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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1850
Page
3
Poem pleading for reunion and shelter from a distant heart. The speaker asks Prue Love to return to a cherished home and enduring refuge. Reassuring lines describe a steadfast heart, summer emotional weather, and a plea to come back to rest from labor. The piece closes with a signed note From A True Friend.
The protest by Southern Senators opposed to admitting California to statehood in 1859 argues the bill would legitimize anti-slavery action and deprive slaveholding states of equal territorial rights. They condemn exclusion of slavery, warn it endangers the Union, and insist on preserving constitutional balance and state equality.
A visitor describes the British Museum’s treasures gathered from Egypt Assyria and other lands. He highlights Rosetta Stone Thebes reliefs jade sarcophagi and the vast King George IV library as a treasure house of history with Milton Shakspeare and Newton autographs while noting lighting arrangements and basement rooms.
The excerpts discuss Lord Byron and his club foot, noting painful early surgeries without success. It portrays his mother as passionate and harsh, shaping Byron’s character through coldness and neglect. Biographer Moore cites passages describing the mother’s impact and Byron’s resulting psychological strain and misanthropy.
The House remarks on a patriotic passage from a reprised speech by James McDowell of Virginia. It recalls Washingtons rallying moment, depicting a banner scene atop West Augusta mountains. The orator hopes future generations will bless those who kept the Union undivided and free under one country.
The text argues restraint governs virtue and social order, warning excess corrupts mercy into weakness, economy into penury, justice into cruelty, and culture into crime. It links restraint to divine sanction and universal harmony, citing planetary order and daily cycles to illustrate temperance. Judge Peck’s remarks frame restraint as foundational for decorum, law, and stability.
An awkward scene unfolds as a painting prompts strong emotions among visitors. A young woman, moved by the portrait she believes resembles a man named Robert, questions the gallery crowd and authorities, while observers debate art, identity, and the sitter’s fate under dim gallery lighting.
An elderly Virginia woman learns her long missing son survived the Mexican War and is living in the city. Mr Whitehurst finds the name in a register, revealing the son’s identity and bringing the family joyous reunification. The grateful reunion follows years of believed death and hardship.
An Irish attorney faces the inconveniences of debt suspicion as Billy avoids costs, keeps steadfast in his rural retreat, and relies on evasive habits. He travels between the country and town, guarded by fear of legal threats and mock confrontations, while debts and authorities loom.
Fragment from a periodical recalling famous final statements of leaders and philosophers. It references Napoleon, Saladin, Walter Scott, and others amid a whirl of historic voices, noting dramatic phrases spoken or imagined as they faced death.
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