President's Message on Texas Claims and National Boundaries
The message outlines Texas efforts to extend jurisdiction over El Paso Worth Presidio and Santa Fe counties east of the Rio Grande. It argues the u s supreme law applies stateside and territories, cites the Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty, and asserts the President must enforce laws while Congress decides any new civil or military government for contested lands.
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Rio Grande
Department of New Mexico
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Passo
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Rio Colorado
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Guadalupe Hidalgo
Legislative Department
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Monroe
P. H. Bell
Boundary questions loom in Texas New Mexico dispute
Texas Governor reports delays and possible violence in boundary talks with the United States. Millard Fillmore urges Congress to settle the Texas Texas New Mexico line promptly, proposing indemnity to Texas if needed. He notes the risk of arbitration and favors a congressional decision before session end. Governor Bell asks Texas president to confirm U.S. Civil and Military Governor Monroe's proclamation in New Mexico Territory.
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Washington
Remark on Prognostication Backfires as Millard Fillmore Rises
A New York Star correspondent recalls 30 years ago a Seneca Falls man praising a youth as the best workman, predicting he would fail by leaving his trade to study law. That youth, Millard Fillmore, becomes President of the United States.
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Mynderse
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United States
President Fillmore praised in loyal newspaper tribute
The piece lauds President Fillmore as a determined leader who will uphold the law against Southern secession and Texas treason. It notes Gov Bell appeals to the South and criticizes the current administration while reporting local statistics from John B. Brown and the borough and Sugar Grove township. It includes calls for subscriber payments, cabinet appointments, and various 1840s notices such as banking, education, and cholera reports.
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John B. Brown
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Ballance
Wasnsex Boroves
Boundaries of Utah Territory and Democratic Shift in North State
The Utah Territory is described with boundaries to California Oregon the Rocky Mountain summit and the 37th parallel. In the Old North State the Whigs suffer heavy losses as insufficient votes. The Legislature is expected to be Democratic.
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Oregon
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Old North State
Opposition to small-note ban shakes state economy and politics
The Mercer Whig reports how the act banning small notes after January 21 harms business in Pittsburgh with 3 to 4 percent discounts and disrupts state commerce. It argues the law reflects bank-hating partisans aiming to discredit paper currency rather than public need, threatens interstate trade, and could be punished by voters at next winter’s elections.
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Pittsburgh
Priest Executes Liquor Clamp In Alfred Grocery
A Catholic priest in Alfred, visiting Irish Catholics, ordered a liquor shop to stop selling. When the man resisted, the priest used an axe to ruin barrels and flogged the offender, then advised him to keep cool. Aug. 2. Other items note Cuban movement reports to President Fillmore, a cabinet shuffle, Sing Sing fire, runaways from Pennsylvania, and Whig gains in St Louis.
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Wasuinaron
Fillmore
Letter From Mr Crawford on Galphin claim
George W Crawford writes from Wasthetos on July 16 to the House of Representatives about the Galphin claim. He notes the April filing seeks investigation of his conduct and the claim's settlement, reporting condemnation of the claim except principal payment. He asks the House to start legal action to recover any of the Galphin sum and pledges not to delay or obstruct the act's relief for Milledge Galphin executor.
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Milledge Galphin
George Galphin
George W.crawford
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