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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1850
Page
1
A historic weekly notices page from Keowee Courier includes subscription terms, advertising rates, and a dramatic verse from a Boston merchant’s wife written during his California trip. The piece comments on a suicide, includes sentimental poetry and a call for timely payments and ads.
Correspondence from Wallington April 1 1850 recounts Congress suspending business to mourn John C Calhoun. Senatorial oration portrays him as a nation shaping statesman with long service from Congress to Vice Presidency and War Department. Tribute notes his birth Abbeville District 1782, Yale graduate, lawyer, lawmaker, diplomat and secretary of state. Party lines aside, speakers emphasize Calhoun’s intellect, patriotism, and devotion to republic.
The Telegraph reports the funeral of Mr Calhoun in Washington with Senate honors. Attended by the President, cabinet, Supreme Court, diplomatic corps, and mourners, the remains were laid at Congressional Cemetery after a brief sermon by Rev. Britler.
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