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Newspaper
American Union
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1840
Page
1
The piece urges the rich to practice charity during hard times and asks the wealthy to remember the poor around winter. It contrasts wealth with poverty, praising generosity as blessed and warning that self-importance leads to decline and obscurity.
A skeptical essay condemns conceit and self importance in a society that elevates vanity over merit. It recounts Harry Thornton’s downfall from wealth to ruin, caused by dissipation, bad company, and endless flattery from fashionable peers who feed his self regard. The piece contrasts ancient wisdom with modern vanity.
A narrator returns to city life to learn Harry Thornton, once famed for wealth and charm, has died after a rapid fall from grace. Once lavish, he is found penniless, shunned by friends, and dies in an apoplectic fit as the wreck of his former life unfolds before witnesses.
A satirical tale from The Cultivator mocks pretentious youths and self-important adults by likening their pursuits to “making auger holes with a gimlet.” It profiles several characters, including a young man from the clerk’s desk, a rapid politician, adegenerate belle, a speculative farmer, and a zealot preacher, all chasing hollow notions while critiquing society and war.
A fragment reflecting Morat on human faults and the folly of striving for model status. It argues thatImprovement comes from self correction, not vain attempts at universal regulation, questioning the merit of self regard over personal reform.
Satirical piece notes English paradoxes and imperial pretensions as the London Examiner argues about why Britain would go to war for a cause. The text mocks contradictory faults and the public appetite for expansion while exposing the nation’s self image.
An account from Flint recalls three children stranded on a Mississippi Deserted Island after their father, drunk and seeking whiskey, left to drink. The pirogue sank before he returned, leaving two girls ages nine and four to shield and feed them with uncooked pork and corn amid snow and cold. The oldest child, nine, showed sharpness. the younger, four, sought to comfort siblings.
Fragmentary OCR text describes a group finding others and taking them as they approached New Madrid, suggesting a narrative moment of pursuit or capture tied to a location near the Mississippi town. Details are sparse and unnamed.
The passage condemns imitation by the less wealthy who chase appearances of wealth. It details squandered resources on clothing and homes to emulate richer neighbors, leading to cheerless rooms, poor meals, and empty fuel stocks. The result is poverty and regret when the shrine of vanity collapses.
The Ohio Statesman warns that after the coming March fourth, federalism will seize control of national and state governments. It decries plans to free millions of enslaved Black people, naturalization law repeal, native American movements, anti Catholic campaigns, and attacks on immigrants, promising civil strife and the end of self government.
A radical critique denounces the money power backed by British stockholders and foreign nobility as the cornerstone of a planned monarchic shift. The Cincinnati Republican and Springfield Republic urge urgent action by Democrats and Ohio lawmakers to resist what they call a mercenary, despoiling force threatening liberty and peace.
A Philadelphia critique argues Stephen Girard left funds for a school for poor orphans but asserts managers misused funds and salaries total seventeen thousand dollars annually. It claims completion overruns and political influence shaped hiring, denying benefits to the needy.
A Miss Hannah More extract argues that female education should prepare women for aging gracefully beyond youth. It warns against shaping daughters solely for beauty or social display, urging instruction that sustains intellect and private fulfillment when admiration fades.
An Onondaga Standard item notes that Gen Washington and Mr Van Buren signed laws to collect General Government revenues in gold and silver only and denounces Van Buren as a monarchist. It asks why Washington isn’t denounced similarly and challenges Whig leaders to answer.
Fragmentary lines discuss wealth power knowledge and talent, asserting that truth to power cannot be silenced and wealth cannot purchase or silence truth, with references to Felix wemble and the Old Dominion in a reflective, aphoristic tone.
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