Poetic Reply to Fugitive Slave Law From Ohio Repository
A correspondent named A Gin replies to a letter asking for views on the Fugitive Slave Law with a long verse. The poem invokes liberty and northern emancipation, referencing figures like Webster and Clay, urging North and South to honor the freedom spirit, and invoking the memory of heroes and the country’s founding.
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Francis J. Gage
Ohio
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Michael
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Printer’s Life and Farming Honor in Nineteenth Century View
A column argues printers endure hard work and poor rewards while farmers gain respect. advocates elevating agricultural work, applying science to farming, and treating farming as a noble calling. Includes reflections on labor, health, and societal value, with literary asides and historical quotes. The piece links printer misery to public neglect and praises farmer virtues and knowledge.
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Arcuses
Moses
Emiy
Boston Waverly
Magey
Gen Taylor's Will Described by Washington Correspondent
A Washington correspondent reports Gen Taylor's will drafted before Monterey in 1836. Provisions include generous bequests to his wife, shares in a bank stock, six enslaved people, plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana, and twenty thousand dollars to his daughter. Executors named, and aims for orderly plantation management.
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New York Herald
Monterey
Louisville
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Richanthie
Mississippi
Lousiana
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Farewell of the Soul to the Body in sorrow and prayer
A fragmented verse presents a farewell sonnet to the body, with a speaker addressing a companion and divine judgment. It invokes themes of pain, forgiveness, and parting, as the soul pleads for mercy while the beloved succumbs to suffering and death.
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IPC
Michaelmas Goose and Curious Oddities in Old Texts
A long excerpt surveys Michaelmas customs with geese and elder tales, recounting Queen Elizabeth and Queen Bess feasts, superstition about goose meals bringing yearly wealth, and a note on St Michael and parish and city rituals. It also describes extraordinary curiosities a Boston paper reports: a Keanna tribe child and youth with astonishing traits, claimed to descend from an ancient priestly order, living as a pair in a traveler’s account.
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London
Mathipsl Corporation Reformant
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Brongla
Boston
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Central America
Hammond
Crazy People and the Calamity of Craze
A short essay notes that madness is a calamity when minds fixate on a single subject. It argues many are not insane, yet become wild for politics religion money alcohol wine women railroads or crime. The piece highlights how focused passion can distort judgment while other topics remain sane.
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CIA
Conflagration in Missouri Strikes Prairie Lands
Dispatch from Kanesville Missouri describes a massive prairie fire caused by Indians. Winds drove flames across fences crops and buildings as Omahas were seen setting fires nearby. The report notes the danger to pioneers and mentions a grieving scene with a woman named Mrs Partington.
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Omnia
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Turkish Empire’s Strength and Naval Power Revealed
An article attributed to Mr. Brown, who accompanied the Turkish Ambassador, claims the sultan’s army totals about 120,000 troops in six corps under Musaemon. A Danube front corps forms near Hungary, with Christians taxed to exempt. The navy includes 70 to 174 frigates and ships, some built by Americans in New York.
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