Printed and Published by W. McCauslen and L. Harper
The American Union appears weekly in the northeast corner of Washington and Third streets over John Orr's store with a two dollar per year rate payable half yearly in advance or three dollars at year end. Advertisements run at standard rates and letters to the editors must be postage paid to receive attention.
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American Union
Washington and
Third Streets
John Orr
Ap Leliers
Senate
Clay
Bank of Amsterdam
Bank of
Bank of England
Amsterdam
Bank of Deposite
Bank of North America
England
Europe
Great Britain
Card Printing Services Offered at Union Office
Variety of Hob and fancy printing to be executed at the Union Office on the shortest notice and on the most reasonable terms.
Glorious cheers for Tell and liberty in song
Poetic reminiscence extols independence and heroic battles of a Swiss past. It celebrates fiery beacon fires, the hero Tell, and patriotic drinking to the memory of fathers who defended liberty against tyrants. The verse echoes festive, martial fervor and national pride.
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Tell
The Soldier's Tear in War's Desolate Hill
A soldier on a hill turns to view the valley and village church and tears flow as a girl kneels at a cottage porch with a snowy scarf praying. He blesses her before rejoining the front, his heart dauntless despite the tear.
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Dauntless
Danger
Flas
Farewell as a Final Word in Sorrowful Tributes
A reflective meditation on farewell as a charged word in life’s departures. Parents, spouses, and kin bid loved ones farewell in distant lands and final partings, with memories and sorrow shaping each scene. The piece laments the loneliness and grief bound to farewell across generations.
Remedy for cattle boken by turnips and potatoes
A New York Star report describes a farmer in this city who relieved neat cattle troubled by turnips or potatoes. He poured a pint of lamp oil into the animal s throat from a junk bottle while briskly rubbing the throat, and immediate relief followed.
Immortality of the human soul in Eudorus’s treatise
In this chapter of WUISCELLAMBOVS for the American Union, Eudorus argues man’s soul is immortal, contrasting human reason, conscience, and virtue with brute instinct. He contends virtue leads to happiness, vice to punishment, and a future state as a divine, just continuation of earthly life.
The Gambler Husband and the Grief of Emma in Despair
Emma, loyal wife of a confirmed gambler, toiled to clothe and educate her children while he drained a $20,000 bequest and sank into poverty. One midnight, after drinking and gambling, he strikes her down, leaving her to endure sorrow while he remains callous to her suffering.
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Emma
Best Way to Be Happy and Be Active
A short essay argues happiness comes from active work and steady employment. It contrasts industrious poor with unhappy inactive ones, claiming fortune favors the busy and mourning loss dulls energy, turning people into useless drones instead of working bees.
Indolence and health in industry urged by essay
The passage argues that aside from laziness, indolence at work leads to self-doubt about fitness for labor. It describes becoming attuned to wind, pulses, and tongue, drifting into regular dyspepsia. It emphasizes that industry preserves health and happiness.
Itching Palm and Copper Dress Hat News
A wide scan of 1837 era items notes an editor gets an itch ointment, sowing lime on blossoming wheat to curb the wheat fly, a Van Buren tour from Hagerstown to Maryland, reactions to Irish banking forgery cases, and travel and political updates including Mrs Madison in Washington and Buckinghams in New York.
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Thomas Haynes Bailey
Russia
England
Ireland
London
Madison
Washington
Galena Gazette
Captain Taylor
New York
Sandy Hook
Juan Fernandez
Robinson Crusoe
Alexander Selkirk
Point Comfort
J. S. Buckingham, Esq
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L. Harper
Huse
The
Switzer’s
Gilbert Gay
Eudorus
Man
the Gambler
the Gatherer
Mr. van Buren
Poinsett
Dickerson
Liverpool
Benjamin Rush
United States Legation
Court of St. James
Rodney
Brandon
Vicksburg
Natchez, Miss
Ontario
Messrs
Prime, Ward & King
Portland
Pass Christian
Arkansas
Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton
Col
Wm.8. Hamilton
Galena
Illinois
Medical Journal
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Atlantic and Pacific Canal
New Bedford
San Juan
Lake Nicaragua
Central America
Balt
Mer
John C. Calhoun
South Carolina
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