Dorr and Rhode Island Crisis Trusted to the people
The speaker argues the people’s unalienable right to reform government. They claim the old charter permitted minority rule, triggering a peaceful convention to draft a new constitution. The Adjutant General’s actions are condemned as illegal support for the old regime and a usurpation of the people’s authority.
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Rhode Island
Dorr
King
Massachusetts
Providence
Retrenchment Bill Faces House After Senate Passage
The retrenchment bill backed by Governor and Democrats could save the state thirty thousand dollars yearly. Whigs oppose details, while Democrats urge passage citing popular will and Boston influence. The piece urges a House majority in favor and accountability if rejected.
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Senate
House
Maesachusetts
Boston
Secretary of State
Commonwealth
Abbott
House of Representatives
City of
Court of Common Pleas
Adjutant General
Marcus Morton
Council Chamber
Quincy
Richardson
Mercantile Affairs and Insurance
State Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Messrs Davis
Worcester
Wright
Whig Press Attacks Johnson on Assumption Scheme
The National Gazette questions William Cost Johnson as author of the assumption plan calling it dangerous quackery. It recounts British agents pressing editors to support it and criticizes John Quincy Adams for urging Congress toward state debt assumption and Britain influenced terms, contrasting with past anti British efforts and related controversies.
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National Gazette
Philadelphia
Whig
William Cost Johnson
New York Courier
New York American
Phil. Gazette
John Q. Adams
Congress
Great Britain
Dermot McMurrogh
Ebony
John Harris
Connecticut Democrats Rally Against Federalism and Whig Drift
An editorial argues that federalism has consistently undermined democracy, citing tyranny and corruption in power. It urges Connecticut Democrats to oppose strong centralized rule, defend universal suffrage, and uphold reform against what it calls the old enemies’ renewed name of whig.
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Connecticut
Democrats
Nathan
David
Union
Debates on State Debt Assumption and Bankrupt Bill Rout Senate and House
The Senate debated McDuffie’s resolutions opposing federal assumption of state debts and heard Walker defend opposition. Amendments calling for supremacy of the Constitution were discussed, and the Senate adjourned after government-financed measures and Jackson’s fine remission bill progressed. In the House, pensions and treasury measures dominated with debates on an exchequer plan and a sub treasury proposal, ending with the passage of a bill to reissue treasury notes and a recorded adjournment.
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Senate
McDuffe
United States
McDuffie
Walker
Assumption
Merrick
Allen
Tailmadge
Congress
States
House
Linn
Jackson
Berrien
Gen. Jackson
House of Representatives
United States of America
Treasury Department
New Orleans
Andrew Jackson
Gostins
Adams
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Mamy
Pickens
South Carolina
Fillmore
Gwin
Treasury
Barnard
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury Note
Cushing
Wise
Holmes
Weller
Slade
Massachusetts General Hospital and Asylum Financial Report 1843
Trustees publish the annual report through January 1843 showing hospital and asylum income exceeding expenses by over 5153 dollars with a projected surplus above 4000. It details patient counts 347 total last year with 121 discharged, 86 relieved, 25 died, and notes smallpox reduced admissions. Dr Bell condemns listing causes and forms of insanity as misleading. Additional data cover current patient totals and recoveries.
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Mass. General Hospital
McLean Insane Asylum
Asylum For
Charlestown
Bell
Senate Debates Over Bills and Elections Proceedings
The Senate reports on accounts and the erection of reporters desks, considers a constitutional limit on judicial terms, and rejects a motion to convene a five-branch convention. It discusses a false pretences bill with amendments, debates repeal of sunset laws, and adjourns after adjournment and house actions on petitions and retrenchment measures. The House reviews elections voidness findings, electors, and a Minots Edge lighthouse resolve.
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Senate
Ton
Wm. R. Miller
Committee On
Sete
James Russell
Lowell
Tf Committee
Ar Howe
Joseph Carleton
Sir Dickinson
Commonwealth
Riswold
Davis
Worcester
Mr Abbott
Messrs Davis, Strong
Perkins
Bristol
Yeas
Wage
Messrs Wright
Richardson
Abbott
Messrs
Dickinson
Eliot
Quincy
Greenwood
Gourgas
Fuller
Wright
Middlesex
House’ of Representatives
Bragg
Brown
Norfolk
Champion
Estabrook
Guswald
Giles
Gardner
Hood
Hartwell
Hiley
Lincoln
Leland
Plunkett
Pingree
Savary
Spurr
Ward
Rogers
Whitmarsh
Seekonk
John Crain
Walker
Ashby
Jonasee
Thomas
Charlestown
Newton
Joel Fuller
Smith
Needham
Daniel Herring
Willard
Cambridge
Wheatland
Salem
Chauncey
Parsons
E. W. Hannum
Easthampton
Hannum
Kinnicutt
Sawyer
Burlington
Kellogg
Pittsfield
Allen
Northfield
Stevenson
Boston
Boutwell
Groton
Brooks
Messrs Kinnicutt
Wales
Tucker
Roxbury
Catharine G. Russell
Minot’s Edge
Ephraim Collins
Williams College
Walley
Tarbell
Pepperell
Billa
Institution For Savings
Harvard Street Baptist Society
Fairhaven Insurance Co
William Dwight
Hancock Street
Daniel Hammond
Elihu B. Usher
Books at auction at No. 57 Washington street
Messrs Peirce & Co. will sell a fine collection of English and American books this morning at No 57 Washington street. The Municipal Court adjourned to March 4 next by Clerk T W Phillips Esq and Sheriffs proclamation. Another Tea Party at Faneuil Hall benefits the Charitable Shoe Society with the Euterpean Vocalists performing.
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Messrs Peirce & Co
Washington Street
T. W. Phillips
Faneuil Hall
Charitable Shoe Society
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Boston Post Marine Journal
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Geo
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Seaman
Monroe
Souther
Sherer
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Wm. C. Stimpsoh & Reed
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G. H. Chapman, Jr. & Co
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Reading
William Foster
Thorndike
John Storey
Glass Cotter
Hariot Storey
Mas
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F. C. Whiston
Cincinnati
Gulnare
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Long Wharf
Commercial St
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India Street
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