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Newspaper
Huron Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1837
Page
3
The speaker warns that passing the cataract act could plunge the nation into a rapid downward current toward ruin. Restoring fidelity to the Constitution will preserve liberty, while failure will lead to infamy, with future historians judging those who stood for law as traitors if the republic falls.
Mr Wardwell reported a bill to continue the pension of Benjamin Gannett, widower of Deborah Gannett a Revolutionary War soldier born Deborah Sampson She served as Robert Shuttleff three years was at Yorktown wounded at Tarrytown kept her sex hidden until discharge She died in 1827 married 1784 her husband spent much on her health and hardship The committee notes her brave service and recommends pension continuation from her death.
Worwatk March 7 1837 a neighbor caused a tragic incident when a loaded shotgun fired by a child of Mr Gantz while testing the weapon wounded his daughter a 9 or 10 year old girl who slept nearby the blast lacerated the brain and she died the event prompts warning about careless gun use and reflects on rights and slavery debates tied to the revolutionary era and Jefferson notes amid broader development in the Ridgefield area including new mills ships and harbor improvements led by J C Vermillion with Ohio growth prospects for the Lake Erie region and nearby works and real estate potential in 1837
The State Journal reports the banking regulation bill has been ordered engrossed for a third reading in the Senate after a stormy debate, with a 20 to 15 vote and one absent. Its final passage in the Senate is now considered likely.
Mr Buchanan as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee presents a report urging the President to demand redress from Mexico under the treaty. If dashed, Congress must promptly consider further measures to uphold the nation’s honor and the rights of injured citizens.
The Vermillion sale of real estate began on the 22d and adjourned on the 76th promising May next. Lots ranging twenty to fifty thousand dollars were sold to busy men for immediate occupancy. The Lake Lie shore area draws wide interest for harbor access and inland wheat pork and whisky trade. Congress previously appropriated funds a year ago to improve the harbor benefiting port shipment on the lake.
In a March 1837 note from Florida the writer cites the Savannah Georgian and the Darien Telegraph confirming the Florida war’s end. Osceola allegedly surrenders to a U S officer after lining his warriors and handing over his rifle, with Gen Jesup’s dispatches corroborating the claimed cessation of hostilities.
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