Slavery and the Slave Trade Debate in Legislature
The article notes the vexed question occupying lawmakers with a special Saturday order and a Walworth county member’s outburst. It urges the legislature to spend at least half the current session on this issue, to the exclusion of other matters.
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Walworth Co
Popular Humbugs Lectures Spark Ridicule Across New York
A New York critic mocks H. H. Van Amringe for lecturing on land limits free soil and women’s rights while praising his musical speaking style. The piece laments his purported theories as visionary and ridiculous and hopes for more of his essays to spread his influence from coast to coast.
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H. H. van Amringe
City of
New York
Alladdin
Mustapha
Cholera Fears and Local Notes From July 1847 Dispatch
Telegraph reports cholera worst in many places and possibly to reach the United States by 1848. Preventives include assa lutida opium camphor chamomile flowers tebzero taken inwardly. Legislature sits with little to show and under consideration a lunatic asylum appropriation. A comic note on William Davis advertising appears in town.
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Europe
United States
New and Cheap Publications Offered at Corner Bull Beef and Battery
A catalog of new and valuable books arriving soon notes titles such as Golden Visions with author bio and a history of YouTickleMe and TilTickleYou, plus Legislators Economist and Members own Book. It lists comical ingredients and skull metaphors, and thanks Cass, Clay, Dodge, Waller for public documents.
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Bull Beef St. and
Battery
Cass
Clay
Dodge
Waller
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