13 Jul 1836
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1836
Page
1
A radical call to defend liberties frames the sovereign people as refuge when freedoms are endangered in a declared political stance. The message emphasizes popular sovereignty and civic action as a remedy.
The document lists a presidential ticket William H. Harrison and Francis Granger, with governor candidate Joseph Vance. It details a long list of district electors by name and home county across Ohio, including Benjamin Ruggles Belmont and Ira Belknap Muskingum, among others.
The N Y Courier argues for a Whig triumph on principle over Van Buren. It lauds the Deposite bill passage as a victory for virtue against corruption, condemns Van Buren and his Ohio allies, and urges readers to support Harrison and Webster while opposing party bosses and office holders.
A roiling political screed accuses six senators of dissent on surplus revenue and attacks the party’s strength. The piece mocks opponents, cites a Virginia murder trial, and lampoons the year ahead with satirical forecasts. It closes with a religious exhortation urging trust in the Lord.
A political column argues against Martin Van Buren by asserting he has little genuine capital with the electorate. It contends he relies on borrowed glory from Andrew Jackson, lacks original public measures, and can only trade on intrigue. The piece predicts his break after March 4 as the people push him from power.
The Peoples Press notes Van Buren supported granting suffrage to blacks and mulattoes, opposed arming voters and road workers voting, and favored electing justices of the peace by the people. The article cites the 1821 New York Constitutional Convention debates.
Poem-like admonition advising readers how to cope with various fits of emotion and folly. It suggests walking outdoors to vent passion and counting clock ticks for idleness, urges not to seek extravagance by visiting jails, and warns that ambition ends in graveyard truth. The piece contrasts endurance with pity for the afflicted.
A Rural Repository piece recounts Peter the Great and Oberlin defying calls of impossibility. It details building a road and bridge named the Bridge of Charity, and a pine slide in Switzerland moved by perseverance. The moral: time and patience turn effort into achievement.
The piece admonishes smokers to limit the offense by masking odors and rinsing, arguing that public tobacco use harms others and labels most public smokers as selfish and unruly, targeting streets theaters and taverns. It insists on considerate behavior to fit civilized society.
From Niles Weekly Register entries report the packet ship Independance sailing from New York on the 8th and arriving in Liverpool after fourteen days and eighteen hours. The Providence Journal notes four brothers and one sister born in North Providence total 405 years among them. Boston exports seven thousand chairs weekly. Massachusetts law now imposes one year imprisonment and a $100 fine for injuring another's tree. New York railroad capital stood at thirty five million dollars before a legislative cession, later rising by about fifty million.
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