The Rights of the People on Slavery and Fugitive Slave Law
Speech asserts states rights and warns against expanding slavery through federal action. Denies desire to interfere with slavery where it exists but supports preventing spread, abolition in the District of Columbia, and avoiding new territorial slave codes. Calls for voters to oppose changes via Congress and courts while keeping the Constitution intact.
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Statement of Abraham Lincoln on Slavery and Race
The text presents Lincoln’s positions on abolishing the slave trade among states, constitutional power to act, and views on racial equality. He argues he has not decided on abolition power, rejects social and political equality with whites, and favors white supremacy if enforced, noting conservatism and political implications for a potential presidency. The New York Observer frames these declarations as guiding future administration.
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District of Columbia
New York Observer
Unitary States News From Japan Voyage Westward
Dispatch from Yokohama reports the Japanese steamer Cun Dinmarrah crossing the North Pacific to San Francisco with a Japanese crew. The voyage demonstrates improving Japanese navigation and vessel handling. Officials conveyed sincere thanks for U.S. naval support and repairs at Mare Island, signaling warmer future relations and potential policy shifts.
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Department of State
United States
Japan
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Yedo Bay
San Francisco
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United States Navy
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North Pacific Ocean
Oriental Enterprise
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Navy Yard
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Kitty Gray and the Will That Won't Yield in Niles
A penny-wise schoolteacher named Kitty Gray rises from humble origins in Niles Illinois to shape a hopeful future. She teaches for three dollars a month, supports her students and her family, and stands firm against a drunken husband’s ruin. After financial ruin hits, she secures a modest home, preserves her daughter’s education, and refuses to become a drunkard’s wife.
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Taye
Lye
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Phamray
Niles
Thorwing Gray
Mary Bell
Thomas Gray
Etroot
Billy Fitch
Drayman
Mr. Gray
Thomas Gray, Jr
Iain
Sugin
Sinice
Susan
Mitty
Dutch East Indian army plot leads to hangings
The Batavian correspondent reports a recent disturbance in the Dutch East Indian army. About twenty thousand men serve there, with less than a third Europeans. A plot by the European portion to rise was discovered on the eve, subdued with minimal bloodshed, over thirty ring leaders hanged. Other notes include a legal case over a hen and eggs and a local incident in Fitchburg where five men are held for throwing stones at a railroad train carrying political meeting attendees.
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Barnabas, Sheridan
Waldo Underwood
Patrick O’donald
Charles Rock
D. H W. Sweeney
Fitchburg and
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Fitchburg
Scandal and Sorrow in a Fragmented Tale
A damaged crumpled excerpt reports a bank parcel theft of three thousand dollars with thirty spent and fifteen kept, notes to be reissued on destruction proof. It also offers moral reflections on sorrow, scandal, human nature, and a comic tale of a countryman and two pigs in a chaotic episode.
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