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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1868
Page
2
An adjourned meeting of the Central Committee of the Republican Union Party WI will be held at the usual place in Freeport on Friday July 1st at 1 PM. Candidates for nomination to various offices are respectfully invited. By order of Committee RV Ankeny Chairman.
The Prospect argues Grant will be elected with high likelihood. It notes fierce Democratic infighting but asserts Republican victory is assured nationally. States listed as certain for Grant include Michigan, New Hampshire, Mississippi, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Tennessee, with expected electoral votes and margins cited.
Long list of impeachment charges against Andrew Johnson includes appointing provisional governors in rebel states, usurping office to sway voters, defeating Reconstruction laws by corrupt means, and granting pardons to counterfeiters to boost the Democratic Party. Stevens plans a speech supporting the charges, but revival of impeachment seems unlikely as Johnson nears a March 4 departure.
The piece argues Grant will win the 1868 election with a large Republican majority across many states. It lists states likely Republican, notes Democrats may hold Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, California, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and asserts 232 electoral votes with Grant certain of a majority. It warns Republicans to organize to prevent vote suppression and emphasizes vigilance against Democratic dishonesty and repudiation of national debt.
A call urges all Americans to honor the national birthday with a grand celebration. The piece criticizes waning civic spirit among native-born citizens and praises German residents for their patriotic events. It encourages joining German friends in festivities to restore national unity and patriotism.
Bill Malburn leads a notable group leaving the city for New York to attend the Fourth of July Convention. The assembly is described as a formidable, reform-minded cohort with strong political convictions, critiqued for self-serving behavior and alleged corruption in government.
A letter urges Freeport soldiers to oppose a Copperhead convention in New York on July 19. It recalls Gettysburg Vicksburg and Port Hudson valor, condemns Horatio Seymour and draft riots, and asks if delegates will honor the fallen and uphold the Union.
Fragmentary text asks soldiers of several regiments and Stephenson County residents to respond to accusations about the war being wicked and conducted to defend the country, hinting at a loyalty dispute amid pressures from cited counsels.
A newspaper critic denounces a column credited to Kurius Kwill Jr as lacking originality and quality. The piece is described as a plagiaristic effort unworthy of literary note, likened to a failed attempt at composing a requiem for a kitten.
The text outlines sections of the 14th Article explaining equal protection and representation bases, plus sections on enforcement. It then reports diverse items: a curative dropsy recipe from the Marietta Register, a steam boxmaker, Pomeroy’s speech impact, a boiler explosion in New York, political notes on North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, a life boat model in Chicago, Freeport woolen mills growth, and various railroad and court notes. Wheat prices have fallen recently due to crop prospects.
An 1830s-1910s style examination explains the insect thought to be a locust as a large horse fly with a yellow cross barred body, six legs, two fore wings and two hind wings, a red waxy eye, and a distinctive wing pattern. It details the female’s sting like a hollow tool for egg insertion, egg deposition in branches, branch damage, and the long term impact on trees, with notes on host species and rumored wing letter markings linked to superstition and war.
The House passed the North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana admission bill 105 to 30 after a brief veto message. The Senate quickly repassed it 35 to 8, despite President Johnson's objections to Reconstruction policy. Ratification of the 14th amendment will entitle these states to full state rights. Virginia, Texas, and Mississippi remain to be reconstructed, likely not ready for the next election. Congress shows no partiality.
A four year old rhinoceros arrives at the Van Amburg menagerie in New York, the first of its kind seen in the United States in twenty years. The animal is nine feet long four and a half feet high and weighs about three thousand pounds. The piece also notes political chatter around the Democratic National Convention with talk of Pendleton Chase and Grant and a Western tour planned by Grant, along with farm harvest activity in the South and criticism of Democratic leaders amid Ohio soldiers’ disenfranchisement.
The new organ at the first Prostil Church will be completed and shown in a public exhibition Thursday evening. A concert of vocal and instrumental music will feature visiting organists from Chicago and promises the finest organ sounds the city has heard.
Rev. Mr. Johnson, rector, opened a Sunday evening lecture series on Old Testament characters starting with Adam. This inaugural talk, part of his course, drew attention at the local church as he outlined the plan to explore patriarchal figures.
The bath house by the river opens today and will operate daily from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. and will be reserved from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. A terse notice requests readers to see the advertisement for terms.
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