06 Feb 1846
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1846
Page
1
The notice lists subscription terms of one dollar seventy five cents per year in advance and two dollars if paid within the year, with two dollars fifty cents if not paid until year end, and mentions standard advertisement rates.
The New York Courier reports the Hibernia reaching New York with twenty two day late Europe news. It covers Peel Ministry restoration, cabinet formation struggles, and pacific President’s Message reception. Markets show minor shifts in cotton flour and finances recover from prior panic.
The London Times and Morning Chronicle praise the presidents message for free trade rhetoric while signaling cautious paths on Oregon and potential war. European papers mix optimism with warnings, urging negotiation to avoid a costly rupture between Britain and America.
From Vera Cruz to Pensacola news describes Paredes’s likely control of Mexico City and imminent government reorganization. It notes Herrera’s dictatorship angering Mexicans and hints Slidell talks, Tampico garrison anxieties, and possible U S naval action to back diplomacy, with threats to Texas and California.
The Liberty Convention at Columbus on December 30 adopted resolutions urging abolition of slavery and slave power, pledging to vote for no party not fully committed to anti slavery aims, and outlining steps to expand freedom, reform government, and oppose Texas annexation as slave expansion. The document condemns abduction of Ohio citizens, defends state sovereignty, and calls for unified anti slavery action across parties.
A historical party platform urges repeal of Black Laws, federal post rate cuts, and abolition of franking. It defends a Mississippi River boundary at the center channel, condemns slavery, praises Hale in New Hampshire, and calls for a Liberty Fund and active county organization with agents and printed materials to spread freedom.
The Rochester American profiles Ames a Leroy journeyman shoemaker who, starting five years ago with limited arithmetic, studied algebra geometry trigonometry and mechanics. He taught himself grammar Latin Greek French German and read Virgil Tacitus Horace Telemachus and history works while working nights. The Cincinnati Atlas notes a petition for an Ohio River bridge charter in Cincinnati.
The Boston Daily Mail critiques women signed petitions to Congress against Texas admission and slavery in DC, praising a future female presidency. It contrasts past revolutionary grandmothers with contemporary opponents, arguing women should influence government despite “petticoat government” slurs.
A Saint Louis report notes Dr Durbin’s images of Balbec terraces in Syria with massive stones and arches. It cites Lamartine on antediluvian work, Roman arch debates, and Egypt’s influence before Moses, plus Pompey’s Pillar as a contrast. Rumor also mentions Behlet’s lynching in Myra jail.
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