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Newspaper
Plainfield Gazette
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1850
Page
2
The Plainfield Gazette lists Albert D. Drake as authorized agent to receive subscriptions and advertisements. E W Carr, Third Street Philadelphia opposite the Exchange, is named as authorized agent for that city.
The Rev Lewis Boxw will speak before the Sons of Temperance at their Division Room Saturday evening at 7. The public is invited and a full attendance of members is requested at 61-2 o clock. The piece reflects on the Gazette's two years of existence and its aims to promote liberty, education, and republican virtues through independent journalism.
A grand concert at Laing's Hall this Thursday Thanksgiving evening features American tenor Mr. M Colburn of New York. New York Press praises his performance as David in the oratorio, noting his powerful range and dramatic expression, and recalls his forty nights in Boston.
A broad declaration argues that The People include all who toil to build wealth and comfort. It urges unity of workers against tyranny, claims liberty and equal rights as birthrights, and calls on citizens to use their political power to achieve shared prosperity and social regeneration.
A reflective exhortation urges readers to evaluate political measures by their contributions to liberty and equality. It argues that true republicanism requires action to defend universal rights, urging citizens to support genuine reform and oppose tyrannical power. The piece emphasizes virtue, conscience, and the divine basis of liberty guiding public duty.
The article details the Georgia voyage from Chagres with 230 passengers including Mr. Gershom Frazee and notable figures Senator Downs Foote and Gwin and Gen Herrera. It notes two deaths on board from California dysentery and a San Francisco Sagamore explosion with expected twenty five lives lost and many wounded. Cholera ravages San Francisco as ships face storms and beach groundings with several vessels ashore.
The Senate referred the President's Message to committees and passed one or two acts before dinner. In the House the Standing Committees were announced and the Message referred. A debate on the Fugitive Slave Law arose on the slavery issue with Messrs Giddings of Ohio and McClernand of Illinois taking part.
On Wednesday afternoon November 27 Rev Dr Murray united Manquis DeLaraverre Dory of Elizabethtown and Herneris F Winliams of Wheatsheaf in marriage.
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