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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1866
Page
2
The Freeport Journal places Exrau B. Wash Burne on the Republican ticket for Representative in Congress. The editorial says his long Congressional experience, abilities as a statesman and parliamentarian, and party fidelity justify renomination, predicting a larger majority than ever in Illinois Third District.
A long letter debate centers on whether denying Rebel States representation preserves them as parts of the United States or not. The writer argues for a national Union theory over Calhoun's states rights view, citing historical disputes and the Civil War as proof.
Correspondence from Helena June 1 1866 describes officers of the 66th U S Infantry purchasing a 30 acre farm and erecting buildings to establish the Fifty-Sixth Institute for colored orphans. The institution, donated to the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends, will provide a permanent home and schooling, relieving local tax burdens and benefiting both colored and white residents. The effort reflects broad support from regiment personnel and community impact.
Senate received Postmaster General report opposing a telegraph scheme linked to the Post Office. Reconstruction resolutions advanced with debt payment guarantees. amendments debated and rejected. adjourned without final action. House saw multiple bills, including four-year term protections for civil officers, info requests on rebel honors and rail/railroad sales, and treasury gold sales inquiries. Traction engineering aid bill and army pay readjustment passed. Senate credentials for Florida's W Call tabled. further reconstruction testimony reported.
Chronicle of Fenian activity from June 5 to 8 with raids planned and thwarted. Reports note Sweeny’s continued threat, arrests of Fenian leaders, U.S. neutrality enforcement, and widespread Fenian sentiment across New York and Vermont. Rumors of assaults near Port Colborne, St Albans, and Malon. Canadian and U.S. forces mobilized. movement eventually appears abandoned with leaders returning home.
The Old School notes adjournment of the Presbyterian Assembly to meet in Cincinnati in May 1867. Reports include Dr. Hale fined $786.86 for kissing a man’s wife, radical calls for negro suffrage, a Vermont drowning accident, agricultural machinery trials in Mattoon, Gen. Scott’s coffin crafted in New York, and Gen. Lee's wish to write a war history. Also mentions Union Pacific progress to 883 miles west of St. Louis, jail escape attempt in Sangamon, a $7,000,000 Adams Express car in Worcester, marriage notices in Oskaloosa with odd kinship notes, and an egotistical old rebel boasting of his deeds.
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