Address on slavery and party conflict in early American politics
The piece recounts a speech by a Central Committee urging Americans to oppose slave expansion and defend democracy against corruption. It casts blame on leading politicians allied with slaveholders, attacks temperance opponents, and notes rough reception at a rally where Know Nothings were denounced and unity among freemen urged.
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Nebraska
Congress
South
North
Maine
Potter
Whig Party
Jordan
Nebraska slavery debate weakens as Democrat rally stalls
A Portage Democrat excerpt quotes a Bierce letter opposing Douglas extending slavery into new territories. The piece portrays Col Applegate and Wm Potter failing to draw a crowd, while the “Old Guard”–Democrats who defend Jeffersonian ideals–press for liberty and no more slave territory.
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Col. Applegate
Democrat Township
Wm. Potter
Nebraska
Gen
Bierce
Ohio
Portage Democrat
Rcwnon
Reedam
Douglas
Jefferson
Slavery
de Wolt
Freedom
Doughface
The Fruits of Intemperance in the Nation
The piece links the saying The tree is known by its fruits to the evils of drinking. It argues poverty disease loss of character despair and crime as fruits of intemperance and calls for prohibition as a remedy across cities towns and families.
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Sodom
Government Adopts Policy on Unoccupied Land Holdings
The United States Government now owns seven hundred million acres of unoccupied land, marking a sweeping expansion of public domain holdings and potential future use plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
French Squadron Ordered From Halifax to New York
The French squadron recently stationed off Halifax has been ordered to proceed to New York, signaling a shift in naval disposition and potential impact on Atlantic patrols.
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Halifax
New York
The West Beloved and Placeholder Yet Praised
A lyrical panorama extols the American West as a living tableau of beauty and promise. Descriptions traverse silver grasses, wildflowers, rivers, and forests, celebrating vast prairies, Indian lore, rich minerals, and the hardy, hospitable spirit of its people.
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Mississippi
West
Millions for War, Not for Commerce. Pierce Vetoes River and Harbor Bill
The New York Courier notes President Pierce vetoed the River and Harbor bill despite bipartisan passage. It claims he refuses consent on constitutional and conscientious grounds, prioritizing war funding over commerce. The paper hints at a longer winter message and ends with the maxim Millions for war but not for commerce.
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Pierce
Congress
The
New York Courier
Spain
Wilmot Proviso Letter Sparks Party Turmoil
The State Journal reprints Bill Brown's Wilmot Proviso plea from Indiana urging passage, while the Sentinel denounces repealing the Missouri Compromise as abolitionist treachery. A harsh philippic against southern chivalry warns northerners against slaveholding pressure, insisting the North must defend its institutions or face dissolution of the Union.
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the State Journal
Bill Brown
Wilmot
The
Sentinel
Indiana
Phillippic
Union
Democratic Party
Poisoned Liquor in Mt Vernon Ohio Panic
A town panic in Mt Vernon Ohio followed reports of a disease resembling cholera. Several deaths were later traced not to cholera but to poison in nearby distillery liquor, affecting only those who drank the adulterated brew.
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Mt. Vernon
Ohio
How to get a good wife
A brief moral assertion advises that to secure a good wife one should choose a good girl and marry through a parson. The note presents a traditional approach framed as practical guidance.
Coming election issues stir Indiana politics and local violence
The State Sentinel reports Dr. Newland’s Greensburg remarks on education banking and canal policy, with calls for clarity on officers’ stances. It also recounts a brutal Smithville lynching linked to the Shackleford clan, the Rosses, and Calloway, and defends Methodist ministers amid political attack.
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State Sentinel
Newland
Greensburgh
S. B. Reg
Dr. Newland
State Bank of
Indiana
Wabash and Erie Canal
Echoes of Life and Farewell Across Time
Fragmented reflections on mortality and memory describe a voice that believes beauty endures beyond death. The prose contemplates the afterlife, the resting graves, and how future generations will remember or forget us as time moves on.
Col Russel Ill at Barkelay Springs
Col Russel of Illinois is reported ill at Barkelay Springs, with no further details available about his condition or the circumstances.
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Col. Russel
Illinois
Barkelay Springs
An Old Fogg and the Reclusive Landowner of Xenia
The piece describes an "Old Residenter" near Xenia Ohio a wealthy landowner with vast acres a plain poorly furnished brick house no entry steps and a parsimious charity record. He buys farms endlessly lives in the fields and makes his wife work while critics question his purpose and utility in life.
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Xenia
Ohio
Five Family Members Die as Lightning Strikes Pecatonica House
Detroit Free Press correspondent reports from Lysander near Pecatonica Ill that a family of seven was struck by lightning during a thunder shower at about 2 A M One man and four children perished leaving a wife and a son severely injured The tragedy followed a warm night with beds moved to a cool room and a stove on the hearth as the bolt split the stove pipe and struck the seven members.
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Cincinnati Gazelle
Missouri
Smithsville
Clay County
John W.douglas
Wm. Ross
Squire John Ross
Ira Tritt
Sam, Shackleford
Smithville
Douglas
Shackleford
William
Rosses
Shacklefords
Calloway
Sam
Tritt
Detroit Free Press
Pecatonica
Winnebago County
Ill
Lysander
Pecatonica Depot
Eight admitted to Lunatic Asylum from camphor use
The Toronto Colonist reports eight people were admitted to the Lunatic Asylum in a cholera prevention panic after using camphor in pockets or dissolved in brandy. It notes camphor can cause insanity in small quantities, with dangers observed in animals as well.
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Cantoner
Toronto
Lunatic Asylum
Press Shifts in State Underscore Union Support
Several papers formerly aligned with Democrats or neutral now back the State ticket chosen July 13. The Nebraskans at Lafayette cut 24 subscriptions over a Courier rebuke and published names of backsliders after editor Ellis printed the notice. The move failed to cover expenses. S. B. Reg.
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Times
People’s State Convention
The
Democracy
New Castle Banner
Madison Courier
Lafayette Courier
Wabash Gazette
Temperance Union
Valparaiso Observer
Terre Haute
S. B. Reg
Virtue described as eternal in Albany Citizen excerpt
The Albany Citizen praises virtue as enduring beyond fame and power. It claims virtue remains hallows the cottage and sheds glory on the palace, eternal as it is celebrated by angels and written on heaven’s pillars.
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Albany
Heaven
The Indian Woman Poem Excerpt
A vivid excerpt presents the eloquence of an Indian woman lamenting loss. She speaks of her husband and infant buried in two graves and vows to water each with tears and breast milk until they meet again beyond the sunlit horizon.
Everett Prefers Rugged Living Over Pampered Paradise
In an Williams College address, Mr. Everett declares he would choose a bleak mountain nook with wolves and rattlesnakes and a well kept village school over a paradise of fertility if it meant raising his children away from lazy pampered ignorance.
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Williams College
Everett
Not a Preacher Professors Larrabee Biographical Note
The Argus of Greencastle clarifies that Prof. Larrabee is not a preacher, countering rumors. The Danville Advocate notes the paper’s careful effort to dispel the belief that he belongs to that class.
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Argus
Greencastle
Larrabee
The
Danville Advertiser
They who are easily flattered, are always easily cheated
A compact adage notes that people swayed by praise fall prey to deception. It cautions against trusting flattery as a gauge of truth or value.
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Marshal
John L. Robinson
Richmond
Richard
Altho
Dr. Daily
Wiley
Mai
Danner
Reptile Reproduction and Moral Reflections
The text ponders why reptiles multiply rapidly and contrasts it with the idea that greed and deceit stain human character. It presents a brief riddle on reptile birth rates and a moral remark on honesty as the virtue of humankind.
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Delphi Journal
Delphi
Apor
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