South Carolina Leader Warns of Federal Power and Education Reform
In a November 28, 1836 address, a South Carolina executive urges legislators to resist federal overreach, preserve state rights, and boost education. He argues for practical schooling and a Civil and Military Engineering professorship to advance public welfare and national stability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
House of Representatives
South Carolina
Gatien
United States
Ieans
Department of Military Engineering
Richmond County
Barney
Military reform at South Carolina College urged with cadets and languages
The speaker advocates integrating arms training and military tactics into general education at the College. He proposes cadet corps, a military professor, a professorship in modern languages, and expansion of facilities and library. He warns against licensing hotels fueling dissipation and urges partisan exclusion from governance. He plans a European visit to advance these aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Columbia
Banking Bill Reforms in Georgia Legislature 1836
Correspondence from Milledgeville reports multiple measures in the Georgia Senate and House. Debates cover state stock in the Darien Bank, surplus revenue distribution, Central Bank lending rules, and canal rail projects, with a Jefferson Bank charter and court of errors discussed. The Treasury notes concerns over currency designations and bank circulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Asocraee
Senate
Bank of
Darien
Savannah
Augusta
Macon
United States
Blackshear
Gibson
Lawson
Reynolds
Waldhauer
Monroe Railroad Company, &c
Milledgeville and
Jefferson Bank
Warrenton
McConnell
Treasury
Court of Errors
MittepGeEvilLe
Dee
Mittepeeville
Finance
Treasury Departent
Milledgeville
General Assembly
State of Georgia
T. Thomas Haynes
Treas’r
The Partisan Leader and Atlantic Steam Frigate News
A London style notice reviews The Partisan Leader a 1836 novel satirizing political figures with vivid invective. The report predicts Virginia sensation and public scorn toward traitors and self serving leaders. Also details the British American Steam Navigation Company plan to build a 700 ton steam frigate for New York to Liverpool with 225 hp engines and sailing capabilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Epward Sipvey
Mr. van Buren
Virginia
U. S. Telegraph
Atlantic
England
British and American Steam Navigation Company
New York
Liverpool
Pressure and court reports stir national concerns
The piece notes financial strain traced to depositing policy, urging a wage-arbitrating panic if needed. It reports a Frederick Military Court reorganization with Gen Gaines objecting to Gen Macomb, arrivals of senior officers at Talbot's City Hotel, and a 200 Cherokee mounted regiment heading to Florida. It also notes North Carolina Senator Willie Mangum resigning with a tied chamber and Delaware Senator John M Clayton resigning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Multum
Parvo
U. S. Telegraph
the Express
Maine
Louisiana
Whitney
Purlieus
M’lean
Frederick
Gaines
Macomb
Talbot's City Hotel
L. Scott
Florida
Nelson
McCrabb
Fort Mitchell
Columbus Herald
Willie P. Mangum
North Carolina
John M. Clayton
Delaware
Sentinel
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Southern Literary Messenger
Lindley Morrat
Havela
Amity
Gov. McDuffif
Europe
Burke County
Louisville
Ling
Dr. N. B. Cloud
Ranaway
Henry County
Ruel
Isaac T. Heard
McDonough
Solomon Townsend
ALU
Wm. Fletcher
Columbia County
Peter Knox
John Watts
Mulford Marsh
Adm
Abner
Holliday
Matthew Jones
Springfield
Lary’s Pond
Marbury Street
M. J. Wood
Jas. Burroughs
Court House
Waynesborough
Towit
Hale, Dick
Martha
Arthur Bell
John Reddick
H. V. Mulkey
Thomas
Burke
Michael Wiggins
Columbia Court House
Louisa Jane Walker
Gabriel
Betty
Lucinda
Moses
Mary Walker
Joseph Barnes
Gabriel Jones
R. Wid
Waynesborough Hotel
Wid
Charles W. Cavenah
O. D. Allen
Barnwell
Josiah Stallings
Preston Harley
Selma
Dallas County
Ala
Allen
Fairfield
Carolina
Tuskegee
Abbeville
Uartes Martin
Martin
D. L. Wardlaw
Presd
T. J. A. Calhoun
See’ry
Board of Directors
A. I. Huntington
Upper End Broad Street
St Croix
Porto Rico
Jamaica
A. S. Huntington
Wtf
James M. Wellborn
Joseph G. Marshall
James W. Pcarre
James Dougherty
David Harriss
T. Kidder
W. T. Conwar
Lovel
Court Street
Concert Hall
Boston
Scriven County
Richard Herrington
Jeremiah Herrington
Jacksonboro
Joshua Perry
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