The Burlingame Brooks Bocock affair full text
A lengthy excerpt recounts Mr Burlingame's private interview with Col Brooks and Senator Bocock over inflammatory language. It details the exchange, Mr Brooks's demands, Burlingame's refusals to alter his speech, and subsequent public disclosures. The document includes Burlingame's reflections on honor, manhood, and restraint amid political controversy.
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Burlingame
Acanp
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Bocock
Virginia
Brooks
South Carolina
Mr. Burlingame
Massachusetts
Col. Brooks
Mr. Brooks
Sumner
Tocock
Boco
Geo. Ashman
Banks
Sean
Ashinun
Mr. Bocock
Laine
Lewis D. Campbell
Gen. Lane
Thad
Ehad
Canada
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Preston
Old Bay
Dirt Throwers and Varying Notions From Old Publications
A collage of quotes and reflections from 19th century sources including the Journal of Commerce and Pilgrim's Progress. The text recasts clergymen, politics, and public virtue with snippets on innocence, honor, vanity, and political figures like Buchanan, Pierce, and Irish influence, mixed with city comparisons and economic musings.
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Journal of Commerce
Mount Innocence
Maine Tempers and Threats Stirred by Natives and Republicans
A spirited column warns readers of alleged conspiracies by Native American and Republican factions in Maine to shape state law by promoting temperance measures. It lauds Western County support for the election outcome, critiques perceived fanaticism, and laments the murder of Keating and Sumner as indicators of civic strife.
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South
Slaian
Free States
Shavery
Eprron
K.N
Maine
Hancock County
Keating
Sumner
Kansas
la Democrat
Jackson
van Buren
Buck
Breck
John
Honor to the Plow and a fatal dinner tale
A Blackwood's Magasin excerpt opens with rural verse urging honor to the plow and steady toil to sustain a nation. It then recounts a Hague, Germany tale where a husband poisons his wife’s soup, she avoids harm by a spider, and he dies after confessing, risking the wife’s arrest for murder by poison.
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Green Mountain
Ant
Atlas
Hague
Germany
Ehough
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