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Address and public order from the Walters of 1835
Address written for the relief of Disabled Firemen at Walnut and Chesnut streets theatres. The piece opens with a nocturnal evocation of sleep and labor’s end, followed by a long list of relief acts from the Twenty-Third Congress including pensions and claims for sailors, veterans, and various communities across Maine, Louisiana, Michigan, and New York, plus infrastructure and public works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Association For the Relief of Disabled Firemen
Mobt
T Conrad Eng
Walnut
Chesnut Street
National Intelligencer
United States
Samuel Bragdon
David Chese
Helcyon
Charles Gordon
Wm. P. Zantzinger
Silas D. Fisher
Mervin P. Mix
Tuffs & Clark
Humphrey B. Gwathmey
Robert Haile
Evan Edwards
Samuel 8. Lord
Mary and Bully
York
Maine
Francis Lassell
Michigan
Samuel Butler
Job Barton
David Kincaid
Stevens Smith
Patrick McRown
Rising Sates
Bath Bay
Mathew C. Perry
E. R. Shubrick
United States Navy
Riddle, Beetle
Headington
John J. Avery
Stephen Gatlin
Theodore Ow
Peter Triplett
Secretary of the ‘Treasury
Richard Butman
Wm. Wilzes
Simeon Meachum
New York
Dominick Lynch
Joseph Meades
Benjamin 4
Slie
James Young
Henry Aveward
William Baden
Temes Tarnyton
John Ashton
John Gerodelle
Samuel Shelmerdine
Joseph Gilbert
John Mullowney
Thomas Morton
Timothy Jordan
Daily E. Clarke
James Jones
Joseph Swartwood
Abraham E. Boutwell
David Pearson
Daniel Page
Thomas Buford
Indian Department
John Moore
Naval Service
Potomac
George C. Seamm
John Ant
Larnard Swallow
Richard T. Archer
District Court of the United States
District of Mississippi
John Tice
William Pennington
Noah Miller
William O’neale
Robert Morrison
Benjamin Holland
St. Augustine
Francis B. Ogden
Cumberland Road
Wapaughkonela
Lima
Ohio
University of Michigan
Raisin
Territory of
Michilimackinac
Florida
Col
J. Eugene Leitersdorfer
Moses Shepherd
Joh Dougherty
Chefor Lemuel Tanner
Pierre Dufresne
New Orleans
District of Delaware
Tallahassee
St. Marks
Louisiana
Indiana
Ilinois
Arkansas
Two Siciles
France
Justus Cobb
Isaac Eckright
Solomon Case
District Court of the
Virginia
Clarksburg
District of Columbia
Jackson
Tennessee
Robert Eastman
Harper’s Ferry
Winchester & Potomac Railroad Company
Tangier
Morocco
Geo. Croghan
Fort Stephenson
Francia Dean
Havre
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
M. Serrurier
Forsyth
Washington
Ub 38
Mie Thnate
Lyons
M. Thiers
M. Welles
M. Gautier
Congress
N. Y. American
Hayes
R. Peel
Spain
Carlos
Pozzo di Borgo
St. Petersburg
London
Prince Lieven
U. States
Congress of
Saint
Livingston
Tuilleries
Fom