Congress ends with mixed results and looming tariff fight
The late session outcome judges public progress as mixed with bills stalled or vetoed, naval corruption revealed, and a push for higher postage rates likely to pass despite opposition. Senate and House tallies shift, predict a tense political landscape for the upcoming term.
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Gregon
Sesson
Surpete
Cuba
Partizan
Naval Department
Sr. Doudtas
Congress
Kansas
Africans for sale and political notes across states
The column lists an Alabama hoax ad offering deliveries of Africans and sketches recent elections in Rochester Oswego and other towns. It notes a poisoning sentence in Albany, a Liberal English visitor in the U.S., Paraguay-US tensions, and local papers in Independence and West Union. It also covers county seat relocations in Shelby and town merges near Waterloo, church disputes in Virginia, a new stage coach line to Pike's Peak, and Paine Kv's funeral in Baltimore.
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We Harlen
Wayne
Shelby County
Harlan
Shelbyville
Waterloo Courier
Big Creek
Bisckhawk
Laporte City
Ottawa
New Mexico Slavery Fight Reflected in Congress Debate
The piece notes Northern and Western doubts about extending Wilach-Pea provisions to New Mexico, while southern interests push slave protections. It cites a January 29 Hampshire Gazette report on New Mexico's territorial legislature voting for a slave-protective bill and fears of eventual statehood with a slave constitution.
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Congress
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Free States
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Renaliti
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New Mexico
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House of Creentatives
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Bechanan
Dovatas
Democratic Party
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Independence
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Fayette Co
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