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Newspaper
Dallas Herald
Location
Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1861
Page
1
An OCR fragment lists advertising rates and notices for various regions including Rockwall Parker County Weatherford and Calvert on a page with scattered names and venues. It references public notices, local vacancies, and upcoming publication dates with scattered place names across multiple counties and towns.
Wide ranging excerpts describe Lincoln's 75,000 militia call, fort re possession aims, Virginia secession, Maryland Virginia plots, and muting rumors of Gen Scott resignation. Reports from Albany to Charleston discuss troop movements, public mobilization, and growing Unionist fear amid Confederate preparations.
A fragment from an 1860s era piece rebukes Lincoln era policies, praises state rights and a white mistress ideal, and denounces abolition while invoking patriotism and a woman’s domestic role as a political symbol.
The Confederate Congress at Montgomery passed a law setting legal tender rates for foreign coins and US currency. English five pennyweight sovereigns are fixed at 4452 dollars, twenty franc Napoleon at 3.82, US and Mexican dollars with specific weights and fineness at 102 cents and 95 cents for the five franc piece, and American silver under ten dollars is legal tender with American gold treated as within the Federal system. The act adopts and reenacts US mint laws for Dahlonega and New Orleans.
The Episcopal Convention in our city discusses sending a delegation to Montgomery Alabama in July to meet other states and decide whether the Northern Church should sever ties. Col A A Lewis of Washington County reports this is the first Episcopal State Convention in the South on this issue. Lola Montez obituary note from Brussels mentions her death and the care she received from Mrs. Buchanong wife of the U S President.
A moral rhapsody contrasts honest self reliance with fraud and disloyalty. It urges independence and inner virtue over flattery and external advancement, warning that those who pursue vice deserve hardship and even death if they grow gray in unbleached honor.
The new South Carolina taxation schedule sets an average rate of 171 cents per hundred dollars. For enslaved people the tax is $1.27 per head, a substantial reduction from the $16 figure cited by abolitionist papers.
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