20 Feb 1847
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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1847
Page
1
Readable fragments list numerous Iowa places and individuals including Jackson Township Gasa County Boone Township Grover Hawk Jolly Staley Peter Troutman Fulton County Lockport Kokomo Winemac and Perryeburgh. Also names William Doucas James Hensley and Bufus Brown appear with various towns.
Poem exhorting readers to rise against oppression and claim their freedom, urging strong action by able bodies. Ends with note of a Burns celebration in Cincinnati where a coronach to the late R. F. L'Hommepier was sung by W. C. Peters.
A poem commemorates a departing comrade from Utica with solemn lines about his memory. An 18th century dispatch from O Dele fa notes an anticipated assault on a stronghold near San Juan, predicting heavy winter northers and possible battleships forced onto a reef as revenue and naval vessels stock weapons and prepare movements.
Amid a heated debate, critics condemn the administrations handling of the Mexican War and Texas annexation. They argue war began with Texas’s annexation and question moral and legal grounds for invasion, urging inquiry into causes and executive actions.
From the Cincinnati Atlas reports a likely Calhoun move in the Senate to fortify the Rio Grande, withdraw from interior Mexico, and hold until a peace treaty. Rumors of recalling troops are denied by the era’s figures, stressing the nation’s strength and unity amid regional tensions.
The piece notes Moderna Democrats with Buchanan and Cass as leading presidential candidates. It cites Ethio pian nose in skin and mentions Jacob Harvey of New York planning to distribute food to the poor. It warns that food speculators raise prices when funds arrive, harming hungry people.
In a classroom scene students discuss what geography is and how the United States borders the world with humorous answers. The exchange features pupils naming sun and stars, United States and Mexico, and mock geography definitions amid a spelling recitation.
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