ihen to soy that he did not know Btlèh a man as Ma jor Lewis Figg - had never writien snch a otter a& that published over his name in F'gg's handbill, and that it was all a hoax 01 I forgpry." We found the lettrrs and the extract from the address to the votersof Nelson County, Ky ., as ?aid to be pnblisl.ed in the "Bardstown Sentinel" of June 28, in the L?xington True American, purponing to be from the Cincinnati Times. In his address Mnj. Figg claims that Col. Johnson was his me&smate, and that Gen. Harrison, in his official report of the battle of ihe Thanies was pleased to make honorable men ion of Mj F's. conducr, as seen in "Public Documente," vol. 19. p. 772." - i Yet Col. Johnson 6ays he does rot know him. i Whch f them Iicf, we cannot teil. We know nothing about the merits of the case. - , Iluving meniioiipd one version, we now give iheoihcr. If the statement in the times be , rot truc, Romebody has perpetrnted the gieatr est forgery since the Gailaiid Roorbacít.Q7= It wil] be seen from onr Foreign News selection?, tliot the Texas Convention, with only one dissen' ing voice, liave conclnt!ed to accept the lerms of Anncxxtion offerrd by our national gavernment. Nolhingr now Temains to perfect odmission inlo our U - nin, excrpt thr frmation of a Siste ConstiUition, and its ratification by the Congress of the United States. Thus the detestable project bids fair to be-consiimmnted. Bul tve beliive that it will uUimaiely result in "extending the aren of freed(m," by ihe abnlitinn of Slavery. leavin? the whole population under the blessings of a republican govem - ment.An important case has just been decided in the Supreme Court of Louisiano, wbich will eend to África some six or seven hundred slaves The Inte Stephen Hendereon, who di id pome six years oo, directed in his will, that hisflaves, near sevrn hundrod in nmnber. should be sent to Liberia, by the American Colonizaron Society. Fits directions wcre. that at the end of fi ve years from his deaUi,the staves should be permitted to draw lots, and the ten on hom tho lot should fall, should be sent to África; at the end of ten yenrs 20 should be sent out, and at the end of 25 yeors the whole of the residue, with an outfit of $400 dollars each. The suit was brought by the heirs against the e.vecutor.c, but the decree of the Court íf, that the will must be cnrriod out, and the slaves sent to África. A eimilnr case is pending in the Su preme Court of Mississippi, involvmg the emancipation of over two hundred slaves. - Free Press. {t7 The Pliiladelpliia Ledger re'erring to the continuance of Expresses in violntion of the Post Office law, says: "The consequence, if persieted in, mny be o strong nttempt to repeal the present law, and to have the old rates and old system re-established." We should like to see the man who would be fooi-hard y enough "to altempt" to re-estnblish the old Post Office law. He would need to be as "strong" as Hercules, and as patiënt as Job.T" ' Cy Nme of the 34 fugitives who left Marylnnd in a body, e6caped to Canada by way of Oswego . They were pursued by the man catchers, but without success. We presume that neorly or quite half of the whole uumbcr wil] cludc all pursuit.ff8 In lost week'8 paper, the types muke us to Bij tlmt in cicctin? n President, three alavea in South Carolina are made to count os much as much aa five ftee people of Michigan. Wherea8 the reverse is the fact. Five elaves are accounted rqual to three frce persons. This power is not vesled in the per 6ons of the masters, bui is secured to them in apporlioning to euch State ii quota of electora. Were ït nut for this representaron for sluves, we presume the Electorl Cullege would soon be abolished, ond the peopl.: would vote dinclly for President and Vice President - a practise more satisfactory, aa well as more de:nocralic.CIt may not be known to ranner3 generally that the Protcction insurnnce Company ol Hartford insure Bnrns against Ltgtitning, as well a6 iher combusiible property ngainst Fire. M. Howard is their agent lor Ann Arbor. A recent circular of the Company thus states its niethod ol doing business: 'Our invnri; b'.c rule hns bren not to exposé heavy nmounis to the pos-ibility fvf desmiction liy a single fire - tlie reatetit inducenieiH to vary frotTi tlus exista in largo cities, but it haa in stil casos been s sirieily aclhereil to ihnt in the present, os well as in ihe former more extenaive conflngrntion in New York, we escnpcd without any loss ihnt could seiiously affect us. "We think the consequnnce will natur.illy be, to leod the public lo repose more thun ordinary confidence in all insiiiutions which mnnngc their concerns so camiously. and wh ch look rather 10 the permanent sci.-urity of the nssisted, thnn to a rapid accumulation of premiums by injudiciou8 risks."05 The Dtídicntion of the Cathnlic Chnrch in our villoge on Wednesday Iti6t wn? attended by n large congregation from the villuge nnd ihe surroundingf country. The edifice i very pleasantly situnted, nnd is built of brick in a 6ubstantial manner, tnd presents internalty a neat and wcll finishen appearance. {L? Major Kearsley, of Detroit, has been appointed Receiver ef the Detroit District in place of S. W. Higgins, resigned. Major Kearsley filled the same office under Jackson and Van Buren, j and has been ogain reinstated in it, as a specimen, we suppose, of what Democrats mean when they talk about "rotation in office."ftj Êhhu Burritt, tho "Learned e smith," is to nddress the Literary Societies of l Überlin Collage at their Commenretnent,Ang. 27. VVhoever heord of such a thing before- a roa), practical, sooty-faced, leather-oproned, brg-fiated blackiinUb, becoming the cliosen orator of sociei es of College graduates? It' such persons are to be admitted among the learned, what is the use of eoing to College? - CCf The inhabitants of Lynn held a lnrge meeting on the return of Jonathan Walker, and welcomed him home witn demonstrotions of regnrd and esteem. His appearance is spo I Uen of as indicaüng sincerity, nranly digniiy, and good sense. Q The three Ohioans, capturcd orr the jree aide of the Ohio river, were taken before a Virginia magistrale, and rernanded to j;iil, to be tried befare the Superior Court in Virginia jn September. The Virginians claim jurisdiction lo the lop of the bank of the river on the frne side: whereas, for 25 years, luw water mark has been recognized as the boundary of the Northwest.UT A large State Tencher's Convention hae teen held Syractfse. New Yark. Amona otlier topics, the Curiventton discussed he proprieiy of using corpoical puniehmeni in schools. They wcre imanimons, we believe. in tíe opinión, thm ihc power of using tlie rod should remain viih the teacfier, but it should bit exercised s little ns possible. A young man namet! Henry Warbiirton was apprehenderl picking pockets the exeention of Connor the murderef. So much for gallows nstruction ml example. 0 The tare on the Central Railrond and Stage Line from Detroit to Chicago, has been reduced to six dollars. (C?0 It ia said that another newspaper is to be commenced shortly in the Choctaw nation,to be edited by a nalive Indian. ttT The Eastern Liberty men intend to have a great Eastern Canvention, to be held at Boston, sometime n September or October.

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