Emancipation Debate Across North and South Rages On
A heated piece argues that Northern editors and states bear guilt for slave trade while Southern actions improved enslaved Africans’ lives. It questions emancipation timing and costs, contrasting North and South motives, property losses, and the fate of freed people under different regimes. The author challenges abolition critiques and cautions against universal liberation without consequences.
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Israel
Africa
Free States
Europe
Great Britain
Atlantic
Free Staeste
Teseh
Clergy and Civil Respect in Roving Polemics
A Southern preacher is censured for denouncing a Northern Senator as a fool amid heated rhetoric. The speaker urges reverence for both sides, invokes the Ninth Commandment, and warns against anger and malice that corrupt worship and public trust.
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South
Webster
Mr. Foote
Mr. Webster
Whigs in the South Linked to Northern Whiggery Aimed at Texas
The Federal Union blames Southern Whigs for aiding Northern opposition to Texas annexation and for backing Millard Fillmore. It argues their alliance with Northern Whigs threatens Southern rights and could yield power to free states, risking future oppression.
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Taylor
South
How to make whiskey by the barrel method
The text explains a crude recipe for diluting whiskey by drawing off a portion and adding water to maintain a constant strength. It describes refilling with water to keep a steady level, noting the spirit weakens over time and ends with a nearly waterless result.
Congressional Districts Arranged by Last Legislature
The arrangement lists the eight districts with the following counties per district. First District includes Appling Bryan Bulloch Camden Chatham Clinch Effingham Emanuel Glynn Liberty Lowndes McIntosh Montgomery Scriven Telfair Thomas Ware Wayne. Second District covers Baker Decatur Dooly Early Houston Irwin Lee Macon Marion Muscogee Pulaski Randolph Stewart Sumter. Third District comprises Bibb Butts Crawford Jasper Jones Monroe Pike Talbot Twiggs Upson Wilkinson. Fourth District lists Campbell Carroll Coweta DeKalb Harris Fayette Heard Henry Meriwether. Trou p Fifk District includes Cass Chattooga Cherokee Cobb Dade Gordon Floyd Forsyth Gwinnett Lumpkin Murray Walker. Sixth District contains Clark Franklin Hall Habersham Jackson Madison Newton Rabun Walton. Seventh District features Baldwin Greene Hancock Laurens Morgan Oglethorpe Putnam Taliaferro Washington. Eighth District covers Burke Columbia Egbert Jefferson Lincoln Richmond Warren Wilkes.
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Appling
Bryan
Bulloch
Camden
Chatham
Clinch
Effingham
Emanuel
Glynn
Liberty
Lowndes
McIntosh
Montgomery
Scriven
Telfair
Thomas
Ware
Wayne
Baker
Decatur
Dooly
Early
Houston
Irwin
Lee
Macon
Marion
Muscogee
Pulaski
Randolph
Stewart
Sumter
Putnam and Jasper
Liberty and
Tattnall
Monroe and Bibb
Meluteesh
Crawford and
Upson
Wayne and
Meriwether & ‘Patriot
Ware, Lowndes
Heard and
Carroll
Campbell and Coweta
Appling & Monte*ry
Fayette and DeKalb
Bulloch and Scriven
Butts and Pike
S$ Effingham and
Newton and Henry
Burke and Jefferson
Morgan and Greene
Laurens & Wilkinson
Lincoln and Wilkes
Cherokee and
Cobb
Marion and
Ifs
L and Jackson
Dooly and Sumter
Jay Habersham & Rabin
Twiggs and
Jones
Lumpkin and Union
Washington & Emsa
Gilmer and Murray
Richmond& Columbia
Dade and
Walker
Warren & Taliafero
Floyd and Chattooga
Hancock & Baldwin
County pairings and society notes in Georgian era column
A listing of county matchups shows Chatham with Putnam and Jasper with Liberty and Tattnall while Monroe pairs with Bibb and Melu teesh with Glynn. A fashion and society brief describes Mr and Mrs Bluebird in their quarters and local theater and fashion notices from the Crescent era press.
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Globe
Southern Convention delegates named from several states
The letter notes acceptance from Hon Watter T Coxquirr as delegate to the Nashville Convention and lists appointed delegates from Florida Virginia and South Carolina plus alternate selections from other districts. It also cites Floridian praise for Florida delegates and a Philadelphia Times report on a potential cabinet condemnation resolution in Washington.
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Staven
West
Tennessee
Jackson
Nashville
Edgefield
S. C
F. W. Pickens
Eld
Daayion Narice
Watter T.2coxquirr
Florida
Virginia
S. Carolina
Congress
R. BarNwell Ruett
D. F. Jamison
Seventh
Georgetown
R. Allston
W. J. Hanna
Abbeville
Francis W. Pickens
Drayton Nance
J. A. CaLhoun
James Jones
Fromipa
Col
B. M. Pearson
Benton County
South Florida
Joseph M. Herandez
St. John’s County
East Florida
Hampton
Henry A. Wist
R. A. OxLaysonns
Beverly Tucker
Robert McCannish
Tallahassee
Charles H. Dupont
Arthur.j. Foreman
Robert W. Williams
A. E. Maxwell
Middle District
Hamilton
Capitol
Philadelphia Times
Washington
Webster declares adherence to compromise in Boston speech
Washington dispatch summarizes Webster’s recent Boston declaration as a firm stand for compromise measures. It notes expected passage unless Southern defections derail the report, plus commentary on Benton, Foote, Wilmot, and ongoing investigations into public printing, with references to California land titles and political alignments.
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Webster
Boston
Senate
Compromise Committee
Col Benton
Mr Jones
California
Col. Benton
Col. J . Fremont
Jones
Benton
House
Wentworth
Ill
Globe
Rives
New York City
Congress
Baye
Mexico
Wilmot
Free Soil Party
South
Seward
Johnson
Washington
Brinkerhoff
Ohio
New Mexico
Wyman& Derby
Etchant Tailors
John G. Wyman
Broadway
New-York
Var Bane Lee AP J
United ‘States
Market reports from Montgomery and Mosinee with Niagara arrival
Markets remain quiet under foreign accounts with middling to good middling cotton prices. The Canavan accounts report active demand and 3,50 bales traded. interior weather remains unfavorable for crops. Niagara arrived with Liverpool dates. cotton advanced one eighth penny. weekly sales around 7,000 bales. trade bought heavily and speculators held 15,000 bales.
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Ian
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