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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1856
Page
1
Frances D 40E offers a son’s regretful portrait of a mother’s patient love. The poem traces a child’s cruel taunts and the mother’s enduring care, begging kindness in old age as memory of past pains and tender nurture returns.
The piece discusses Douglas shifting from a population requirement to immediate Kansas statehood steps under Pierce. It accuses him of copying Toombs, using border ruffians to push slavery, and ensuring a pro slavery majority by excluding Free Soil voters at the convention. News echoes the South’s strategy to admit Kansas as a slave state before Free State influence can reassemble.
The Virginia case is framed as slave breeding economics driven by Wise’s Glasgow era argument to open western territories to slavery. The piece asserts the vast value of enslaved people, estimates costs to breed and supply slaves, cites the 1808 ban on importation as a tariff-like protection, and warns that extending slavery would triple the state’s staple value while condemning abolitionist and anti-slavery sentiment as misaligned with profit.
The piece condemns European despotism and the slave trade. It asserts Christian civilization exposes barbarism in enslaving practices and argues Providence ties the chain’s ends to the oppressor, dragging them back toward barbarism. The writer cites the moral peril to freedom worldwide.
William L. Dayton responds to a Philadelphia convention nominating him for vice president. He supports the convention's general principles, opposes expansion of slavery, notes limited VP powers, and pledges to conduct Senate business with dignity and fairness.
The Louisville Journal argues the Democratic pattern of choosing a vice presidential candidate to win Kentucky has failed thrice. It cites Richard M Johnson in 1836 Tecumseh killer in 1840 William O Butler in 1848 and John C Breckinridge in 1856 as doomed attempts. It predicts Breckinridge will be overwhelmed where Johnson and Butler failed.
A convention of delegates from German Turnverein associations in New York New Jersey and Connecticut met at Military Hall Williamsburgh to settle differences between Eastern and Western groups. Franz Deck chaired and F Hune was secretary. Twenty eight societies attended and reached agreement though politics surfaced with delegates endorsing Colonel Fremont, amid a large Turner population nationwide and regional leanings in the election.
A reflective passage argues that true companionship and intellect come from shared growth and choosing what leads to lasting happiness. It contrasts austere gravity with a gentler tenderness that lingers in thoughtful reflection. It emphasizes decisive action toward what enhances true glory.
The piece argues the Philadelphia nominations are not sectional, citing 1824 and 1828 voting patterns and presenting Fremont and Dayton as a united cross region ticket. It praises their platform for rivers harbors and national progress, framing them as anti-caucus and pro patriotism.
The text argues that youth have a strong appetite for fame and that withholding sustenance in the form of sympathy, encouragement, and commendation harms growth and even existence of genius. It emphasizes the cruelty of neglecting young talent.
A maxim warns владельцам to avoid admitting men who know less on important topics than themselves. Keep opposed to potential hindrance and obstruction regardless of rank or virtues.
Josiah Quincy Senior writes to the Young American Fremont Club of Boston praising the Free States and urging unity against slaveholders. He warns that factional divides must be resisted to prevent slaveholding control and offers an $80 contribution to support the organization.
Instructions from Ohio Farmer describe making common soap using ashes lye lime grease bacon bones and potash. It covers rot in straw lined hoppers boiling skimming refining with brine and forming hard soap, with steps to remove bones and test lather.
The passage notes how many endowed with intellect stumble at life’s entry and choose wrongly, a key reason the wise and the happy form separate classes of men. It argues that knowing one’s path is crucial to lasting happiness and success.
The Rev Mr French confirms that Col Fremont and his wife and four children were baptized at the Epiphany Church in Washington between 1848 and 1855. The article argues the baptisms show the Fremonts belonged to the Protestant Episcopal Church and questions motives of anti Catholic critics.
The National Intelligencer reports jury instructions in the Herbert murder case. Instructions cover excusable homicide when the accused faced imminent danger and could not escape, belief in necessity, and justification if overwhelmed by superior numbers. Jurors remained confined in their room at six PM.
The House vote to expel Brooks failed for lack of two thirds. It is reported Brooks has resigned to seek endorsement from his constituents. Woodruff from Connecticut delivered a fierce attack, praising Brooks’ critic Savage and denouncing Brooks as unworthy and arrogant.
The New York Courier and Enquirer reports King Frederick William IV awarded Colonel John C. Fremont the Golden Medal of Progress in the Sciences for his explorations from St. Louis to the Pacific. Humboldt’s letter praises Fremont’s courage, science, and liberty as California contends with slavery. The piece compares Fremont to Washington, noting shared paths from frontier service to national leadership and public expectation.
The Charleston Mercury weighs how Kansas determines slavery's reach to the Rio Grande and the South's power in Congress. It warns that North gains may abolish the South's influence and leave slavery confined east of the Mississippi.
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