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Newspaper
Linn County Register
Location
Marion, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1859
Page
1
The note indicates ongoing obligations to subscribers for county wide local interest items including crops and related reports. It outlines delivery responsibilities across different parts of the county and mentions coverage of agricultural topics.
The note offers to furnish the Ruerster to any address from now until the October election for forty cents. It claims active campaigning for state and county officers and mentions possible close competition with the manorary. It invites readers to send money so the issue between parties can be fairly presented.
Report from Marion describes a large crowds gathering on the Fourth with estimated five to six thousand attendees. The free dinner fed many, no incidents occurred, and Prot Wheeler delivered a lauded oration noted as the best Fourth of July address heard. The piece also rails at Massachusetts and national Democrats over what it calls proscriptive naturalization measures and alleged hypocrisy by party leaders.
The Herald reports Gen Cass’s letter and notes Casas’s tenable ground. It quotes a Democratic State platform resolution granting naturalized and native-born citizens equal protection at home and abroad, extended to temporary returns to homeland. The piece warns of a potential breach within the party and mentions possible federal intervention.
The Linn County Register reports Springville celebrated July 4 with 36 cannon volleys, a 70 foot flagstaff, a town procession led by J Branch and sub-district marshals, an Independence Day program including prayer, reading of the Declaration, an oration by Dr. G. W. Beldin, and a bountiful communal meal. The observer praised orderly conduct, moral decorum, and memorable oration, noting Springville’s compact size yet grand celebration.
A reader questions a July 2 communication on slavery and the Bible, arguing the sacred text supports benevolence and natural rights. The letter challenges Ham’s curse, contrasts biblical promise with slaveholding, and cites Abraham’s household to query whether Biblical servants were mere chattels.
The passage argues wealth among patriarchs centered on people, not land, detailing Abraham’s servants and their uprising status. It notes that servants were part of family life, retained by affection rather than force, sharing religious privileges and covenant with Abraham’s descendants.
A letter from Pascetox Denton Co Minnesota recounts the Ist inst flood on Rum River and West branches, with bridges washed away jaws loosed to the river, mills submerged and crops damaged. The writer notes widespread property loss, but health and spirits remain vigorous. Also included are brief dispatches on Secretary Floyd illness at the Military Asylum, Kansas constitutional election results, a trustful restitution tale, and gold samples from Pike's Peak.
The North America from Liverpool arrived July 28 with general advices anticipated. The Stalwart bound from New Orleans to Liverpool was completely burned at sea. its captain and crew reached Queenstown. Stalwart carried about 2,800 bales of cotton and was insured in New York Philadelphia and New Orleans offices.
Delegates assemble to endorse anti slavery expansion and admit Kansas as a free state. They demand suppression of slavery in territories, uphold constitutional rights, reject Ostend diplomacy, press for a Pacific railroad, river and harbor improvements, and seek broad cross party support for shared republican principles. Kansas statehood framed as key to peace and rights preservation.
The daring crossing by M. Emile Blondin over the Niagara River atop a rope 151 feet above the torrent drew massive crowds on June 30 1859. He traveled nineteen minutes to the Canadian shore then returned in eight minutes triumphantly cheered through both banks.
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