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Newspaper
Peru Weekly News
Location
Peru, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1856
Page
2
The anti Filmore Convention met last Monday and, after the ninth ballot, nominated Banks for President by acclamation and William F. Johnston for Vice President in a political maneuver linked to Conrad Baker and Vaxversure.
A visiting candidate for Clerk of the Supreme Court attempted to shake Republican ranks but failed to draw a large crowd. Sixty-five attendees were counted, with only about twenty planning to vote for him, amid audible audience distrust. An Irish spectator called him two faced and foolhardy.
Last Sabbath noon a house on Second street caught fire in town. Neighbors and a squad of Irishmen clashed over who aided most, while three or four drunken men were pulled from the blaze. If nightfall had come, several more might have perished. Broadways days show drunken citizens and Indian presence amid Kansas political headlines.
A Monday incident near Louisburgh reports a man struck by the mornings up train on Valley Road. He lay across the track, head severed from the body, before the train could stop at a curve. The tragedy spurred reactions at a local Hall gathering and comments on county prosperity and political rhetoric.
A Peru edition reports fortification efforts in Peru with citizens aged 21 to 50 mobilized for town defense against anticipated incursions by Capt Mund and forces from the west. It notes support for Republican and anti pro slavery sentiment, plus comments on old line papers fading in Indiana. It also highlights a cigar offer from C C Hunter and praises the Continentals for performances drawing respectable houses.
Governor Reeder arrived in Easton Pa on June 11 to a large crowd. He was escorted to his hotel and delivered a brief speech thanking citizens for their sympathy and recounting the dangers he faced in Kansas.
The New Yorker Staats-Demokrat notes Buchanan occupies a double faced position on the Cincinnati platform. It suggests that if he becomes president he would have to betray one party, with the exact shift depending on circumstances. It also remarks on his skill at adapting to changing conditions.
Dispatch from St Louis reports John B Donalson believed alive against Free State claims. audience cheer greeted platform at the convention. Keystone Club Philadelphia band played Old Dog Tray as symbol of northern Democracy submission. Willard pledged to abstain from intoxicants if nominated with a vow to resign if broken.
A letter to NE PLUS ULTRA from a former Democrat criticizes William Beach for his Kansas policy stance. The author attacks Beach’s appearance and rhetoric, accusing him of anti Northern bias, defending Free State hotels, and misrepresenting Abolitionists while urging readers to see through alleged political trickery.
A fragmented account describes Beach denouncing Know Nothings and Free State supporters while claiming Southern sympathies. The speech allegedly featured a sign from a room attendee that disrupted the speaker, who then praised God yet implied Southern alignment and violence by ministers. The piece closes with an honor for freemen.
A Kansas era feature prints a proclaimed shift in stance with calls for self defense against perceived anti slavery agitation. It lists resolutions urging prohibition of abolitionist material and endorsing suppression of Republican and Free State presses amid violent Missourian incursions in 1854 1856.
A damaged fragment shows a reporter describing hurried notes and an anger driven moment. The passage mentions a secret and a bug tied to a pencil end as part of the scene.
Article cites a Missouri perpetrated code imposing death for aiding slaves and upholding slavery in the Territory, plus penalties for harboring fugitives and voting under Fugitive Slave Law. It chronicles Civil War skirmishes in the Kansas Territory with conflicts between Free State settlers and Missourian invaders, locational notes, prisoner moves, and mobilization of Northern Retaliators.
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