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SKC. 4.
hall be di
land select
the officer
'Saiue to
to be des'
ir a cour
.'.iou ar.
Fpecificd
W^vsaiJiG'.ox, July IT, ISoH
E £iore of f&o honeer.j-J9ewiocr.7ft
The Postanastei'^G-encral has this day direct
ed that a cwnbact for carrying tho mail from
St. Ciovul v.ir. Breckinridge, to Fort Abercrom
»ie be nwclo with Messers Allen ami Chase—
proposition havbigbeen made by them which
*as deecvt*! reasonable.
Respectfully. II. M. llicc.
Homestead Exemp ion.
W give our readers to day tho Home
stead exemption Bill of Minnesota. There
is, as we observe, quite ad iversity (i sen
timent as to its justice aud propriety. W
entertain the opinion at a rascal will
eheat you exemption or no exemption and
.his law may shield hone* debtors from
the seventy of unfeeling creditors, until
such time as they can ace. umulate a suffi
ciency to pay their entire indebtedness.—
A all event!.- we can give it a fair trial
nd if it disappoints the pectations of its
ends it can bo repealed.
A A FOR A HOMESTEA
SEC. 1. Su exemption
tend to auy mortgage, thereo
tained, but sue" a mortgage,
ation, of SUCH 1 and by the ov
a married man. shall not be
the signature the wife to
less such mort jage ahall be
care the paynn sat of the jy
or some portio: thereof.
SEC. 3. W henever a le
or tenemer
homestead
apart by v.v
upon the land
holder, whose
iectcd and set
such househc
the time of
regards as hi
tion thereof,
scribed, and
subject to
and the expense o"'•"•'
su
chargea ble on the exe
thereu] xn
SEC. '5 After the! survey shall have
been iade, the oifici making the levy
may 3II the property )tevied upon and not
inelu* led in the set-oi r, in the same manner
as pr jvided in other crises for the sale of
real' jgtate on executiion, and in giving tt
deed of the same, he may describe it
ac-its
-eorc: ing to his original levy, es:c2pting
thei 'eft-em by metes am bounds, according
he certificate of the survey, the quanti
ty set-oif as aforesaid.
SEC. (3- Anjr person owning and occu
py ing any house or land not his own, and
elf Jming said house as a homestead,, shall
be entitled to the csciaption aforesaid.
SEC. 7. Nothing in this act skall be
oasidered as exempting any Teal estate
rom taxation or sale for taxes.
'SEC. 8. No property hereinafter mention
ed or represented shall be liable to attach
ment, execution or s:ile, or anyfital pvoees.-:
issued from any court in this U.te:
First, Th family bible.
Second. Family pictures, school books
or library, and musical instruinen ts for use
of family.
Third. b,
i!«
SKC. 9,
i.# E E I O N
iithtturc of tht
Be it enacted by the leg
State of Mia ttCSOl'rl
SEC. 1. That a homes toad
any quantity of land, not ex
acres, and the dwelling hous
its appurtenances, to be sclected
owner thereof, and not inelu.
corporated town plat, or city
Or, instead thereof at the
•owner, a quantity of land nol
amount one lot being within
ted town, city or village, and
house thereon and its appurtt
"1 aud occupied by any resi
State, shall not be subject to
levy or sale upon execution,
process issuing out of any
this State. This section shal
and construed to exempt sucl
in the manner aforesaid, durii
it shall be oeuipiod by the wi
nor, child children of a
person who was when livinge
benefits of is Act.
diali not ex
lawfullyob-
other alien-
ViilU without
the a me, uii
jriven to sc
jtrchase money
Ider may noi
taking such Levy, what he
homestead, wita :. descrip
within the limits above prc
the rcmaind er alone shall be
lie under sue levy.
If the plat? .tiff iu execution
satisfied wit! the quantity of
ed and set -apart as aforesaid,
making tho levy shall cause the
surveyed, rgianing at a point
gnated by th a owuer, and sac.
cilnos
)£ct form, in( '.uding the dwelling
its appurtei i.ances, the amount
in the first si action of this Act,
?h survey shall he
mtion and collected
sea* or pew in an house 0
place of public worship.
Fourth. A lot in any burial round.
Fifth. Aii wearing apparel oi'thedeb
ter and his family, all beds, bedst eads, v.wl
bedding,-kept Knd used by the debtor and
''his family all sroves and appendages put
up or kept for the use ofthedobtor and
this family all cooking utensils, at id all oth
er houshold furniture not herein enumer
ated, not exceeding dive hundred dollars
in value.
Sixth. Three rows, Ic-.n swine, one voke
of oxen, nd one horse or in lieu of one
voke of oxen and a horse, a span of horses
or mules twenty sheep and the wool from
the same, either in the raw material or
manufactured into yarn or cloth the nec
essary food for all the stock mentioneil in
this section foi one year's support, cif.her
provided or growing, or both, as tho dc'otor
may choose alio, one wagon, cart or dray,
one sleigbj two plows, one drag, and other
farming utensils, including cackle for te: ims,
not exceeding three hundred dollars in due.
Seventh "Provisions for the debtoi: and
his family necessary for one years sup.port
either provided or growing, or both, and
fuel necessary for one year.
Eighth. The tools and instruments ot
any mechanic, miner or other person, used
and kept for the purpose of carryin cc on
his trade or business, and in addition there
to stock in trade not exceedind four hun
dred dollars in value the library and imple
ments of any proffessional man all of which
articles he: 3inbefore intended to be exempt
uball be chosen by tho debtor, his agent
clerk, or legal representative, as the case
maybe
i»thini ia this act shall be
myy prop
nnstracd as to exempt an property in
this State from execution, or attachment,
for clerks, laborers or mechanics' wages.
Sec. 10. All laws inconsistent with
revisions of this Aot are hereby repealed.
Sec. 11. This act shall take effect from
after its passage.
E O. BRADLEY, Speaker of the II of R.
W I1OI.COMHE, Prcs't Senate.
Approved August 12th, 1858.
A. IT. SIBLEY Governor.
8ST E A E S A E SALES.—Th follow
ing is a list of the sales recently made by
our old and enterprisng land-dealer, Col.
McKcnty.
WASHINGTON COCNTT.
0."0 acres in Section u. Town 80, Range 21,
.. §f,—S151,50.
177,90 aores in Section 3, Town SO, Range
2\ at $5—$889,80.
129,09 acres in Section o, Town 20, Range
at $o—045 45
21
1.:1U
40 acres in Section o, lown
consisting of
feeding eighty
thereon and
by the
ded in any i:i
or village.—
mtion of theIlauge
exceeding in
an incorpora
the dwelling
mances, own
dent of this
attachment,
tr any other
?ourt within
be deemed
homestead
jg the time
(low, or ini-that
jn* deceased
intitlcd tt the
l{
55—200,00.
FILLMORE CQUXTV,
1 GO acres in Sections 8 and
Range 8,fit$10—$1000,00.
Town 102,
HOUSTON COVNTY.
at
240 acres in Section 10, Town 103, Rang-} 5,
$5—§1200,00.
•ISO acres in Sections 11 and 12, Town 1GC.
u. at $5—52400,00.
SrPF.nTOR, WiscosSIN.
20 lots in "McKenty's Addition," at $100—
*20i)0,00.
COTTAGE HOMES.
Lots 12 and o^—51500,00.
COMO.
Lot 2 and 8 of Block 30—5000,00.
II ens ON, WISCONSIN.
CO Lots in McKenty's sddition—51500,00.
Total amount of sales, 18,280,75.
Wo are glad to inform Col. McKcnty
ho does not make all the sales. .Mr.
Frccmau this present month sold a claim
eight miles north of St. Cloud foi 61,000
C.Moore of Grand Lake refused 51,500
his, twelves miles west of this.
a
tJit 18 months a-io.
A
A one fourth interest in 1«0 owes, one price as two cents, ami winch has attained the
mile East was sold for 8800: and cl
mer thereof if I
*n demand at prices almost equal to
I E I E
supply constantly on hand, the
ibers. at ihei kiln in Lower I
PULI
ty shall be maac
ts of .t house
uis not been se
tes and bounds,
lily the officer it
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'Jloiid.
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TAKE counsel of one greater and one less
han yourself, afterward, from your own
opinion.
St. OJoud iu the nouit :l '.vhieui the J'-(i iiiv-
)o
or trams cross ii IvJipsishifpi on t'htir way
St. laid,'which pn-vtb if to be the natural
junction of land iU~. between these two great
arteries of trade. It, is at the present head of
steam navigation on the Mississippi* Boats
run regularly, during the Spring and early
Summer months, from St. Anthony to this
place.
The map gives its position correctly with
reference to all the most important points in
tho territory, but the peculiar beauty of itsby
location, and fertility of the surrounding coun
try cannot, be transcribed. Within fifteen
miles of St. Cloud, on opposite sides of the
river, and at different point:', of the compass
are eight lakes, varying in size from 1 mile to
5 miles in circumference, all, save one, beau
exceedingly, three of them at least, deep
enough to float a man-of-war. Wooded banks,
clean pebbly shores plentifully mixed with
cornelian and waters abundantly supplied
With fish.
When Cov. Stevens made hi3 survey of a
northern railroad route to the pacific, in '58,
camped "on the western si:e of the Mis
sissippi, below Sauk Rapids." The place was
nameless—the present site of St. Cloud but it
is here his route leaves the river. In the sum
mer of 'i)b a claim cabin was built on the spot
where we now write, a good saw mill, the
frame of a large Hotel and eight ether dwell
ings were pui up that summer. This last, fall
there were three hundred and thirty-two votes
polled in the precinct. Not the votes of Indi
ans or Half Breeds, for there are none here.
A majority of the inhabitants of the county
arc hardy Germans, with sturdy wives and
children, cultivating the soil and working at
mechanical employments.
The subsoil is sand and although the sail is
from one to three feet deep, a rich black loam
supporting a rank vegetation, the drainage is
so perfect and the air so puio. that breathing
is a perpetual pleasure. As yet, our physi
cians have discovered no diseases peculiar to
the climate, no indigenious complaint except
the "Minnesota Appetite" which requires one
fourth move treatment than a inc.lest Pennsyl
vania or Ohio attack of a corresponding dis
ease.
Any body who wants to drink whiskey in
peace had better not come liete, for the treaty
by which the land was acquired from the Sioux,
forbids its introduction and the Legislature
has passed a law enforcing that provision but
people of moderate means and industrious hab
its who have children to educate, willfindfew
places where ilie opportunity for correct moral
training, healthy development of muscle, and
the means of pecuniary independence are bet
ter combined.
There are immense tracts of pine lying above,
from which the mills at St. Paul, St. Anthony
and the Minnesota Valley are supplied. These
employ a large and ever-increasing force of
men, horses and oxen, who are to be supplied
I with provisions clothing and feed. The sell
wahing for an opportunity to produce unlimit
ed quantities of food, without troubling the far
mer crushing clods while the Mississippi from
St. Paul to Little Falls can afford to nun a mill
at almost any point and has water power
enough to do the manufacturing for a Conti
nent.
*'',k
Our natural meadows produce a grass from
four to six feet high, and the beef hilled off our
prairies is quite equal to any stall fed we have
overeaten. Our venison is ii1!? at ten cents
per pound, rabbits, prairie hens, partridges,
ducks, &c, plenty. Thousands oi' bushels 01
acorns for the hogs that are not here to eatsneam,
them. Fuel for the labor of cutting and haul
ing off the ground and there is no likelihood
of the supply running out soon, a« th? "]5ig
Woods" extend from this place som? twenty
miles or more, down this side of the river, and
from eight to twelve miles back. Our prairies
arc all elofted with strips of wood laud, "Oak
Openings" which just look like old orchards.
dense thickets of plum Irons bearing delicious
fruit, grape vines, doing likewise, thousands ci
acres of hazel bushes and strawberry vinos, eu
gaged in the same business while some hun
dred acres a'-e in the cranberry trade and turn
out an article, which Utr quantity and qur.iity
cannot lie excelled. Theblackbevries. redra -y,
berries and. hops tack tip their shingle in the
woods and seldom disappoint the most ean
guhie expect! iions of their customers. There
is still laud ten or fifteen miles back which set
ivn get, at government price, by building
a cabin and living on it until it, comes into
market. Actual settlers can buy lots here at
from one to five hundred dollars, and specula
tors can have the same lots at from five to fif
hundred.
In some of the river towns back, places that
will be pleasant villages, lots can be had gratis
by those who will build and live on them.—
This, in places where a house can be built for
•fifty dollars, that would be a palace compared
to the dens rented in large cities for 4 and 5
dollars per month, while tiie lot, with only the
aid of a grubbing hoe and a few clays labor,
would bring vegetable.-, to feed a family, anil
every township has COO acres appropriated to
the support of schools.
Seventy thousand acres are appropriated to
a Si ate university. A fine building has already
been erected for the use of that institution. It
is situated at St. Anthony, built, of stone on an
eminence commanding a view of the falls, and
no Siate in the Union has a beitcr foundation
for a good system of popular education. No
other prairie State is so well timbered as Min
nesota and no State more abundantly supplied
with clear water. In the country surrounding
St. Cloud and as far North and West as we have
any reliable account, settlers find no difficulty
in locating land on a running stream or trans
parent lake with plenty of timber at hand for
building, fencing and fuel, and as the land on
the West side of the Upper Mississipi is only
open to pre-emption, there is little opportunity
for speculators, and settlers have assurance of
neighbors and that rapid increase in the value
of their lands and in social advantages which
arise from the system of land in limited quan
tities to actual settlers.
The country around St. Cloud, west of the
Mississippi was purchased of the Indians in a
treaty made with them by Hon. Alexander
Ramsey and Luke Lea in 1*852 and ratified by
the senate the same year. The Sioux had
owned the land from 1827 but had not. occupied
it, and it was used as a hunting ground by the
"VVinnebagocs whose land readied within four
miles north of St. Cloud. Their country was
ceded to the United States by a treaty began
with Commissioner Manypcny and concluded
at Washington in Feb. 1855 and ratified by the
Senate March 3d of the same year. In May
following they removed to their 'reservation on
the Blue Earth river and only since that time
has Stearns county claimed kindred with civili
zation. Thefirsthouse within the corporated
limits of St. Cloud was bnilt by James Ilitch
ens, forGeneral Lowry. James Hitchens being
the first white man who slept in a house here
is entitled to the distinction of being tho "old
est inhabitant." The site of Lower St. Cloud
was taken up as a claim by Martin Woolly, a
Norwegian, who sold his*right to George F.
Brott who surveyed and platted it in the spring
of '55. About the same time John L. Wilson
surveyed and platted what is now called middle
town, vhich adjoins and lies higher up the riv
er, white General Lowry surveyed and platted
upper town, called Lowry's Addition, the win
ter following. It was Mr Wilson who gave
thne tow the name of St. Cloud by this nam©
rj j.tcd in the winter ol '55'GO.—
-.. Lai! Oil ex was removed in April 3, from
Sau Bapids to Upper town, 'ike po^t oftiee
is in Middle Town, which is inhabited by in
dustrious and well-to-do German Catholics.—
The Catholic chapel is here, and the bell be
longing to it, is tho first church going bell in
Stearns county and has also the distinction of
being the first audible in Sherburne and Benton
counties which corner on the opposite hide of
the river. There too is a school kept by a com
pany of Benedictine Kens where music, draw
inn, needlework and German arc well taught
ladies of polished manners and unusual
proficiency.
Lower Town has tiro protectant chnrches, in
process of erection one, about completed. We
have a public school in the Everett School
house, and a handsome Library dedicated by
Hon. Edward Everett. The engines of an ex
cellent saw mill and plaining mill, sash facto
ry and of a. good flouring mill are this mo
ment puJhiig away within half a dozen rods of
our otiice. Ve have from five to six steam boat
arrivals here weekly and the smallest propor
tion of drones we have ever seen in any hive.
In the fall of \"(j Grasshoppers came in a
cloud and settled down in this and adjoining
fears of famine were entertained by a large
port ion of the people but they left in July, and
so many of the late crops survived, that with
the lull crops of particular places, where they
did not appear, there was a large amount of
food. In autumn ii became a question whether
there was enough for winter consumption with
what (he people had the means of purchasing
from below. The German settlers were gener
ally of the opinion that thei" was not. and the
Priests sent commissioners to Dubuque to ask
contributions. When this became known in
Lower St. Cloud Indignation meetings were
held, and strong resolutions passed cendemn-
$1,25. oats 80 cts. and we have heard of no in
stance in which any have suffered for want of
food while a very large proportion of the em
igrants who had last year designed emigrating
to this point have been deterred by tins bug"
bear cry of famine and have gone elsewhere.
er they left lav.ie. Inst year, before they emi
grated. It is evident that they went to other
localities as they came .here to eat. deposite
their eggs and die. There i9 no sign that they
have left any deposits here, and as everybody
is putting in a crop cf something good to oat
we expect next fall to be- encumbered with a
surplus of the good tilings cf this life, and to
inundate St. Anthony, Minneappoiis and S+.
Paul, with vegetables and grain after supply
ing ihe 1 ine regions and the laborers 011 the
Rail Road.
Brcckenridge is also at the point where Gov
ogteven's survey of a route for the Pacific rail
road crosses the Sioux Wood river, an exami
nation of the Western States, and a reference
0 the writings of Gov. Stevens, ex-Gov. Rain-
say or the Congressional documents containing
the reports of Maj. Long and Cap*. Pope, can
not fail to convince that such is the geograph
ical position of Rrcckcnridge that all that
portion of the Territory of the United States
which lays west of the Mississippi and north
of the head waters of the Minnesota rivers
must forever be tributary to that city, and
that Rrcckcnridge is to be not only the com
mercial centre for the north-west, but will
forever be the gate city on the great north-west
highway of nations.
Rrcckcnridge is now being improved by the
Proprietors, who arc erecting dwellings for
themselves, a hotel, grist mill, saw mill, a
shingle and lath machine, &c.
Eor further particularsjmquirc of
ing the measure as altogether unnecessary, anU own.
one calculated to do the country great injury
by preventing emigration in the spring. 1 he Vt look upon all politicians, whetLer in
Corectness of this view of the case is now prov- office or out, as fair subjects of editorial
en. The third week of May is here, potatoes
sell at 25 cts. per bushel, corn $1.00, wheat
.he time is now past at which the Grasshoppers A 1
ppcared last spring, and the minds of the
•May be we are a fanatic but ne «onti«
tion ould be stronger in our mind, thin
the feeling that the Lord has prepared mi
by along course of discipline, to stand pmb
licly as the advocate of the opprctued
our own sex, as a representative of w&naan'»
right, under God, to choose her own sphere
of action. W have chosen ours with di^
rect reference to the final account, and
those who make it the subject cf sarcaiin,
ridicule, or coarse personal abuse, may cal
culate to meet all that is terrible in, «az
nestueps of purpose.
S E E N E I I E I majority of the people offc't.Cloud show
S town is situated on the Sioux ^position to aid and sustain us,
_L Wood river, and the Western ternii- but In addition to the general conirnercial
nus of the Minnesota and Paciiic railroad: 1 crash, this county has hr.d to contend with
tho point laid down by Capt. Pope on his the loss of the greater portion of two crops
by the devastation of grasshoppers.
map ns tae head ot steam navigation on the
Red river the Valley of the Red river i.
about twenty mites vide on either side of the Our enemies have shown themseivts un
stream and abou five hundred miles long scrupulous and active Their writtea
violence, ttand un
private efforts to iu
le remainder of the valley is prairie, I reputation, to cover our namo
composed of rich, black loam free from sand with most odious epithets, and gross erimee.
are still actively pursued. We are without
prisons, or regularly organized judiciary,
and those who take the responsibility vi
these attacks ave totally irresponsible,
well as artful and unscrupulous. Ihey
have already deprived us of a hope to
which we had lung looked forward, a quiet,
humble, little home oi our own. Ti
preparation we had made for building.
now as money lust, for it is not though
safe lor its to attempt living alone. Jur
office must be so situated, that with cur
debility it is impossible for us i- hare
proper supervision of it, for the press must
00 placed where it can be guarded, with
out hiring men for that purpose.
anu aooiut live Hundred miles long scrupulous and active,
the surface is level and drained by numerous threats, of more serious vioh
streams Winch arc skirted wit a elm, ash, bas9 n' 1 1 -i „i
wood, white wood and pine of the largest cancelledv, while their pnvat,
barrens or swamps. Red river i- a deep, slow
stream, has no islands, sand bars or snags Jo
obstruct navigation the banks are about 25
feet high and not subject to overflow many
of the uibutaries of the Red river are strong
ly impregnated with srdt, and indications of
iron and coal are numerous ii: the vicinity.
The farmers of the valley 0:' the Red river
gave to Major Wood as the average of their
crops wheat S'J to -!(J: barley 40 iv 80 oats.
40 oti and potatoes 2(0 to SuO bushels to the
acre. At mhina. [200milesnorth of Breck
cnridge.j ex-Gov. Ramsey fays, "o ihe 2d
October, l.'i il, water melons and cautelopes
were ecrvtd tons fordessert, and the first fitsJ
that occured was on the night cf that day,"
[see address before the Minnesota Agricultu
ral Society, (Jet, 10th, 1S5G.] Two large set
tlements have long existed 0:1 Red river—
Pembina and Selkirk, both of which yearly
raise a large surplus of the products of the
farm the whole valley of the Red river is
rapidly filling up with an energetic and intel
ligent population the country bring exceed
ingly healthy, and should the indications of
iron and coal lead to the discovery of those
minerals as large as is anticipated, this valley
will soon be swarming with a population en
gaged in agriculture, mining and manufactur
ing, supplying eastern Minnesota, Wisconsin.
Iowa and Missouri with the products of their
labor and skill the Minnesota and Pacific
railroad will be placed immediately under
contract as by the terms of Ps charter it must
be finished from Stillwater to St Anthony with
in two years, and completed to Rrcckcnridge
within ten years from the Sd of March, 1857,
or forfeit its franchise as well as the lands do
nated to it.
HENRY T. WELLS. Minneapolis,
R. CHUTE. St. Anthony,
CIIAS. N. M'KUBBIN. ^t. Paul,
Executive Committee,
Or to GEO. F. BKOTT, Bceckinridge.
May 10, 1858. tf
The Democrat.
Our Prospectus will be found on our
third page, and we ask the friends
of the freedom of the press and of the
principles there, laid down, to aid us in
maintaining them. W feel that in our
advocacy of them in St. Cloud we have
been milder and more conservative than we
have ever before been in our character ot
writer for the Press. We feel, that except
our large share of human weakness, our
life has been such as to give no justcause
of olTonce to any.
We tire so certain the Lord is on our
side, that it is quite impossible for us to
fear any force on earth. Dying is not dif
ficult, yielding impossible. W have net
sought -.he control of a press here, but
when it was offered us we looked upon it
as a command from the Great Master to go
to work in His vineyard. Our conscience
acquits us of having used it otherwise than
in the service of God and man. I is thus
pertinaeity and despe-ratxon.
V/e .shall make no personal war upon
any, hut those who attack us, had better
calculate tie erst of supplying territory
and munitions lor the war that will surely
ensue. W Split all our battles on the
enemy's ground, and always use his wea
pons, so that lie who makes personal Vvar
upon us had better be sure of his defen
sive armor. Let him make our private do
mestic relations the object of his public
sneers, and he may calculate to defend hi§
comment in all their political gelations.—
We do not recognize auy man's right to
privacy in any attempt to govern the peo
ple. W never kept a political secret and
tfunic we never will The people are the
proper source of political power, and have
a rf a 1 A a
of
people are set on rest as the question of wheth patronage. "Vi henever we can trace a po
litical wire up to the handle, we thall di
rect public attention to that point, no mat
ter where }t is. or what is likely to he the
consequence. W believe this is a duty
which every editor owes the public, and
we hall have to get in a new supply of
cowardice before we shrink from it
power and
To those who feel that these, our purpo
ses, are right, we appeal for aid in carrying
thciu uirt.
rl
he difficulties with which we
have io contend are veiy great. A krg»
W are not wont to make pitiful arpe*!
for help, but we should be recreant to dutv
new, not to state the facts, that these whu
love the American principles of freedom ot
speech and freedom of the press, may
know thrt here, in this nominally free
State, it is in danger of being crushed.—
The Democrat is no longer a local organ,
although we shall make it a prominent ob
ject to make known the resources of north
ern Minnesota but the great, object of its
life is to vindicate the freedom of the press.
Fcr this, men here, oi both parties, have
contributed to purchase the material and
incurred a large expenditure in publishing
it. Men of comparatively small interests
are active and efficient as any, and we are
rnxious that the responsibility thuc assumed
may not fall too heavily upon them. Ou
terms of subscription are as low as we can
make them, and to all who favor us with
subscriptions, we shall [try to give the
worth of their money. The people ot
St. Cloud have acted nobly their part in
this matter, and to the friends of truth and
justice abroad, we now appeal to aid us in
our struggle for the rmht.
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Henry Ward Beeeher in his "Life
Thoughts," says:
"The Bible society is sending its Bibles
all over the world—to Greenland and the
iMorea, to Arabia and Egypt and it dares
not send them to our own people. Th«
colporteur who should leave a Bible in
slave's cabin, would goto h£* vfi from
lowest limb of th* first trc*.