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Topics this Morning

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  • Title: Topics this Morning
  • Date: 20 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00914
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 20 May 1858: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kaylen Michaelis Francesca Boston Jason Stacy Stephanie Blalock Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Topics this Morning." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00914.xml (TEI)
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TOPICS THIS MORNING.

Quite a cloud seems rising, out of the feeling by our people, in relation to the violent “search” by British armed ships in the Gulf. It seems now that there have been many cases of this sort of outrage; among the rest those of the schooner Cortez, the brigs A.A. Chapman, Wingold, and Brownsville, and the bark Glenham. Are these to be added to, indefinitely? Is our government indeed in the hands of a lot of nervous old women?

The “correspondence,” given in the morn-papers, between Gen. Cass and Lord Napier, seems to us to amount to nothing. Something more than palaver is wanted.

The Homestead Bill was taken up in the U.S. Senate yesterday; no action.

About the reported capitulation of the Mormons, at Salt Lake, there is a difference of opinion—some thinking it doubtful, others reliable.

Gen. Persifer F. Smith’s death in Utah is noticed at length in the morning papers. He was about 60 years of age, and a good officer.

Our great uncle wants more money. The President has demanded of Congress authority to borrow the round little sum of $15,000,000. Are these our Democratic economists?

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