The Extra Session Bankrupt Plan Debate in Detail
The speech surveys time and place choices for bankruptcy trials, the notice method, surrender of property, and the power of assignees. It attacks the new act for favoring debtors, cites costs borne by creditors, and argues the final certificate cancels debts without creditor consent, warning of constitutional issues and permanent, misuse-prone provisions.
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London
New York
Town
Wisconsin
England
United States
Earth
Eetigeree
Ageae
Hell
Stock Exchange
Ngland
A Constitutional Critique of Federal Bankruptcy Law
A speaker denounces the federal bankruptcy act as a dangerous property and insolvent law that nullifies state laws, erodes rights, and alters debt discharge by tendering property. The argument contrasts state mechanisms with Congress power and cites historical debates, urging preservation of state sovereignty and constitutional limits.
Fragment of historic legal notice on trial by jury
Concluded next week the passage argues that a system makes the act void if against the intended purpose and imagines shifts of powers like jury selection, habeas corpus, and prisoner custody, asking whether courts would observe such acts though titled to establish trial by jury and preserve habeas corpus.
Greatworth’s Card Defends Democrats and Rebukes Whigs
The piece presents Greatworth the New York pipe layer issuing a self defense and supporting the Democrats while rebuking the Whigs for their treatment of him. He claims to tell his version of events and seeks publication of his perspective.
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Greatworth
New York
Address to the People of the U S Friton Citizens
A long confession recounts admission of participating in 1838 39 New York electoral frauds. The speaker claims remorse seeks to reveal full truth after indictment discharged and laments loss of friends and party support. He questions why allies aided slander while insisting innocence if not guilty and pledges public disclosure.
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Friton
New York
England
Sam
Odrum
Characer
Lafllucenece
Belerteg
Evrtones
Exposed letters reveal treachery and stratagem in 1841
James B. Glentworth declares a public expose detailing acts of treachery by powerful adversaries. He claims to have used stratagem and new evidence to fortify against them, promising a lucid chain of names, incidents, and documents. He invites verdicts from a wary public.
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James B. Glentworth
New York
Constitutional amendments move in Senate on December 29
Senator Clay introduced three joint resolutions to amend the Constitution. They seek to curb the veto, strip the Treasury and its Secretary of appointment power to Congress, and bar members of Congress from civil office during their elected term. In the House, Mr. Fillmore quoted Treasury Secretary notes of a current Treasury deficiency of 260000 dollars, warning immediate provision is necessary or the government will be disgraced.
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Senate
Clay
Treasury
Congress
House
Fillmore
Secretary of the ‘Treasury
Notice on rag buyback price by booksellers group 1841
We the undersigned booksellers and paper manufacturers prohibit paying more than four cents per pound for good rags exchanged for books or paper after December 10. Signatories include Johnston & Stockton Luke Domis Hol ds HIP Browne James Howard Uo Hanna Turnbull Carter Patterson Ingram & McCandless A Robertson Brighton Jas Turnbull Steubenville C H Kay Co Z H Coston and others dated December 1841.
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Johnston & Stockton
Luke ~Domis
Holdship & Browne
James Howard
Hanna & Turnbull
Carter & Patterson
Ingram & McCandless
A. Robertson
Brighton
JAS
Turnbull, SteubenviLle
Z. HU. Coston
Rectifying Distillery Public Notice of Spirits On Hand
Mears and Trotter respectfully inform the public that they now have and will continue to have a supply of brandy Holland gin port wine Teneriffe sherry champagne domestic brandy gin cordial rose cordial peppermint cinnamon and whiskey for sale by the gallon at the present rate. Ords and barrels of refined whiskey are also mentioned for sale.
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Per Gallen
Beptel
Puteherst
Earle Dao
Fees
Indian Vegetable Pills claimed to cure many ailments
The advertisement touts Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills as a universal remedy for nausea, fever chills coughs and many cold symptoms. It claims quick relief by three eighths of a pill nightly and promises cures for asthma liver complaints and a host of other disorders. Testimonials from Jamaica and New York praise dyspepsia cures and blood purifying effects, urging others to try the medicine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. York
Walcurt
N. American College of Health
Jamaica
L. Tl
Wm. Wright
BLACK
New York
Rich’d Dennis
Wright
Greenwich St
North American College of Health
Sam
Sir
Chs. M. Tate
Hammerslyst
Richard Dennis
Henry A Foote
Wawarsing
N York
A. Maria Thompson
Greenwich St . York
Nowra Americas
Meare
Race Street
Philadelphia
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Charles O'Conner
David Graham, Jr
James M. Smith, Jr
J M. Saith, Jr
Congressional
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