Clay's Land Bill and Internal Improvements Debate
A terse summary covers editorials extolling Mr. Clay's Land Bill for public land proceeds, urging distribution to states and schools, while criticizing Calhoun's plan. The Albany and Sangamo Journal dispatches argue for balanced national finance, warn of debt without Clay, and advocate cautious, need-based internal improvements.
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Buffalo Commercial Advertiser
Mr. Clay
New States
Gen. Jackson
New York
Limpire
Kia
Europe
Commonwealth
Western Exchange
Clay
Congress
Sangamo Journal
Minois
Ist Inst
Calhoun
Ohio
Indiana
Aristocrats of Our Country and Credit War
A political essay questions class divisions between rich and poor. It argues that parties claim to aid the poor while supporting credit and property aims, warning against creating lasting social prejudice. The piece challenges who genuinely helps the poor and cautions against a war on credit systems.
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War Buren Party
Ihi Party
Democratic Party
Yankee Ingenuity Patent for European wool cloth making
A Boston paper notes an American patenting in England and several European nations a device to make broad and narrow woollen cloths without spinning or weaving. The Leeds Mercury reports on the inspection of cloth patterns and the invention’s scope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvester Chaham
Brunswick
Maine
Foster
Nore
Dame
Boston
England
Europe
Leeds Mercury
Adler
Machinery promises woollen cloth by new system
The text asserts a machine costing over £600 could produce 600 yards of 86 inch woollen cloth in a 12 hour day, with trial at Leeds under an inventor and exclusive licensee. A kingdom wide patent sale for £20,000 is reported, along with varied political and economic remarks and notices from the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leeds
Kingdom of
Bel- Enim
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May
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Columbus, C
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