Abolition of Slavery in All U S Territories
The text asserts freedom as the normal condition of U S territory and declares it a duty to legislate to uphold constitutional rights against any attempt to legalize slavery in any territory, rejecting authority from Congress territorial legislatures or individuals to establish slavery.
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United States
Union
John Brown
Breckinridge Party
Congress
High Seas
Douglas Party
Democracy of the Union
Cincinnati
Democratic Party
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court
Washington
Jefferson
Adams
Madison
Monroe
Jackson
Calhoun
Lincoln
Java
N. Y
Carter
Alford Eddy
Political mobilization and local election notes
The piece urges voters to canvass towns, organize committees to persuade Republicans to vote, and assign watchers at polls. It also comments on M Burnell's congressional bid, church updates, party unity questions, and Erie rail plans plus a Warren Rifle Company meeting for officer elections.
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Warren Rifle Company
Rafts Move Past Tidioule From Little Valley
Within days several rafts of barrels have been run past here to Tidioule. They are generally brought from Little Valley. Who says there is nothing new under the sun?
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Tidioule
Little Valley
Local Tin Shop Project and Mite Society Meeting Notice
Mr Tanner begins erecting a small frame building opposite the Carver House next to William Messner for use as a tin shop store room and more by Kimball and Beecher. The Mite Society meets at William McMullen's on Tuesday evening next.
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Tanner
Carver House
Wm. Messner
Kimball & Beecher
The
Mite Society
Wm. McMullen
Political Fuss Over Douglas Breckinridge Ticket In Warren County
Local readers report the Douglas State Central Committee has withdrawn the straight Electoral ticket and backed the Reading ticket while endorsing Douglas and Johnson. Breckinridge loyalists fuse on the same ticket as Foster’s view shifts. Voters face a mixed 27 man slate, prompting questions about democratic control and the meaning of fusion.
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Douglas State Central Committee
Straght
Reading
Douglas
Johnson
Breckinridge
France
Douglas State Committee
Buchanan
Foster
Breckinridge Committee
Warren County
Lincoln
Political Tensions and Italian War News in The Evie Gazette
The Evie Gazette reports dissatisfaction within the Douglas State Committee over Breckinridge allies, with a City figure threatening to replace Breckinridge names with Lincoln names to fracture the ticket. It also notes Garibaldi’s Volturno battle outcomes, and Indiana’s Republican rise with a 10,020 majority and seven of eleven Congressmen elected.
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Evie Gazette
Douglas
Breckinridge
Lincoln
Eurorpe
Washington
Italy
Volturno
Garibaldi
Capua
Indiana
Curtin's High Governor Margin in Pennsylvania Remarked
The report notes Curtin's official statewide majority of 32 164, the largest for a governor in the state aside from Pollack, and comments on the significance of such a margin for Democratic support.
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Pennsylvania
Curtin
Gov. Pollack
Republican meeting set for Garland with speakers Shortt Day
A Republican meeting will be held in Garland next Tuesday evening with W. H. Shortt and E. H. Day of Youngsville as speakers.
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Garland
W. H. Shortt
E. H. Day
Youngsville
Results of Lincoln election spark party realignments
The piece argues November's vote will crown Republican gains while opponents decry the shift as a crisis for the Union. It labels Northern extremists as fringe and pins the era on a revived federal stance, slavery limits, and calls Lincoln’s administration to restore founding-era compromises.
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South
James M. Mason
Gov. Brown
Miss
Preston 8. Brooks
South Carolina
Congress
Washington Jefferson
Pinckney
Madison
Democratic Party
Douglas
Breckinridge
Territories
Lincoln
Eliot
Elysium
North
Congress of the
United States
Free Republic
Supreme Court
Georgia
Abraham Lincoln
Republican Party
Republican Victory Urges Testing of Threats to Union
The speaker argues that Republican victory will expose intimidation from Southern Governors and force the people to assert constitutional rights. They mock threats of disunion, condemn bullying as wind, and warn that if terrorism governs, the government should fail and the people depart with it.
Fusion Dry Goods Electoral Ticket described as a raffle
A Wisconsin Lt. Governor candidate ridicules the Fusion Dry Goods ticket as a raffle and chemistries in Albany. The article reports a Philadelphia editor: a Johnstown Lincoln Rangers club member insulted. six assailants arrested for fatal beating of a Wide Awake man near Ebensburg after Curtin speech.
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Butler G. Noble
Wisconsin
Albany
Brady
Dagger
Erastus Brooks
Erastus
Douglas
Brora
Murper
Philadelphia Bulletin
Johnstown
George Fritz
Trent Works
Lincoln Rangers
A. G. Curtin
Pennsylvania Railroad
Ebensburg
Abolition Critique Attacks Douglas on Slavery Expansion
The Albany Journal denounces Stephen A. Douglas for arguing that slavery should follow the Constitution into all U S territories. It calls his stance an abomination that converts free lands like New Mexico into slave territory and mocks any reward for supporting such expansion.
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Douglas
New Orleans
South
Uniteds Mercedae
New Mexico
Albany Journal
Charleston seamstress jailed over incendiary liberty remark
LB Catharine Bottsford, a Charleston seamstress, was arrested on suspicion of circulating incendiary documents. She was jailed after bail defaults. The sole proof offered was her remark that she loved liberty as she did Jesus' religion, spoken in Charleston during a time of tension.
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Catharine Bottsford
Charleston
S. C
United States
Curious Political Disclosures About Lecompton Constitution
The document argues that Senator Douglas steered the Lecompton constitution toward partial submission to voters with Calhoun's plan and a backing from the administration. It claims Calhoun’s letter and Douglas’s influence manipulated Kansas and the national scene to trap Buchanan and rally Northern Democrats. Lincoln is praised as a future president with a record of defending freedom.
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Douglas
Tn Congress
Democratic Association of
Leavenworth
Kansas
Breckinridge
Lecompton Convention
John Calhoun
Congress
Walker
Leecompton
Calhoun
Covode
H. L. Martin
Leavenworth City
Lecompton
Buchanan
Lincoly
Tocome
Lincoln
Wiig
Henry Clay
Disunionist Yancey Attacked by Alabama Press
An Alabama paper derides Yancey as a curse to the country and mocks his political life. The piece calls for voter energy to drive Republicans to the polls and claims early voting helps win elections. It notes a royal party visit in New York tied to surnames beginning with B and outlines a plan to form a full Zouave regiment with Col. Ellsworth as chief.
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Fe Prentice
Yancey
Alabama
Chicago Zouave
Col. Ellsworth
Schurz to Hold Grand Reception in Milwaukee
MP Carl Schurz will host a grand reception at his Milwaukee residence on the 24th with Col. Curtin of Pennsylvania to speak and a torch-light procession planned for the evening.
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Carl Schurz
Milwaukee
Col. Curtin
Pennsylvania
Keep it before the People
The speaker denounces the Democratic National Administration over 81 million annual expenses and a 17 million yearly debt. He cites misuse of funds to push Lecompton and English bills, attacks Homestead and Tariff acts, and condemns Stephen A. Douglas and Herschel V. Johnson while praising Republican aims for free homesteads, Kansas as a Free State, and economical government.
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Lecompton
Congress
Senate
Stephen A. Douglas
House
Kansas
Stephen A Douglas
New York
Springfield
Ilinois
Congress of the
United States
Herschel V. Johnson
Douglas
Jeff. Davis
Irishman Kurtouth attacks family near Sunbury railroad
Reports from the Lhne Gazette describe Kurtouth a former railroad worker in Concord I p. as attacking a German family with a butcher knife. A woman escaped badly cut a child seven died and a girl was left with grave injuries. He is jailed awaiting trial amid conflicting tales of the incident.
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Kurtouth
Sunbury & Erie
Concord
I P
Lhne Gazette
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