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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1868
Page
2
A Grand Ratification Meeting of all First District counties will be held in Evansville on Thursday night July 23 1868. Arrangements promise one of the largest Southern Indiana gatherings with distinguished speakers and good music.
At a Springfield soldiers convention delegates voted to send representatives to the New York gathering. General McClernand delivered a forceful critique of General Grant, denouncing him as a mere plagiarist and impractical candidate whose rise signals decay for the republic. Great applause followed.
The New Harmony Sunday School Convention met July 14 1868 with Rev H J Barr in charge. Officers elected included Col John A Mann as President and J R Hugo Peter Kivett and Richard Harrison as vice presidents. The gathering adopted resolutions to promote a Sunday School in every county township, urged temperance work, and planned adjournment to Mt Vernon next year. The convention closed with music and prayers as delegates praised hospitality received in New Harmony.
Democratic meeting at the Clerk's office on Friday July 10 appointed delegates from townships in Black Lynn Point Harmony Robb Morrs Robinson Bethel Center Smith to attend the Evansville Congressional Convention on July 23. New Harmony designated county convention site for August 29 with one delegate per fifty Nelson votes. proceedings ordered published in the New Harmony Register and Mount Vernon Democrat.
A bill in the Louisiana Legislature seeks to abolish the elective franchise and authorize the Governor to unilaterally designate members of the Legislature. The measure has cleared the Lower House.
The Democratic Party declares a platform pledging restoration of states to civil government, amnesty for past offenses, fixed public debt payments in lawful money, a single currency, equal taxation, government economy, abolition of certain instruments, protection of naturalized citizens, and opposition to Radical policies. It condemns war-time abuses, calls for executive and judicial independence, and urges unity with conservatives to defend the Constitution and Union.
In a lengthy defense of his actions as ex-officio Vestry chairman, Thomas W. Mitchell accuses E J Rogers of forging claims about church property contracts with St Stephen’s Vestry. He cites minutes from 1868 to prove the Vestry never accepted Rogers’s agreement, denounces Rogers’s conduct and language as abusive, and defends the Episcopal Church against alleged attacks linked to the Graveyard dispute.
A compilation of real estate transfers listing many names and parcels in Mt. Vernon and New Harmony including Elizabeth Deig to Jas A Lewis for 56 acres valued at 2300 and multiple deeds among Nancy A Larkin R B Whittlesey James Lewis Margaret Hill Asa Aldridge Richard Topper Samuel Steel Lawrence Heubner Detrich Heubner M I Gill Reuben Hogue Henry Fitton Levi Williams Joseph Schouse Geo Gulser Mary Elliott Geo R Huliott Jacob Mann Adam Mann Gellert Schnee John Wheatcroft Mary Elliott et al. and reconveyances. The notice ends with political items noting radical candidate F. A. Pexrecost and a reflection on Democracy with a baseball quip.
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