Choice Congressional Extracts From The Globe Debates
Troy Herald reports selected sharp exchanges in the Thirty Seventh Congress involving Bingham Rose and Conkling Blaine Donnelly Washburne. Extracts show invective and allegory as lawmakers clash over decorum ridicule and personal conduct.
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John Young
Ben Butler
Globe
Mnchan-Conkling
Bingham
Ohio
Rose
Conkling
Mr. Bingham
New York
Roscoe Conkling
Squire
Utica
Dingham
Blaine
Mr. Conkling
Dlaine
Atrut
Theodore ‘Tilson
New York Independent
Davis
Davia
Focoso
Donnelly-Washbourne
Jolson
Northwest
Elihu BG. Washburne
Ignatius Donnelly
Minnesota
Washburne
Donnelly
Whitmas
Nome and the Penalty of Youth Home Image
A reflective essay extols home as penance for youth and refuge for manhood, praising family bonds. It argues home provides joy, protection, and virtue across social classes, with maternal love guiding and offering innocence and heavenlike comfort.
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Earth
Party Invitation Declared Hopeless By Young Lady
A man walking on Washington avenue overheard two aghool children. The boy asked if the girl would attend a party. She replied she cannot encourage his attention as mamma is set against it. She added there is no need for valentines or gum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Speaker
Gravia
Mr. Speaker
M. U
Frankeil
U.S. 5
U. 8
We, Us & Co
Minnesota
Washburne
Illinois
Donnelly
Philadelphia
Ilinois
Pennsylvania Avenue
Ita
John
Grant
Mllinois
Windom
T Linde
Washington Avenue
Old Nan's Heart Revealed by Death in Detroit
A Detroit Free Press tale recalls Old Nan, despised in life yet kind at heart. After dying quietly, she is found with a Bible open on her lap and two keepsakes— Jamie's hair and faded violets— proving a motherly tenderness hidden beneath years of neglect and fear.
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Wwa
Croghan Street
Sharad
Deggarn
Jook
Jamie
Violeta
Detroit
L’rese
Multiple odd tales in Illinois and Paris column
A matrimonial agent offers partners for a fee and a widow with thirteen children responds with caution about remarriage. A Paris medical student recalls a frozen subject causing a deathly fright. Deacon Stiles, a Millerite, wakes his wife with a prophecy of chariots, but she mocks the vision amid winter sleighing.
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Pharantatory
Paris
Ani
Deacon Stiles
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Sue
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Dania
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