Emigrants Move Toward Kansas in Tense Kansas Issue
A large emigrant party led by Col Lanewey heads toward Kansas from Nebraska City after crossing from Sidney. They number about 300 including women and children, with only half armed. Missouri Missouri River tensions rise as Gov. Requisition threats loom, and a messenger reaches Fort Leavenworth. Local clashes, legal tangles, and public agitation follow amid pro and anti slavery movements in the region.
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Col
Lanewey
Tabor
Iowa
Nebraska City
Nestiern
Sidney
Wig Cousin
Perons
Sharp
Chicago
Josrey
Marsachusetts
Wisconsin
Missouri River
Messenger
Gien
Smith
Lang
Lane
Wrndsy
Joseph
Nebraekador
Dickey
Anses
Nebraska
Leavenworth
Absence of Editors Delays Weekly Paper Issue
Due to the necessary absence of one editor and sickness of the other, the paper could not be issued on time this week. The publication apologizes for the delay and expects to resume normal printing in the next issue.
Local Democrats disparage weathercocks and party splits
The Milwaukee series lampoons Dr. Judd of Dodge and Judge Baker of Walworth with claims they abandoned the party for tempering views on slavery while Lovell of Kenosha and others are labeled weathercocks. The piece accuses editors of smearing Baker and the old Democratic faction to boost rival influence.
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Milwaukee
Dr. Judd
Dodge
Judge Baker
Walworth
Lovell
Kenosha
Barstow
Tremont
Baker
Dr. Darling
J. A. Eustow
Appiedan Cres
Charleston Mercury
Chicago Vénes
Old
Democratic Party
The Crops In The Gloriously Harvest Time
The crops now being gathered are very good with minor damage to wheat from chink-bing in local areas. Corn is coming on finely and travel through the Badger State is favorable. Golden fields, rich grain, luxuriant corn and rank grass glow under a radiant sun like mosaic workmanship.
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Badger State
Public acts as public property or wrong to reference officials
The writer defends citing a public official’s name in a prior column. He notes that official acts are public property and journalists may refer to them, asking whether it was improper to mention the gentleman’s endorsement of a book series given we had the resolutions before us.
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Motlowax
Samuel Wentworth
Norway
Maine
Holloway
Professor Holloway
Frantic political vitriol and a shipboard disaster report
The Madison Patriot attacks Buchanan with inflammatory caricature over slavery, while a steamer Empire wreck off Point Judith kills seven and injures fifteen. Reports note Illinois Central President Deans crushed in a freight collision near Chicago. Other items cover a private bill vote, local business enlargements, a vaudeville act, a new Woodstock paper, thanks for school books, and the election date set for November.
Distressing death by own action in Linn County
A distressed report notes Mrs. Allina Davis, wife of Wrensman A. Davis, dying after taking arsenic on Wednesday to end her life. A coroner's jury ruled death from arsenic self-ingestion. She claimed she acted alone, citing inability to bear life as the motive. She left a husband and four children.
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Linn
Allina
Wrensman A. Davis
Arenic
Jo, Palmer
Germa
Madison paper advocates Freedom and Frewon cause
A fragment from a Madison newspaper exchange praises a publication advocating Freedom and Frewon with clear logic and steady determination, noting its early impression and the quality of its argument. The text reflects period discourse and local newspaper exchange practices.
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Madison
Arwoopd& Resevez
Missouri 1820s parallel fuels Kansas crisis rhetoric
The piece argues that Kangap’s stance mirrors Missouri in 1820 with Senate majorities opposing slavery prohibition and a proslavery House. It describes the Missouri Compromise, Texas entry, California, and Fremont while urging Union resistance to slaveholders. The tone denounces disunion threats and stresses Kansas as central to freeing the South.
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Congress
Missouri
Senate
House
Henry Clay
West
North
Florida
Arkansas
United States
Caesar
Hercules
Avery
Achilles
Texas
Mexico
California
Rocky Mountains
Washington
Fremont
Kansas
Buchanan
Willmore
Freedom
Kansay
Caion
Union
Sverrow
Hell
South
Promised Fate in Free Territory and Ethiopian Faith
A stark forecast declares that with Northern support she will fail, surrounded by free territory bulwarks she will die amid the groans of her worshippers, and Ethiopia will reach out to God.
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Ethiopia
Card to the Public by CLM PARKS on School Books
CLM PARKS states that his name was used in a Geneva Express article to recommend Thomson's Arithmetics and Cornell's Geographies. He explains he revised his opinion after comparing series and revoked his previous endorsement, while noting the other series are gaining use in Wisconsin schools and that he seeks no uniformity, aiming to introduce Montieth's and McNally's Geography and Davies' Revamped Arithmetics instead.
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Geneva Express
E. Enos
Thomson
Cornell
Enos
Gray
Davies
Montieth
McNaily
Wisconsin
Jines
Aleady
Deing
Maos
Cornells
McNally
Endevor
Clm. Parks
Disgrace in a Letter Sparks Union Crisis Talk
An English funded bid to influence U S elections is revealed as a scandalous episode. A wife misreads a letter leading to a hurt confession about a printer’s bill. The Pennsylvania organ hints Britain would donate one hundred thousand pounds to support a sectional presidential candidate and dissolve the Union. Miluaukes Arrive is noted.
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Pennsylvania
Buchanan's fidelity and Ostend manifesto cited
The Charleston Vercery argues against mocking Buchanan as a freesoiler by citing his two year old signing of the Ostend manifesto aimed at Cuba. It portrays him as a defender of admitting Arkansas and Texas and acquiring Cuba, asserting no freesoil taint in his record and noting his votes and actions align with the position.
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Charleston
Buchanan
Ostend
Cuba
Iere
Arkansas
Texas
Fremont and Dayton support rises in Walworth County
The Walworth County scene shows strong pro Fremont and Dayton sentiment with reports of an unprecedented local majority for Freedom. Across Wisconsin and nearby states, editors note shifting loyalties, with poll rallies, mass meetings in Oshkosh, and calls to redeem pledges.
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Mason and
Dixgon’s
Walworth County
Fremont
Freedom
Walworth
Kenosha
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