Union Republican County Convention notice 1872
Union Republican voters of Stephenson County and Freeport wards are asked to send delegates to a county convention at the Circuit Court Room Freeport at 7 p m Monday July 16 1872 to select eleven delegates for the Union Republican Congressional Convention at Polo July 25 1872 and eleven delegates for the Stephenson and Jo Daviess senatorial convention. Each township and ward appoints delegates plus one per fifty Grant votes and per twenty five or more in 1865. Committees list towns wards and delegates. caucuses set for Saturday July 15 1872.
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Illinois
Polo
Congress
General Grant
Stephenson County
Freeport
Circuit Court Room
Lo’clork P
Stephenson
Jo Daviess
Wah
Downs
Del
Bucky GC
CHINO
Sempleton
FETA
Secessases
Vaneveeseesan
Vreeport
LL Kappan
LD Vesree
Ira Kinnman
Ate
Oneca
Pelter Sheckler Ridott
Cessseeeet
Seeeaeds
Wen G. Ay Bolender
Silver Creek
Lias
Rhinehard
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Greeley Nomination Mocked by The Nation
The New York Nation calls the Democrats nomination of Greeley ludicrous and likens the move to the biblical herd driven into the sea, a savage, irreverent comparison reflecting sharp political satire.
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New York Nation
Greeley
Our Nation's Birthday and the Declaration’s meaning
A long patriotic address notes the ninety six year anniversary of Independence and the Declaration adopted in 1776. It recalls the Continental Congress, the fight for liberty, and the status of slavery, praising immigration, union resilience, and the enduring American creed.
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Rhine
Shannon
France
Norway
American Republic
Union
God of Nations
Ship of Our Union
Fathers of the Republic
Congress
South
Speaker
Massachusetts
Friends of Freedom
Boston
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Rochester
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South Carolina
Georgia
New York
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Stephenson County anti Greeley Democrats speak out
From Freeport Illinois June letters by A Brasted and other Stephenson County Democrats protest voting for Horace Greeley. They declare 58 Democrats in the county will not support Greeley under any circumstances and condemn delegates at Springfield for misrepresenting local opinion. They vow not to sell their votes at Baltimore.
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Chicago Times
Stephenson County
Horace Greeley
Freeport
Ill
Greeley
Sprinfield
A. Brastep
Democratic Party
Illinois
Baltimore
First Gun Republican Mass Meeting Fires Up Campaign
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E. A. Storrs
Chicago
Storrs
Burchard
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Union
Republican Party
Trumbull
Greeley
Horace Greeley
Fusion ticket emerges from Springfield conventions
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Peoria
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Honack Greeluy
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Izeard
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