Education plan to train schoolmasters across counties
A Southern education proposal urges each county to send a young man for schoolmaster training funded by the state. After graduation he would teach in his county for years, with guaranteed positions in state academies in return for free education. The speech links slaveholding ideology, anti abolition views, and a plan to build a slaveholding literature to defend servitude while promoting regional self reliance and economic schemes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Euphradian Society of South Carolina College
Sial Norman
Oir
West Point
France
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Ian
Pipsa
Ob scene and Wicked. A Northern pamphleteer rage on amalgamation
A historical voice blasts obscenity and wickedness in debates over race mixing. It denounces White and Black social mixing reports in Philadelphia and accuses Vice President Richard M. Johnson of prompting violence. The piece contrasts Ohio Kentucky Journal with National Gazette Philadelphia coverage and calls for reform.
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Richard M. Johnson
United States
National Gazettee of
Philadelphia
Chesnut Street
Mational Gazette
Slavery, Charity, and Public Benevolence in American States
The piece argues slavery corrupts liberality and charity, citing a Louisville Journal extract. It contrasts New York and Charleston disaster relief giving, noting New York and Southern contributions differ sharply and northern generosity versus southern penuriousness. It stresses slavery as the root of diminished benevolence in the South.
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Louisville Journal
New York
Charleston
South
Abolitionist Letter and Local Rebuttal in Selma
The Selma Free Press discusses a May 9 letter from Cincinnati detailing abolitionist aims and misstatements. It notes disagreements over misrepresentations about miscegenation, warns against circulating torture images, and states opposition to such material in border states while defending abolitionists’ principles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selma
Abolition Debate and Slavery Policy Letters
The letter-writers challenge abolitionist claims and argue about abolitionist aims in Congress and state legislatures. They discuss anti slavery societies growth in Ohio and the role of the American Anti Slavery Society, noting the politics of slavery in the District of Columbia and territories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Free Prec
Congress
District of Columbia
Territories
Ohio
Free Press
Runaway Slave Minty Reported in Dallas County Jail
Public notice from Cahawba jail dated May 12 1838 entries Minty a large likely eighty year old enslaved woman reported as runaway. Claims of ownership shift from Dr Marshall Cahawba to Dr Withers Green County Als near Erie with instruction for owner to prove property or face legal action.
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Dallas County
Minty
Marshall
Cahawba
Withers
Green County
Als
Erié
Rhe i
Riots in Cincinnati Trial Ends in Mistrial Order
Report covers three day trial of rioters who destroyed a press in Cincinnati. Jury could not agree after a night deliberation. a new trial is ordered for the November term. The piece notes perceived guilt in testimony and references Emancipation and Birney letters.
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Cincinnati
Court of Common
Pichald Gordon
Joseph 8
Mee
Te Troughs
Salmon
Harvey Hall
Messrs. Read
McClean
Fox
Worthington
Morris
Wright
Sore affliction delays state convention plan
Morrow reports from ae that a sore affliction kept him from forwarding an convention for forming a state society. He expresses belief the effort would proceed under better conditions.
Diffusion of light urged by unnamed abolitionist group
A Philadelphia anti slavery activist argues the Women's Anti Slavery Convention bore no public meeting during the week of the arson. The Emancipator notes the Wednesday gathering was led by a few individuals and not by the Convention, asserting responsibility lay with those few.
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Philadelphia
Proclamation on Philadelphia arson and reward offered
The document reports Governor Ritner offering a $500 reward for the capture and conviction of those who set fires at the Pennsylvania Hall and the Orphans' Asylum in Philadelphia on the nights of May 17 and 18. It calls for magistrates to aid investigations and to uphold law while guarding constitutional rights amid unrest. The piece also touches on slavery debates and abolitionist views linked to Van Buren, Clay, and local editorials.
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Ritner
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
P Phia
I. Ritner
Commonwealth
Pennsylvania Hall
Orphans’ Asylum
Thirteenth Street
Thomas H. Burrowes
von Vax Buren
New York
Martin- Greno-Mr. Clay
Sealine Chain
Liberia
Hony Cay
Abolition Buren
Martin
van Buren
Henry Clay
Destruction by Mob Over Building Costs in City
The Niagara Courier notes a costly edifice, valued around 40,000 dollars, destroyed with authorities allowing it. Stockholders plan a larger replacement on the same site, funded by future payments, amid a mobocratic sentiment and calls for strong patriotism against despotism.
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Aekbolien
Wiagara Courier
Honor to whom Honor from a Kentucky clergyman
A Kentucky clergyman writes that some slaveholders consider justice over selfish measures. He cites a case where a master freed his young slaves at 25, with plans to prepare them for freedom and pay each $100 to encourage voluntary manumission, while others threaten freedom only if not aided by the master. The letter notes readers’ emotions stirred by the newspaper.
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Kentucky
Chester
Pro slavery figures named in Ohio Legislature expose
The article blasts pro slavery members of the last Ohio Legislature with two extracts from an Eastern newspaper. It lists names such as Cannon Grayphill Green and Smucker and notes their votes against grievances petitions while condemning efforts tied to abolitionist actions and police demonstrations in Eastern cities.
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Ohio
Thomas J
Green
Matthias Medill
Morgan
Gan
Kee
Roller
Smith
Smucker
Stewart
Tracy
Witten
Smucker Hwever
Moss
Marlboro
Boston ‘Times
Norwich
Cory
Liabilities for periodicals and notable events emerge
The excerpt outlines legal liability for recipients of newspapers and details assorted incidents. It notes that anyone receiving a periodical or using it without subscribing bears payment responsibility, even if not ordered, while those at deposit sites must notify publishers or risk liability. It also reports a Kentucky escape tale involving three prisoners and two young women, a dog, and a black man.
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Elkton Ky
Green River
Seilor
Morrow
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