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Newspaper
Beaver Argus
Location
Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1865
Page
2
A Beaver County editorial condemns pro reunification rhetoric praising traitors and equal rights for former rebels. It denounces calls to restore rights to Confederate figures, warns of renewed civil war if Democrats win, and labels leaders as traitors while praising loyal soldiers and citizens.
The death of Capt John Cuthbertson of New Brighton Provost is noted with deep sorrow. He rose from modest beginnings to high standing at the bar, helped raise a volunteer company, led them in the war including the Seven Days battles before Richmond, was wounded and captured, paroled, and later served as Provost Marshal of the district. His long record shows courage, integrity, and devotion to country and family. He leaves a wife and five children and is mourned by community and district.
The Antioch editorial column debates negro suffrage in Pennsylvania, noting the state constitution prohibits it and that a four year period blocks amendments. It states the local list has no time to act before the election and emphasizes loyalty versus disloyalty in suffrage views.
Notice records the death of Lieut Robert Darragh son of Major John Darragh from typhoid fever at St Lovin on Sept 18 after a long military career. He fought at Fair Oaks Yorktown Seven Pines Mechanicsville Gaines Mill White Oak Swamp Charles City Crow and Malvern Hill and led his company at Bull Run and Fredericksburg before contracting illness and dying. The obituary praises his gallantry and generous disposition and notes tributes from friends and community.
Transcribed editorials from Col. Davis era papers criticize Lincoln’s emancipation policy and the war’s aims. They argue for peace through constitutional reunion, accusing Lincoln of despotism and opposing abolitionist motives while praising Confederate exchange concerns and prisoner policy. The text cites August 1864 pieces and advocates Republicans’ defeat to end the war.
The text denounces abolitionism and claims Confederate soldiers fight for true union while alleging the war is a struggle over negro equality. It condemns opponents as murdering agitators and urges readers to view abolitionist rhetoric as treasonous. It references prison camp brutality and wartime suffering.
A Cleveland editor extols the Steinway Piano as the premier instrument, praising its intrinsic merit and universal acclaim. The article notes repeated competition with other grand pianos at fairs worldwide and invites readers to test the Steinway at Kleber's exhibition and ware-rooms in Pittsburgh.
Benjamin Bernhart Marchenthal a German immigrant confessed Sunday to the Boyd's Hill murder with August Frecke. They traveled from New York to Pittsburgh aboard an emigrant train and lured the stranger to Boyd's Hill where Frecke stabbed him three times and Marchenthal struck with an iron bar. Frecke seeks to exculpate himself by altering Mareechal's statements. The revelations stirred intense citywide excitement and crowds blocked jail passages.
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