Printed and Published by W C M'Causlen & L Harper
The American Union, issued every Wednesday morning, announces office details at the northeast corner of Washington and Third street over John Orr's store. Rates: two dollars per annum, three dollars when paid half-yearly, and end of year. Advertisements at usual rates. Letters to editors must be postpaid. Printing services boast modern type and premium job work in the west.
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American Union
Washington and
Third Street
John Orr
West
Fragment of a Victorian lament on mortality and virtue
The poem contemplates mortality and the afterlife as it ponders the eye, fingers, and feet once active in life. It contrasts material wealth with virtuous conduct and suggests that true worth endures beyond death, with the eye of kindness and the path of duty guiding souls to the sky.
Moonlit river ode from Indiana shores
A nostalgic verse from The American Monthly laments the western river under a cloudless moon. It contrasts shimmering river scenes with distant Indiana woods and prairie, recalling a homeland far away while honoring memories of family and a mother’s door as the truest, clearest view.
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L. P.S
Hymn for German Immigrant Friends Society in Cincinnati 1837
Translated hymn sung by the Free School of the German Immigrant's Friends' Society in Cincinnati on July 4 1837. The verses recall leaving Germany facing a sea voyage to seek freedom and new homes, vows of fidelity to freedom, and hope for guidance by God as youth become a chosen race strong in the truth. The text emphasizes memory of homeland, faithfulness, and national service.
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Free School of the German Immigrant’s Friends’ Society
Cincinnati
God of Peace
The Ben Sherrod Disaster Aboard Mississippi Steamer May 1837
An eye witness recounts the Ben Sherrod steamboat fire and wreck near New Orleans on May 6 1837. Passengers, including many women and children, flee burning cotton cargo while Captain Castleman’s vessel is overwhelmed by flames and explosion. Rescue boats arrive but blame falls on Castleman for neglect. The narrator recalls loss of siblings, burns, and vows never to meet the captains again.
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Ben Sherrod
Castleman
New Orleans
Henry
Lexington
Mississippi
Prairie
St. Louis
Fort Adams
Natchez
Homochitta
Massa
Homichitta
Davids
Columbus
Statesman
Dougherty
Father of Waters
Captain Castleman
Captain Dougherty
A Heroic Voice From Warren On Bunker Hill
This remembrance exhorts reverence for Warren, praised as freedom’s champion who spoke boldly against oppression at the Boston massacre era. It recalls his Lexington ride, leadership in Massachusetts politics, and ultimate death at Bunker Hill, urging national gratitude and enduring memory.
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Boston
Warren
Lexington
Congress
Massachusetts
Bunker Hill
Prescott
Liberty
Hus
The Noble Life of the Honest Mechanic
This tribute extols the industrious mechanic who rises from poverty through skill and perseverance. It lauds industry and virtuous ambition as universal paths to respect, noting that honesty and justice reward effort and that the mechanic is the true king among men.
A GOOD WIFE Defends Husband in Wary Moral Code
A nineteenth century moral outline defines a good wife as one who lightens her husband’s melancholy, shares his fortunes unless he is abusive, tends to his sickness, guards his worldly goods, and maintains dignity amid temptation. She must nurture children and protect the family name.
Qualifications of a Good Wife in Early Advice
The text urges a wife to preserve an unsullied name before the world so as to bless her husband. It counsels channeling natural violence into affection, avoiding momentary anger, and not letting another’s representations warp her view of her husband’s fidelity and honor. It outlines qualities for a good wife.
Naval Yard at Gosport Described as Future US Depot
Fredericksburg editor tours Norfolk and highlights Gosport Navy Yard’s vast public property value shipyards in operation with 1200 workers, Dry Dock by Colonel Baldwin, steam pumping, vessels Delaware Columbia Guerriere Brandywine Potomac Java, and calls for water supply investment and congressional funding.
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Navy Yard
Gosport
England
France
United States
Norfolk
Colonel Baldwin
Delaware
Columbia
Guerriere
Brandywine
Potomac
Java
Town Point
Congress
Maxims for a good marriage and feminine virtue
The text urges women to cultivate virtue and self restraint to secure harmonious marriages. It emphasizes self-improvement, affection, sincerity, respect for husbands, cheerful temperament, avoiding reproach, sharing burdens, and the value of implicit submission as an honor expected at the altar. It frames marriage as mutual support within frailty.
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The passage advises maintaining harmony in marriage by valuing the husband, studying his temper, managing one’s own reactions, and quietly concealing his faults to preserve happiness and esteem. It emphasizes pleasing the husband and sharing his burdens with discretion.
Silk Goods and Emigrant News Across 1820s Vision
A digest of 1820s items notes silk imports rising from 10.3 million to 22.1 million dollars between 1825 and 1836, Chickasaw arrivals en route to the far west, Health concerns aboard sailors in Mobile, and varied curiosities from Magna Charta celebrations in London to Pineapple leaf silk substitutes. It also mentions the Stonington Railroad costs, planet conjunctions, a tooth drawing method, Pensacola property prices, and a notable dog story from the Boston Transcript.
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