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Quindaro Chindowan.
A Free-State Paper.
Vol. I. Quindaro, Kanzas, Saturday, August 1, 1857. No. 12
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Quindaro, May 20, 1857. 2tf
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Quindaro, Kanzas.
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rence, connecting there with routes to every part
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May 4, 1857.
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May 13, 1857. 1y.
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References:
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Hon. Wm. White, C. P. Judge, Belfontaine, O.
Dunlevy, Drake & Co., Bankers, Cincinnati, O.
Henry Kip, Supt. U. S. Express, Buffalo, N. Y.
J. F. Ritcherdson, Mo. Express, St. Louis, Mo.
May 4, 1857. 1tf.
Chas. Chadwick.
H. J. Bliss.
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Quindaro, Kanzas.
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Office – On Kanzas Avenue, near the Quin-
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Kanzas Land Agency.
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General Land Agents,
Surveyors and Civil Engineers,
Quindaro & Lawrence, Kanzas.
Prompt attention given to all business en-
trusted to our care.
Information given concerning every im-
portant locality in the Territory.
Refer to
Henn, Williams & Co., Bankers, Fairfield, Iowa.
A. J. Stevens & Co., Bankers, Ft. DesMoines, Iowa.
Coolbaugh & Brooks, Bankers, Burlington, Iowa.
White, Cook & Co., Bankers, Burlington, Iowa.
Col. T. A. Walker, Ft. DesMoines, Iowa.
Col. C. Bassett, Kewanee, Ill.
Hon. G. S. Boutwell, Groton, Mass.
C. Gerrish, Groton, Mass.
L. F. Potter, Cincinnati, Ohio.
May 4th, 1857. 1tf
S. N. WOOD & CO.,
General Land Agents,
Lawrence, Kanzas,
Will invest money, and locate Land Warrants
In all parts of Kanzas, and guarantee from 50 to
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Letters of enquiry promptly answered.
S. N. WOOD,
Commissioner of Deeds for Ohio.
Office, No. 27 Mass. St., Lawrence, Kanzas.
Quindaro Chin-do-wan.
Saturday, August 1, 1857.
HENRY CLAY.
By George D. Prentice.
With voice and main of strong control
He stood among the great and proud,
And words of fire burst from his soul
Like lightnings from the tempest cloud,
His high and deathless themes were crowned
With glory of his genius born,
And gloom and rain darkly frowned
Where fell his bolts of wrath and scorn.
But he is gone — the free, the bold —
The champion of his country’s right;
His burning eye is dim and cold,
And mute his voice of conscious might,
Oh no, not mute — his stirring call
Can startle tyrants on their thrones,
And on the hearts of nations fall
More awful than his living tones.
The impulse that his spirit gave
To human thought’s wild, stormy sea,
Will heave and thrill through every wave
Of that great deep eternally,
And the all circling atmosphere,
With which is blent his breath of flame,
Will sound, with cadence deep and clear,
In storm and calm, his voice and fame(?).
His words that, like a bugle blast,
Erst rang along the Grecian shore,
And o’er the hoary Andes passed
Will still ring on forevermore.
Great Liberty will catch the sounds,
And start to newer, brighter life,
And summon from Earth’s utmost bound,
Her children to the glorious strife.
Unnumbered pilgrims o’er the wave,
In the far ages yet to be,
Will come to kneel beside his grave,
And hail him prophet of the free.
‘Tis holier ground, that lowly bed
In which his mouldering form is laid,
Than fields where Liberty has bled
Beside her broken battle blade.
Who now, in danger’s fearful hour,
When all around is wild and dark,
Shall guard with voice and arm of power,
Our freedom’s consecrated ark?
With stricken hearts, Oh, God, to thee
Beneath whose feet the stars are dust,
We bow, and ask that thou will be
Through every ill our stay and trust.
Gov. Marcy’s Favorite Books - How He Died.
A correspondent of the New York Post writes of Gov. Marcy:
His old books and his old friends were his constant solace, and when he stopped at the antique, shaded hotel at Ballston, where he died, it was noticed how he would take his chair out under the wide spreading elms, and entertain his landlord and the plain, old fashioned people who gathered about him, delighted with the pleasant stories which he told, and the philosophic humor and shrewdness, and social feeling which twinkled in his keen, bright eye. At other times he would return to his room, as his custom was, and taking up some favorite old author, (he rarely read modern literature,) Milton, Shakespeare, Harvey, among the poets; South, Barrow or Robert Hall, among divines; his French edition of Machiavel, (a favorite work, by the way, with Senator Seward,) or Bacon among Philosophic writings, and would read until he fell asleep. And this, indeed, was the way in which he fell asleep on the noon of Independence Day. He had returned to his chamber, put his boots in the usual!
corner, put on his dressing gown, and laying down with Knight’s edition of Bacon’s Essays — a small red quarto volume — with illustrations. When he was found he was still on his bed, his eyes were quietly closed, on one side were the spectacles, on the other the well remembered snuff box, and open on his breast lay the bank he so much loved — that immortal epitome of human wisdom — the Essays of Bacon, and over it were clasped his hands, hugging it to his heart. Such was his final sleep — peaceful, serene, and worthy of so great a life — in the midst of the thunders which commemorated the birthday of the nation whose fame and power he had done so much to uphold and extend.
What page it was on which the volume was opened, I know not. Perhaps it was on that most appropriate passage where the great philosopher thus discourses “of Death.”
“A mind fixed and bent on somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolors of death; but above all, believe it, the sweet canticle is ‘nunc dimittis,’ when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.”
RATHER UNCHARITABLE. — The Louisville Journal, in referring to the proposed establishment of a new Democratic paper in Philadelphia by JOHN W. FORNEY says :
“Already there are evident symptoms of a fight between the two Democratic organs — the old one and the new one. — We hope that Rice and Forney will do each other’s jobs thoroughly. May they pull each other’s hair. May they gouge each other’s eyes. May they batter or bite off each other’s noses. May they choke each other till their lying tongues hang out of their mouths. May they kick each other with the most sharp toed of boots, shoes and brogans.
THE BIRTH PLACE AND BURIAL PLACE OF HENRY CLAY.
ON the Fourth of July, 1857, the corner stone of the Clay Monument at Lexington, Kentucky, was laid. The ceremonies were, perhaps, the most interesting and imposing by which this National Anniversary was commemorated. Descriptions of them have been published in every part of the land, and thus our whole people have been led to hold, during the past few weeks, the Sage of Ashland, in more general and vivid remembrance than at any other time since the intelligence of his death, went to and fro and caused the nation to weep.
Because of the lively interest which the above named ceremonies would attach to every thing associated with the name of HENRY CLAY, above that abiding respect and reverence which Americans cherish for anything suggestive of him or anything linked with his life history, because of this interest in which we felt our readers would share, we, happening to be in the vicinity of Lexington at this highly interesting time, secured engravings of the Birth-place, the Residence and proposed Monument of the Statesman, and expected to have submitted them to our friends before this, but could not do so.
But we feel that the scenes which are portrayed in our columns will, at all times, possesses charms for the true American citizen, and therefore, we think that our friends will be pleased to see these representations in the CHINDOWAN now, although a few weeks have elapsed since the corner-stone was laid. In the next paper there will be a large engraving of the residence of HENRY CLAY, as it was during his life time. For the descriptions and facts given in this connection, we are indebted to the Cincinnati Daily Gazette for which paper they were collected and prepared by JOHN D. CALDWELL, Esq.
HENRY CLAY was born on the 12th of April, 1776. His birthplace, of which herewith is a representation, was in a poor piny region, called the Slashes of Hanover, about three miles from the Court House, on the turnpike to Richmond, Va. His father was a Baptist clergyman, who died when Henry was but four years old. His mother was an excellent woman, but having very scanty means of subsistence, and several children to support, was able to do but little for them. HENRY CLAY, as his biographies relate, received no education except what could be had in a log cabin school-house — reading, spelling, writing and arithmetic — until he had attained his fourteenth year. In this early period of his life he was accustomed to severe manual labor, ploughing in the corn field without shoes, and wearing no other clothes than a pair of coarse trowsers [sic] and a shirt. His boyhood was furnished with few of those facilities for obtaining a literary education, which how are accessible to all.
His mind was left to develop its powers, and attain its growth through the force of its own innate energies, with but little aid from books or instructors. Those rich treasures of intellectual wealth, which are to be found in well selected libraries, and properly graded schools, were to him a sealed fountain. The subsequent brilliant achievements of that master-mind derive increased lustre from the contemplation of the obstacles thus early interposed to its progress: and no more honorable testimony can be offered to the (???), energy and invincibility of that towering intellect and imperial spirit, than the severe trials which at this period it encountered, and over which it triumphed. It is probable that this early familiarity with the sternest realities of life, contributed to give his mind that strong practical bias which subsequently distinguished his career as a statesman; while these can be no doubt that the demands thus continually made upon his energies tended to a q!
uick development of that unyielding strength of character which bore down all opposition, and stamped him a son of the most powerful spirits of the age.
One who knew Mr. Clay well, described his personal appearance as imposing and prepossessing. He was tall and somewhat thin, but very muscular, exhibiting lofty and dignified grace and case in his deportment and carriage, and an entire absence of everything like stiffness or haughtiness. His manner was cordial and kind, inviting rather than repelling approach. His countenance was open and bland, on which his soul may be said to have sat, so faithfully did it mirror his feelings. It is impossible to describe its varying expressions. His eyes were of a blue or dark grey color, small, and when he was animated, flashed with unearthly vividness. His forehead was high and broad. His mouth was large, but strikingly indicative of genius and energy. His voice was exceedingly silvery, deep-toned, and most exquisitely modulated — a fit organ to herald forth to the world the noble sentiments of a noble heart.
This distinguished man was for a long time in early and mature life, a prominent active and responsible officer of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Kentucky.
In 1802, HENRY CLAY appears as Junior Warden in Lexington Lodge No.1, in which Lodge Felix Grundy was E. Apprentice, and J. H. Daviess, (afterwards Grand Master, who fell Nov. 7, 1811, in a charge against the Indians in the battle of Tippecanoe) was Fellow Craft.
In 1806, HENRY CLAY was elected Grand Orator of the Grand Lodge of Ky., and continued in that honorable post for ten years, when he was succeeded by Joseph C. Breckinridge. In 1818, he was again elected Grand Orator, until 1820, when he was elected Grand Master of the State, he being at that time Worshipful Master of Lexington Lodge. He retired from the office of G. M., that year.
Those who knew HENRY CLAY, and the noble order of Masonry, and knew the noble companions that were his fraternal associates in those bright days of the glory of Kentucky, can estimate what an enthusiastic Brother he must have been, towering among the Sons of Light, either in place of command, or where his voice reverberated the Masonic mysteries.
The Monument is designed to be 108 feet high, from ground to foot of statue surmounting the capital — the statute of the Great Commoner, surmounting the whole, to be of bronze, and 11 feet in height. Forty-two men are now engaged on the monument and in the quarries. - The work to be completed in all the season of 1858.
The material of which the Monument is to be composed is a beautiful Magnesian Limestone, tested for durability, light free-stone color, and sustaining a brilliant polish.
On the foundation is first to be erected the base of the Monument, 40 feet square and 35 feet high, of neat work, Egyptian order. This “Stereobate” will contain, in the front, a Crypt of rubbed stone, a vaulted chamber, 26 feet by 11 1/2 feet, entered by an iron gate, to be paved with polished Italian marble, in which are to be deposited the remains of HENRY CLAY, in a sarcophagus, on one side his mother, and in good time, his wife. Provision is made to light the Crypt, in which is a niche for a statue, by an upper sky-light.
In the rear of the Crypt is to be the family vault of the Clay family, 31 foot 4 inches, with two 9 feet recepes, all 6 feet 8 inches wide. There will be a double pedestal of bronze, on which may be inscribed memorable words and emblematic representations in honor of the American Statesman, and Kentucky’s favorite son. Including the pedestal, the column of 6 feet 10 inches in diameter at the bottom, and 5 feet 10in diameter at the top, will be 90 feet high, surmounting which is to be a capital, the flutings to be 13 spiked spears, representing the original States of the Union. As observed, on the summit is designed to be erected a bronze statute of him of whom the monument is commemorative.
This monument may be reared, but while the eye may trace in print, or on the spot the graceful outlines of the representation of the work of art, we must all feel is the eloquent Tom Marshall once said in reference to Mr. CLAY and this contemplated erection:
It may be creditable on completion, to those who built the work, and be a graceful ornament to the green woods and to the town, but it be useless to him or his fame. He trusted neither himself or his fame to mechanical hands or perishing materials.
“They may lay their pedestals of granite; rear their polished columns till they pierce and flout the skies; they may cover their marble pillars all over with the blazonry of his deeds, the trophies of his triumphs and of his genius, and surround them with images of his form wrought by the cunningest hands; it matters not, he is not there; they may preserve the ashes of the frail tenement which once held in his fiery soul, he is not there. The prisoned eagle has burst its bars and soared away from strife, conflict and calumny. He is not dead — he lives; I do not mean the life eternal in yon other world, of which religion teaches, but here on earth. He lives the life which men call fame — that life the hope of which forms the solace of high ambition, which cheers and sustains the brave and wise and good, the champions of truth and human kind, through all their labors — that life which is beyond all chance or change — growing, expansive, quenchless as time or human memo!
ry.
He needs no statue — he desired none. It was the image of his soul he wished to perpetuate — he has himself stamped it in lines of flame on the souls of his countrymen.
“Not all the marble of Carrara, fashioned by the chisel of Angelo into the mimiery of breathing life, could convey to the sense a likeness so perfect as that which he has left on the minds of men. He carved his own statue, he built his own monument — in youth he laid the base broad as this whole country, that it might well sustain the mighty structure which he designed. He labored heroically through life on the colossal shaft; in 1859, the last year of the first half of the nineteenth century, he prepared the healing measures which bear his name, as a capital, well proportioned, and in perfect keeping with the now finished column.
“He crowned his work — saw that it was good and durable — sprang to its lofty and commanding summit, and from that lone height, gazing upon a horizon which embraced all coming time, with Eternity for his background, and the eyes of the whole world riveted upon his solitary figure; consented there and thus to die.”
What the Dred Scott Case Decided, and What it Did not Decide.
The Boston Law Reporter contains a very able and thorough review of the Dred Scott “Decision,” which will enable the reader to know what the Supreme Court has decided in that important case far more readily and clearly than he can learn from the official report itself. In fact the review has done just what the reporter, Mr. Howard, in a long and confused head-note attempted, but failed to accomplish.
Those, also, who desire to understand, not merely the points which the so-called decision really denied, but what it did not decide, will do well to consult the Law Reporter’s article, the authorship of which is ascribed to Horace Gray, Jr., and John Lowell, two well known legal gentlemen of Boston. The result of their investigation is briefly stated, as follows:
“First, — As to the question, ‘Can a negro be a citizen of the United states?’ It has been commonly supposed that the court decided this question in the negative. This is a mistake. From the form in which it was presented, it was very doubtful whether it was before the court for a decision. Four of the nine judges thought that it was: these were the Chief Justice, and Justices Wayne and Daniel, who answer the question in the negative, and Justice Curtis, who answers it in the affirmative. Of the judges who gave no opinion on the point, one (Judge McLean) declares that if he answers the question at all it would be in the affirmative; Judge Catron, when Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, gave an opinion directly involving an affirmative answer to the question; the three other judges give no clue to their opinions. On this question then, the court stand thus: three in the affirmative, three in the negative, and three silent.
“Secondly — Was the Missouri Compromise Constitutional? It is a perfectly well settled principle of the Supreme Court, and one that has often been laid down from its bench, that no part of an opinion of the Court is to be regarded as authority as a precedent which was not necessary to the determination of the question before it. Anything beyond this is merely the expression of the individual opinion of the judge; and it has been well said that “if general dicta are to be considered as establishing the law, nothing is yet settled or can long be settled.” Bearing this in mind, let us look at the facts of the case. Scott was a slave in Missouri; was taken by his master to Illinois, and thence into a territory of the United States where slavery was prohibited by the Missouri Compromise; and thence back to Missouri. The opinion of the court is placed upon the ground that the laws of Missouri are to decide whether Scott is or is not a slave now that he is returned thither. !
If this be so, what matters it whether the compromise was valid or invalid? In other words, whether Scott was free when in Illinois, or in the territory, or whether he continued to be a slave all the time? And if the court goes out of its way to give an opinion of this point, could a plainer instance be found of an opinion on a point not necessary to determination of the rights of the parties?
“The court then, has not decided that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
Thirdly, — This case is often spoken of as deciding that a master may take his slave to a free State and there hold him as a slave. This is a simple mistake; there is no such point decided. But
Fourthly. — The doctrine is here established that, if a slave be taken by his master to a free State, and does not there claim his liberty, but consents to return with his master to a slave State, he may be held as a slave there, if the highest court of that State considers him still a slave. In other words the Dred Scott case does not decide that a negro is a slave in a free State and brought back, is free because he might have claimed his freedom in a free state; nor that he is necessarily a slave after his return; but leaves his freedom or slavery to be settled by the laws of the slave State to which he returned with his master.
THE PATTERSON Guardian contradicts the statements that the pearls recently found in that vicinity were of much less value than represented. It says the greatest price received for any one pearl was $950, another brought $900, another $800. One is still unsold, which is valued at $1100. The total amount of receipts has been about $12,000.
MR. E. S. BAKER, of Rochester Mills, Wabash County, has planted twenty-five acres with Chinese sugar cane the present season. “I am convinced,” he says, “that the State of Illinois will, in five years, make her own sugar, and if I have luck I shall make enough sugar, and certainly with molasses, to supply my little town. At all events I shall try.”
Miscellaneous Items.
THE TORONTO Globe speaks in the most flowing terms of the abundant crops, of every description, promised. It says: “Not even a grumble is heard from the farmers.”
THE FIRST FLOUR from new wheat ground at the West, this season, was at the Cario City Mills, Ill., on the 3d of July, and the farmers of Alexander County have since been using new flour from new wheat.
THE SOUTHERN Wheat crop is said to be the largest ever grown in that part of the Union. Georgia, Tennessee, North and South Caroline, produced in the aggregate four and a half millions of bushels, and Charleston is the market for nearly the whole of it.
THE SEVENTY-EIGHTH Anniversary of the storming of Stony Point, and the laying of the corner stone of a Monument to the memory of GEN. WAYNE, were Celebrated at Stony Point, Rockland County, on Thursday, from six to eight thousand persons uniting in the festivities of the occasion.
THE FOUNDATION of the largest cotton factory in the world has just been laid in Russia, on the river Narova, between the two cataracts. It is in the form of a grand square, and will possess 1,672 windows, 20,000 gas burners, and will employ 3,000 workmen.
Things Wise and Otherwise.
WHAT IS MORE beautiful and poetical than a child’s idea of ice, “Water gone to sleep.”
IT IS EASIER to declaim against a thousand sins in others, than to mortify one in ourselves.
IN ORDER TO live justly, and be respected, we must refrain from doing that we blame in others.
FLOWERS ARE the alphabet of angels wherewith they write on hills and plains mysterious truths.
THE MAN WHO was “moved to tears” complains of dampness of the premises, and wishes to be moved back again.
A VERY GOOD little thing of the kind is, we believe, the importance of preparatory historical books for youthful minds.
WE DO NOT despise all those who have no vices, but those who have not one redeeming virtue.
“JOHN, I fear you are forgetting me,” said a bright girl to her sweetheart.
“Yes, Sue, I have been for getting you these two years.”
THE HENPECKED husband would be happy enough if he were only left alone. But he generally has some kind friend who is perpetually urging him “not to stand it.”
AT A WEDDING the other day, one of the guests, who often is a little absent minded, observed gravely:
“I have often remarked that there have been more women than men married this year.”
ONE OF THE boys tells of a scarecrow made by Uncle Ben. It is not only scared off every crow that saw it, but one crow was so frightened that he brought back the corn he stole three days before.
NOT OF THE FAMILY .— A man whose appearance indicated that he was staggering from the excessive weight of a brick in his hat, being asked if he was a “Son of Temperance,” replied, “Hic – no — no relation — not even an hic acquaintance.”
A VERITABLE young gentleman, four years old, recently threw his maternal relative into a fit of admiration by the following speech: “I like most all kinds of cake — pound cake, sponge cake, and jelly cake, but I don’t like stomachace.”
A NEW READING of an old couplet is thus rendered by a savage hater of hoops and that style of dress which leaves too little of a woman’s beauty to the imagination:
“Lo! on a narrow neck of land,
‘Twixt two unbounded shes I stand.”
THE FIRST time that Jerrold met with Dibden, the latter said to him:
“Youngster, have you sufficient confidence in one to lend me a guinea?”
“Yes,” said the author of “Black Eyed Susan,” “I have the confidence, but I haven’t the guinea.”
AN OLD LADY in Connecticut being at a loss for pin cushions, made use of an onion. On the following morning she found that all the needles had tears in their eyes.
“DON’T TOUCH me, or I’ll scream!” as the engine whistle said to the stroker.
WHY ARE country girls’ cheeks like well-printed cotton? Because they are warranted to wash and keep the color.
—-Milton says, - “Though all the winds of doctrine be let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously to doubt her strength.”
And says Humboldt, — “The one idea which history exhibits, as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness, is the idea of HUMANITY — the noble endeavor to throw down all barriers erected between man, by prejudice and onesided views; and by setting aside the distinctions of religions, country and color, to treat the whole human race as one brotherhood, having one great object, the free development of our spiritual nature.”
REV. MR. CALHOUN, who has charge of a Mission Seminary at Abeih, in Syria, where Arabian young men are educated, says that in the compass of Arabic literature it is difficult finding pieces sufficiently pure for the students to deliver before a Christian and moral audience at the annual examination.
Transcribed by Maggie Finney, corrected by Shannon McElroy