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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1867
Page
2
The Nashville correspondent reports on a 1866 act restricting the hiring of workers during service terms, with fines and jail risk for violations. The piece also notes a Georgian editorial change, including Captain G A Rodrick as editor, and excerpts remarks on loyalty, duty, and public proclamation.
A 19th century column excerpts proclamations praising soldiers who fought loyally, condemning traitors, and urging support for education. It notes indigent veterans under 80 may receive funding for schooling at Oglethorpe College, with terms to teach in the state after graduation. Applications available near Milledgeville or to Rev RC Smith.
The article recaps letters in the New York World and British papers by “MM. J. Mell” and others, arguing cotton prices will fall regardless of output. It cites past forecasts on Liverpool middling prices, warns of a European and U S fiscal crisis, and urges Southern cash credit for planters, proposing state bonds to fund cotton, tobacco, and sugar production amid ongoing global instability.
Gen. Lee has withdrawn from politics since surrender to Gen. Grant and devotes himself to duties as president of Washington College with plain living. His calm, steadfast demeanor earns respect. he remains cheerful, loyal, and undefeated by fortune. A list to Congress names prominent Southern figures including McLaws, Gottrell, Jackson, Anderson, Echols, Forman, Nisbett, Smith, Singleton, Inn, Brown, Cuyler, Hillard, and Underwood.
A 1867 communication to the Senate from Secretary of War Howland discusses freedmen populations by state, noting Virginia 500,000 and North Carolina 860,000, with Georgia 400,000 and Louisiana 850,000. It mentions Missouri and Texas shifts, Homestead trends, and civil rights law enforcement issues, plus concerns over vagrancy laws and contract outcomes.
The article outlines farm tax provisions under a federal ruling, detailing deductions for livestock profits, labor, land improvements, and seeds, with caveats on family labor and domestic production. It also covers political commentary from Montgomery Blair, President Johnson, and remarks on civil rights, plus reports on Georgia hunting penalties and notices on the Mississippi river, including the Vicksburg cut-off and local landmarks.
The excerpt presents a bold denunciation of federal authority over the South and a call for peaceful resistance to slavery. It condemns emancipation as a betrayal and urges Southerners to endure hardship, then to strike for liberty if oppression becomes unbearable, invoking 1776 and other historical parallels.
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