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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1856
Abstracts 2885 - 2889
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT - United States (Cont'd)
in this place after ttle fourth of March next: Benjamin Harington, Esq.,
collector; B. Andrews, postmaster; Stoughton Bliss, marshal; Geo. Bliss,
district attorney; Alex N. Walter, marine hospital, Allen Smith, lighthouse
keeper. (2)
L Nov. 13; ed:2/2 - See Churches & Sects - Mormons
2885 - L Nov. 18; ed: 2/2 - "The Boston papers deny the report of Charles
Summer's declining to run for the Senate. His health is improving, and
he will yet be heard again in the Senate chambers." (1)
2886 - L Nov. 28:2/2 - In a letter to the editor, "K" says: Let the executives
of the free states aid the national executive. The President
claims to be unable to remove the evils endured by Kansas.
They can afford him, if they will, the most effectual aid. Governor
Grimes of Iowa informed the President that unless that national highway,
the Missouri river, was opened to the citizens of Iowa within 30 days,
he would open it himself with the aid of the militia of his state.
The result is that the Missouri river is now open to free state men.
Now let the executives of all free states address in diplomatic language
an energetic note to the President demanding the bringing to justice of the
violators of the Kansas ballot and of the lives and prop-erty of citizens
from their several states, and promise to do it themselves if he does not,
and we may be sure the President wi 11 act before 30 days. (9)
2887 - L Dec. 2; ed:2/2 - There is just cause of complaint in regard to
the inequalities of representation in this country. This is occasioned
by the representation which is based upon property at the South, where
five slaves are rated as three white men. Whether this evil will or can
be remedied, we are not certain, but this much is apparent: The spread of
the wrong can be checked by preventing the extension of slavery. If right
cannot prevail, the evil can be circumscribed. (5)
2888 - L Dec. 4; ed; 2/7 - The last message of Frankl in Pierce, which we
give today, will not be read with any great interest by the people of the
Uni ted States. It needs not; now that Mr. Pierce should avow his policy
upon the great questions of the day, the people of this country have had
good cause to remember the administration of this miserable apology for a
president.
We never gave up space to any document more reluctantly than tuday.
The message has neither political consequence, nor literary excellence,
and we think its room better than its company; but we comply with the custom,
and give the dose, hoping that as our doctor used to tell us, when
standing over us, spoon in hand, though it make you sick, - it will teach
you to avoid the bad diet which has made it necessary. (8)
2889 - L Dec. 5:2/2 - In a letter to the editor. "A. C. K." says: Congress
met today at the usual hour 12 m. The Senate sent messages by a commi
ttee to the President and of the House, informing them of its readiness
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