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Newspaper
Beaver Dam Argus
Location
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1861
Page
2
A long extract presents Abraham Lincoln defending popular government and labor rights during the Civil War era. It argues labor independence from capital, warns against monarchic tendencies, cites national growth, and references foreign affairs and Lincoln’s December 3 1861 Washington message.
Beaver Dam Argus reports the Presidents Message as unusually concise and noncommittal on slavery. Editors praise the restraint, warn abolitionists, and urge newspapers to avoid pressuring the President while trusting constitutional limits and war policies.
The article notes Secretary Cameron’s report incited abolitionist backlash and prompted the President to alter it. It discusses how slaves left by owners during Union advance become a strategic issue, with Congress to decide their ultimate status after the war. The piece praises Lincoln’s firmness and cautions southern disunion.
Philadelphia publisher L A Gedey offers various one year and club rates for Godeys Magazine plus an expected January issue featuring Alice Haven story Incompatibility of Temper. The notice promotes combined subscriptions to Godey and the Argus for 33 50 in advance and urges immediate signup.
The Horicon Gazette notes prominent Wisconsin ladies plan a meeting to aid sick and wounded soldiers but argues poor home resources and government care may suffice. It warns charity could be diverted to contractors, cites fashion in virtue, and promotes Brick Pomeroy’s Democrat. Also mentions Senator Garnett Davis-Garrett and Wisconsin soldiers in New Orleans with a Rock Island army location deputation.
Correspondents abroad may welcome a planned postage cut with England and Ireland. A British government agreement will reduce single letter rates from 24 to 12 cents, pending necessary preliminaries before the change takes effect.
In Beaver Dam two marriages reported with residences and officiants. a third wedding in Horicon with couple from Milwaukee. An Erie Sewing Machine Co advertisement offers agents nationwide with monthly pay and a $15 machine price, claiming easy operation and commission.
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