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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1840
Page
2
Notice calls on subscribers and others indebted to the Telegraph office to settle without delay. It notes that future payments will be required from subscribers and reports the Indiana Legislature lower branch standing 77 Whigs to 23 Van Burenites.
Early returns from Kentucky show strong support for Harrison and Reform, signaling favorable public sentiment for their cause and election prospects.
Illinois returns come in slowly as fourteen counties elect 20 whigs and 7 Vanburenites to the lower branch of the Legislature. Joseph A. Wright of Parke county resigns his Indiana Senate seat and a whig is expected to fill the vacancy.
A Indianapolis Constitution tirade attacks Gen. Harrison and defends Van Buren. The piece labels Harrison as worn out and derides him with harsh terms while urging readers to recall forty years of Harrison's public service. The article portrays the cited paragraph as vile rhetoric from a defeated political foe.
From the annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury the total number of banks in the country is nine hundred and one including one hundred seventy nine branches. The total specie in vaults is 33 105 155 dollars while the circulation amounts to 106 968 572 dollars.
Three hundred fires erupted in London over six months causing property losses surpassing one million dollars. Police and fire officials investigate the blaze patterns and recommend stricter fire safety measures for businesses and homes.
A steam carriage tested near Dublin on June 29 ran two hours and proved maneuverable with sharp turns at about twelve miles per hour and forty eight psi. It could prove useful on the Michigan Road from the Ohio River to the Great Lakes. Also reported is severe drought in New Hampshire with rye wheat oats grass and corn suffering from lack of rain.
Tennessee reports widespread illness along the river. Farmers abandon farms and move to the mountains as river bottom crops drown. Foreign notices claim the Pope sent Laocoon and Apollo Belvidere to Russia for nine million francs, but this seems unlikely. Michigan wheat runs forty four cents a bushel and corn twenty five cents as new crops fare better than expected.
The remaining Pottawattamie Indians in northern Indiana prepare to relocate to the West under Gen. Brady of Michigan guiding the movement.
A Van Buren paper attacks Harrison supporters calling them trash and hypocrites while recounting past phrases like walloped pots and drove a team. The piece accuses Van Buren leaders of courting voters with arrogance and hypocrisy, warning of ongoing political strife.
A Congress report records two hundred seventy two steamboat accidents in the United States since Fulton with one hundred three explosions. One thousand nine hundred twenty one killed and four hundred fifty wounded. total property loss estimated at six million dollars. The item also notes election Majorities for Mr Bigger and Gen Howard and mentions a Bloomington Indiana publication, the Equator of the weekly Press and Gazette of our Family School and Church Interests.
In Ashland on July 24 1840 Henry Clay writes to Jacob Smock Jr and Saml Moore that Harrison will win if proper efforts are made and could secure votes in at least twenty states. He frames the Sub Treasury fight and Crowing tactic as a national distress signal and notes administration fears.
The speaker declares support for Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren but accuses the pair of abandoning Democratic principles and breaking promises to the people. The note adds that Britain owns seven hundred seventy steamboats plus Royal Navy steamers, and reports Professor Thompson of Marion College Missouri committed suicide by pistol, a Massachusetts native.
A letter from Greenfield angered by Democratic weakness urges stirring up support for a Harrison-majority county vote. Pattison vows to visit Hancock and press the party line while urging Chapman's firmer front and loud crowing to boost prospects.
The piece condemns nullifiers and praises Whig resistance to the Sub Treasury scheme. It notes Van Buren’s party downfall, asserts Jacksonian fusion harmed New Jersey’s delegation, and predicts Harrison’s ascent to lead the country back to prosperity and purer constitutional government. It cites the New York Star as a source.
The piece surveys revolution, public opinion, and political shifts in Congress. It criticizes Andrew Jackson and his followers, compares US events to France’s 1793 prelude, and condemns the Nullifiers for a coalition with foes, signaling loss of trust amid chaotic session breakup.
The New York locofoco press notes the Sub-Treasury plan’s impracticality given high expense and workload. It cites an attempt by the Receiver General to push payments by certified checks in lieu of specie, but banks refused to certify checks as payable in specie, insisting all checks are payable in specie.
In defense of General Harrison, the Van Buren clan is painted as rich yet the author notes his father pledged the silver spoon’s value to the country by signing the Declaration of Independence. It is added that the father’s death forced the estate to be sacrificed to honor that pledge, leaving Martin Van Buren's son in poverty.
The piece notes Van Buren supporters dislike Harrison songs calling them Bacchanalian and noisy. It observes reform fever and patriot songs flooding streets and woods, with the Locos compelled to hear them as reform seems inevitable. Fingal is cited as stirring the revolution’s foes.
Short aphorism attributed to Bacon notes that those who study revenge keep their own wounds fresh. The line reflects a cautionary view on dwelling on vengeance.
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