06 Sep 1859
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Newspaper
Meigs County Telegraph
Location
Pomeroy, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1859
Page
1
A bustling advertisement page mixes grocers and manufacturers from Pomeroy and nearby towns with a long World and domestic markets discussion. It notes hardware, clothing, and ironworks along with a sermon on education and the Napoleonic strain of agriculture and industry, ending with regional debates on wheat prices and foreign markets.
A chilling report details a Black youth tied to a Mississippi-like vigilante act in Springfield. After entering a home and assault, the assailant allegedly killed the woman, then fled with her children as locals formed a crowd and hanged him near Temperance Hall. The case moved through the Circuit Court with guards and a special jury, but a lynch mob acted the night before the trial, signaling ongoing frontier justice.
A Detroit Tribune reprints a sensational report alleging misconduct by Wisconsin postmasters and Michigan officials. It cites Postmaster O Flynn, Collector Shoemaker, and Deputy Marshal Maybee, accusing them of illegal practices, peculation, subornation, and rifling the mails. The piece laments state decay and questions the report’s propriety.
Wakefield Rhode Island editor urges preaching a Gospel of Business to cover debt wages finance and daily trade. He argues sermons should address secular affairs and righteousness in money matters, urging honesty between individuals in commerce.
Southern papers crusade against the song My Darling Nelly Gray praising abolitionism. Florida leaders warn the piece spreads insidious propaganda linking to slavery and mock Georgia. The dispatch labels the tune libelous and urges punishment of abolitionist fare in cotton belt culture.
The Ohio Statesman and Journal debate abolitionist doctrine, Gov Wood’s 1852 inaugural speech parity, and caution against Fugitive Slave Law repeal. It notes wool purchases by 400,000 pounds worth about $100,000, with state trade estimations totaling millions, aiming to offset grain crop losses.
The Cincinnati tract criticizes the Democratic party as fixated on the nigger question, noting that candidates focus exclusively on slavery. It argues the party appears united only on this issue, with Douglas and Wine in contention, shaping the next presidential race around this topic.
The text argues life experience is inscribed within the soul as an electric, legible record read by perceptive beings. It rejects an external recording angel and proposes the inner Book of Life, where every act and thought forms a permanent, self-evaluating record shaping how we are perceived by others.
The Huntsville Democrat edited by W. Clay, brother of a U.S. senator, asserts that Alabama will back a Charleston Convention nominee only if the platform affirms constitutional slaveholding rights as per the Dred Scott decision and pledges federal protection of slavery, with the candidate’s antecedents proving he will defend Southern rights under the Constitution.
A Boston to New York dispatch notes two vessels fitting out at Salem in the state for the slave trade on the coast of Africa. The affair centers on a Spanish fund in New York and $20,000 in hard specie has been forwarded. The piece argues the government must also target small New England ports to curb Asia infinity trade.
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