Danvers Courier, weekly newspaper (1845-1848)

Danvers Courier, January 9, 1846, p. 2/4
Woman's Property - In the New York State Convention, the following important section changing the pecuniary relations of parties through the marriage contract was moved by Mr. Harris and adopted by a majority of 14.  All property of the wife, owned by her at the time of her marriage, and that acquired by her afterward by gift, devise, descent or otherwise than from her husband, shall be her separate property.  Laws shall be passed providing for the registry of the wife's separate property, and more clearly defining the rights of the wife thereto, as well as to property held by her with her husband.
P.S. Since the above was in type, we learn from the N.Y. Sun, that the above section was re-considered, and that provision which secured to married women the fortunes inherited or devised by their parents or relations, stricken out.

Danvers Courier, September 19, 1846
Delegates to the Whig State Convention - At a meeting of the Whigs of Danvers, held at the Town Rooms on Wednesday evening last, John W. Proctor, Esq. was chosen Chairman, and William D. Northend, Secretary.  The following persons were chosen Delegates: Daniel P. King, Henry Fowler, Elijah W. Upton, John W. Proctor, Edwin P. Putnma, William D. Northend, Lewis Allen.

September 23, 1846
The Whig Convention was held in Old Faneuil Hall and  "was one of the largest and most enthusiastic gatherings of Whigs from every portion of the State, that we have ever witnessed.  All seemed full of life and zeal.  All seemed determined that in the coming strife, old Massachusetts should do her duty and express in tones not to be misunderstood her opinion of the measures and policy of the present administration.  The opinion seemed to prevail that the time had come when it was the imperative duty of the North and of Massachusetts in particular to take a stronger and a higher ground upon the great local questions which were agitating the country, than they have ever heretofore taken - that the time had come for the North to unite in one common phalanx and to oppose the encroachments of the institution of slavery with its accompanying evils.”  (source?)
     The Danvers Courier  ran an editorial reading, "Slavery is a system which affects both directly and indirectly the prosperity and interests of the North.  From iniquities almost every other question upon which the North and the South are at variance, have sprung.  It is a sin in the sight of God and man. It is a national sin and one which every portion of the country is to a certain degree responsible for.  It is one upon which the North should speak in language strong and emphatic. We were glad that the convention took such strong grounds.  We believe that the people of this Commonwealth are ready to take that ground and to make the subject of Slavery more prominent in their political efforts.”