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Ravenna, Ohio, Jan. 28, 1850.

For Governor,

REUBEN WOOD

OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY.

Free Soil.

Senator Douglass, of Illinois, has made a "free soil" move in the Senate of the U. S., which, if adopted, will do more for the cause of humanity than any measure which has passed Congress for many years. About the first of this month he introduced a Bill to grant to actual settlers who shall reside thereon, and shall cultivate a portion thereof, a quarter section of the Public Lands free of cost. This is not only the best, but it is the disposition that should be made of the public domain. It will tend as much, if not more to the elevation of man than any other reformatory measure of this age of reform. It will give to thousands of the homeless of our fellow men homes and land, and the means of procuring a comfortable and honest livelihood, freeing them from the tyranny and oppression of capital. That is the right kind of a "free soil" move, and one which will be heartily concurred in by the great mass of the people.

Besides this reform, there is another, nearly allied to it, which is fast receiving the sanction of the different State Governments. We mean the Homestead Exemption measure, which will protect the hearth-stone, and fireside from the ruthless grasp of avarice, and save families from being turned houseless and penniless into the streets to barter themselves in an over-stocked labor market for the purpose of obtaining a bare subsistence.

But a few years have passed, since our wise legislators, acting in the name and behalf of the people, authorized the hungry creditor to strip his victim and his family of his last farthing of property, and for the want of sufficient to satisfy his avaricious demand, he took the body of his unfortunate victim and incarcerated it in the dark damp cells of a prison. But that dark age has passed away, and men are no longer incarcerated in gloomy dungeons for the misfortune of being poor. This was but one step in the great progressive movement which is to exempt man from the grinding oppressions of avarice, and make him free in deed, and which will improve the moral and political condition of the people.

But still farther steps are fast being taken. The growing sentiment in favor of allowing every landless man to occupy a portion of the public land free of charge, and the exemption of a homestead, that they may have the natural and necessary means of procuring for themselves and those dependent upon them a comfortable subsistence, give unmistakable evidence of a healthy progress, an advancement which has for its object the elevation of man, and is in happy contrast with that cold and marble selfishness which strips a man of his independence and dooms him a menial to his fellow man. The tendency of legislation heretofore has been to make labor subservient to capital; but now happily a better day is beginning to dawn.

A writer in a late number of the Ohio State Journal proposes Harrison G. Blake as the next Whig candidate for Governor! Could anything be more apropos? Blake, who has violated his pledge of honor, usurping the power to recognize a 37th member of the Senate in defiance of the plain provisions of the Constitution, and sunk himself to the lowest depths of infamy, that he might gratify the demands of whiggery, should stand in the 'fore front' of the party which attempted, two years ago, for base party ends, in violation of the supreme law of the State, to give the election of one of the Senators and two Representatives of a county into the hands of the people of eight wards of a city. He certainly has claims upon them superior to any other man's—Heretofore they had to take up with men whose names have been immortalized only by their connection with some famous bank swindle; but now they can have a candidate whose base treachery and villainy have given him a name, "a great, immortal name, that was not born to die."

The President refuses to answer the inquiries made in the resolution of Senator Bradbury, of Me., calling for the reasons for the removal of Democrats from office, and the appointment of whigs in their place. It is said that in consequence of this a majority of the Senators have agreed to make no confirmation of importance, until an answer is sent in.

This refusal to answer, is an admission that the only "cause" for these removals was a difference of political sentiment, for which, Gen. Taylor pledged himself no man should be proscribed.

The Spencers.

We had the pleasure of attending the Concerts of these singers, given in this place last week. They have a fine collection of songs, and display very good taste in singing them. The Melo Pean accompaniment is the finest instrument for the purpose we have ever heard, and was a great addition to the entertainments.