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Newspaper
American Union
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1837
Page
1
Printed and published by W C McAuslen and L Harper. Weekly edition on Washington and Third street. Rates two dollars per year, three dollars for six months. Advertisements accepted with prepayment. letters to editors must be postpaid. Card printing available with a new type assortment and quality job printing.
Poetic meditation on harmony in nature and the divine presence. The speaker links wind, water, birds, and leaves to a universal music. In vivid, period language, the piece extols nature as music given by God, weaving sea shore, trees, rivers, and infant spirits into a single, plaintive ode.
The text discusses instinct as a natural impulse guiding actions without deliberation across animals. It cites a newborn infant sucking, swallowing, and respiration as instinctive acts and notes that hunger prompts even adults to seek food. It links instinct to self and offspring care as animals mature.
A narrative blends memory of a family in an idealized rural life with the sacrifice of a beloved old oak spared by a woodman after a visit by a wanderer and Col. Morris. It also includes an extended excerpt praising the American Revolution from Edward Everett’s July Fourth oration, celebrating the drama of nations and the virtues of courage and perseverance.
The piece recounts Col. George P. Morris origin of Woodman Spare That Tree as sung by Mr. Russell. It tells of a wealthy New York countryside family famed for abundant charity to the poor, clothing the naked and feeding the hungry with humble, noble acts, gifting a joy within their hearts.
A distillation on political courage as supreme moral courage. The speaker argues that steadfast resolve, facing danger without wavering, earns respect even from enemies, and that leaders must assume responsibility, direct, lead, and illuminate the path to victory rather than compromise or retreat. The piece elevates statesmanship above mere bravado and calls for unwavering principle.
An October scene recounts a Caribbean uprising on Martinique with a refugee voyage to France, piracy, and a sultanic ascent. It shifts to vivid autumn imagery, musing on leaves as lessons, mortality, and contemplations of life. An Anecdote of Lord Oxford follows with four red deer stags driven in a phaeton, chased by hounds, ending in a barn after a wild collision.
Eight thousand eight hundred seventy nine strangers were entered in Hale's News Rooms Book in New York during September.
An Arabian writer Matammed Kaxwini relays a narrative of Khidliz in an ancient city. The tale traces repeated founding, destruction and submersion by sea across 500 year intervals, with inhabitants claiming ignorance of the city’s origins and ages.
Sir Walter Scott is quoted describing but as a detestable conjunction that delays or spoils a moment of decision. He contrasts no as honest and forthright, and but with yet as a jailor to action, labeling but yet as a monstrous obstruction to being.
Swift quips that a woman values little wit, liking plain speech as a parrot offers. Voltaire adds that ideas resemble beards, claiming women and young men lack them. Both lines reveal period attitudes on gender and intellect.
The Boston Journal notes the rapid population and wealth growth in Western states. It recalls Ohio and Indiana transforming from wilderness to thriving regions with rising populations, cities, and steamboats. The piece warns the Great West will soon influence national destiny and social moral questions in the Republic.
A quotation asserts that a man’s word is a heavier chain than any iron bond. It claims that walls and bars can be broken, but a kept promise cannot be.
A reflective aphorism warns that those who seek great worldly status often cultivate a small conscience and a long tongue, speaking freely on all matters while feeling little. The quip casts ambition as risky for moral sensitivity and personal integrity.
An account of a Hull election moment where Miss Wilberforce, sister of a candidate, was loudly cheered by freemen. They shouted Miss Wilberforce for ever, and she replied with wit, No I hope not Miss Wilberforce for ever.
A gentleman asks about sin gle blessedness and a friend replies that single blessedness is acceptable but only half as blessed as double blessedness, illustrating a playful exchange on matrimonial or spiritual state.
A New Hampshire editor declares he will not write for his paper at present, explaining he has spent a week in training and feels a need to pause his contributions.
The frigate United States lay at Cadiz on August 22 heading to Gibraltar and Port Mahon within days. A Jeru salem missionary letter reports many Americans and Britons in the Holy Land awaiting the second advent after the January earthquake. A Copenhagen theatre cashier was convicted of defrauding seventy thousand dollars, with sentence including loss of honor, right hand, hard fortress labor until restitution or death.
Boston papers report all commissioned officers from the companies that left the regimental line without orders at the late Brigade Review have been ordered to report to the Major General. They will be tried by a Court Martial.
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