01 Aug 1866
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Newspaper
Beaver Argus
Location
Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1866
Page
1
A rustic admonition extols turning idle days into productive work. It counsels avoiding vanity and taxes, promoting neat grounds and gardens, pruning waste, and guarding homes with shade trees and fragrance. The piece urges method, prompt effort, and moderate toil for health and lasting peace.
A July New Albany unity meeting backed Walter Gareswell for Congress while Morton pressed for a wartime amendment. The piece attacks a Democratic convention in Philadelphia and denounces a push for a National Union party, accusing Democrats of treasonous disloyalty, defending the war, and condemning the proposed reordering of Congress and states after the rebellion. It argues the Constitution and Union must be restored with loyal representation and condemns the Democratic stance as enabling rebellion.
A fragment from a 1866 debate recounts Senator Garratt Shavine of Kentucky in a Civil Rights Bill session. It quotes Southern and Copperhead allied voices predicting revolution and warning of civil war if federal measures pass. The text also references reactions from the press in Pennsylvania and Indiana, including praise for Lincoln by some Democrats and hostile denunciations by others toward abolitionists.
The 1864 Pennsylvania Senate debated amending the constitution to grant voting rights to soldiers under military requisition from the United States or the Commonwealth. The motion failed as recorded when Clymer opposed extending suffrage to soldiers, with votes listed and editorial notes on the senator’s printer history.
Notice details advertising rate structure with liberal discounts for long advertisements. It notes special rates for business cards and annual access, with various typographic markings and spacing as part of the public notices.
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