["An Excellent Proposition- We are not in favor of severe punishments. The spirit of the age is against it; the constitution of the United States protest against it. But we think the exigency of the case and the public good would justify it, if by some competent authority the extreme men, the fanatics of the North and the of the South, the abolitionists and the fire-eaters, the men who keep up this eternal cry about slavery, whether there be a practical slavery question before the country or not, could be penned together and compelled to listen to each other’s speeches, till the last exhausted survivor should sink smothered under the accumulation of twaddle. [Providence Journal]"]

Proiidence Rhode Island? Maine? Either one, it sounds North to me. It's a pretty good suggestion for Congress today. Just lock em up and let em duke it out.

Something of interest in all of those articles. Where the heck is "Polignac"? Guess the Princess got married.

There were sure a lot of reports on the health and welfare of the people Now we just see obituaries or arrest reports.

Anyone else getting a sense of how the Christian vs Muslim deals gonna be for the next 3,000 years? Some things are not going to change.

Just wondering------ if they were getting these reports of sporadic slave uprisings in the North, could that be a factor in why they said to the South "Free them but don't send em our way?"

Pam