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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1836
Page
1
The fragment outlines weekly publication rates at ten dollars and four per year, with discounts for long-term subscribers. It lists advertisement charges, continuation rates, and special rates for issues, plus notes on address changes and editor letters.
A meditation on love as a divine and eternal principle guiding human affection. The text contrasts polished monuments with love’s simple truths, arguing that Heaven’s law is Love and that creation embodies this aim through a child’s tenderness, birds, beasts, and fields.
The document records the unanimous declaration by Texas delegates in 1836 asserting independence from a centralized system and defending life liberty and property. It argues the federal constitution no longer protects rights, condemning military rule and priestly influence as tyranny. The text portrays a shift from a federative republic to a central despotism and urges resistance by the governed.
Delegates in Austin declare Texas a free sovereign republic after asserting Mexican rule violated constitutional rights, calling for self preservation and a new government. Signers include Richard Ellis, Edwin Waller, James Bowie, and Thomas J. Rusk among others from multiple counties.
Reports from Matagorda describe a Mexican siege on San Antonio de Behar led by Generals Sesma and Coss. The assault began February 28 with 40 infantry companies and about 1,500 cavalry, supported by 500 mules. Texian defenders under Bowie and Travers numbering about 200 repelled the attack with 18 pounders, Mexican losses estimated at 500. Texans draft pledged fierce volunteers to push Mexicans beyond the Rio Grande. Also, Little Rock residents discuss Texas secession from Arkansas and the United States, with delegates to the Texian Convention named and fears of anarchy and independence.
The Advocate argues against joining a larger federal structure, saying the Republic of Texas would be insignificant among nations and that leaving the Union risks losing autonomy. It contends that the only hope for Texans is to remain a separate republic rather than join a different government.
The Methodist Christian Sentinel is moved to the Virginian Conference and will be published as the Virginia Conference Sentinel under Rev. William A. Smith Rev. Moses Brock and Rev. John Early, with edits by Rev. Leroy M. Lee. Profits support Virginia Annual Conference members and preacher families, widows, and orphans.
The Trenton Rail Road Convention, meeting January 14, urged using all honorable means to promote a Beaufort to West railroad. A committee was appointed to memorialize the Legislature, and the paper expresses strong support for moving the project to execution.
A Mobile letter describes the steamship Benjamin Franklin bursting its boilers as it started for Montgomery. Reports say thirty killed or wounded with twenty to thirty injured. Passengers and crew faced the disaster while ladies and aft passengers suffered no injuries. Isaac Williams of Cumberland County North Carolina, recently near Portland Wilcox County Alabama, was thrown far from the wreck and found dead. His watch and $2,500 were recovered and cared for by his factor. Many others may have perished before reaching shore.
A delegation of twenty seven Ottawa and Chippewa chiefs and delegates are in Washington negotiating over lands within Michigan. The War Secretary oversees the talks and a favorable outcome for both sides is believed likely.
The celebrity stallion and racer Timoleon, associated with Virginia, died on the eighteenth of last month. The report notes his fame in racing circles and his ties to Virginia breeding and performance events.
A Mississippi man, chased by Justice Lynch and deputies, hanged himself recently with apparent composure. Before dying he adopted the idea of Mike OFlaherty who hanged himself in his cell on the first day of confinement, asking if this was better than troubling a jury.
A fragmented, archaic text references the English nobility and the laboring Newton with terms like smart people and fertile crap. It mentions Wilmington at and suggests a discussion of social hierarchy, class, and national concerns, though the garbled OCR yields little coherent detail.
An extracted private letter dated January 23 claims Poland must keep its nationality, Europe’s balance must be restored, and England may mediate with honor for both nations. It states Russia would push Vienna’s treaty by force, while the United States would be paid, and remains uncertain how long Rascar’s leaders will endure.
A garbled passage discusses religious and national phrases, noting their stated use as acts. The text implies belief that such terms may be scarcely believable or possible to accept, with references to late dates and ideological contexts.
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