Hi Cousins! I discovered the Pennsylvania Library website and their online searchable database of 17th, 18th, and 19th century Pennsylvania newspapers: http://204.170.102.11/cgi-bin/accessible/verify.pl I found some Rudd stuff and will post to the list. Here are the first: April 20, 1858 VILLAGE RECORD: Marriage at Bloomington by the Rev. E. D. Eddy, on the 25th ult., MICHAEL DUFFY, of West Goshen, Chester county, to LYDIA RUDD, of Benjaminville, McLean county, Illinois ----------- August 30, 1849 THE NATIONAL ERA Washington, D.C., Vol. III No. 139 p. 140 From the Louisville Examiner. RESULT OF THE ELECTION. ------- The defeat of the Emancipation candidates for the Constitutional Convention in this city, will doubtless excite the surprise of many of our readers, who will feel some interest in knowing why a result so unexpected has taken place. So far as we are able to satisfy curiosity on this subject, we shall now do so. The three gentlemen selected as candidates by the Emancipationists are among the best of our citizens. They are almost universally known in Louisville, and are, wherever known, highly respected. Men of all classes and all opinions award the highest respectability to them. They are therefore unexceptionable, and their defeat is not owing to any want of personal popularity. Mr. Speed, who was born and has always resided in this neighborhood, is the only one of these gentlemen who has had much experience as a speaker, and on him devolved the important duty of representing the principles and views of the Emancipationists. They who heard his numerous speeches, in which he explored the whole field of slavery, concur in believing that if fair and manly argument, comprehensive knowledge, cogent reasoning, and a clear demonstration of the vast evils which slavery entails on a community, and the great benefits which would follow Emancipation, could have insured the success of any ticket, ours would have succeeded. The Emancipationists are much indebted to their candidates, and particularly to Mr. Speed, for his great and eloquent exertions in behalf of their good cause. Although he and his colleagues are defeated, they have the proud consolation of knowing that they discharged all the duties incident to the responsible position in which their friends placed them, and, in the name of the Emancipationists of Louisville, we tender them the most cordial thanks for their well-directed labors. The pro-slavery candidates are three rich and well-known citizens. One of them, Mr. Guthrie, is perhaps the most prominent Democrat in the State, and the others are Whigs. Appeals were made to the people of the city continually by the newspaper organs of both of the old political parties, to oppose the Emancipation ticket. Indeed, opposition to that ticket was made a test of orthodoxy in both political parties. Both parties feared the effect of the mad-dog cry of Abolitionism throughout the State, and the leaders of both for weeks before the election cautioned and besought their friends not to show any respect for Emancipation. The people were told, what was true, namely, that Emancipation would inevitably fail at the present time, as the most ardent Emancipationists had not the remotest expectation of carrying the State. This view of the present prospects of the Emancipationists had a powerful influence everywhere, and deterred thousands from voting Emancipation tickets, and is perhaps the most forcible reason for the seeming ill success of our friends throughout the State. We say "seeming ill success," because, notwithstanding the failure of our friends everywhere, the cause of Emancipation has spread with unprecedented rapidity in every direction, and is now regarded with profound interest by a large portion of the best citizens of the State. the labors of our friends are by no means lost, but will tell on the future destiny of this Commonwealth. We have failed at the polls, but have succeeded where success was most desirable, namely in the hearts and the consciences of thousands of slaveholders. But to resume our subject. The determined hostility of both political parties to Emancipation was the principal reason why the Emancipation candidates were unsuccessful here and in the various counties in the State. But notwithstanding this very general failure, so rapid were the conquests over prejudice made by the doctrines of Emancipation, that had the contest continued a few months longer, our friends would have made a very different exhibition of strength in the Convention, from what they will now be able to do. It will be for them to say whether the holy struggle for freedom and for right shall be continued - whether the cause which has on its side all the sanctions of religion, and all the inculcations of human experience, shall be kept continually before the minds of the people, until darkness gives way to the light of truth, and prejudice yields up the sovereignty to reason. In this city the pro-slavery men, despairing of carrying their ticket by appealing to the minds and hearts of the people, resorted to means of the most disreputable character. It is very generally believed that they expended thousands of dollars in bribing and corrupting the people. They bought up all the bullies and hurrah boys. They purchased the influence of the grog shops, and "treated" their friends most extensively. They who know what corruption a hotly-contested election in a city engenders, will not be amazed when we tell them that hundreds of votes are always carried at such times by those who bid highest for them. There was no competition in this infamous traffic. The pro-slavery people had the business in their own hands. The Emancipationists did not condescend to stain their great and good cause by resorting to such corrupt means to sustain its candidates. Again: we do not think we exaggerate the number of those who are in favor of Emancipation, and who were unwilling to vote, when we estimate them at from five to eight hundred voters; enough to have elected our ticket. Some of these men are in the employment of pro-slavery men, and were afraid of offending them, and others were afraid of injuring their business if they offended the sensitive friends of slavery, by acting with the manliness of independent souls, and voting of Emancipation. But the Emancipationists of Louisville are by no means defeated. The pro-slavery candidates did not dare to take ground in favor of perpetuating slavery. They were too politic for that. They confined their labors to an opposition to the present movement in favor of Emancipation. Mr. Guthrie announced himself in favor of a much better kind of Emancipation, as many thought, than that proposed by Mr. Clay; and Messrs. Rudd and Preston, the other pro-slavery candidates, declared they would carry out the will of the citizens of Louisville in relation to Emancipation, if they were elected. All the Whig candidates for the Legislature took ground in favor of the platform of the State Emancipation Convention. Thus, notwithstanding the Emancipation ticket was defeated, pro-slaveryism can claim no triumph. Perpetualism would not receive one hundred votes of the five thousand that the people of Louisville are able to cast. We have thus, in a far too hasty manner, given our friends out of Louisville a few of the most prominent reasons for the failure of the Emancipation ticket in this city. We deeply regret this failure, for the sentiment of Louisville in relation to slavery cannot be faithfully represented by the gentlemen who will take their seats in the Constitutional Convention. There were many men in some of the wards actually forced to vote the pro-slavery ticket, contrary to their wishes. Many were deterred from going to the polls, by the fear of personal injury. Many were serious beaten. Again, we say, the result of this election is anything else than a triumph to the pro-slavery party. -------------- April 19, 1797 The Pennsylvania Gazette Philadelphia, April 19. A vessel is arrived at Marblehead from Lisbon, whence she sailed the 1st March. In the account she brings of the capture of 4 Spanish men of war by Admiral Jarvis, it is mentioned, that one of the Spanish Admirals died at Lisbon, having lost both his legs in the action. The Spanish prizes and one of the English three decked ships went into Lisbon under jury masts. The remaining part of the Spanish fleet made every effort to bring the English fleet to action, the day after which the Spaniards captured eight or ten sail of the English Mediterranean fleet. Extract of a letter dated Civita Vecchia, 20th January 1797, to a merchant in this city. "I have the pleasure to communicate to you that peace has lately been effected between Tunis and the United States of America. This intelligence was brought to Naples by an American vessel just arrived there from Tunis, where she had been taken in, and in consequence of the above event was released. "The American vessel lately arrived at Naples from the United States was extremely well received by that Court, and the merchants appear much pleased with the intention the United States have shewn to extend their commerce to that country, and are disposed to make every exertion to encourage and increase that intercourse. Since the blockade which last summer rendered the port of Leghorn of so difficult access to foreign vessels has been raised - the commerce of that place has resumed its former channels with renewed vigour and activity." Extract of a letter from New-York, dated the 11th inst. "This day arrived the American ship Industry, Capt. Rudd, in 31 days from the Downs. She brings London papers to the 7th of March, which contain nothing of importance. In long. 14, she was boarded by a French ship of war, out only 5 days from l'Orient, examined, and allowed to pass." Letters received by the above vessel state that all was tranquil in England on the 7th of March; that the new emission of bank-notes was circulating with the greatest facility; that all aphrehensions of an invasion has ceased - and that, at this important crisis, the people were almost unanimously determined to give every support to the government, which the exigency of their affairs might require. A barn and barracks, in which were horses, calves, and a great variety of valuable utensils, belonging to Mr. John Hardenberg, of Somerset county, New-Jersey, were lately wholly consumed. By what means the fire was communicated to the property, is not known - Some suspicions are entertained that a black servant wilfully committed the deed, in consequence of having been chastised for misdemeanor. The loss is very considerable. The ship Ohio arrived at New-York, on Saturday, in a short passage from Greenock, in Scotland. We learn that the report of the committee appointed to enquire into the state of the Bank of England, had been communicated to the House of commons, that it was highly satisfactory, there being fifteen millions sterling, excess, in bank. The election of Governor and Lieutenant Governor for the state of Massachusetts has terminated in the election of Mr. Sumner to the former, and Mr. Gili to the latter honourable stations. From the Daily Advertiser. London March 7. Buonaparte, still penetrating farther into Italy, states, in a letter dated from head-quarters at Macereta on the 13th ult. that he hopes to be that evening at Foligne, 69 miles distant from Rome. Of the Treasures of Loretta, the value of which was estimated at 3 millions of livres tournais, only about one million had fallen into his possession. In a subsequent letter, dated from Ancona on the 18th, the same Gen. mentions, that the French troops had gotten possession of Mubria, country of Peragia, and the small province of Canorina. Gen. Colli, according to letters from Rome of the 5th ult. was employing every means to check the progress of the enemy, and had even embodied a part of the felons, in order to augment the army. Letters received yesterday from Castle Douglass mention, that a great firing was heard on Tuesday evening last; supposed to proceed from some engagement at sea, and conjectured to have taken place some where near Whitehaven. Yesterday morning two mails arrived from Lisbon, brought by the King George Packet to Falmouth in 8 days. The following article is extracted from the journal of that vessel: The St. Trinidada, of 130 guns, was seen the same evening of the action, with the loss of her main mast, and her lower deck ports in the water; on the day following our reconnoitring frigates could discover only twenty one sail of the Spanish, it was, therefore, supposed that the St. Trinidada ;must either have been towed away by another line of battle ship, or sunk, which was most likely the case.