Freeport Journal Highlights and Political Dabbles
Illinois Legislature adjourns to reconvene November 17 in Chicago. Connecticut to elect a temperance Democrat. Baltimore American claims ex President Johnson backs Republicans. Ku Klux concerns rise with A J. Sigh Joints Washingtons settle England US issues. Capitol move from Springfield to Peoria debated. Peoria bonds $12 million. Grant administration praised for rising revenues and debt reduction. Buchanan and Johnson contrasted.
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Baltimore
General Grant
Grant
James Buchanan
Andy Johnson
Radical gains and political sparks in a cranky column
A Journal survey attacks radical gains by listing several cities where Republicans won elections this spring, contrasting with Democratic strongholds. By Bulletin notes, Stevenson County and Dubuque shifted to GOP, Springfield and Milwaukee swung, prompting satire on political labels and a jab at Giles’s spelling quips.
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Connecticut
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Dubuque
Milwaukee
Rock Island
Springfield
Let the dead past bury its dead in the South’s amnesty call
The article argues the South was not deprived of rights by Radicals and that treason forfeited rights. it supports universal amnesty and warns rebellion would be harshly punished. It condemns the Northern Democratic party as powerless and misleading to Southern voters.
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Pilfering and Edits Highlight Local News War
A quarrel over editorials in the Freeport Journal shows a clash of loyalties as a rival presses thefts and a mistaken headline are used to argue about political alignments. The incident ties petty pilfering to a broader claim of Democratic criminality and local intrigue across Sabula and the surrounding area.
Specimens of Southern Democratic mockery in Brandon paper
The Brandon Mississippi Republican prints harsh caricatures of public figures. It derides New York carpetbagger W. W. Whiting from Lafayette County and attacks Vaughn, Willing, and Adelbert Ames with coarse racial and ethnic slurs and calls for scornful labels.
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Brandon
New York
Lafayette County
W. W. Whiting
Ministers urge passage of temperance bill in Illinois
A Freeport District Conference of Methodist Episcopal ministers in Dakota announces unanimous support for the March 3 1871 bill by Mr Williams to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors in Illinois. They urge Representatives from Stephenson Carroll Jo Daviess and nearby counties to use influence to secure passage.
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T. J. Turner
Win. Massenberg
Win
Cary
Townsend
House of Representatives
Stephenton
Carrol
Jo Daviess
Young Utah official Geo A Black as Secretary of State and Acting Governor
Congratulatory note praises Geo A Black Esq for rising to Secretary of State and Acting Governor of Utah Territory. It notes his youth at thirty, tenure as Private Secretary to Gov Shaffer, appointment by telegraph from Washington, and Senate confirmation, with commendations for urbane manner and prompt duties.
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Willing
Senate
Ben
Geo. A. Black
Territory of
Utah
Isis
Black
Salt Lake City
Shaffer
Western Iowa and Nebraska thick ad vantages to Settlers
A reader describes travel along the Burlington and Missouri railroad from Burlington through Iowa into Nebraska. Land prices range from 7 to 38 dollars per acre, with growing towns Lincoln and Red Oak, and notes timber limits, soil depth, and corn yields. The writer urges emigration to Nebraska, details homestead rules, railroad land sales, and cautions about timber, wind, distant markets, and grain prices, praising cattle and grazing value.
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Page
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Freeport
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Government Land Office
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Platte River
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Polk
Hamilton
York
Clay
Seaboard
Kansas
Alabama claims convention framed by Joint High Commission
Special dispatch from Washington reports the Joint High Commission may have concluded a convention for Alabama claims settlement. It outlines a five member commission with presidential and royal appointments, a six month claim filing window, two year decision limit, gold payments, and procedures for vacancies and dispute handling.
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Joint High Commisson
Alabama
United States
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Congressional Proceedings April 10 1871 Senate and House actions
Senate reports on the Ku Klux bill with amendments focusing on habeas corpus and delay provisions. House passes a general amnesty bill 146 to 44 under suspension of rules, with Republicans cross voting. Debates over the deficiency bill and district expenditures continue, while the Senate tables Blodgett and Goldthwait seats and the House debates revenue reform. Key speeches by Edmunds Trumbull Ames and others address constitutional issues and territorial governance.
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Edmunds
Judiciary Committee
Blogett
House
Hale
Maine
Dawes
Kelley
Blodgett
Goldthwait
Robertso
8. C
Notio
Deba
Trumbull
Ames
Mississippi
Johngo
Vadenounc'n
South
M Stockton
N.J
District of Columbi
Congress
Messrs. Dawes
Farnswort Niblack
Finkelenberg
United States
Fragmentary note on Alabama claims settlement talks
A garbled OCR fragment discusses the need for tests and points, mentioning essential aspects of the settlement of the Alabama claims and a commission not delaying.
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Alabama
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