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Liberal Mass Meeting in Dixon Endorses Greeley and Brown
The Dixon Liberal mass meeting drew a large crowd despite the season’s busyness to back Horace Greeley for president and B Gratz Brown for vice president. Senator Lyman Trumbull and others spoke of civil rights, Reconstruction, and opposition to Grant era corruption, urging reform and affirming party principles.
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