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Newspaper
American Union
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1837
Page
1
Printed and published by W C M Causlen and L Harper announces weekly publication with address on Washington and Third Street. Advertisements at usual rates. Postpaid letters to editors required. Offers Hob and Money Card printing and a refined range of job and card printing services in the west.
The verse celebrates Nature as a divine force shaping Earth, sea, and sky. It extols beauty from dawn to dusk, praises seasons and landscapes from Andes to Sahara, and elevates Nature above human art. It depicts nature as a revelation of order, power, and the divine.
A Polish captive Adelia inspires her countrymen with courage and mercy. She fights through bombardment and captivity, resists a Russian commander's advances, and seduces safety by cunningly seizing a sentry’s sword to free Polish officers. Her resolve under fire and in detention epitomizes Poland's struggle for liberty.
Excerpt from Robertson's Travels in Syria recounts a dangerous journey through Damascus where Christians faced abuse at gates and in streets. The narrator recalls being mocked as an Infidel, having his turban torn, and enduring stones and threats while seeking safety at the city gates. He notes sectarian hostility driven by religious animosity rather than personal motive.
The passage extols honesty as the clerk's best recommendation the trader's surest guarantee the merchant's strongest endorsement and the clergyman's finest virtue. It asserts the honest man remains safe through hard times health and even death his character enduring under scrutiny and shining after every test.
A nostalgic poem recalls meeting no more on sunny hills and by murmuring waters where bright flowers once bloomed. The speaker mourns a lost beloved, noting the landscape’s beauty remains but cannot lift the sadness of absence. Amid dancing crowds, the beloved’s cheerful greeting is gone, and plans to meet again have ended.
The text argues that ambition mirrors avarice in seeking power as happiness, shaping rulers like Hyder Ali and Cromwell, Napoleon, and Caligula. It portrays ambition as cold, calculating, and self-centered, turning passions into instruments and guiding gradual ascent from modest beginnings to ultimate control.
A poem by Mrs. Sigourney traces a perfect rose that beauty attracted many to admire and scent. A spoiler steals the rose tearing its stalk and leaves, wearing it then discards it, leaving a thorn in his bosom. The scene becomes a moral lesson about vanity and precarious standing.
The speaker argues that disparaging moral honesty harms religion, noting the conflict between preaching sermon morality and cheating or oppressing others. He adds that morality must be aided by religion rather than discarded, stressing the mutual reinforcement of ethics and faith.
When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those more accomplished than yourself to be fired with emulation. But when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you to learn contentment.
This portrait of Deaf Smith from the Texas revolution era describes him as a daring scout with 25 to 30 picked men, renowned for reconnoitering, surprise attacks, and bringing early intelligence. Born in New York, he moved to Texas in 1822, married a Mexican woman, and earned the trust of President and cabinet. His deafness gave him an advantage in battle alarms, and he remains modest, brave, and humane while enduring hardships for liberty.
In a historic account, St Genevieve near St Louis is described as founded around 1660 by French colonists led by Father Hennepin. The piece contrasts French adaptability with British obstinacy, notes nontransferable communal fields, and praises the town’s enduring, unbought open-field settlement guarded against Yankee encroachment.
An essay from the Baltimore American extols sleep as nature’s soft replenisher. It describes sleep easing physical exhaustion and mental strain, reviving muscles and nerves, and restoring health while even disease yields. The piece invokes broad reverence for sleep’s power across humans and plants.
A reminder not to disclose confidential information shared in trust. The guidance emphasizes protecting both the confidant and the confidant’s interests by maintaining secrecy and avoiding disclosure without consent.
Essay ponders money as a force shaping virtue and vice, affection and ambition. It lists examples from courtship to politics, asking how money governs behavior, rewards, and public life, and concludes by inviting reader engagement with the question Do you take, sir You are the very man we desire to hear from.
The passage extols the mutual happiness of husband and wife sharing joy and sorrow through life. It asserts that misfortune binds them, stronger than family ties, and notes a son reaching adulthood often needing a wife’s support as parents fade. It reads like moral sentiment on conjugal duty and shared fate.
A passage extols the wife’s role in easing a husband’s burdens after work. It asserts that a wife shares labor, soothes sorrow, and helps bear life’s misfortunes, denying the notion that a wife is a burden. The piece emphasizes mutual labor and affectionate partnership in marriage.
On Greenock quay a merchant nearly fell into the harbor when a passing sailor plunged in to save him. The rescued man offered a shilling as thanks. The crowd balked at the small sum, but Burns praised the merchant’s right to value his own life and urged restraint.
The Salem Observer notes health as the all important goal and recalls a person who sacrificed health for wealth, saying he would gladly trade all his wealth for one week of regained health, underscoring the proverb there is no life without health.
A witty quip recalls Judge Paine, signer of the Declaration, visiting an assembly to see a beauty said to grace the meeting with her presence. On being asked his opinion he retorts her beauty has no more expression than a bowl of milk.
A reflection extols hope as man's best friend in despair, describing it as a flashing light that lifts minds from melancholy and encourages looking beyond obscurity to brighter climes, guiding mariners and lovers alike.
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