Opinion of Littn W Tazewell on Constitutional Compromise
The Charleston era writer presents Littn W Tazewell’s views on constitutional powers versus compromise. He argues Congress cannot enlarge or contract powers through coalitions, warns against treating compromises as constitutional amendments, and condemns majorities using expediency to override rights. He recalls the Missouri Compromise and cautions South against coercive federal shifts.
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Virginia
Ee Ee
Teschdyment
Langew
Charleston Mercury
Committee of Thirteen
Congress
Megane
New Colony Prospect in Georgia Eyed by Emigration Company
The Savannah Georgian reports Joho Blake, agent of the Georgia Emigration Company of London, visiting Irwin County to survey lands for cotton culture and factory sites. Blake endorses thriving growth, notes sugar and staple crops, favorable climate, abundant water, and rails to Ocmulgee and Flint rivers, urging a colony of laborers and town development at Barnard, Loyola, and the rail terminus. He envisions timber mills, shared agriculture and manufacture, and strong seaborne access for exports.
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Savannah
Joho” Blake
Georgia Emigration Company
London
Irwin Soentus
Irivin
Blake
Irwin County
Baker
Lee
Thomas
Dooly
Georgia
Barnard
Loyola
Ocmulgee and
Flint River
M. B
Union
Disgraceful state of Garrard county violence
A Louisville Journal correspondent reports in Boyle county that Garrard county has ongoing strife. In Lancaster a Dr Evans shot a neighbor named Hill months ago and fled to Indiana. Sheriff and posse tried to seize Evans. exchanges of gunfire wounded some. Since then both families armed, houses kept as fortresses. On election day a young Evans and a Hill encountered near a stairway and fired pistols at each other.
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Garrard
Louisville Journal
Boyle County
Garrard County
Evans
Sugar Creek
Lancaster
Hill
Indiana
Hills
Ivanses
Clans Engage in Fatal Stairway Battle Over Rival Evans
Reports describe a deadly clash between two clans over Evans and Hills with multiple shots fired. One Evans lay dead at the stairs while five others wounded. Evans the hero was captured, fate unknown, and the conflict appears to continue without immediate resolution. Local sources warn the feud could end only when one clan is exterminated.
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Fred Hill
Eng Bagency
Evans
Governor Towns and the Nashville Convention stance
The governor has no personal opinions on the current national conflicts, but endorses Southern rights. He supported the Nashville Convention and urged measures for redress, with the Legislature backing the move to consult Southern leaders and preserve Union harmony. He will call a State Convention if California joins, carrying out the law to let Southerners decide their future.
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Committee of 13
Nashville
Hill
South
Gov. Towns
Gov.Towns
California
Augusta
Federal Union
Free Soilers
Constitutionalist
Deseret
Job
God
Kossuth
Admin policy on territories debated by Washington correpondent
Washington correspondent notes how the administration avoided territorial action to dodge the Wilmot proviso, citing pressure from Northern Wilmot proviso supporters and Southern figures. The piece discusses the Republic and its editorials challenging the administration’s non action and prospect of California admission.
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Washington
The
Picayune
Col.Bullitt
Clay
Republic
Hall
Tenessee
California
Utah
New Mexico
Congress
Senate
House
Wilmot
Eas
Far West cholera and emigrant woes reach St Louis
An array of dispatches details cholera among California emigrants near Fort Leavenworth and Camp Grasshopper Creek. Reports cite scarce grass, dying horses, and illness spreading through trains led by notable figures like ex governor Washington. Sioux and Chippewa hostilities flare near Fort Snelling as Apple Creek murders surface. A new Presbyterian church in St Paul is burned, with fear of wider outbreak mounting among travelers and settlers alike.
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St. Louis
Far West
California
Fort Linvenworth
Santa, Fe
Santa Fe
Fort
Gol. Washington
New Mexico
Col
Beale and Son
Bent and
Judd
Williams
Council Grove
Fort Snelling
Apple Creek
New Presbyterian
St. Paul’s
Minesota
McAdam
Weston
Camp Grasshopper Creek
Clark
C. H. Moore
Mulford
Illinois
General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church
Old School
Cincinnati
Leland
Columbia
Ningpo
China
J. R Breckinridge
Congress
United States
St. Louis Mo
Paris Christ Heir At Barriere d'Eure Draws Miracles Seeker
London Atlas reports a Paris cor respondent chronicling Perimond a 45 year old peasant claiming to be Jesus Christ heir and successor. He says he is commanded by the Saviour to testify to the Gospel and shows sacred stigmata in his hands feet and side while miraculously surviving on bed rest between prayers. Police probe continues as miracles attract many believers despite uncertainty.
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Paris
London Atlas
Barriere d’Eure
Jesus Christ
Perimond
Porimond
Electric shock and wreck scene described by witnesses
A sensational report recounts a two hour vigil in a room ending with a collapse as electricity struck two trees, knocking two men down and severing a shoe. A nearby tree bore burn marks indicating a strong current. A second incident, near Bergen Cut, involved a couple nearly caught between two oncoming trains and saved by a swift act, leaving them unharmed but terrified as trains thundered past in Jersey City.
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Mobile Herald
Newark
Bergen Cut
Ramapo
Jersey City Sentinel
Franklin sighted at Sandwich Islands in Arctic voyage
A Devonport newspaper reprints a letter from Hong Kong dated Feb 27, reporting that Sir John Franklin and his party have arrived at the Sandwich Islands and may have completed the Northwest Passage after five years away. The note says a first lieutenant was sent to England with the intelligence aboard an American whaler. It also mentions a Crescent City passenger account of Isthmus travel and other items from Philadelphia Mint coinage to political debates, weather and safety notes, and local spring flooding concerns.
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Sin Joan Franxiin
Devonport
England
George Tucker
Pembroke St
Hong Kong
Hasting
Sir John Franklin
Sandwich Islands
Isthmus
Crescent City
Washington
Senate
Hy Mhestta
Cotton and market notes from New York and Nashville
The report covers firmer cotton sales at 800 bales today and 10 000 bales for the week, with rice steady and corn declining modestly. It notes Treasury notes and sterling, and mentions Bahia epidemic news. Also commentary on the Nashville Convention and telegraphic dispatch issues and a failed assassination report of the King of Prussia.
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Treasury Notes
Sterling Exchange
New York
Orleans
Bahia
The Crops and Three Plans in Southern Affairs
A 19th century report laments ruined cotton prospects across Georgia and Tennessee, noting cold rains, poor stands, and late planting. It cites observers, mentions planters intercropping corn, and warns no average yield seems possible. It then outlines three slave policy approaches in Congress, declaring shared aims to exclude the South from new territories, with Wilmot Proviso seen as most direct.
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Georgia
Clay
Texas
Washington “Union
Columbus Enquirer
Polk
Oregon
Wilmot
Missouri Line
District of Columbia
South
Virginia
Congress
Free States
Conscience” Law Party
Seward
Ritchie
Union
Flournoy
The
Lopez Invasion of Cuba a Prelude to Freedom
The article argues Lopez faces overwhelming odds yet Cuba deserves freedom from Spanish tyranny. It notes sympathizers in the United States forming a growing army and predicts the Patriot flag will rise on Moro and the oppressed people will gain liberty. Gen Lopez and staff have reached Mobile as details unfold.
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Lopez
Cuba
Cardenas
United States
Mobile
Raye
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