The Concurrent Resolution and Republican Unity Test
The House passed a concurrent resolution barring Southern Senators and Representatives from seating until Congress deems them entitled. The vote, 20 to 18 with three Senators absent, marks a test of Republican resolve after Johnson’s veto. Copperheads and rebels warned of disunion, but the GOP remains committed to demanding guarantees of future behavior before reintegrating the rebel states.
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Conspiracy warned on Senate split over Southern Resolution
In a Senate debate on the Southern Representation Resolution, Kentucky Senator Davis warned of a treasonous plan to divide the Senate and House, with rebels and northern allies seeking to counterfeit the legitimate Congress by coup. He stressed the President might recognize a rival body and the danger of a coup d etat.
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President Johnson and Mistress Cobb in White House row
Washington correspondence accuses President Johnson of favoring a pardon broker and Copperhead editors, with Mistress Cobb admitted out of turn while Republican lawmakers wait to see the President on official business. The piece labels the conduct as corrupt and unworthy of the White House.
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Divine Clemency Joke From a Tennessee Campaign
A Knoxville anecdote recalls Gentry the Whig candidate while Parson Brownlow kneels to pray for prominent politicians. The Parson pleads for Andrew Johnson’s salvation, prompting Gentry to cry that if Johnson is saved the fountain of grace would be exhausted.
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Plain Truth on Reconstruction and Union Loyalists
Gen Garfield argues the former Confederate states must face a grand inquest before readmission. He cites Union loyalty tests and compares with Buckner at Fort Donelson and Pemberton at Vicksburg, insisting proof is required to rejoin the Union. He recalls bullets, bayonets, imprisonment, and burning towns as evidence of past rebellion.
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Supporter of Johnson Seeks to Endorse Presidency at Fortress Morrow
A New York Herald correspondent at Fortress Morrow reports Jeff Davis will join other backers of President Johnson. He relays a conversation with the arch-traitor praising the President’s policy and veto of the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill, while noting Davis has halted references to his own trial.
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Boston shopper questions cadence of new weekly periodical
A Boston bookstore visitor spotted a copy of Every Saturday and asked whether the title published monthly or semimonthly. She was the same person who questioned Siamese twins about their brotherhood.
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Mythical income claims in Dr. Babcock affair
The piece mocks Dr. Babcock for claiming vast wartime income given to soldiers while affidavits show 1863 earnings of only 300 and 1864 earnings of 682.75, with expenses exceeding receipts. It questions his publictributions and notes discrepancies with U.S. assessor testimony and a tailed joint stock claim, ending by challenging his credibility and jousting with juries.
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Union and Reconstruction Notes From Washington and Beyond
A New York press roundup reports on Texas tax adoption, frontier troop requests, freedmen voting petitions in Austin, and general postwar policy debates. It mentions Secretary of War changes, Seward's remarks, Fenian plots, Ireland talks, and a Baltimore assassination attempt on Tred Douglass, with local resolutions condemning a Washington attack on Massachusetts leaders.
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Senate and House Ponder Constitutional Amendments
Congressional actions span militia disbandment proposals and a resolution demanding presidential information on Provisional Governors of rebel States. Debates cover restoring representation and empowering Congress over state citizenship rights. Trade with British North American Provinces and French troop use in Mexico are also discussed as measures advance through committees and chambers.
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Unclear excerpt notes on meaning and poetry
Fragmentary lines reflect a speaker discussing meaning in verse and indicating conversations end for now. The fragment notes there is much left unsaid and references efforts in the line of poetry without providing concrete details or context.
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