Pole Raising Sparks Huge Whig Rally in Miami County
A Monday pole raising event drew about two thousand Whigs from Miami and neighboring counties. An Ash Pole 130 feet tall carried the Clay and Frelinghuysen banner as Capt. Murray urged unity against locofoco opposition and promised action on Monday. The night vandals damaged the pole, but the Whigs repaired it and pledged to stand firm.
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Miami
Richland Township
Richland
Clay & Frelinghuysen
Welkin
Capt. Murray
Huntington
Providence
Calamities and political turmoil unfold in early reports
The piece narrates political misdirection around the Whigs and Locofocos with Ohio and Pennsylvania backing Clay and Frelinghuysen. It details a Lake Erie gale near Buffalo causing extensive destruction, loss of life, and shipwrecks. Governor Clay, from Kentucky, is praised as the greatest man by a Whig supporter, causing unrest among Locofocos.
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Tippecanoe Journal
Lake Erie
Buffalo
P.S
England and Slavery In Parker Sermon From Roxbury
The Rev Theodore Parker recently returned from Europe gave a discourse condemning slavery though acknowledging Britain’s misery among laboring classes. He cited public charity supporting a million and a half and crime supporting another, and warned Britain’s fate reflects its government and nature’s laws. He mentioned Mr Palk and Tennessee politics as context.
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England
Theodore Parker
Roxbury
Mass
Europe
Ingland
Estimation of Men in America and a Steamer Disaster
A Virginia-era column discusses social rank in the United States noting wealth does not define caste and that Americans pursue money yet retain democratic ideals. It cites a lecture comparing American mobility to aristocratic doubt and includes a later report: the Steamer Lucy Walker from Arkansas exploded near Louisville, killing many and injuring others, with survivors taken to New Albany.
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America
Mr. Lord
England
United States
Europe
Jno
Arman
Phis
Hatton
Lucy Walker
Arkansas
Louisville
New Albany
State Sentinel
Sherif s Sale of Part of Lot 36 in Peru Indiana
By decree of the Miami Circuit Court Indiana Pleasant L. Bell as complainant against William Cadien and John S Twells a sheriff sale is set for November 23 1844 at the Presbyterian church door in Penn to offer for sale the equitable interest of William Cadlin in part of Lot 36 in Peru Miami County Indiana described as bounded by Broadway Second streets and lot back line. MO GRALAM Sheriff and Special Master in Chancery. November 2 1844.
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Miami Circuit Court
Indiana
Pleasant L. Bell
William Cadien
John S. Twells
Presbyterian Church
Penn
William Cadlin
Peru
Miami
Broadway Street
Broadway
Second Streets
Second Street
A. Gralam
Wabash Probate Court Dower Appraisal Notice
In Wabash Probate Court a widow seeks appointment of Commissioners to assign dower rights in multiple tracts surrounding Liberty Mills and North Manchester. Notice to defendants Halderman et al to appear next term, with property details listed and attorney Joan A. Preyve. Also a domestic attachment case in Wabash Circuit Court against Samuel Alvir with writ and summons.
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Wabash
Jane Halderman
Lintend
Wabash Probate Court
Allen Mutherman
Eitht
Ranze No
Sama
Liberty Mills
North
Manchester
Joan A. Preyve
Atty, Wabass
Sept
Sat
James B. Mostingk
Wabash Circuit Court
Samuel Alvir
Wifsbsesas
Sid Wabash Circuit
Joseph Lloprkins
Clk
Gordon & Cox
PIM
Attys
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Arnouss
Henry Clay
Theodore Frelinghuysen
Henry S. Lane
Jos
G. Marshall
J. A. Brackuennince
Warrick
James Comins
Floyd
J. A. Matson
Franklin
Samura W. Parken
Fayette
Yuen O’naz
Marion
Gro. G. Dunn
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Clay
Frelinghuysen
Cla Y.gov. Lope
Kentucky
Gov. P
Palk
Tennessee Leg
Congress
House
Tennessee
Thhey
Louisville Journal
Talen
Texas
Conway
Smithland Bee
Sherif
EW Worm
Boston
Erry
New York
Henry Halderman
Alfred Halderman
Edmund Halderman
Sarah Jane Halderman
Lavinia Halderman
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