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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jan 30, 1868

Page

2

Opening of the Presidential Campaign in Reconstruction Debate

Washington dispatch outlines Senate and House action on the Reconstruction bill. Doolittle's speech triggers campaign framing around negro supremacy and northern military rule. Banks explains foreign protection for Americans abroad. radicals lash at forfeiture of railroad grants and homesteads for freedmen. debate touches suffrage and land policy. House adjourns after Treasury bond report.

Washington Senate Doolittle Julian American Congress

State Constabulary Law Repealed in House Votes 100 to 32

January 29 Avausta reports the repeal of the State Constabulary law by a 100 to 32 vote, with Democrats receiving broad praise even among Radicals. Radicals like Billings warned the credit for repeal would fall to Democrats, signaling further moves to expunge restrictive laws such as the 1858 imprisonment clause. The Dirigo State seeks to shed the control of a few who have guided government.

Constiae Congress Army Navy United States Supreme Court of the United States South Freedmen’s Bureau North New England Union James Hammersley Hartford States of the Union Lew England France Democratic Party Friends of Andrew Johnson James E. Encuisa Old Commonwealth Avausta House of Representatives Radical Representative Billings Dirigo Paris Man Pius IX Rome Corps Legislatif Senate M. Michel Chevalier Russia America Marshal Neil M. Chevalier Europe Crimea New Orleans War

Holderness Meeting Hears Keyes and Clay in Plymouth

A large Plymouth gathering in the Town Hall heard Samuel D. Clay and Col. John H. George address Holderness residents. Jonathan F. Keyes presided, with nine vice presidents and two secretaries as a throng overflowed the hall.

Plymouth Samuel D. Clay Col John H. George Holderness Jonathan F. Keyes Radical Party S. W. Thompson Gilmore Boston Cook’s Hall Compton Pemigewassett House Washington

Examination of the lottery swindlers at the Tombs

The Tombs heard the examination of Clark Webster & Co representatives from Broadway before Judge Dowling. About two hundred victims attended from New England with a thousand present, a watchman testified the watches were merely plated silver worth eight dollars. Security details guarded the accused amid threats. Also reported are revenue seizures of illicit whiskey establishments and a rear building fire at 422 West 36th Street causing about 6100 damage and 4000 insurance.

Clark, Webster & Co Broadway New England New Haven Forrest Sinclair Dowling No. 422 West 36Th Street

Russian Company assets sell amid Alaskan news

San Francisco reports January 18 weather mild with an average 27 degrees. Assets of the Russian Company sold for about 150900 dollars. Holidays featured boat races and masquerades. A race between Jamestown and Reseca crews won by Jamestown. One death among new colonists due to whiskey. Wescer and Moth planned to sail to the Siberian coast with the late Russian garrison and passengers. Trade grows with Oregon Washington and British Columbia.

San Francisco Alaska Jamestown Reseca China Seas

Express derailed near Cornwall after broken rail on Hudson line

The Cincinnati express from New York to the Hudson River line derailed one mile north of Cornwall Station when a broken rail caused five passenger cars to leave the track. The engine and baggage cars cleared the wreck safely. Five or six passengers were injured, including a man badly cut, with others hurt in the back and chest. no serious injuries reported. Train service was delayed about an hour but then resumed normally.

Buel Sedgwick James B. Rose Wm. Reed H. J. Dolan Joshua Bearse Alfred Hemmingway J. W. Mannarring J. D. Coit W. H. Wheeler C. B. Clark T. B. Appel I. F P. Hoyt Ebenezer Weaver H. H. Platt Cornwell Doolittle Anson Bradley L. Childs John C. Pettibone Henry G. Lewis Bristol Hull Geo. W. Bentley James B. Coit H. P. Whittlesey W. L. Bennett Jonathan Godfrey A. M. Brush F. L. Burgess W. H. Sabin Theophilus Baird Glover Sanford John Woodward Curtis Bacon Joshua L'Hommedieu E. J. Ashley J. G. Page E. M. Woodward Norwalk Philip Hudson Manchester C. F. Hewitt New London Newtown Messrs Sanders New Britain Barton Salisbury Babcock Convention Commonwealth Connecticut California Ohio New York New Jersey Pennsylvania New Hampshire Union Republican Party Constitution Democrats Radical Party Radical Convention Gen. Grant Congress Supreme Court Chanler Globe Julian Indiana Mr Julian Banks Spalding Wilson Iowa United States Landwehr Banke Great Britain House Committee On Foreign Affairs England America Sandwich Islands State Department Webster Maynard Kosatar Washburne Illinois Committee of Conference Senate Mesars Washburne Phelps Judd Committee On Commerce Johnson Judiciary Committee Pile Lynch Luke Blackmore N.C Reconstruction Committee Subnson Russia Liverpool Warwick Lord Strathnairn Dublin Ireland Munster Reform League Council Scotland League Coip Springs N. Y Cincinnati Express Hudson River Cornwall Station Loxpon Mupuigur Mar‘tello Duncannon Wexford

Train Lectures In Cork And Irish Affairs Rumors In Europe

Cable Despatches report Geo. Francis Train drawing large crowds in Cork with lectures on American and Irish topics. Reports from Lonver and London note political tensions, Fenian treason indictments, and the planned removal of trials. An attack on Duncannon tower sparks a large, unsettled crowd in Wexford with no arrests yet.

Lonpoy Geo. Francis Train Cork Shaw Barret Clerkenwell Alex. M. Sullivan Dublin Nation Manchester Dublin Italy Florence Paris Prussia France Germany Lonver Evesina Milner Gibson Ashton England America Atlantic Lord Stanley Seward Thomas Daly Woolwich Arsenal Burke and Casey London

Denmark ratifies treaty sale of West Indies islands

In the Landsthing the upper House of the Rigsdag ratified today by unanimous vote the Danish islands sale treaty with the United States. This completes Denmark's action on the treaty.

Copenhagen Eventna Rigsdag United States West Indies Denmark

General Schurtz Arrives in Berlin for U.S. Mission

Gen. Carl Schurtz arrives in Berlin on a special U.S. mission and is greeted this afternoon by Count Von Bismarck, signaling high level diplomacy during a tense period in January.

Berlin Carl Schurtz United States Count von Bismarck

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