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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1847
Page
1
Pry and published weekly by AML Gest and L D Morris. Subscription rates are one dollar seventy five cents annually if paid in advance seven dollars within the year and two dollars fifty cents if payment is delayed past the year. Advertisements are inserted at the usual rates.
Corrspondence from the Baltimore Patriot reports Col. Gewrav and Col. Gentry condemning President Polk for war plans and deception. It recounts fierce criticism of executive power, the Oregon dispute, and calls for Congress to check presidential actions and uphold the Constitution.
The speaker argues that unchecked presidential power could push war and territorial expansion without Congress, warning that such actions would erode constitutional liberties and threaten the Union. Members praised the orator's forceful delivery aboard the Potomac.
The narrative argues that Gen. Kearney and Com. Stockton acted beyond constitutional powers in establishing civil government in California and New Mexico, contrasting with Harrison Perry proclamations. It cites the War of 1812 precedent and warns the administration against overstepping executive authority. In Bath Township Ohio, Edmund Gox dies after a tree fall accident.
Reports from New Orleans detail steamship losses and recoveries off Brazos and Tampico. The Sea was wrecked on the Brazos bar with all hands saved, Neptune crew saved after Tampico bar loss, and the bark Wm. Fry blown off and not yet returned. Col. Coffee and the Alabama Regiment reach Matamoras. Taylor plans march to San Luis Potosi with Tampico as a supply line.
The Usion of the 18th reports from late Mexican papers two weeks after prior advices. General Taylor agrees with Santa Anna to end hostilities and release seven American prisoners for sustenance. Santa Anna responds firmly against any North American presence on Mexican soil. Mexican Congress to meet in December to discuss peace offers, while Santa Anna may be named dictator by San Luis citizens amid war efforts. Durango and Chihuahua suffer Indian depredations. fears of Taylor reaching San Luis on the 21st. In U.S. news, Illinois Legislature elects Stephen A. Douglas as Representative in Congress.
The telegraph report that the English porte were to open is denied. The cholera tale of French royal deaths is false, the plague spreading westward with 1400 dead in Bagdad. Shaken markets, imports of American hops, Cracow annexation shock, Irish distress, French riots, and a Spanish cholera appear. Severe gales injure shipping. Allen sinks near Etaples Boulogne. Havana hurricane tolls and Havana lists.
About two hundred German Catholics met at the Tabernacle and formally seceded from the Roman Church. They seek a reformed primitive church, not Protestant union, following a study group that met on Sundays. A Tribune report notes arrests in New York over a Troy wool theft connected to Patrick McHugh.
An officer's 1846 account describes three sailors and two midshipmen from the Somers burning the Creole at her moorings off Vera Cruz. The daring raid, executed at night with a single boat, involved hijinks and peril as Mexicans were taken prisoner and the ship torched despite castle alarms. Other notes cover Gen. Scott and Gen. Taylor's rumored coordination and Havana lottery news.
The Ohio temperance gathering drew about 2000 delegates over two days with Gen Cary of Cincinnati and T W Tipton Essex delivering thrilling addresses. Resolutions urge petitioning the Legislature on the April third Monday license issue. 15000 to 20000 names pledged for petitions and a temperance agency fund. Tipton praised for eloquence and zeal as state agent. Ohio Statesman notes bold, united effort shaping legislative and electoral action.
The Philadelphia Gadette notes a practice of using pliable paper as wrappers for distant subscribers and hints at a lettered communication in circulation. It also quotes Governor of South Carolina on the Mexican War and President Polk on taxes, concluding with a dispatch about a street procession of wagons and hogs in a town.
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