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The Union and Eastern Journal: Vol. 12-, No. 37 September 12,1856 >■, "■ i»1l. 9't.SUBSf «!>•/ /. < i f fraaKafiaft ,tA<irjp pijiaiT«Aa P *" h ^ Bate ■ ^ ;«3g;T* X*"! KIMItJIfl' t ].*• oppression over the mind or BODY OF MAN."-Jimuo«. , eternal hostility to every form op v r VOLUME 10—NUMBER 37. •B1DDEF0RD, MAINE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 18S6. LOUIS 0. COWAN, Editor and Proprietor. ai — " oihnr «ute of btiug. She laughed Joan, him by Iaick or Oil." Want or Bbkrved Turning into a Platform. Young Men of Muinc! l>m It* fniitw Jtumal. in a Fishery Col. Fremont—Eulogies npon and It it tall called him and hit friend Pe- Important Deciiion Moral'Strenctu. I liavo Been tho young UNION AND EASTERN JOURNAL. Webster, Crittenden Ethan in tbo citation from a ware (to v. Case. Cass, Calhoun, Spike, following Arv you that Wclla lias Uvu ler a of old blockhead# fur Commercial Interests of K&ine: man, who had stored himself with the int«l> : couplo making Tb* I'nWn mhI K**Ura Journal M i>«Muh#d ftc. hiakat showa how a fellow tola while Mlcre are hi* own rtttj Will 4* lW| DrmM! an able letter, publicly ti»dncmg yon ■uob a darueruOt agreement. Wo ahall >1 Ma. I. Central Bluck. ■>».;--«H* th« •i4>lr( >n) The Boston Advertiser lectunl for a Vaiaav, Barkaaaa. Hail Dl.aaka, publishes qualifications necemry reputa- u : I i'W 0» hum. or V iwi War, on the 3d of March, ho ia wofd* : tra» rlsht. Tmm-H par «I.M and rendered by In tho U. S. Senate ble becoming platform pbonograpbically reported «ce whether the or her hutbanl IIBM tfa* U«M af lafciiriM—. Mn- elaliorate decision recently life. With intention*, generous vtlhia MMite on Mil- good 1 maount men »rw us. a Am<rirmn the Su- Com from ths committoo Foller Citizens— uot only the ••Tit" old with (That** Horner'» itlneM madeii to tetk (l« » pi*« 4 ctMt. tr V B. Ciluin, IW Chief Justice Shaw at the term of 1848, Mr. honorable with intel- neeeaeary I* (h* nIt t* iht« and impulses, sentiment*, #w now Acmt Fremont, Peacc, Uuiouf* a bill fur ascertaining but I'd ride U to of the loorod vriii'1 : caret of awl rfeilaUal- in tho of Claim* platform Tophet big fib) rbflr by every hia bed before the hou»ehold HP" »o lk» (HM at Or* |wt. It..an. preme Judicial Court country itary reportwl ligence, and wanner* and an ae long m ub «lmtlKWiu u>l which agrecublo the conatitootion an the union aliall of doctrine. You don't find men who haw pkK Mat la July the rewolutiona the will be of inter- and tho California claims, ufi'tjof hi* pcrinitte.l her to think of ie»t. M Ikf MM r»lrt U r*t,B.r*.| hjr m III* Among adopUx] by Nantucket, which special paying tiro ho himself for helpmate wNtlcdMI spirit, thought prepared ■euiu U> ax it. 1 shall so kinder mix In the It now. tn- •»*. THKa«» HilWtllf* | (Mlm, 41 ma- to a myself grown op name nlftc. • ,V« I of the Ruf- est to a our readers in the was sccond reading. democracy, leaving be beard bia W.wwt IkuJ National Convention Border of immediately passed all that before for a cred- Suddenly prooouueed Bilalas f■>. large part lay him, to •' Bthalla^'a course made Mr. equipped with thia thtt 'twill bo hard It U the ^YOUNG MEN, the SWISS waa Md CtMWl •l/rrt. tian at waa the of In the of tho by platform and thricu John Horner" , Deuu>cnury Cincinnati, nitimo towns and cities New, Egland. speech itable, career, and ilemnly, on successful, self-governing tell tother from which. Yea—feller citi- tiro detnocnit- and Cow tho ho touched TKOOlfi.^B^bopi against The curtain* wt-ru drawn aaido, followingou* full of PIRACY BLOOD: The is a upou bill, briefly for ob much virtue as would bo for repealed! following synopsis: requisite on to " had taken in aena, yer laat the late On-, ic hvptny yair U! 1 robat un« marcus watson, print*r. kUOl) (P, THVT TUK DEMOCRATIC TABTT The case which came before the court tho "which Col. Fremont looking yer party, toinrthinij by and there tlood Peter, in (towing part safety and good repute in the world. So he Massachusetts the of California, and tho con- "peakxblo Libby. I feol tho plank* grow-' liku hit former and much changed, will imrr or m xnr ai»*ixhtr\tio> arose from the pmwage by the occupation stepped forth with confidence and alacrity yuite, ho had into inerda are • mm Pcier is or* 1850 of a statute Humiliate skill and courage which ing my ribs, my hardin, my | *en in countenance, but •till it ruat KvtiKv xrruRT be m u>k to insi in tho year upon the theatre of life. and of It might hive been Better—It Legislature extra- By by, arc an ton might JEUsrrll.iruons. at cer- ovinced in an with legs fevlin awfully timbceish my Piince! Horner upon bia former AMYNUUtCY IX TlttUlLT or axxico." certain kind* of fishing, expedition teeming (hero camo a strem his hare been Worse. ijazvd forbidding courso, upon princi- ia turnin into and in 'witliin one mile and romantic interest." twenty pennya aplkea.—1 friend and tried to a«k for the important Monatroua oa ia the policy indicated tain »neons of the year, ordinary a draft his moral resources, that Char'et Fremont. ples, upon I elmll aoon be a and wifo will to into the future it ai John more than who tho said : platform my The desire pry bat he could nay— thia resolution, it ia nothing from the shores of Nantucket, Tuckernuck, Mr. Calhoun, opposed bill, he had not asso- communication, only anticipated. Dangerous a it ar for as " Otfend Circular Islands." do not this measure on tho be widder—onlrw conatltootlonal universal iho a'U\ immortnl lile !»» NIBKNOLOUICAL rlliLHTW AW ItUMJBJtrUr. what waa contains! in tho Smith's, Muskecket, and Gravel '"1 opjtoso ciates drew their and invisible knot* longing Speak • • wily furniter as to his rest oonvic- aud Suule was a resident of to Col. Fremont. auch kiud oi I'm bocomin Addiaonhus m ule Cuto his He then saw the vi»ioo bend toward tb« put forth by Buchanan eighteen The defendant in this action ground opposition around h?m. Pleasure plied hiin first gent- Col. Fremont h.ia a temperament of wiry In that document, of Island, 1 have with tho and keep wives. lion ol the tool's upon the »c.i» : fl<>or and the montha ajjo in Europe. of Westerly in the State Rhode acquaintance Colonel, and then with its cnchantmcnts. iuiuiortality ri»ing, pronounce myaieiioua Uia ly storinily oiiinui* of und the uid*ois«l de»ir» 1 and extranrdinurj elasticity. own I certain bass 1 am so as to him, that Plato, word*: toughness, drawn by Mr. BUCHANAN'S hand, who was proved to havo taken favorably impressed New influence* drew him from m one of rare by degree* The Marshall in entire compact- dcclaru-, He I would as trust him as other iy Telegraph, publiahed that it should bo so. The Ciiristiun lui •It have Ij-een better—it imgui organisation 1m make* the following astounding sienes, within tho limits. readily any bis his his Con- mi^lil and endur by prohibited iiftlustry, fidelity, probity. new, and in fine fibre m U denft* no IS BEYOND Clark Co., Illinois, struck tho Fillmore col- the assurance of immortal life; but his con' hare bean vvoim J*' lion : maintained that tho l^egislatur* had individual. MSINTEGRITY fidence from him. bead alike of slipped mysteriously away ors and hoisted tho of Fremont and sciou*ne«H ami His *nd paruksng '• a or his flag of |iruueuc»i Honor kUrtfld in lied, exclaiming— inj;. body After we thai! hare offered Spain price right to interfere with restrain rig''t SUSPICION." Kail were of him by imperfection, up account* fur the turd hood predictions whispered on tho Oth inst. Its reasons arc lo contravene the laws of his benevolent them its and an inter* Dayton ! tell mu morn !'* hut the vision w»a ((ualitin, for Cubafar beyam! prrtmt rmhte, of fishing; that tho law assuming Mr Webster said: the sagacious. Tho alms of life became "Stay and the ' " worth Tho Marshall over anxious to and of the former, clearneai, a of reuding. Telegraph Creator, makes him gain uimI lu» saw hi* wile near activity i thu thall harr hern refused, it trill then b> ferencc or constraint wns unconstitutional; Col. Fremont is young officer great lowered in him, and tho flamo of iouc, aianding of the gradually was tho first in tho State that atun " and unhounding energy in of his journal knowledge of lhat undiscovered country a her hand. persistans tinte to caiutder the question, does Cuba that the Legislature of Massachusetts could merit—ono who deservos well country burned lower and lower. hiiu with bowl in are good aspirations out for and it is almost the last to Utter. Hi* head, face and Uxlv, very our internal tho and with which ho Fillmore, fioin whuto biurno no traveller returns,' ••A* I I s.»w hiin !'' exclaimed the the possession of Spam endanyr not constitutionally qualify or restrain for tho bravery ability A reckless came over him, lire, each one in aspect stealthily him Wo know of but two or mis- be unawered to fish in his and delicate duties giro up. papers and of iIih situation, the hairiness, sick. man. harmoniously proportioned, ,peace? Should thia quration right of subjects of other States discharged important that indc«cribahlo but unmistakable look.
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