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Newspaper
Plainfield Gazette
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1849
Page
1
Village subscribers pay one dollar twenty five cents per year in advance. Mail subscribers pay one dollar yearly in advance, with fifty cents extra if not paid in advance. Printing office location listed and terms described.
An extended meditation from Plainfield August 10, 1849 contrasts northern hills with southern luxury and condemns tyranny and slavery. It praises Wesley and Whitfield while urging ministers to pursue gospel truth over doctrinal squabbles, urging practical benevolence and unity in worship.
A reflective note questions whether pastors and citizens are more pious now than twenty five years ago when few churches existed. It calls for more charity and practice over profession, more fellowship and less contention about religious modes to avoid mockery of faith.
A royal visit is described with celebrations and illuminations while a poet criticizes the gleam of pageantry. The poem urges residents to remember afflicted districts like Skibbereen and notes the tension between grandeur and local sorrow. The speaker mocks the display and calls for attention to the dead and the living’s pain.
A historical fragment recalls a prisoner in a damp cave life sentence. The speaker laments waning health and youth lost, contrasting past liberty with present confinement. A tiny sunray through a crack offers a fragile beacon of hope for future light beyond the gloom.
A New Jersey man with a large estate keeps to his own business despite neighbors suspicions about wealth. When pressed, he explains his success comes from always minding his own affairs. A riddle ends with the word quick being formed by adding a syllable.
A quotation from Wrights Casket argues that moving knowledge to the masses empowers the many, reduces oppression, and ties rights security to happiness. It asserts that monopolies of knowledge and wealth oppress the people and that disseminating knowledge across society reshapes consent and governance.
A transplanted Yankee in a country barroom faces a wager over a knife blade. The southerner bets that the blade is in the handle. the Yank calcs and reveals the blade driven into a stump beside the road. A mackerel peddler's shout prompts a physics lesson about motives in a class.
Bonaparte asserts his right to imprison the Pope arguing the pope’s spiritual power comes from above and lies beyond his reach while claiming the temporal power was never bestowed by Charlemagne and that he may take back the gift. He frames his action as a necessary assertion of secular authority over religious authority.
A young woman from Erin delivered a letter at the post office and asked how much to pay in advance. The clerk questioned the amount, and she replied with a blushing, and revealed she had just been married last week.
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