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Newspaper
Prescott Transcript
Location
Prescott, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1860
Page
5
The text argues Abe Lincoln embodies the people’s ideal chief magistrate. It praises his integrity, self made rise, and trust with laboring folk, claiming only a man with heart and clear head can restore government and prosperity, untainted by corruption.
The speech argues labor as the source of human wants and disputes the idea that capital alone can drive work. It defends that labor existed before capital and that educated people must labor to avoid social harm. It critiques the mud sill theory and promotes universal education tied to free labor.
A week’s newspapers recount a massive cyclone and hail storm sweeping Illinois and Iowa. Destruction centers along a line from Linn County to the Mississippi at Camanche and Albany, with Comanche nearly wiped out. One hundred homes lost in a fifteen mile stretch and property damage surpassing £100,000. A chipped Chippewa River raft with 24 men and two women aboard was scattered. 21 men and the women perished.
The State lands assessment guidance directs assessors to list all taxable parcels in each town for 1860 and identify lands omitted since 1859, noting structures valued over $100. It discusses personal property exemptions and offsets, debunking debt offsets and clarifying how exemptions apply to the eight classes of articles, urging adherence to the law and Secretary of State analysis.
Eyewitness accounts describe about 150 houses demolished with bricks stone wood and granite structures leveled or torn apart and scattered. Warehouses mills churches and stores suffered similarly. State relief efforts mobilize for hundreds left destitute with only what they wore.
The Republicans of Clifton are urged to meet in Clifton on Saturday June 16 at 4 p.m. to organize a Republican club for the upcoming campaign. Clifton January 2 1860. Main Republican. Ten h Exhibition of the Wisconsin Agricultural Society. The society announces the Tenth Annual Fair to be held at Madison from September 28 to 28 inclusive with premiums and rules.
Fifty two applications seek Lincoln’s life story as a candidacy note, while Gov Banks calls extra session to curb catse dicense threats. Reports recount Bryant’s food death, Lincoln’s gun irony, Minnesota mill plans, Bates urging Lincoln, and papers noting Lincoln’s name. Also notes on cattle beef prices, party harmony, Parker library bequest, depot moves, veteran Republican support, beans climbing a pole, and strawberry mulching tips.
The Oswego Commercial Times Tuesday notes strong general sentiment among Democrats in Oswego and across the country. It quotes a Democratic writer as expressing firm agreement with the current sentiment and urging unity and action in the party.
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