The American System and the Price of Cotton
A Senate discussion explains price as governed by supply and demand not by duties alone. It argues that home production can lower prices through competition, cites sugar and lead examples, and asserts a diversified economy with protected industry expands consumption and wealth.
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Missouri
Galena
Lee
Ile
Louisiana
Europe
America
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Isigo
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ISI
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Clay
Congressional Debate on Apportionment and Bank Committee
The Senate and House debated the Colonial trade correspondence, a Maine representative for fractions, and a ballot chosen Select Committee on the Bank of the United States. Newspapers clash over Georgia versus federal authority following the Supreme Court decision. A theft at the Cincinnati Hotel saw a man lose ten thousand dollars in bank notes after misplacing them.
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Supreme Court
Georgia
Union
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Richmond Enquirer
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Isudira
U. States
Congress
Uheft
Cincinnati
Ife
Debate on Bank of the United States inquiry resolution
Foot, Marcy, and Webster continued the debate until adjournment. The inquiry resolution into Bank of the United States affairs drew discussion by Beardsley, Root, and Bell. A ballot amendment on selecting the Select Committee was rejected 88 to 92. An amendment for a recess inquiry committee was proposed, to report by the third Monday of December. Burges sought to amend, then the House adjourned.
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Sprague
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Webster
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Forsyth
Tazewell
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Bank of the United States
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Evans
Beardsley
House
Foot
Marcy
Beardsley, Root, & Bell
Yeas
Mr. Wayne
Congress
Bank of the
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Burges
Y. Standard and Statesman
Remembering Clayton Doorkeeper of the House
The piece recalls Mr. Clayton longtime doorkeeper for the U S House of Representatives. It notes his duties handling mail at the post office and delivering letters to members, sometimes storing papers in his hat. It adds that daily mail volume surpassed two wagon loads both incoming and outgoing.
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Clayton
House of Representatives
United States
vViles’ Register
Murder of Noah Barnum in Danbury near King Street
The Danbury Conn Recorder reports Noah Barnum aged about 62 was murdered Thursday evening near the King Street meeting house. A hidden musk et fired from outside pierced his neck and breast, death immediate. Three stones and several shot removed from the body. His son John Barnum, about 30 years old, has been jailed as the alleged killer and bound over for trial at the September Superior Court in Danbury.
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King Street
John Barnum
Dandury
Conn
Thief Confesses Under Pledge After Bricks Shed Discovery
Circumstances pointed to a friend and associate as the thief. The youth admitted the theft under an engagement not to prosecute if money was restored. He had hidden the money under a bricks pile beside a shed near the hotel, with another person.
Reform Bills and Cherokee Nation Case Dominate Norwalk Talk
The piece notes debates on Reform Bills in Parliament amid European turmoil and tugs of war over the Cherokee Nation ruling. Georgia’s obedience to a Supreme Court mandate is pivotal, with concerns about public health. It mentions receiving the March issue of the Casket and urges subscriptions.
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France
Europe
Supreme Court
Balti more Lottery Proposal and Contemporary News
The Saturday Bulletin reports Maryland legislators drawing a $250,000 lottery to fund a Thomas Jefferson monument in Baltimore. It notes the American fire king defeating the French king by swallowing 15 drops of Prussic acid with no injury and mentions fine shad selling in Philadelphia markets at 33 cents each. It also covers a cholera Morbus treatise by Mesore Malfing & Co of New York, a patent for high steam generation, a malpractice case in Litchfield involving a nerve injury, and U. S. charges and naval movements tied to Buenos Aires and Essex North District politics. The New York militia strength is officially listed at 189,034.
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