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Newspaper
Columbia Spy
Location
Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1856
Page
1
Fragmentary call to join a liberty cause urging defiance against a presumed usurper. The text uses martial language and a watchword emphasizing abstinence. It reflects 19th century radical rhetoric with dates indicating November 1856 and a regional signer Brinxety.
A Jefferson sketch, drawn from Webster's private correspondence, portrays Patrick Henry as a bold, eloquent and pivotal figure. It recounts Henry's early career as a practitioner, the contested election case, the Parsons' Cause, and his lasting influence in the Virginia legislature and the Revolution.
The text portrays a Virginia leader as slow speaker, poorly educated, and hardly reads, yet respected as a driving force in the revolutionary measures. It notes his public decorum, private calm, and surprising influence, contrasting weakness with decisive leadership that shaped the state's course.
An earnest friend urges Daniel Webster to become a conjuror to uncover others' losses and the fate of their cows. Webster, amused yet respectful, promises to ponder the suggestion after a meal of fried grass. The friend departs with a final exhortation that conjuring is the key for Webster.
A lengthy chronicle recounts George W. Townsend's repeated escapes from Delaware State Prison in New Castle after robbing Wilmington post offices. It notes multiple breakouts, arrests, and a harsh escape history, with details of weaponry, a pursuit, and a likely future in crime. It also shifts to a digressive sketch of Daniel Webster's boyhood and family friend Hammond, culminating with a moral about choosing a career.
A Pittsburg exchange brief details a somnambulism incident at Oakland. A father, hearing footsteps, uses a double barrowed gun from his door to check the stairs and awakens to find his daughter asleep in danger high in a tree outside. He rescues her without alarm.
The painter Paul Delaroche has died at age fifty nine. Born in Paria in 1797, he began painting in childhood under his father’s influence in the family studio.
A tale of two artists vying for a painter’s daughter. Que paints a fruit scene that召 birds attempt to eat, pleasing the father. The second painter unveils a veiled work, which proves to be a painting itself. The father declares the veiler the greater artist.
The Gaboon river area hides a feared wild man not an orang utan, a giant ape with long limbs and two inch canine teeth. He advances with broken branches, tears flesh with tusk like teeth, and is repelled only by immediate, decisive gunfire from a hunter. The account notes a protective strategy to allow the monster to near, then fire to ensure a mortal wound.
A narrator describes Palestine as a desert like land from Jerusalem to Beyrout. Inhabitants seem nonexistent aside from isolated travelers and a lone donkey rider. Roadways lack cattle or moving activity, contrasting with lively Arab pastures and distant wells.
A highlighted excerpt portrays a contrast between a country rich with people, children, flocks, and abundance and, in the country of tillage, towns, and villages, a land seemingly under a spell, capturing a traveler’s impression of Arabian landscapes.
A desperate physician pursed by a neighbor travels at speed to start a practice. He saves a man with a severed artery after a night chase, stanching the wound and binding his life. The rescuer witnesses the heroism and spreads a miraculous tale that brings the doctor instant reputation and future work.
An ex tract from a letter by Hon. Francis Allen recounts a Lafay ette anecdote from 1830 about education, religious freedom, and the Bible teaching individual responsibility. He notes Lafayette’s agreement that civil liberty requires religious freedom and that leaders urge restraint on press power. Also mentions psalter works in Texas near Austin by the Colorado.
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