Freemen's Ticket and the Sovereign People
A fragment discusses Freemen's ticket and declares liberties depend on the sovereign people as the place of refuge. The terse note frames popular sovereignty as ultimate authority.
27 Apr 1836
Page 1
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1836
Page
1
A fragment discusses Freemen's ticket and declares liberties depend on the sovereign people as the place of refuge. The terse note frames popular sovereignty as ultimate authority.
The Albany Daily Advertiser extols General Harrison's actions during the Tippecanoe era. It praises his frontier defense against Indians in 1812. cites Kentucky Legislature honors. recounts his leadership at Fort Wayne and Piqua. lauds his war council, discipline, and popular regard among Kentucky troops.
A historical list enumerates candidates for president and vice president William H. Harrison and Francis Granger, with gubernatorial and senatorial electors named by county. It details electors such as Benjamin Ruggles Belmont, Joseph Ridgway Franklin, and others including Geo. P. Torrence Hamilton and Elijah Huntington Wood, across numerous Ohio counties.
A historic North Carolina legal anecdote describes a Round Robin where lawyers in 1810 refuse Mr B’s inn keeping. They form a mock congress to quit his house and relocate, signing a circular note to the landlord. The story credits a long surviving Western State lawyer for inspiration.
A satirical declaration complains of a landlord’s alleged abuses to tenants at the White Lion. It mocks hunger and seeks public support, accusing the landlord of unfair rations, pest problems, and restless disturbances as part of oppression.
A reader letter denounces a tyrant landlord and accomplices Mrs B and Miss Sally for cruelty and deceit in boarding arrangements. The writers allege drunken acts and theft by a partner named B, claim a mock trial protected the thief, and announce a final severance from the three parties to protect their housing and relations.
Mr Madden, a late traveler in Syria and Egypt, recounts attempting to cross the Red Sea opposite Suez at ebb tide. An Indian sailor walked across in nine minutes with chin at water level, returning with Madden nearly eight inches taller than his guide. The sea widened to two to three miles at low tide, and Madden notes Napoleon and French officers crossed similarly, narrowly escaping drowning on return.
In a Lynn Record reminiscence, the notorious forty years past known as Crazy Grimes or Eaph Grimes burst into a Court Louse session. He spurred his horse into the courtroom, scattering the court, bar, and jury, shouting defiance and a vow to force justice.
A reflective piece on doctors at bedside in bereavement. It describes the physician's pain when families seek certainty of life and the scene of grieving spouses and mothers. A widow weeps by the window by the fire, while no one else notices the sorrow.
Dr Monro reports how rose petals are steeped in pure water in a earthen or woollen vessel exposed to sun by day and kept indoors at night. The surface forms a scum which is absorbed by a small cotton on a stick end, squeezed into a tiny vial for use, and production continues as scum forms.
The text extols industry as the cure for sloth and a source of unique pleasures from effort. It urges parents to spend short daily tutoring moments with children to spark progress. A frontier anecdote follows of Highland drovers astonished by a steam carriage near Paisley, contrasting old beliefs with new power.
The report notes an 8 rise in surplus revenue and a need to diminish it. It cites the public deposits and bank returns to the treasury with figures around thirty three million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars as of March.
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