Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXVII, August 1852, Vol. VVarious
History
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXVII, August 1852, Vol. V
Various
American literature -- Periodicals; Civilization -- Periodicals; Culture -- Periodicals
Bennett of New York, and is regarded as
important, inasmuch as it secures to the old States a much larger
participation in the public lands than they have hitherto seemed
likely to obtain.
A National Agricultural Convention was held at Washington on the
24th of June, of which Marshall Wilder of Massachusetts was elected
President. It was decided to form a National Agricultural Society,
to hold yearly meetings at Washington.----The Supreme Court in New
York on the 11th of June pronounced a judgment, by a majority,
declaring the American Art-Union to be a lottery within the
prohibition of the Constitution of the State, and that it was
therefore illegal. An appeal has been taken by the Managers to the
Court of Appeals, where it has been argued, but no decision has yet
been given.----Madame Alboni, the celebrated contralto singer,
arrived in New York early in June and has given two successful
concerts.----Governor Kossuth delivered an address in New York on
the 21st of June upon the future of nations, insisting that it was
the duty of the United States to establish, what the world has not
yet seen, a national policy resting upon Christian principles as its
basis. He urged the cause of his country upon public attention, and
declared his mission to the United States to be closed. On the 23d
he delivered a farewell address to the German citizens of New York,
in which he spoke at length of the relations of Germany to the cause
of European freedom and of the duty of the German citizens of the
United States to exert an influence upon the American government
favorable to the protection of liberty throughout the world. It is
stated that his aggregate receipts of money in this country have
been somewhat less than one hundred thousand dollars.
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