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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1840
Page
2
Col G W Ewing an Indiana Van Buren elector announces his decision to withdraw from backing the Van Buren party. It is expected he will issue a circular to explain his reasons to Indiana voters.
Maine voters favored friends of Harrison and Reform, delivering a Whig Governor a large legislative majority and five of eight Congressmen. The result signals a strong chance Harrison carries Maine.
Friends of Gen. Harrison in Cass County plan a convention at Logansport on October 19, marking the Yorktown surrender anniversary. Expected attendees include several Indiana notables. Reports say Mr. Graves of Kentucky has declined another run for Congress.
Gen E P Gaines writes of Generals Harrison and Jackson noting no fear or hope from their rival methods. He contrasts the hickory violence of the one with the log cabin kindness of the other.
John Yund of Bethlehem township is placed on a Vanburg ren party committee but he objects saying they are barking up the wrong tree and cannot do the work.
The Herald argues the King of England would be part of legislative power just as the President of the United States. The piece calls this the boldest defense of presidential usurpation and asks what honest democrats think of it.
Logansport Brewery announces full operation and its beer, according to competent judges, is of very superior quality.
A large Cass County Whig gathering at the Methodist Church on September 26 formed a committee to draft resolutions on the Yorktown surrender of Lord Cornwallis and criticized the Van Buren administration as anti democratic and extravagant. The meeting featured remarks by Biddle and Dillon and named officers Gen Grover chair Gen Crooks and Nathaniel Williams vice presidents J S Patterson secretary.
A Cass County committee urges Harrison and Reform supporters to attend a Logansport convention on October 19 to oppose Van Buren’s reelection. The plan includes township committees, special invitation groups, a free public dinner, and published proceedings in the Logansport Telegraph.
A letter criticizes the Madison era and General Harrison’s 1811 Tippecanoe leadership. It cites war declarations and questions official judgment, then reports on Louis Napoleon’s attempted Boulogne uprising in 1840 with naval transport, barracks, and proclamations.
The British Queen steamer arrived in New York at eleven o’clock on Wednesday night, after a fifteen day passage from the Needles. London papers reach September 1. The piece notes looming war, with Mehemet Ali defying four powers, heavy French and English military prep, and troop movements across Europe.
The New York Sun argues that a European war would lift American securities prices, suggesting military conflict would create favorable conditions for U.S. investments and financial markets.
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