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Soon after the taverns, Daniel Webster came to Boston, and then the Liberator, the transcendentalists, and God. At the height of Boston's literary renaissance Walt Whitman came, and walked with Emerson, listening for two hours in 1860 to his talk. Of Emerson's involved arguments Whitman said, "While I can't answer them at all, I feel more settled than ever to adhere to my own theory, and exemplify...
...Roorback: A defamatory falsehood published for political effect-Webster's. The word comes from a report published in Whig papers on the eve of the 1844 election, attributed to a fictitious Baron Roorback. The report, an unsuccessful attempt to defeat Democratic Candidate (and slaveholder) James K. Polk, charged that a gang of slaves branded with the initials J.K.P. had been seen on their way to Southern markets...
RALPH E. NYE Webster Groves...
...troubled school week came to a close, 15 of the Clay school's 18 teachers returned to work, and the Webster County board of education attempted to give legal sanction to its stand by formally voting not to accept Negro children from the Providence Rosenwald School. The next move was up to Governor A. B. ("Happy") Chandler. If he orders the guard removed, Mrs. Gordon, whose case is buttressed by neither a county board order nor a court order, will probably have to send her children to the Rosenwald School for another year while Clay belatedly works...
RALPH E. NYE Webster Groves...