Prisoner Supporter Story From City Laborers Union
A long, scrambled excerpt details a chaotic scene involving boys at a lodging house, teasing, learning, and library access. It notes Paddy Moore’s accident, a colored boy's amusing office antics, and discussions of public schooling and Prussian education reforms. The piece weaves social observations with local tales and minor incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Bagh
Atlas
Mir
Children’s Aid Society
Sue Currans
Fodglog
Oeenre Sisaan
United Mates
Abaren
Tammagy Hall
Tabernacle
Tkae
Paddy Moore
Paddy Moora
Heeli
Ashe
Fatty
Paddy
Moore
Willkins
Jane
GC. L. B
Boy lectured after school on money and virtue at city gathering
A boy recounts a scene where a dignified speaker addresses youths after school, urging them to earn money honestly and avoid loitering. The message includes sermons on Sunday papers selling, Sunday School, and better uses of time, with audience reactions and plans for further talks at the Tabernacle.
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EGG Vs Toys
Jobou
Thasy
Wien
Ataki Lewis
Walker
Tabernacle
Bam Houstons
Martyle
Fragmentary Sketch Describes Odd Fad Phrase Origins
A garbled excerpt recalls a quirky description of a fad term. The text notes a narrator who has never seen a horse chaise and calls it a cow without horns fleeing a windmill, reflecting confused reminiscence in a Newbury setting.
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Newbury Post
By and By Echoes from a Lost Moment
A reflective fragment explores the refrain by and by as a universal hope. It recalls childhood first steps and farewells, recalls lovers parting for distant places, and imagines time as a star guiding through December. The piece muses on memory and longing without a clear narrative.
War horrors and strange levity amid siege memories
The article recalls scenes from Sebastopol including a well of pure water drawn under fire and soldiers drinking under danger. It recounts a grotesque funeral armistice, a demarcation line for corpses, and two Zouaves surviving in a tomblike fosse. It also notes US and British war reflections and moves to Boston politics about Mr. Webster and Mr. Lawrence, ending with Abbot Lawrence’s death and Christian hope.
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Iba
Cape Ape
Chiang
Choierd
Sebastopol Uley
Nunthera
Weil
Sebastopol
Uittch
Malakoff
Death of Distinguished Boston Merchant and Statesman
Telegraph reports the death of Mr Lawrence at about sixty three. A large, robust merchant and manufacturer from poverty to affluence by merit, he shaped his fortune and aided learning and the arts. He was a longtime Congress member from Boston, a partner of Clay, at times estranged from Webster, and a vocal advocate for American industry and home labor. He supported Whig causes and presided at 1842 state nominating conventions.
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Webster
Tydais
Gray
Davis
Boston
Bitoadt
Tyler
Lawrence
Taylor
Philadelphia
Fillmore
Gen. Taylor
England
Mr Lawrence
Hooorg
Abbot Lawrence
Union
Fortuna
Congress
Clay
Jypgell Hall
John Davis
Webster Id- Bos
Time's Cure and the Grieving Heart
A short reflective poem contrasts mourning and rejoicing as hours pass. The speaker notes treasures and blossoms taken by time and deathly light, urging the grieving heart to rejoice as dawn nears and pain fades.
The Romance of Crime in State Ledger Controversy
A female companion and forebears of crime are described in vivid terms. Mary Aon Sherwood, now about thirty eight, returned to Albany and faced vagrancy charges after a life linked to Edwards whose forgery led to prison. The piece traces a fall from coastal splendor to Albany Penitentiary with moral warnings.
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Epward
Second District
Monroe Eidwarda
Mary Aon Sherwood
Edwards
Sing Sing
Muse Sherwood
New York
Metropolis
Wath Edwards
Blackwell’s Laland
Albany
Tribune
Patriotism and brotherhood in Beecher lecture
Henry Ward Beecher argues patriotism rests on love for fellow citizens and religious duty making all people brothers. A classroom cue asks Sylvene which great man his mother’s arrival would recall, prompting a playful child answer about Julius Coeur.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Sylvne
Julius Coeur
Death by own action of Slavery in Kansas Missouri Crisis
Editorial from the St. Louis Intelligencer discusses the Kansas-Nebraska clash over slavery, Atchison and Stringfellow, and the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. It argues slaver y power will fail, predicts sectional conflict in Congress and Kansas, and asserts free state forces will fight to preserve liberty.
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Gazette
St. Louis Intelligencer
Allavery
Stringfellow
South
Pitts
Gaz
Missouri
Kansan
Free States
Kanwae
Kansas
Alabama
Georgia
Kangaa
Kaneas
Doll
The
Intelligencer
Kentucky
Kanate
North
Old World
Missouri River
Union
St. Louia
Department of Life
Atchison
Congress
Kannas
Atchison and Stringfellow
Atchison and
Legislature of
Free State
House of Representatives
Nebraska
House
Senate
Texas
Aew
New England
Middle States
Atchigou
America
Caes
Raeton
Richard Brodhead
U .S
Pennsylvania
Chaltela
United States
Repcewican Kavanity
Brodhead
Journal
Squatter Sovereignty Debate in the Era of Popular Sovereignty Origins
The article discusses Gen. Cass and the squatter sovereignty issue, outlining Northern and Southern reactions to federal authority over territories and slavery. It notes Webster and Calhoun's denunciations and frames the term popular sovereignty as central to early party policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cass
Eniry
North
Congress
United States
South
Webster
Calhoun
Democratic party slams naturalized voters in Ohio article
The Cleveland in Dealer ridicules foreign voters and warns naturalized citizens, especially Germans, that voting against Medill could endanger their rights. It notes Know Nothing influences and contrasts Democrat rhetoric with calls for free suffrage for all citizens, questioning the piece’s accuracy and intent.
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Cleveland In Dealer
Slave Democracy
Poatmaster
Turner
Ohio
Medill
Democratic Party
Qaio
Plain Dealer
Mate Joursal
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Wg Ney
Justins Messi
Jens Pirie
Mindy Bivve
Audi
Coldwater
Markham
Brooklyn
Chapin
Tiay
Eveil’ Uaware
Detroit Advertiser
Stowe
Cincinnati
Prussia
Orioles Puepert
Frederick William II
Napoleon
Atlantic
Frederick William IV
Lant
Herr von Baumer
Goethe
Schiller
Lessing
Cleveland
Taeldenia
Newabeys
Spence
California
Sanrjee
Brieke
Itepei
Lawson
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