16 May 1855
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Newspaper
Delphi Dollar Journal
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1855
Page
1
Orrrea la Dewey’s Building hosts the Delphi Dollar Journal publishing daily mornings at one dollar annually with advance payment required. Shorter subscriptions under three months accepted. Advertising rates list one square ten lines for three insertions at fixed amounts and various column widths with six month terms and automatic continuation unless canceled by the advertiser.
A melancholy poem fragment laments a lover’s loss and the cold change death has wrought. The speaker recalls a once warm heart that now lies still and unresponsive to fond words from the beloved. The tone is intimate and elegiac, centering on love and mortality.
A long recounting of a Paris romance ends with a widow and her lover’s letters, then shifts to Rev. C Boynton at Vine Street Church presenting opposing theories of American nationhood. He argues for a Protestant American national identity rooted in exclusive sovereignty and faith, opposed to universal rights.
The Ind. Republican cautions readers that incendiary rhetoric and corrupt influences lure the public toward forbidden paths. It argues the people must persist along their chosen course, gathering truths to avoid renewed political incumbus and reach a hopeful, promised land.
A Washington Sentinel column laments a zig zagging Republican critique, denounces Old Line demagoguery, and links riots in Kansas Missouri Chicago and Cincinnati to foreign led factions and native traitors. It urges voters to see through demagogic tactics and support American institutions despite foreign influence.
A young English Mormon writes home from the Great Salt Lake City denouncing Brigham Young and polygamy as vile. She condemns divorce as a market, describes impoverished members, and attacks secrecy and political manipulation by factions opposing immigration and secret societies.
The Louisville Journal labels secret Say Nothing societies as a foreign political group dominant in western cities and influential in Democratic nominations. The piece accuses Democrats of protecting and aiding the organization, contrasting it with the Know Nothing party and noting hostility to its secrecy. It also reports Gov. Reeder of Kansas receiving a warm home tribute in Rastop Pa with remarks on border violence and Kansas politics.
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