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Newspaper
Dubuque Democratic Herald
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1864
Page
2
The state office moved from Fifth and Main to the Jones Block at Sixth and Main upstairs.
The piece reproduces McClellan’s wartime letter urging war conduct by Christian principles and condemning aims like subjugation and abolition. It questions the loyalty of leaders who deride the code of war, and urges critics to state what they would do if the general’s rules were violated. It calls on McClellan, Randall, Seymour, Parker, and others to speak.
A collage of brief items including Yale establishing a modern languages professorship funded by Augustin K. Street. a pun on Adam and the schoolmaster. Cincinnati mayor Harris’s New Year’s gift. rising chalk and water prices in New York. an English woman jailed for life insurance fraud. a London bankruptcy will with silk. a reporter’s view on Greek Fire as a humbug. high oyster and milk prices in Richmond. racial attitudes in the Erie report. Polish wartime deaths and banishments. a dome sculpture cost for Washington. a notable skating girl in New York. Washington’s social life amid smallpox. a printer in Rochester joking about death and paragraphs. Brig. Gen. J T Boyle’s rumored relief in Kentucky. and Sumner’s Enrollment Act amendments on substitutes and commutations with tax scales.
A correspondent disputes a New Haven Palladium article about Mrs. Smith wife of General Gustavus W. Smith. He asserts she traveled from Fortress Monroe on a government steamer with a War Secretary pass to visit family, aided Federal prisoners, and faced detentions in New London without official authorization.
The piece discusses hypothetical pardons under President Buchanan and an oath aligned to Lincoln’s terms, contrasting abolitionist reaction and state sovereignty. It retells a long anecdote about Judge Taney, noting perceived feebleness and a protracted land dispute trial lingering for fifty years.
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