Selected Poetry Fragment Pages From a 19th Century Sheet
A mixed compilation of verse and prose including Francis C. Woodworth poems about enduring love and spirits, a call to daily charity with a benevolent aim, and a prose piece praising kind words over cruel speech. It ends with a humorous Memphis scene about a rural dance and rustic attire.
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Memphis Express
Arkansas
Fugitive Slave Act Amendments and Authority Provisions
A consolidated act empowering circuit and territorial courts to appoint commissioners to handle fugitive from labor cases, authorize arrest warrants, depositions, and certificates for reclaiming escaped slaves, outline penalties for obstruction, marshal duties, and fees for officials, and extend similar powers to territorial superior courts to ensure rendition across states and territories.
Fugitive Slave Law Provisions on Delivery and Certificates
The text outlines that any state or district can arrest and deliver up a person escaping service or labor. It details evidence requirements including records and possible affidavits. Courts and officials may issue certificates of right to seize such persons, enabling transport to the place of escape. Approved September 18, 1850.
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Senate
House of Representatives
United States of America
Congress
Circuit Courts
United States
Circuit Court of the
Territories
Supreme Court of the District Court of the United States
Courts of Justice
Treasury
District of Columbia
Alan A
Oncaf
Ana Ciner
National Celebration of 1788 Adoption of the Federal Constitution
Arthur J. Stansbury recalls the 1788 national celebration in Philadelphia for the Constitution’s adoption. The parade featured ten state ships, a federal temple, a bald eagle car with the Constitution, a live Native American figure, manufacturing exhibits, and a Union warship. The event showcased unity, patriotism, and the dawn of a united republic with public displays, printing presses, and communal generosity.
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Arthur
Philadelphia
Market Street
Union
France
Count Rochambeau
Jewela
Washington
Colonel Melcher
India
Britain
Lowell
America
Frank Hopkinson
Columbia
Gertosi
Clergymen and Rabbi Lead Nation in Unity Procession
In a national procession seventeen clergymen of diverse denominations walked arm in arm with a Jewish Rabbi at the center. The scene underscored religious harmony and national unity as the procession gathered at Bush Hill on Patrick Hamilton’s grounds.
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America
Man
Bush Hill
Patrick Hamilton
Union
Wayne County Historical Association Proposed in 1850
Centreville letters urge forming a Wayne County Historical Association to preserve biographical and historical data of early settlers. Writer appeals to editors and local papers Palladium Jeffersonian Reveille Democrat to support monthly meetings, society archives, and future historian use. The piece dates to September 1850.
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Wayne County
Wayne
Wayne County Historical Association
Messrs Palladium
Jeffersonian
Reveille and Democrat
Centreville
Rotative press to revolutionize printing industry
Galignani's Messenger reports a Paris invention by M. Worma of a rotative press that prints from stereotype. It is compact and hand workable with no tapes or guides, reducing labor. stereotyping uses a tissue paper mould, enabling 15 to 20 thousand copies per hour with continuous sheets.
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Galignani
M. Worma
Paris
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Francis C. Woodworth
Shaddows
Arkansas Girls
Arthur J. Stansbury
Tome