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Newspaper
American Union
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1843
Page
1
A short sermon urges readers to abandon selfish living and share in the woes of others. It foresees a coming era of universal peace and charity, imagining a society where wealth and privilege are replaced by mutual aid and brotherly love. The speaker, D., acknowledges personal ill health but resolves to renewed moral effort.
A sermon denounces the Millerite belief of an imminent apocalypse, using time as an eternal stream to argue against sensational prophecies. The speaker mocks Miller and urges focus on enduring knowledge, cautioning listeners about credulity and urging practical study for both men and women.
The speaker declaims that wonders in the heavens and earth will only signal the end of all things when absurd signs appear such as thunder before lightning and ducks avoiding water. He mocks future prophecies and parodies apocalyptic discourse as the audience is urged to endure the present.
Widespread address urges restoration of Irish Parliament and judicial independence, proposes expanded household suffrage, ballot voting to prevent unrest, and a reallocation of ecclesiastical state revenues after repealing the Union. Emphasizes safeguarding vested church interests while restructuring governance in Ireland.
From the Tallahasse Flordian comes a summary arguing banks have wrecked finance, detailing losses from 1837 to 1842 totaling eight hundred eight million dollars and urging reform. The piece joins broader calls for Irish reform parallels and promotes economic shift to hard currency and national prosperity.
The Easton Whig reports that the bank in Allentown was found with only empty boxes and old furniture as its assets. Rumor claims John Rice, bank president, was arrested on a Tuesday and jailed in Lehigh County on embezzlement charges.
A small boy hears a preacher say ye must be born again, repeats the text, and after leaving church returns home in tears. He fears that next time he will be a girl, asking his father why he should cry, revealing a child’s anxious misunderstanding of the sermon.
The Crawford county convention at Bucyrus on the 26th adopted resolutions backing Martin Van Buren and opposing a national bank while urging a November Democratic National Convention. They urged strong state sovereignty, a revenue tariff, Oregon possession, and protest against British fisheries encroachments.
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