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Newspaper
Whitewater Register
Location
Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1861
Page
1
A fragmentary poem expresses the speaker’s yearning for past loves and friends. The speaker, a worshipper of youth, laments faded joys, the toll of time, and the longing to recapture memories as distant voices fade like wind-harp tones.
The article traces the shift from manual to mechanized farming from 1816–20 onward, detailing the rise of threshing machines, drills, bagging machines, and steam engines. It credits iron workmen and improved plough design for higher yields, lower labor, and expanded production, citing examples on Norfolk and Leicestershire farms and noting public competitions that standardized modern ploughs.
The speaker argues that high farming may harm soil by too frequent grain cycles and calls for tenant farmers to have freedom to judge soil needs. He cites Norfolk fields where deep drainage and shifting crops created disease and poor returns, noting historical parallels with exhausted soils and urging prudent, intelligent management.
The 1833 letter to Humphrey Marshall argues that colonial unity persisted in part, that federal and state powers overlapped, and that full sovereignty of states would dissolve the Union. Marshall contends that nullification or secession lacks foundation and warns against treating treaties and Congress powers as strictly separate.
The Raleigh Standard argues that civil war is inevitable if disputes with the North remain unresolved within six months. It predicts vast consequences for slavery, including tax burdens, economic collapse, and widespread conflict across three thousand miles, as foreign powers intervene and slave property loses value.
The War Department prepares for emergencies as negotiations between the President and Governor Bayne remain unsettled. Confederate moves spark fears of a Charleston assault on Fort Sumter, with reinforcements planned and a large Northern army ready if needed. The Montgomery Convention and Jefferson Davis loom as possible decisions.
A critique of Southern secession remarks on treason and rebellion with satirical targets. It questions South Carolina’s stance and argues that war would be on international terms, warning of coming troubles for states and their allies while calling the stance nonsensical and unreliable.
A caricature of a contest in which two men Smith and Brown bet on who can stay longest in a hot bath. They prepare two tubs with six inches of cold water, strip, and endure the rising heat behind a cloth partition. After brief attempts both claim they can outlast the other, yielding to the spectacle as the bath water boils away.
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