The Appeal subscription and advertising notice
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Rene Co Tome
Whom First We Love
A compact poem by Julia Ward Howe exploring ideal love, motherhood, and the judge of fate. It recalls early love, marriage, and the burdens borne by women, ending with hope in Heaven and the child’s sleep. The speaker calls for compassion and duty while acknowledging unspoken pasts and possibilities.
Think and Talk in a World of Thoughtful Minds
A long rambling column by Hasseltine urges readers to ponder thinking in daily life. It mocks gossip about Eliza Jane Q and defends the virtue of honest thought across social roles, from politicians to laborers, women’s rights advocates to scholars, ending with a call to let readers think for themselves.
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Eliza Jane
Bullock & Co
Brunswick & Albany
Hasseltine
True Heroism and Bravery Beyond the Sword
A piece extols inner heroism the fight against personal sins and self-mastery, praising the unseen battle within. It then notes editor changes at Mr A H Stephens and critiques comments on cabbage varieties seen in a Georgia town, reflecting regional wartime farming talk and newspaper skepticism.
Pocket-PieceMaxims From a Yonkers Shipwreck Hero
A column recalls Stephen Allen once mayor of New York and the Yonkers disaster victim. A pocket-book slip lists maxims urging thrift honesty temperance self discipline and steady work. It urges speaking truth keeping promises and avoiding debt while advising generous conduct and reading the maxims weekly.
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Henry Clay
New York
Albany
Yonkers
Stephen Allen
Address to the People of the United States by the Democrats
A long Democratic Congress address warns of Radical centralization of power in Congress and the Executive. It denounces fiscal waste, high taxation, and partisan patronage, calls for decentralization, and urges unity to restore balance between states and federal authority. It also notes elections, debt growth, and political tensions across regions.
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Congress
United States
Washington
Radical
Secretary of the Treasury
Internal Revenue
Noroper
Senate
Trumbull
Ilinois
House of Representatives
Union
At Democratic Party of the Union
Gamez
Andrew Jackson
Hamlet
Terra Firma
Head's Wonderful Adventures with the KKK
A lurid early 20th century tale set in New Orleans recounts a surreal nocturnal dream sequence featuring a KKK confession, sensational imagery, and a descent into a fantasy underworld led by a demonic figure. The narrator joins and exposes the Klan’s terrifying aura through impossible visions and torture motifs.
Fragments and quips from a curious late 19th century column
A scatter of gossip and quips on topics from Fourth of July jokes to smoky boys and odd anecdotes. The notes reference Beech er. Sherman and Queen Victoria, a tale of Tom O Connor, rats and goats, and a harsh line about a colored student funding at a university.
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BE. R. Sherman
Kewannee
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Sawtell & Christian
Osx
Seosasa
Julia Ward Howe
Ueaven
Cuthbert
A. H. Stephens
Georgia
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J. C. Ward
Appeal
Dutton
Philadelphia
Kentucky
Mountain
Leslie
Gen
Harlan
Mrs. White
Dublin
Arrayta
R Artunda
Orlando
Nok
Mr. Smith
Amdi
Betta Warre
P. S
B. W
A. Head
The
KKK
New Orleans
Corps
MecCown
Feliciana
Olivia
A. T. Stewart
Ricky
Mississippi
de Soto
Queen Victoria
Isir
Henry Ward Beecher
Rome
Tom O'Connor
Dalton
O'Connor
Germantown Telegraph
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