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Newspaper
Dubuque Democratic Herald
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1863
Page
1
Fragmentary text lists gubernatorial and supreme court candidates John I. Duncombe of Webster County and Charles Mason of Pea Moines County. The incomplete OCR obscures full offices and slates.
The passage portrays Lowan, an indigenous orator, and criticizes the local Indian leadership for political maneuvering. It attacks Logan as corrupted by patronage and describes him as aligning with the copperhead faction while appealing to Lincoln for favor.
The piece argues Kentucky has not yet spoken and mourns a governor removed by forces within the state. It likens Kentucky’s subjugation to failed European polities and condemns renegade leadership while urging unity against perceived oppression.
Text compiles jumbled quotes from readers and editors about law, government aims, theft, war reports, and medical factions. It mentions spreading government sentiment, a widow robbed in Indiana, calico theft, and a pivot to homeopathy amid a royal Spain support era.
The New York Staats Zeitung, a German sheet in New York City, previously urged vigorous war prosecution but now favors peace in its leading article dated July 5 1917.
A jumble of opinions critiques Abe’s mood and administration. It notes Treasury printing presses, proclaims the Republican party as Union, cites Philadelphia prison figures, and mocks Whiting, War Department moves, and dignitaries amid Civil War era controversy.
A finely proportioned wooden vessel named the Virginia was launched at Duke's Dock under builder John Robison. Miss Robison christened the ship as Captain Out House takes command. The event featured a banquet and ball with local dignitaries and a future launch of the Jeff. Davis.
The article outlines the examiner’s duties in assessing exempt claims, stressing impartiality and thorough physical inspection. It lists criteria for fitness, including limb integrity, joint motion, skin, senses, teeth, heart, abdomen, reproductive organs, kidneys, and mental status, and notes the risk of faked illnesses and deception by applicants.
A fragmentary account reveals ritual prompts for Union League members including greetings and password steps at lodge doors. The piece describes hand gestures, phrases like Eternal Vigilance and the Price of Liberty, and lodge entry and exit salutes amid a hostile tone about secret councils.
A fragmented OCR snippet mentions Abraham Lincoln as master of Burnside and a live man Kennedy, paired with a curious line about Ava is ford and twenty four umbrellas, reflecting garbled historical text.
From Cairo Aug 9 reports say Col Rawlinga Gbereril is aboard the Champion as fire rages. Maj Greenwald and others aboard Ruth are missing. the City of Alton carried on as flames spread. Protests arise over deserter arrests and price gouging for soldier passage prompting Gen Grant’s order 49 tightening rates and penalties. Reports from Memphis to Vicksburg note resignations, mobilization, and political maneuvering amid war.
About 800 people attended a meeting at Pacis Uls on the Sib where Robert Davis of Hillsboro spoke against conscription. He urged resistance with rifles and shotguns and called Lincoln and his supporters tyrannical. The talk noted a Kentucky election, Burnside’s voter ban, and mentioned Gen Grant’s father traveling to visit his son.
In Burlington on August 6 1863 the Democratic State Central Committee adopted a plan to fill the Governor vacancy by a viva voce vote after deliberation over Fisher declining the nomination. The body resolved to nominate a candidate for Governor to complete the state ticket.
An official order from the Provost Marshal General’s Office states that any drafted man who shows to the Board of Enrollment that he was improperly enrolled due to alien status nonresidence improper age or service on March 3 1863 shall be discharged by the board and his place in the quota shall not be filled from the fifty percent drawn in addition to the quota to supply vacancies created by exemption under the second section of the enrollment act.
A New York based movement calling itself the National Conventionists issues a bill proposing a single national government and equal rights for all European race citizens while preserving the Union. It advocates peace through mutual concessions and a convention to arrange reconstruction. The piece contrasts wartime suffering among Northern whites with Confederate raids. The document appears earnest and moderate in tone. New York Armie
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