Contested Kansas Debates on Missouri Compromise Echo Union Strife
A lengthy congressional clash questions the Missouri Compromise, its history, and the Kansas-Nebraska clash. Speakers argue over sectional rights, the fate of slavery, and the need for a full investigation to reveal who is right or wrong in the dispute.
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Kansas
Missouri
Massachusett
New York
Virginia
Republic
Jefferson
Speaker
Ontven
Territory
Indiana
origins of Missouri law stir calls for inquiry
The speaker denounces the Missouri Legislature that produced the law under which General Whitfield was elected. He claims the body was born of fraud and violence and compares its acts to Draco's code, urging the country to expose the law's true origins and demanding an inquiry. The rhetoric questions who will vote against inquiry and promises to reveal the origins of the law.
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Texas
Missouri
Union
South
Oxoness
Louisiana
Senate of the
United States
Slavenoipina
Whitfield
Draco
Kansas Free State moves and Cumback praised
The Kansas Free State Legislature met daily and passed a resolution delaying Kansas laws until Congress acts, and elected Reeder and Lane as U S Senators. The Kansas Committee in Congress will investigate Kansas affairs for months with marshals and a stenographer. Indiana Democrat Cumback defends anti slavery principles and impresses in Congress with a strong maiden speech praising Northern rights to promote a Free State in Kansas.
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Isouri Democrat
Free State
Kansas
Barber
Reeder
Lane
U. S
J. H. Lane
Congress
Messrs. Campbell
Ohio
Howard
Liichigan
Olver
Missouri
Cumback
New York Tribune
Indiana
Southern Emigrant Aid Societies push pro slavery plan
Southern papers report meetings in Charleston Tarboro and Anderson where a resolution taxes slaveholders fifty cents per slave to fund pro slavery voters for Kansas. Nineteen youths depart Charleston amid calls for Locofoco critics to oppose Southern fanatics.
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South Carolina
Charleston
Tarboro
Anderson
Kansas
Locofoco
Mr. Register
Kansas Admission Bill Reported by Senate Committee
Senator Doug las from the Committee on Territories reports a bill for Kansas statehood. It sets 93,420 population to trigger a constitutional convention with double-represented delegate districts and white male voters meeting residency and age requirements. Provisions earmark land for schools, a state university, state buildings, salt springs, and five percent of land sale proceeds for internal improvements.
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Abuussiox
Kansas
Douglas
Committee On Territories
Ohio Council of States meeting ends in confusion
The American States Council of Ohio met in Columbus last week. A portion of the delegation backed the Philadelphia platform, but the council failed to agree and dispersed in confusion, illustrating the uphill task of promoting that platform in the Northern States.
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American States Council of Ohio
Columbus
Philadelphia
Campbell Defends Liberal View Amid Slavery Talk
The Free Soil press across the country attacked Mr. Campbell as a traitor over alleged remarks on the nigger question. It now appears he did not make those statements, and the harsh abuse is deemed unwarranted. The slavery issue should not always invite harsh, jocular treatment.
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Wn Hox
L. D. Camprell
Free Soil
Washington
Campbell
Giant London steamer to carry 10000 passengers and coal
A colossal London ship now under construction will be 23000 tons register and carry about 12000 tons of coal. It will be fitted with eight screws as large boats, four on each side, with a crew of about 1000 men and a launch cost of around half a million dollars.
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London
Douglass Says North Must Be Crushed Before Rights Come
Fragmentary OCR suggests Frederick Douglass warned that the North must be crushed through oppression before achieving political rights. The quote implies a harsh process and future invocation of his help after the action. No additional context or date is provided in the readable text.
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Douglass
North
Persia Arrives with No European News Reported
Fortion News notes the Persia arrived on Thursday bringing no notable European reports. The Peace Congress signed preliminaries and stood ready to begin negotiations. The Emperor of France has mobilized 140000 troops. The Convent Garden Theatre was destroyed by fire on the day. The Pacific has not been heard from.
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Fortion
Persia
France
Convent Garden
Pacific
Ocean voyages and a Wisconsin governor resigns
Acquaintances hold hope the Pacific is not lost despite reports of vessels overdue by forty sixty and ninety days finally finishing at port. A Norwester disrupted a coaster reaching the West Indies. In Barstow the illegally elected Wisconsin governor resigns after bluffing the Assembly and threatening military action.
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Pacific
Barstow
Wisconsin
Assembly
Schooner Falmouth Seized in New York for Slaving Suspicions
The schooner Falmouth was seized in New York on the 18th under suspicion of being a slaver. She was crewed by Portuguese sailors and fitted out for the slave trade. No captain or owners could be found.
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Falmouth
New York
Portugese
Mexico dispatches report siege plans and rebel defeats
From Vera Cruz dated the 8th inst a stage from Mexico arrives at Vera Cruz and government troops numbering 7000 to 8000 intend to besiege Puebla. The army concentrates between San Martin Tesmelucan and Puebla with Comonfort aiming to force rebels to terms. Rebels were defeated in Chiapas. one killed and five captured. federal forces suffered no casualties. Also notes American Willard accused of leading the Georgia land swindle and laboring for the State Bank laws while Senate president. He allegedly favored liquor laws, and boasted whisky would flow in New Albany.
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Mexico
Texas
New Orleans
Vera Cruz
Apam
Huamantla
Vera Crnuz
Puebla
San Martin Tesmelucan
Senor Comonfort
Chiapa
Keerir Brrorr Tin Peorte
A. P. Willard
Georgia
Senate
New Albany
Vincennes
Iceberg disaster aboard ship John Rutledge near voyage end
The ship John Rutledge sailing from Liverpool to New York with 26 crew, 120 passengers, and 800 tons of freight struck an iceberg on February 18 and sank within hours. Twenty five perished. boats launched, one rescued on February 28 with one survivor badly frozen among 13 aboard. The fate of the remaining boats is unknown.
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John Rutledge
Liverpool
New York
Nicaragua Immigrants Warn of Harsh Life and Fever
A Norwich farmer recounts a Nicaragua visit for the New York Tribune, detailing high living costs, unhealthy climate, and deadly fever. He notes barren land, difficult clearing, dangerous underbrush, and that many emigrants die or fall ill, while labor and carpentry pay poorly and coffins are made by workers.
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NicigaGua
Norwich
Conn
Nicaragua
New York Tribune
Granada
Squires
Virgin Bay
Ife
San Juan
Icebound rivers hold firm as March thaws fail
The Pittsburg Gazette notes river ice remains a barrier on March 19, delaying boat and ice embargo removal. Despite some daytime melt, nights refreeze hard and snow blankets hills. A lifelong observer says March crossings are unprecedentedly rare, yet signs point to a navigation restart within a week.
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Pittsburg
New Orleans Donor Gives 4000 for Henry Clay Monument
Mr James Robb of New Orleans donated four thousand dollars to fund a Henry Clay monument in the city. The contribution supports the project and reflects ongoing civic commemoration.
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James Robb
New Orleans
Henry Clay
Prohibitory law cuts liquor commits in Indiana
The Indiana period after the prohibitory liquor law took effect saw a sharp drop in commitments, with eighty three inmates over five months before June and far fewer in the following seven months. The piece argues the law reduces vice and predicts more commitments this year, citing observations of increased drinking and gambling before a stronger law and a court not swayed by partisan influence.
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Rae
Indiana
Supreme Court
N. A. Tribune
Fish story from the icehole at Bie Creek
Col Dewy reports a creek ice hole yielded perch as soon as cut for a drink, then more fish appeared swiftly. He gathered six barrels of fish before returning home, proffering a seasonal, pretty story from McPleasant Observer.
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Pleasant Observer
Fillmore to Return to United States in June
A Rome correspondent of the New York Herald reports that Mr. Fillmore plans to sail back to the United States in June. The article notes his travel from Rome and anticipates his arrival on American shores later in the year.
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New York, Herald
Rome
Fillmore
United States
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