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Newspaper
Monroe Sentinel
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1859
Page
2
A reflective editorial argues for a strong domestic market to stabilize prices and reduce reliance on foreign goods. It discusses wheat prices, transportation costs, and the impact of tariffs on farmers and manufacturers, plus a digression on Brown’s raid and the politics of emancipation.
The Virginians press reports warn Charlestown residents of rising fear as day approaches for Brown's execution. Alarm spreads due to imagined invasions by abolitionists, military patrols, and a sentinel firing on approaching forces. Fires and torching by enslaved people heighten tension while locals prepare to defend homes and resist outsiders.
A severe southwest gale battering the area has damaged the Canal bridge on Main Street and the iron canal bridge, with many structures blown down. The new breakwater protecting the southern city area is largely destroyed, leaving parts of the city underwater. Train and lake travel disrupted as ice and snow spread from Europe to the United States.
A fragment from the Boston Attar & Bee prints a half century old letter by Sir Boyte Roche, Irish Parliament member during Ninety Eight. The text, altered by the governor, describes loyalist fears, rebels, and battles with muskets, pistols, and pikes. The narrator, Henry A Wise, signs as Executioner of John Brown, offering to publish in a Courier.
The piece records the death of A J Raymond of Juda village in Shia county on the 23rd from a falling tree. It recounts funeral rites by Smith Lodge No 81 and Ke and A M L and notes the long service of Capt Wadsworth Poster, the generosity of Samuel D Bull, and a later California dispatch describing overland mail, California progress, and legal matters around the Mercer Mining Company case and Carson Valley grand jury findings.
A lengthy letter to the editor denounces a 1859 M I Convention resolution that bars any minister or member who marries again during their lifetime, calling it a violation of civil and sacred law. The writer accuses church leaders of ecclesiastical overreach, hints at personal motives, and urges publication of the critique.
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