Southern education plan urged for yeomen schoolmasters
The speech urges legislatures to fund one educated young man per county as a schoolmaster, bind him to teach for several years, and secure state positions for graduates. It argues slaveholding youth should train as masters to uphold slavery, resist abolition influences, and promote a slaveholding literature and education.
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Euphradian Society of South Carolina College
Sial Norman
Oir
West Point
France
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Ian
Pipsa
Ob scene and Wicked in The Nation on Amalgamation
A fragmentary colonial era debate critiques reports of race mingling and violence amid Philadelphia riots. It invokes President Adams era rhetoric, cites Ohio and Kentucky press, and contrasts allegations in the National Gazette about social amalgamation and promenade scenes.
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Philadelphia
Chesnut Street
Mational Gazette
Slavery cited as enemy of public benevolence in a Louisville Journal note
An excerpt from a slave-state paper argues slavery corrupts liberality and benevolence, contrasting northern and southern aid during New York and Charleston fires. It asserts southern charity lags behind the North and condemns Northern penuriousness.
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Louisville Journal
New York
Charleston
South
Abolitionist Views Promptions and Misrepresentations in Selma Letter
A Selma Free Press note discusses a Cincinnati dated letter about abolitionists. It reviews claimed abolitionist positions on interracial marriage and exposes misstatements about slaveholding networks, clarifying the paper’s stance against circulating brutal pictures.
Abolition Debate and Public Notices Amid Press Contention
A reprinted correspondence discusses abolitionist caricatures, slaveholding pride, and questions to candidates about slavery in District of Columbia and territories. It cites the American Anti-Slavery Society, Ohio’s anti slavery societies, and a Free Press editor’s reply, with reflections on public sentiment and moral reform. The letter criticizes misperceptions and defends abolitionist aims amid partisan rhetoric.
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The
Free Prec
Congress
District of Columbia
Territories
Ohio
Free Press
Runaway Slave Minty In Cahawba Jail Notice 1838
A jail notice from Cahawba dated May 12, 1838, announces a runaway enslaved woman named Minty being held by jailer Love. The ad claims Minty formerly belonged to Dr. Marshall of Cahawba but now to Dr. Withers of Green County Alabama. It requests the owner to prove property and claim Minty or she will be dealt with by law. Minty is described as large, likely around eighty years old, with marks of tar on her legs.
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Dallas County
Minty
Marshall
Cahawba
Withers
Green County
Als
Erié
Rhe i
West Indies
Islands
Newtonneed
Prentices
Thie Island
Nepene
Bridgetown
Benno
Antigua
Ip Js
England
St. Andrew
Thompson
Liverpool
Albany
Sun
Ireland
Melbourne
Decatur County
Friends of Emancipation
Indiana
Friends of the Cause
Seach
Anton
Ander
Sones Sock
Aimee State Aery Society
Trial of Cincinnati Rioters Ends In Hung Jury Discharge
The Court of Common Pleas heard the trial of rioters involved in attacking the press. After nearly three days of testimony and a night's deliberation, the jury could not agree and was discharged, with a new trial ordered for the November term. Nine jurors opposed damages, citing lack of conclusive evidence.
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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 halts plans for state society
An abbreviated fragment notes Cox and Morrow reporting from an East Coast location about a sore affliction delaying a convention. The delay affects hopes to form a state society and the overall project remains unsettled.
Diffusion of light urged by Women's Anti-Slavery meeting
An Emancipator note states the Philadelphia convention did not sponsor the mob arson. A few individuals held the Wednesday meeting, and the author asks to be added to the calling list for the cause. The piece emphasizes liberty, light, and unity among honest minds.
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Philadelphia
Proclamation by Governor Ritner on Philadelphia arson reward
Governor Ritner offers a five hundred dollar reward for the apprehension and conviction of those who burned Pennsylvania Hall and the Orphans' Asylum in Philadelphia. The proclamation urges justice and adherence to law, warning against tyranny and defending constitutional rights. The document cites mayoral duties and calls on officers to pursue offenders.
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Ritner
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
P Phia
I. Ritner
Commonwealth
Pennsylvania Hall
Orphans’ Asylum
Thirteenth Street
Thomas H. Burrowes
Mob permits destruction of edifice. plan for new building
The Niagara Courier reports a mob destruction of a 40 000 dollar edifice was allowed by city authorities. Stockholders have drafted a plan for a still costlier replacement to be erected on the same site, with talk of paying costs and opposing despotism.
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Aekbolien
Niagara Courier
Honor to whom Honor in Kentucky slave case letter
A Kentucky clergyman’s letter recounts a slave holder’s awakening conscience and plan to free slaves at 21 or 25 with compensation, illustrating evolving views on emancipation and justice amid a circulated newspaper piece. The piece notes readers’ reactions and moral reflections sparked by the publication.
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Kentucky
Chester
Pro Slavery Echoes from Ohio Legislature Debated
The text cites circulating extracts from an Eastern paper criticizing Ohio lawmakers for anti abolition stances. It lists seventeen members who opposed receiving the grievances address and names several officials, noting a desire to erase certain names from the record.
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Ohio
Thomas J
Green
Matthias Medill
Morgan
Gan
Kee
Roller
Smith
Smucker
Stewart
Tracy
Witten
Smucker Hwever
Liabilities of newspaper recipients and escape tale
The item notes readers’ liability for uncirculated papers and non subscribed issues, then recounts an Elkton Ky letter describing three prisoners escaping a jail aided by two Miss Bunch daughters and a loyal dog. It includes dispatches on pirates, Canadian black soldiers, the Earl of Durham’s Quebec proclamation, and rail accidents near an elevated track.
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Elkton Ky
Green River
Seilor
Morrow
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