Tax Taxes and publication details from 19th century ad record
John Forsyth and R Ellis & Co publish Tax Taxes on West Broad Street weekly and tri weekly editions. Rates: two dollars weekly, two dollars per issue in advance, or three dollars for year end. arrears cancel at proprietors’ option. advertisements priced one dollar per square for first insertion and fifty cents for continuations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Forsyth
R. Ellis & CO
Broad Street
Winter's Exchange
Missouri line again urged as union base in Nashville plan
The Nashville Convention adopts the Missouri Compromise line as the sole basis to heal the Union rift, with Georgia and Tennessee factions urging national leaders to stand firm. Southern press argues this line unites North and South, while opponents fear party upheaval and disunion. References to Toombs, Cass, and California as pivotal in the fight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Standard
Missouri Line
Nashville
Union
Georgia
Democratic Party
South
Congress
Cass
Washington
California
Free Soilers
Ararat
Friends of the Union
National Democratic Party
Tur Arusss Wuic
Public Opinion on Missouri Line and Jackson's Seat
The Savannah District’s Jos W Jackson may resign if constituents shift to support the Missouri Compromise line as Georgia sentiment leans to the Southern platform. The piece urges him to act on conviction, notes growing support for the Missouri line, and cites NC Democratic convention backing it while Kentucky rejects Clay’s bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr Toombs
Toombs
South
Georgia
John M Berrien
Mgnet
Whig Party of
North
Enquirer
Ritchie, Foote, Submission & Co
Nashville
Louse
Toomas
Ohio
California
Mrt
Missouri
Oregon
Democratic Party
Northwest
Illinois
Richardson
United States
Hamilcar
Jos. W. Jackson
Savannah
Republic
Gen. Taylors
Confederacy
Chas
Mercury
Col. Jackson
Mobile and Girard Railroad survey progress announced
The South Alabamian reports surveyors led by Col Cooper Major Hardaway and Captain State completed the experimental survey from Girard toward Mobile Bay. The grading from Girard to the county’s western line is largely finished with eight miles remaining, and stock subscriptions have surpassed expectations. The piece outlines vast anticipated benefits including cotton output, freight and passenger traffic, timber transport, public land donations, minerals, and regional development, arguing the road would connect Atlantic to the Gulf and spur widespread prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile and
Girard
Col Cooper
Major Hardaway
Captain State
Mobile Bay
Lowndes
Conecuh
Atlantic
Gulf of Mexico
Chunnayaugea Ridge
Columbus
Georgia
Mobile
New Orleans
Florida
Alabama
Tennessee
Rome
Cass
U.S
Aet Com
Earth
Douglass and Wilmot Proviso spark sectional critique
The piece rails at Stephen A Douglass for backing the Wilmot Proviso, accusing him of siding with Northern abolitionists while owning a large Mississippi plantation with enslaved people. It condemns his stance as a betrayal to Southern rights and warns of divided loyalties between North and South. It also covers a flurry of related political notes, including Forrest and Willis confrontations, a daring robbery, a sailor discipline incident, and Texas boundary resolutions. The report emphasizes Texas sovereignty, slaveholding expansion, and Southern unity against abolitionist pressures, amid a stream of legal and military headlines.
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Robert Toombs
Toombs
Banner
Rome
Boa
Democratic Party
Athens
Cobb Democracy
Nashville
New Orleans
Mississippi
Friends of the Platform
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi Valley
Savannah
Charleston
Congress
South
Union
Wm. F. Gordon
W. O. Goode
Willoughby Newton
Law
Beverly R. Tucker
John Randolph
Virginia
Barnwell
Pickens
Rhett
Hammond
Langdon Cheves
Charles J. McDonald
Walter T. Colquitt
Benjamin Fitzpatrick
Reuten Chapman
John A. Campbell
Geo Goldthwaite
John Erwin
Sharkey
Supreme Court of Mississippi
Clayton and Smith
Matthews
Roane
Arkansas
F Lenderson
Union of Independence
Crawford
Ramsay
Dawson
Warren
Gibson
General Bledsoe
Eatenton
McWhorton
Augusta
State of
Benning and
Fouche
Stephen A. Douglass
Illinois
Lawrence
Douglass
Wilmot
Cass
Texas
United States
Augusta Republic
Mexico
Rio Grande
Rio Bravo del Norte
Spain
Sabine River
Gulf of Mexico
U. States
Guadalupe Hidalgo
Texus
Confederacy
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Cassville Standard
Hell
Nashville Union
Ritchie
Maurais Sujet
St. Louis
United
MR. Toombs
Mvstc
Charles Reps
Vera Grusz
H. Bernreuter
Joan E. Davis
Columbus Guards
Taylor
States
Pacific
Democratic Party of
Ebenizer Elliott
Westminster Review
Leonard Scott & Co
N. Y
Ebenezer Elliott
Cain
Sealess
Raphael
Newton
Correspondence of the Times
JH Suthern Comension
Lowell
Rollins
J. Stone
Isabel
N. E
Cuba
Faro Industrial
la Gaceta
Vuelta de Bajo
Faro
New York
Havana
North Carolina
Kentucky
Mr Clay
Baltimore Sun
New-York
Edwin Forrest
N. P. Willis
Dickinson
Forrest
Mr Forrest
Willis
Mr. Forrest
N. York Mirror
Willis’ Pote
Rochester
Andrew Stevens
Herald
Bennet
Mont
Atlas
Jesse Loit
Hall County
Nava
U 8
Vixon
James H. Ward
Ornor
Eigen
Navy Yard
Washin
United States District Court
John A. Quitman
Tesworth
Pinckney
Supremé& Court
J Leb
Delta
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