04 Dec 1867
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Newspaper
Beaver Argus
Location
Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1867
Page
1
An editor laments compromise and urges focus on Christ, salvation, and Bible revelations. The text discusses Christian duties, the Holy Spirit, and a future state while noting practical aims of pleasing readers and offering sustenance.
Isaac N Arnold recalls an interview in which Lincoln warns Johnson to beware the fate of earlier VPs, urges trials for rebel leaders, discusses Reconstruction, and notes Johnson's shifts toward Copperhead allies. He portrays Lincoln's love of Shakespeare and Burns, his poetic reading, and his engaging, humorous yet sorrowful demeanor.
Hugh Crawford Pollock, a twenty year old Scotsman, vanished from his home with £500, later appeared in the United States where he enlisted as a private in the Fifth Cavalry. After his father’s death leaving a baronetcy and £5,000 a year, he was found at Camp Verde Texas working as a farrier. Colonel Hillyer and Sir Frederick Bruce arranged his discharge, and Gen Grant approved. Pollock is returning to assume the baronetcy and fortune.
A quoted devotional reflection extols hope as a nurse of the sick and distressed. It describes hope soothing faces in illness, guiding mourners, saving the fallen, comforting a mother, aiding a youth, delivering a maiden, and accompanying an old man toward Heaven. It urges steadfast possession of hope to endure life’s trials and to invest every moment with purpose.
The New York to Boston Journal correspondent notes dry goods cheaper than wartime prices with widespread sales and foreclosures. Provisions stay high due to speculators, thousands remain unemployed, and real estate stalls as winter looms. large stores sit empty despite grand signs and past success.
A vivid portrait contrasts Jerusalem with other cities as trains thunder through the night. The piece notes the relentless pace of science and industry while sleepers, revelers, and risk takers are roused by the fireman's trumpet, marking the era’s restless tempo.
A Richmond based editor describes black support for reconstruction as a collective effort, praising Radical leaders and criticizing Conservatives. The piece cites a Virginia constitutional frame and notes the desire for equal voting rights without party bloc voting. It includes a comparison of political parties and a critique of confiscation ideas, framed as a public stance in the press.
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