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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1866
Page
4
A dream sequence exposes racial hatred and Civil War unrest as a speaker envisions hellish scenes. The narrator describes lynching threats, slaveholding apologia, and a parade of a damaged nation guided by demagogues and imagined punishment. The dialogue features Satan critiquing disunion and treachery as echoes of abolitionist and pro-slavery clashes.
In Lafayette Indiana Judge Test dismissed Indiana constitutional bars against negroes as unconstitutional under the new Civil Rights Act and the anti slavery amendment. Barnes a black wage earner sued Browning a hotel proprietor for balance due. The court held Barnes a United States citizen entitled to pursue his claim despite Indiana provisions. The decision relies on the Civil Rights Act and the anti-slavery amendment though the act is not yet officially promulgated.
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