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Valley Spirit, November 16, 1859

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Senator Douglas' Last Effort
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Summary: Part of an ongoing debate involving Douglas and the Attorney General over Douglas position on slavery in the Territories. The Spirit accuses him of having Black Republican tendencies. This is the text of the Attorney General's response to Douglas's pamphlet.

Black-Republican Sympathy With Brown
(Column 5)

Summary: Black Republicans are supporting Brown and complaining that he did not receive a fair trial. Not true, according to the Spirit!

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Test Of Abolitionism
(Column 4)

Summary: Story about a man who plays a trick on his pro-abolition brother-in-law, by hiring a black man and then treating him with absolute equality. The brother-in-law gets mad, and gives up his ways.

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Description of Page: Election results from New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Louisiana. Also brief article about the sentencing of the prisoners and troops being sent to Harper's Ferry, in column 6.

Fred. Douglass and Harper's Ferry
(Column 1)

Summary: Doesn't believe Douglass when he claims not to have encouraged the raid on Harper's Ferry. Also has some choice words for Horace Greeley and the entire city of Boston.

Trial of the Harper's Ferry Insurrectionists
(Column 4)

Summary: Report from Charlestown about the trials of the co-conspirators Cook, Oraldo, and Stevens.

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Description of Page: Markets in column 5.

John Henry Kagi
(Column 1)

Summary: Article about Kagi, Harper's Ferry conspirator who lived in Chambersburg. How he acted while in town, his origins in Virginia, and what he did. Concedes that he is actually dead.

New Locomotive
(Column 2)

Summary: Cumberland Valley Railroad has a new locomotive named 'Enterprise.'
(Names in announcement: Col.O.N.Lull, Ab[raham]Holl, JosephMiller)

Excerpt: "This Locomotive is a substantial and beautiful piece of machinery and is built after the most approved modern plan. It is named "ENTERPRISE" and is intended to be used in running one of the passenger trains on the Cumberland Valley Road."

Full Text of Article:

--On Saturday last a Locomotive Engine, constructed under the supervision of Col. O. N. LULL, at the shops of the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company, in this place, was put upon the track and performed admirably. This Locomotive is a substantial and beautiful piece of machinery and is built after the most approved modern plan. It is named "ENTERPRISE" and is intended to be used in running one of the passenger trains on the Cumberland Valley Road. It is a circumstance worthy of praise, and we note it with considerable pride, that this Engine was planned, and entirely completed in all its various parts, in our own place, and by the skill and labor of our own mechanics, and we are assured by competent judges that it will compare favorably for speed, construction and finish with any Locomotive Engine built in the country. The Master Machinist Mr. Ab. Hoil, and all hands engaged in its construction, are deserving of great praise for the very superior workmanship the job displays. At a trial trip, on Saturday last, the "ENTERPRISE," under the management of that clever gentleman and efficient Engineer, Mr. Joseph Miller, worked to perfection and gave entire satisfaction to all who witnessed its performance.


Sudden Death
(Column 2)

Summary: Mrs. Cooper died suddenly on November 13, probably of heart disease.
(Names in announcement: Mrs.Cooper, T.J.Cooper)

Clerk to Commissioners
(Column 2)

Summary: Foreman has been appointed to fill the vacancy on the County commissioner board caused by the death of Longenecker.
(Names in announcement: SamuelLongenecker, Mr.Foreman)

"Manifest Destiny"
(Column 2)

Summary: Johnston will be giving a series of lectures at the Methodist Sunday School on "Manifest Destiny, or the Mission of the Anglo Saxon Race in the Civilization of the World."
(Names in announcement: ProfJohnston)

Another Sudden Death
(Column 2)

Summary: Fannier died suddenly in Marion on November 13.
(Names in announcement: JosephFannier)

Married
(Column 6)

Summary: Married on November 1.
(Names in announcement: Rev. Mr.Greay, DavidByans, SusanArthur)

Married
(Column 6)

Summary: Married on November 15.
(Names in announcement: Rev.SamuelPhillips, Capt.MatthewGillan, MissKayStadler, JohnStadler)

Married
(Column 6)

Summary: Married on November 8.
(Names in announcement: Rev.SamuelPhillips, JacobGerman, PriscillaHolly)

Married
(Column 6)

Summary: Married on November 15.
(Names in announcement: WilliamEyster, WilliamCarlisle, EmmaWashenbaugh, UptonWashenbaugh)

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