Confederate resolutions on enslaved people cited in 1863 history
In a Civil War era recap, Kentucky Congressman George P. Hedges introduces a Confederate preamble and resolution opposing U S measures to enlist enslaved people and proposing to return or sell captured Africans to raise funds for slaveholders. Reports cover other wartime actions and diplomacy from Washington to London.
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George P. Hedges
Kentucky
House of Representatives
Congress
Washington
United States
Confederate States of America
Confederate States
Committee On the Judiciary
Confederacy
A. D. Mahoney
Prisoners of State Association
Abraham Lincoln
City of
New York
Leavenworth
Kan
Baylor
Smith‘field
Harper’s Ferry
Pennsylvania
Tarper
Brown
Ickaburg
Ilanois
James Monroe
Stokes
Tennessee
Morgan
Cainesville
Minnesota
Nolensville
Tenn
Arkadelphia
Ark
Hooker
Army of the Potomac
War Department
United States Senate
House
Treasury
Army
Sailors' Tobacco Ploy Ends in Wood Wrapped Tobacco
A sailor sold a pound of tobacco claimed as golden leaf from Calcutta for two shillings. The buyer later found a hard wooden plug with tobacco leaf affixed, revealing the ruse. The gentleman seeks out the sailor to recover the deception reported by the London Mail.
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Calcutta
London Mail
Birthday Cake Reverie Sparks Childlike Witty Remark
A small birthday party scene shows Willie and guests around a dining table as big sister brings a lit cake. Willie ponders aloud that if it were his sister's birthday the room would be ablaze, a line that amuses some adults and prompts a quiet moment in the room.
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Willie
Big Sister
Daily Heavenly Manna and Birth Dates Memorandum
An advertisement for Daily Heavenly Manna a Scripture collection offering daily religious counsel and a birthday autographs record titled Your Friends Birth Dates It includes birth and death records a day finder for 150 years and is sold by Bibie and Tract Society 17 Hicks Street Brooklyn NY for 35 cents to 1 postpaid dollar 1
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Heavenly Manna
Christias
Bibie and Tract Society
Hicks Street
Brooklyn
N, Y
Movement On Foot Phrase Quoted In Banter
A dialogue line plays on the phrase movement on foot as a joke about how a movement might occur. The exchange compares walking to transport modes like horseback, automobile, or airship in a witty quip.
Original Methods Challenge Routine Success Rules
A terse reflection on how standard formulas fail to capture the impact of original methods. The text argues that novelty disrupts expectations and reshapes success, prompting reconsideration of accepted routines.
Ink Stain Vanishes From Wool Coat With Alcohol
A leaking fountain pen left an ink spot on a light wool coat. Alcohol was applied gradually until the stain disappeared, with the fabric rubbed between the hands as if washing. The ink trace vanished completely.
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The
Woman’s Home Companion
Horse Survives 14-Day Cave Fast In Oklahoma
A horse wandered into an Oklahoma cave and fasted for fourteen days without food or water. It lost about 300 pounds but recovered quickly after rescue. The cave was hidden under planks that broke as the horse crossed, and the owner suspected theft before the animal was found.
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Oklahoma
World’s Meanest Man and Miscellaneous Items
A column of humorous and curious notes mentions E A Billman as a funeral director and embalmer, jokes about the world’s meanest man, a note on England’s first dock at Liverpool in 1708, a Daily Thought on personal interest, a cartoon caption Swatting Back about job hopping, a quip about Miss Brady, household cleaning tips using bran for matting, and a remark that forty five percent of U S greenbacks are of denominations two and five dollars.
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William H. Seward
Senate
M. Merceir
Richmond
Hingland
J. M. Mason
London
Curtin
Jakob Bell
Florida
West
Red River
Vicksburg
Bolivar
Douglas
Charleston
S. C
James B. Clay
Liverpool
Fifth Michigan Cavalry
Anandale
Louisiana
Gordon's Landing
United States House of Representatives
Navy
House of Commons
Bentick
Lord Palmerston
Her
W. G. Chapman
CSR
Oklyn Aasbernacle Abernacle
Abraham
Isaac
Jacob
Ishmaela
Esau
Christ Jesus
Church of Christ
Rebecca
Christ
Messiah
Heaven
St. Paul
God
Persian Gulf
Terah
Haran
Palestine
St. Stephen
Sarah
Lot
Canaan
Adam
Chedorlaomer
Braham
County News
Sullivan Union
Terre Haute
Dav
Elder Berry
Gwendolyn
Star
Post Office
Purklind
U. S
Indianapolis News
the Sullivan Union
Sullivan, Ind
E. A. Billman
England
Hiram Offen
Brady
Manny
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