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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1836
Page
4
Poetic address to a fair woman, praising beauty and skin, neck, face, and voice. Speaker declares worship of beauty, vows enduring devotion, and asks if the beloved has ever thought of meeting. The archaic diction and rhetorical cadence echo a romance fragment from a historical newspaper page.
The piece recounts pranks by Henderson the actor including staging a coffin burial in a cellar and substituting real snuff for coffee during a performance of The Lady and the Devil. It notes fellow players’ reactions, the ringleader servant’s role, and Henderson’s eventual retaliation plans. It also includes a lengthy, miscellaneous “Origin of Spants” section detailing plants, foods, and globally traded commodities.
A narrator recounts a chaotic scene as noses, keys, and cannons echo through a room. A mysterious lady laughs and a victim ends with his head in a tub of water while Henderson cues snuff gags. The actor praises the sneezed nose, but the curtain falls too late and eyes redden from stage mischief.
The Petersburg Intelligencer quotes a Hartford Times critique, denying a southern faction seeking disunion. It cites unity across parties in the South, with both Union and Nullification factions backing resistance to abolitionist agitation. The piece argues no southern faction exists and urges northern readers not to misread southern resolve to protect slavery and the Union.
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