11 Jun 1840
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Newspaper
Freeman And Messenger
Location
Lodi, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1840
Page
1
An 1840s paper page mixes poetry with local notices and humor. The item includes a subscription notice, poetry about tears and spring, and a long editorial on organic laws. It relayingly notes advertising rates, a brief moral essay, a deserting anecdote from Hot Springs, Arkansas, and several light vignettes about storms, manners, and daily life.
A reflective sketch on tears as social currency among women, spouses, widows, drunkards, beggars, and performers. It contrasts motives for weeping from marital leverage to financial manipulation, noting sympathy, spectacle, and vanity shaping public response and charity.
A fragmented verse piece laments marital strife with sharp language about wails claws and public shaming. The narrator evokes consequences like being cast aside, kicked out, or stoned, and ends with a tag line about a Connecticut girl.
A long critical piece argues that Massachusetts claims to Seneca lands were handed to Ogden Company and pressed by bribes to chiefs, with 41 signatures amid 64 protests. It notes 19-19 Senate votes, a vice president casting the tie, and a royal proclamation making the treaty law, urging redress and appeals to the Supreme Court. It complains of injustices and warns Indians may flee to Canada if forced off their homelands.
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