"The Battering Ram" (Free Soil) was dated 1853.

The evidence

• “"The Battering Ram," Free Soil. Date supplied. 1853. "The Free Press," Free Soil, weekly.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/24-janesville-press.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 533 / book p. 494

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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