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Newspaper
Huron Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1839
Page
2
The New York Courier argues that cradé currency experiments and flawed legislation have caused explosion and chaos. It claims the people will hold the Whigs responsible for misdeeds, while administration officials dodge blame by citing bought and sold minions of executive power from Maine to Mississippi.
The Baltimore Chronicle reports a July Fourth Whig celebration in Philadelphia where Hon. Henry A Wise attended and spoke, praised as lively by the United States Gazette. Wise urged unity and a convention to nominate Whig candidates, while critiquing Van Buren's administration and arguing for fiscal restraint by the city on presidential entertainment expenses.
The piece rebuts charges of county extravagance by printing editorials from the Experiment and Albany Journal. It defends spending on fire wood and office blanks, asserts lawful county practices, and attacks two editors over a General Index controversy amid calls for accountability and reform.
A critical exposé of ostentatious public spending under the Van Buren administration. The author cites unaccounted funds, inflated contingent costs, and specific line items from the Quar termaster and Executive Departments to paint a picture of waste. The piece targets misuse of government money and calls for accountability to the people.
A letter comments on 19th century defalcations from land receiver accounts, citing Treasury statements from 1838 and 1839 showing over 1 million owed, with pre 1829 thefts totaling about 248 thousand and further losses since. It questions government accountability and references Swartwout and Price cases, plus a jail and legal notes from 1824.
The text notes a marriage in Milan on the 19th by Rev I Judson between Giones L. Mvaviv from Buffalo N Y and Mus Enmargern Lockwoon of the former THE WESTSTER THE PAST WERE. Also includes scattered weather entries listing dates and descriptions of warm and sultry conditions across a week.
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