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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1850
Page
1
A historical weekly issue outlines subscription terms and rates, advertising prices, and publisher contacts. It includes Mr Webster’s reply to a Teller of Massachusetts and a long excerpt of civic letters, urging unity and national purpose in Congress.
The letter responds to a March 25 1850 correspondence, praising personal regard and public duty. It argues for national harmony and warns against sectional alienation, asserting no irreconcilable conflict over slavery in newly admitted territories. It notes political maneuvers toward conciliation and compromise, with excerpts on California and district policy.
A long, mixed narrative from the New York Mirror describes a voyage beginning March 10 with twenty three companions from Amato city bound for California. It details the voyage hardships, the planned Mormon settlement in a fertile valley, and the ambitious founding of a city with log and adobe houses, tree lined streets, and a central thoroughfare. The writer, a visitor to the camp, depicts the community’s devotion, self reliance, and anticipated prosperity, including land and crop yields, gold rumors, and the social plans of the Mormon settlers in the distant valley of the Rocky Mountains.
Fragmentary OCR outline recalls a tense Senate session with accusations echoed as Tate and Appella Hdivalous are named. Richard M. Young of Illinois, a Democrat, is elected Clerk of the House replacing the late T. J. Campbell.
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