Flight from bondage and a Canadian lumber dispute
Excerpts recount the escape of enslaved families toward Cincinnati with a father carrying his wife and children, the brutal atmosphere of Maryland race terror, and the narrator’s later defense of Canadian lumber exhibits at the World’s Fair, where a dispute over display placement tests Yankee authority and pride. The passage also covers a political debate on funding the St Clair Flats improvement, arguing the national significance of the project against regional bias and emphasizing vast wartime commerce.
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Fifty Years Hence in Prophecy and Odd Tales
A fragmentary miscellany recounts a bishop’s lecture predicting future inventions, including carless domestic scenes and underground telegraphy, followed by a long anecdote about a clever monkey and a hawk, then notes on freight costs and a political quip about public works and constitutional questions. It closes with a domestic vignette about a man’s late-night return and a wife’s anxious bedtime vigil.
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