14 Sep 1839
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Newspaper
Peru Gazette
Location
Peru, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1839
Page
1
The Gazette notes party activity in Ohio and Pennsylvania for the next election day. Indiana House results show 62 Democrats and 38 Whigs, with a 24 seat Democratic majority, and a joint Dem majority of 17. The piece muses on local industry, emigration, and upcoming conventions in Indianapolis.
A Philadelphia riot involved several hundred Black people enraged over a alleged runaway slave arrest. An informer was mobbed, rescuers faced opposition, and violence ensued. Also reported are the death of Catharine Young in Harrison Street, and political notes on Florida’s constitution, drought impacts in Kentucky, and other scattered items.
The New York Sun argues a future change in English governance is inevitable. It contends the system of wealth and privilege has long enriched a few while the many toil, and that church and state combined with family influence cannot save it. A revolution may be necessary to dismantle the current order.
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