Printed and Published by M'Caustlen and Harper
The American Union issues weekly from the northeast corner of Washington and Third street, over John Orr's store, at two dollars per year with three dollars due at year end. Advertisements run at usual rates. Letters to editors must be postpaid. Also offering Hob and Fancy Card Printing and a full range of print services with high quality.
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American Union
Washington and
Third Street
John Orr
Night Hymn to Music and Love in Moonlit Dream
Poetic reverie extols music as confidant and muse guiding a lover, blending celestial imagery with a vow to cast feelings into song. The speaker urges the minstrel to carry power and soul to his beloved, framing love as union of soul and harmony.
Farewell Poem From Steubenville 1837
A dated verse from Steubenville on September 16, 1837, pledges enduring love. The speaker asks a beloved to fare thee well while hoping for return, and vows to remain steadfast despite distance and longing.
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Steubenville
Swift for my mountain home poem by Robert Grant
Poem expresses longing for mountain home and sea voyage to Maine coast. Imagery of pine forests moose and caribou, moonlit lakes, and tumultuous waves. The narrator imagines returning to the coast, with the eagle figure seen in Maine outline.
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Maine
Melanchdy Loraines loafers in morning market
Two men of leisure meet near the market and exchange a casual exchange about waking early. One claims a melon was used as a pillow and stolen by a brute, while the other jokes about using door steps. Moments later the other loafer is seen mending his hands with a brick during a pumping incident.
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Sam
Balt
Forrest the tragedian sails for New York tour
The tragedian Forrest and his bride plan a voyage to New York on the August voyage. He is currently in New York awaiting arrangements and faces costs of 8450 per week.
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Forrest
New York
Hale's Brave Death and the Secret Papers
In a Revolutionary era scene, Nathan Hale faces execution with Christian resolve. Sarah Easton pleads for his burial, a covert harboring of papers is revealed with a moonlit rescue by an English officer, and Hale’s body is returned to his torn family amid somber, tragic resolve.
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Howe
Aid-de Camp
Aid-de-camp
Nathaniel Hale
Christain
Gen. Howe
No shrinking dispositions but bold resolve to wealth
The quote extols men who relentlessly press toward a goal, dismissing tinkering dreads and indecision. It asserts resolution as a talisman that unlocks wealth, urging firm determination to overcome obstacles.
Washington by Thomas Jefferson a portrait of a great man
Jefferson lauds Washington as a strong yet prudent leader. details his defense of war councils, composure under danger, unwavering integrity, measured generosity, noble bearing, and disciplined public service from war to nation building. He praises Washington's mind, character, and decisive yet cautious approach shaping independence and government.
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Newton
Bacon
Locke
Boston
York
Tragic cliff rope incident during sea fowl catching
A Zetland man and his father and brother were suspended by a cord from a cliff above the sea. The man at the top warned that the rope might fail. He urged his brother Willie to cut the rope, letting their father drop. Willie refused, and the man cut the rope himself. The father and brother fell into the sea. the event is described in Life of Scott.
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Willie
Scott
Proverbial Remedies Printed for All Occasions
A humorous note offers odd cures and moral maxims: sea sickness cure is to stay on shore, drunkenness treated by cold water repeated until relief, and a witty “gout-board” rule to stay out of jail by not harming others, not stealing, not slandering, avoiding debt, and minding one’s own business, addressed to the printer.
Link Between Major Rail Routes Under Construction
The project forms a connecting link between the Ohio and Erie and Kalamazoo Rail Roads and the great southern Rail Road from Monroe to Lake Michigan. Commenced recently, it will be pursued with energy to completion as Manhattan Luv reports.
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Maomer Branco Rat
Ohio
Erie
Kalamazoo
Great Southern
Monroe
Lake Michigan
Manhattan
Parsley preservation method from a dry day harvest
To preserve parsley for seasoning meats gather on a dry day and place the herb in a pan near a large fire. It will soon become bright, after which it may be rubbed fine and stored in glass bottles for use.
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Parstey
Education as the Pillar of Liberty and Prosperity
From Steubenville in 1837, a discourse on education's critical role in liberty and national strength. The essay contrasts educated citizens, rising in prosperity and esteem, with ignorant ones, condemning nations to misery. References include Poland, Britain, France, and leaders like Kosciusko and Bonaparte.
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Poland
Russia
Thaddeus
Kosciusko
Great Britain
Pitt
Sheridan
Fox
Burke
France
Napoleon Bonaparte
Robespierre
John Paul Marat
the Great
Lafayette
Night Reflections on Life and Time in Verse and Prose
A reflective meditation on night as a time for thought and memory. The piece contrasts quiet solitude with revelry, recalls ancient Greece and Rome, and traces a youth from innocence to disillusionment, ending with the phrase Ste transit gloria mundi.
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Jancy
Miscellaneous 19th Century News Bits and Quotes
A collection of brief excerpts includes toasts praising liberal sentiments by D L Pratt, jests about royal orders, Roger Sherman’s Bible habit, and a note that three years of a late king’s reign saw no executions. It reports on a Boston bell bound for Kalamazoo, a demand for a wet nurse in Baltimore, and satire on marriage as a remedy for economic pressure. Also covered are agricultural imports, a Waterloo town census, and various curiosities from New York and New Orleans, with disasters and crimes in Paramaribo, and Indian hostilities in Wisconsin and Florida.
Hope and earthly hope in a patient reverie
The passage reflects on the difference between heavenly and earthly hope inspired by Bishop Heber and a quoted verse. It notes that earthly hope is illusory and fleeting while true hope should be of heaven, concluding with a nod to readers who have found truth in these lines.
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Earth
Heaven
Heber
Anne Grey
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