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Newspaper
Albany Courier
Location
Albany, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1847
Page
4
Describes fire damage and relief in Buena Vista with praise for volunteers. Notes savings of rail yards, extensive losses for merchants including Thomas Dicks and Garden & Ferrell, and insurance details. Mentions population figures for Ireland and political commentary on General Taylor and the 1847 U.S. political scene.
The nation shows support for Zachary Taylor as next president with a labor of love by voters. The contrast with James K. Polk is noted, and major western papers like the Louisville Courier and St. Louis New Era publish Taylor articles.
The Auburn Daily Advertiser reports Mr. Clay’s courteous reply to Sylvester Schenck and Auburn Whigs who sent an elegant office chair and writing accessories. Clay thanks friends and countrymen, notes relief from responsibility, and avoids dwelling on last Presidential election. He reflects on national pride, wartime sacrifices, and hopes for dutiful submission to divine will amid calamity.
In a dated 12 April 1847 letter Henry Clay agrees to permit the Louisville community to return his son Lieut Col H Clay Jr.'s body to Kentucky for burial near his wife and to honor his deeds with a monument. He thanks the Louisville gentlemen for their sympathy and states the relatives' shared residence and burial site justify the request. He signs as Wm. Clay, addressing Messrs Preston Wolf Everett Tyler Beattie.
At Independence Square a Philadelphia town meeting praised General Taylor for his swift rise and self-authored legacy. John Sergeant extolled Taylor as a bright episode in US history since Washington, noting his sword and pen have written his history. A chance for historians noted a valuable document found at Veracruz Castle.
An 1847 editorial argues America should aid Ireland during the famine and become its chief ally. It contrasts British neglect with American relief, foresees a future Irish independence, and suggests Ireland as a western hub for American European trade and Atlantic routes.
Fragmentary excerpts show Irish voice predicting expulsion and replacement by a new ruling people in Europe. The passage condemns oppression ending only with death, praising martyrs and freedom symbols while lamenting lack of sympathy or memory for Irish suffering and Dublin’s future.
On the evening of the 22nd April by the Reverend, W Sharpe of Columbia County, the marriage unites Charles and Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Mordecai Alexander, formerly of this city, in East Florida.
Notice states the administrator sale is postponed to Saturday the 15th, at 10 o clock A M, under P C Welch as administrator. Also rental of pews in the Baptist Church begins this morning at 10 o'clock A M, May 8, 1847.
The proclamation calls Baker Randolph Barry Decatur Irwin Dooly Sumter and others to raise a company of volunteers for the war effort. Enlistees receive monthly pay and land or money upon discharge. An Albany office will assist enrollees and court convenings may note members.
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