* The business of Congress – slavery and squatter sovereignty. Controversial Kansas delegate admitted by 112-108 vote. Appropriation approved for steamer for the revenue service to be used in New York area to rescue distressed vessels. Is this how the Coast Guard began?
“The inhabitants of that portion of New Mexico recently acquired by the ‘Gadsden Purchase,’ have sent a delegate to Washington requesting that this district may be erected into a Territory, under the name of Arizona . . .”
“The delegate from Minnesota presented a petition that this Territory might be admitted into the Union as a State . . .”
A chart shows results of the November election in both popular and electoral terms, both state-by-state and free states vs. slave states.
The governor of Mississippi proposes a Convention of Southern States to concert a plan of action in case the northern states continue their hostility towards southern slavery.
“In Utah Judge Drummond charged the Grand Jury that the Mormon ceremony of ‘sealing’ does not constitute a legal marriage, and instructed them to indict all ‘sealed’ persons who had not been legally married, especially in cases where two or more women are found cohabiting with one man.”
“Charles B. Huntington, a New York broker, has been convicted of forgeries to an immense amount. . . . The defense set up was that he was affected with an irresistible propensity to forgery, which amounted to moral insanity . . . This defense proved unavailing . . . he was sentenced to the State Prison for four years and ten months . . .”
Plus news from Mexico, South America, Europe, and Asia.
I never saw it used that way before.
Thanks!
Interesting facts about wines of Israel and Lebanon. There’s something of a resurgence of Lebanese wine production. Some are even available in the U.S., I believe.