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Newspaper
Cassville Standard
Location
Cassville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1855
Page
1
A bereaved speaker laments the death of Mary, recalling shared moments and the pain of the last goodbye. He longs for a final embrace, imagines her still present in memory, and ponders how dawns of light once surrounded her compared with the loss. The poem ends with a note of lingering wonder at what cannot be restored.
Poetic meditation urges compassion for a troubled person. The speaker asks to refrain from harsh blame and to offer mercy and guidance. The verse compares the erring to a star dimmed by clouds and calls for spiritual renewal through prayer and kind speech.
Two travelers a skeptic and a Christian seek shelter in a lonely hut in the west. The elderly host reads from his Bible and prays for divine protection and for the strangers, that they may prosper and find a home in heaven, revealing true piety amid rough surroundings.
The travellers retire to their apartment and the skeptic, supposed to take the first watch, instead wraps himself in his blanket. His companion questions his calm and he confesses a lingering fear, comparing his safety to a New England fireside with Bible reading and prayer.
A 19th century column extols marriage as a path to dignity and prosperity for men in various trades. It urges courtship based on intelligence benevolence and punctuality and claims a wife brings respect, credit, and supportive family life, ending with visions of lasting happiness and usefulness.
At a large Friday meeting in Milledgeville the Democratic party ratified Herschel V. Jolson's nomination for governor and endorsed the Milledgeville resolutions. Speakers including James Hamilton and M. J. Welborn addressed the gathering, while Sanders Johnson received a courtesy hearing amid sharp exchanges over Know Nothing involvement and party loyalties.
The piece laments Know Nothing efforts to drag religion into politics and insists ministers must defend Protestant faith from secular meddling. It criticizes reformers for attacking Catholicism and urges restraint, warning of peril to religion if clerics must preach on Know Nothingism. It notes withdrawals from the Know Nothing council in Alabama and closes with a Western editor’s quip about a man who died with a physician’s aid.
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