24 Oct 1860
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1860
Page
1
A fragmentary verse scene contemplates noble aspirations as Godly guidance, urging not to label them as mere vale or wild. The speaker muses on the poet's reach and the angelic aid guiding high creative purpose.
The Clermont Courier urges young voters to study the Constitution and laws, reflect before casting ballots, and support honest principles. It contrasts Stephen A. Douglas and Lincoln, condemns demagoguery, and calls for voting for true freedom and justice.
The article extols the Indian Summer as a fairy season sometimes seen in October and sometimes before November. It describes foliage color changes rich with oaks and maples, hazy blue skies, mild temperatures, and a brief, magical display seen behind hills, likening it to a second summer across Europe and Asia.
A fragment from American Agriculturist offers a method to store potatoes by trenching, covering with straw and earth, and using a funnel to seal the heap. The piece then shifts to social gossip about courting, marriage, and domestic life, including remarks by Mrs Partington and a neighbor in California.
Frederick Amthor recalls a mob killing in Sanderson where a Illinois man Evans was torn by a mob for expressing anti slavery views. He describes the Whip murder, a decayed body found near town and the Henderson New Era defending the act.
A compilation of moral maxims about sin envy drunkenness and self discipline. The text urges honesty patience and restraint, warns that a divided family weakens society and that pleasure seekers risk ruin. It emphasizes innocence patience prayers gratitude and the dangers of tavern companionship.
A lengthy debate rails against Democratic failures to pass national issues while accusing Republicans of defeating key measures. The text cites the Homestead Bill, Pacific Railroad, Overland California Mail, polygamy abolition, and New Mexico slave code repeal, and recounts episodes on slave trade and a Missouri legislative exchange.
In Illinois, Abraham Lincoln rebukes Douglas and his followers for accusing Republicans of seeking social and political equality for black people. He asserts he does not support intermarriage or enfranchising black citizens, stresses a perpetual difference between races, and defends the state's anti marriage laws while pledging to uphold them.
A historical column notes the giant Ansilesia Arnoldi from Java with five foot blooms and tiny seeds needing magnification. It mentions American tastes, the smallest flower query, a tongue in cheek line about a parrot peacock monkey and man, and a comic misquote from a Weaverville stage performance highlighting a line about a world.
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