Union at stake in bitter wartime debate and policy
In the Massachusetts session the Senate committee reported bank stock reductions and debated Midland Damage Co. and drunkenness bills. A House plan seeks authority to raise troops from outside the state and to determine if nonresidents can be counted as able bodied. The commentary argues Union preservation over secession and notes New York Tribune echoes. General Banks orders on labor for freedpeople draw sharp criticism from reformers. The piece reflects partisan fault lines during the Civil War era.
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Senate
Committee On Banks and Banking
Commonwealth
Midland Damage Company
Massachusetts
Paris Gossip on Emperor Forey Letter and Mexican Policy
The piece treats the Emperor's published letter to General Forey as revealing a policy shift toward Mexico. It argues the Mexican expedition reflects a broader anti Anglo Saxon and Protestant influence struggle, with satire about Harlequin Colubine and the Mexican bishops, and notes broader European intrigues including Said Pasha and Christina of Spain.
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Caesar
Forey
Mexico
Harlequin
Columbine
Vera Cruz
Tuileries
Holy Land
Pasha
Egypt
Paris
London
Ismail
Said Pasha
Mehemet Ali
Suez
Timsah
Sae
England
M. de Lesseps
D’euvre
Louis Seize
Cardinal Morlot
Louis XV
Louis Capet
the Elyseé
Spain
Christina
Maci
Duc de Montmore
Christina, To the Officer l’Ordnance of the Emperor. Old Rianzarés
Louis Phillippe
Anna Murat
Duchess de Berri
Henri Cing
Poland
Ladielas Czartoryski
Flachet
Lyons
Suez Canal
Said
Nile
Ismail Pasha
Garden
Grand Cairo
Alexandria
Henry Bulwer
Thurburn
de Lesseps
Do. do. Southern pine Tart Cuba iN. Orleans 18
An OCR fragment notes a sequence involving southern pine items and a reference to New Orleans dated the 18th. The readable text is sparse and lacks a coherent event or names to anchor a fuller summary.
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Canon
Ockens
Assia
Sumatra
Po . Apod. Mis
Jamaica
Cuba
St. Domingo
randy-Pinetton & Co .Manuf
Hennessey
Otara,Dupuy & Co
Calcutta
Boxwood, Biton
Rye
Ats
Gautier Frere
Wil Alebone
United Proprietors
iMnlage
la NY
Pellevosin
N. Mars
Peace
Sicily
Ingham
New Bedford
Stow
Woodhouse Mould
Boston
Colli
Russia
Newcastle
Knickerbocker
Madeira
Sydney
Kentucky
Dabney
Pernambuco
Porto Rico
Porto Cabello Co
Rio Ore
Buffalo
Buenos Ayres
Patna
Muscovado
Cash Homes
Gallon
New Orleans
Mobile
Brazil
Paris
News York Ar
Philadelphia
Ora
Upland
Richmond
Augusta
Evannah
Orleans
Cincinnati
Hyson
St. Louis
C A
Canton
France
B. Ayres
Annatto
Agnuafo
India
Isinglass
St. Caidties
Honduras
Ambros
Crete
Havana
Matanzas
Cienfuegos
Trinidad
Surinam
Otto Rose
North Co
Sal Soda
Aeaves
Shore
New York
Canada
Bush
Nova Scotia
Cadiz
Trapani St. Artir
Liverpool
Rabb
Tinushel
Boston Market Weekly Review Ending February Eleventh
Prices across staples showed firmness with several items advancing. Coffee, copper, coal, and spirits traded higher. flour and grain steady. pork and beef firm. perishable goods like codfish and herring reported stronger demand and higher quotes in the New York market.
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Pictou
Sydney
Bond
Turkey
Newcastle
Honduras
Dormings
Grand Bank
Bay Fundy
Labrador
Ohio
Michigan
Genesee
Illinois
St Louis
Canada
Malaga
Smyrna
New York
Manila
New Orleans
Penang
California
St Thomas
Madras
Patna
Calcutta
William C. Morey & Co
Lac
Rockland
Cuba
Cienfuegos Moscovado
Old Cienfuegos
Vermont
Connecticut
Turks Island
Rochelle
St Croix
New England
Surinam
SUMAC
Woodworth
Hyson
Japan
Slabs Strait
Cape
Freigh
Australia
Liverpool
London
Philadel Ndar
Conway Letter Defends Union and Urges Peace Now
The letter from Hon. M. F. Conway defends the Union as it exists, opposes further war, and calls for peace on current facts. He warns against disintegration and argues for negotiations with the Confederacy, outlining proposed terms and reflecting on the dangers of dissolving the Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Tribune
Conway
Maynard
Union
C. M. Clay
Horatio Seymour
Gov. Blair
Montain
Lincoln
Thouse
Representatives
Washington
Boston Post
Congressional Globe
Congress
F. Conway
Sumner
Phillips
General Banks Emancipation Proclamation Order Published
Gen Banks issues an 1863 order publishing the Presidents Emancipation Proclamation for the Department of the Gulf New Orleans January 29 1863 It directs enforcement of labor duties for enslaved people and outlines a Sequestration Commission plan for a fixed wage system tied to crops while prohibiting slave returns by force and urging occupation to suppress vagrancy and crime.
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Baxxs
Richard B. Irwin
A. A.C
N. Y. Tribune
Wendell Phillips
Greeley
Gen. Banks
GULP
New Orleans
United States
Louisiana
Army
Navy
Quartermaster’s Department
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Ee Etree Ee
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Astor House
Lafarge
St. Nicholas
Frederick Algak
Clements Lane
Lombard Street
George Steeer
Cornhill
E. C
Hoe & Company
Boox
Sultana
Senna
Alex
East India
Baha
Bengal
Inferior
Campeac
St.Domingo
Marcaibo
Savanilla
Tampico
Nicaragua
Lima
Ae Pera
Do Bay
Thaleur
Bay of Fundy
Haddock
Wisconsin
Tras
Randywine
Bible
HAY Eastern
Do. Do
Watt
Ion Eng
Ds Jordan Co
Soft Shell Co
Do. N
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Beals, Greene & Co
Congress Street
THE
Boston Statesman and Weekly Post
Water Street
New Fyland
Beeston
Benzole
Samuel Page
Liberty Square
Broad Street
Ism&this
Charles HU. Bruce
Washington Street
Parker
Love
Wheeter & Wilson's
Grover & Baker
Geo. E. Leonard
Iseoptt
J. E. Wilder
A. E. Bryer
Albert B. Low
E. P Danbar
W. A. Williams
Chelsea
Mass
Semes & Farley
State Street
Keating
China
Dore Metcalf
Measrs
Insurance
Great Western
John Pickersgill
Richard Sathers
John A. Parker
James F. Cox
Douglas Ropixson
SCRIP
Great Western Insco
Nath’l Foster, JR
Merchants’ Exchange
Istf
Merchants Excuanes
Case
Marsuatt P. Wiper
Willliam B. Reynolds
Esq
Joan E. Lyon
Henry K. Horton
Duartes O. Wurtmore
Daniel Larcent Curtis
Thomas W. Peirce
Botton
Geo. Wm. Gordon
New England States
Thiry Firemen’s Insurance Company
Thomas C. Amory
Kilby Street
American Insurance Company
J. Ingersoll Bowditch
A. C. Dorr
W&sti Mh
the Conway Fire Insurance Co
James S. Whitney
C. D. Rogers
Istr
Quincy Mutual Fire Insurance Co
William S. Morton
Charles A. Howland
Anc
Brazer's
Oar Congress Eee
W. Porter
Hmarnden’s
Southern and Western Express
No. 8
Court Street
Ffers
Baltimore
Army Express
Harnden’s Express
Joel Knight & CO
O Blake & Davenport
GEO. W. Ware & CO
Washington St
Pennsylvania
Lincoln & Smith
Central Wharf
WM. Lincoln
Larg
Delano
India Wharf
Review of the
Boston Market
Larkin, Blackpole & 6
Radicals and the
M. F. Conway
Charles Sumner
America
Thaddeus Stevens
North
Houses of Congress
House of Representatives
Mississippi River
New Hampshire
Haverhill
N. H
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Patterson
Swartwout
Aaron Burr
Jefferson
Gen. Jackson
Judge Hall
Jackson
Third Congressional District
Newpee
Ublicans
Concord
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