03 Jul 1867
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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1867
Page
1
A Charleston Courier excerpt covers a heated wartime debate on Alabama governance and emancipation policies, followed by a detailed Masonic lodge dedication in Anderson with addresses, ritual, and community turnout. The piece notes veteran discourses on enfranchisement, black rights, and postwar governance alongside local fraternal events and reflections on small causes driving great effects.
The document reviews the Mexican revolution and the scramble for supreme rule after Maximilian. It traces Santa Anna’s exile, Juarez’s presidency, and the unsettled power balance as factions vie for legitimacy amid division and calls for a republican government based on virtue, education, and popular support.
General John A Wagener Commissioner of the Bureau for the Encouragement of European immigration to this State received a hopeful letter from Ms M Ferlow one of the agents sent by His Excellency Governor Orr to Europe. The letter describes plans to translate and circulate a pamphlet urging migration and urging clergy and social bodies to support emigration to America. It notes Swedish and other Scandinavian interest, transportation obstacles, and opposing feints by speculators in New York and northern states. Ferlow claims merchants and capitalists would back direct trade links, while concerns about misrepresentation persist. The letter predicts a substantial influx if transportation and propaganda succeed.
Fragmented prose recounts a controversial 1850s prediction by Mary Rolden about Southern institutions, slavery, and the Constitution. It argues that slave labor would wane as state constitutions and laws change, claiming a coming era of political distress if Radicalism not halted. The piece cites RaleighSterarded and New Orleans authority as contemporaneous references.
The Intelligencer Job Office announces expanded capacity for all kinds of work including legal blanks posters cards pamphlets and labels. Orders must be paid upon delivery and customers are promised prompt attention.
In a Watertown Reformer editorial, a proposal imagines a Rate Asylum for Useless Young Men aged eighteen to thirty. The piece critiques societal neglect and suggests an institution to provide mustache cultivation, hair styling, doll companionship, and basic support funded by taxes, arguing it would spare the able-bodied from social disruption.
An old tale recounts Dr Robertson of Scotland using wit to illustrate a misfortune of David Hume. Hume, leaving with dignity, trips in the doorway as Robertson quips that light from above would be better, then Robertson escorts him outside with a candle before bidding good night.
A domestic reminiscence unfolds with a boy who asks his father if he is British and recalls early emigration. The tale contrasts childhood innocence with inherited conflict as the boy laments past defeats and contemplates national identity during a family moment. The narrative hints at themes of ancestry and belonging through a child’s dialogue.
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