Liberty and Free Labor Greeting a Nation's Union
A lengthy Fourth of July oration praises victory in the Civil War, lauds returning soldiers and Illinois leadership, and celebrates emancipation. The speaker extols peace through labor, commerce, and agriculture, and invokes names like Grant and Sherman while praising common soldiers and the Union. The address includes enthusiastic calls to Missouri Maryland Tennessee Georgia Mississippi and Virginia and ends with a pledge of national unity from ocean to ocean.
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Tilinoia
Grantdown
Europe
Washington
Hinds
State House
Springfield
Hoffman
Fuller
Uncle Jesse
O. M. Hatch
S §. Mann
Joe Forrest
Perauge
Atlanta
Buckmaster
Logan
Palmer
Oglesby
Gierson
Sherman
Casar
Applaus
Minnix
Hertaze
Aries
America
Missouri
Free States
Maryland
Propheta
Damascus
Tennessee
Andy Johnson
Parson Brownlow
Georgia
Massa Stephens
Andy
Mississippi
Jeff
Virginia
Mareeilles
John Brown
United States of America
Ocean
Maine
Oregon
Southern Journals Shape Postwar Outlook Across States
The Frening Post summarizes how leading Southern newspapers from Alabama, Georgia, South and North Carolina, Mississippi, and others portray a transitioning society. Editors urge cooperation with the United States, emphasize labor and prosperity, recognize slavery’s end, and urge calm to rebuild the economy while avoiding renewed strife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Albama
Georgia
South
North Carolina
Mississppi
Charleston Courier
Augusta Chronicle
Mobile Tribune
Virginia
Tennessee
Mississippi
Congress
Richmond Inquirer
New Orleans
Frening
Debating the National Debt and Postal Rates
Freeport editorial argues the nation can and will meet its financial obligations from the Civil War while condemning copperhead opposition. It defends government bonds as accessible to all classes and criticizes private transport firms for high parcel rates, urging use of the postal system to save costs.
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United States
Penton
Boston Advertiser
Reckoning of a Nation’s Slaver Crimes and Justice
The piece denounces wartime atrocities of Andersonville style camps and slaveholders’ rebellion, urging investigation and punishment. It cites Maj. Gen. Burner’s speech in a plea for accountability, condemns starvation and cruelty in Confederate prisons, and warns history must not forget these crimes.
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Algiers
Dahomey
Andersonville
Charity
Voice of Truth
L Burner
Express Company Charge dispute over book return
A Springfield customer recounts receiving two books in one package with express charges of eighty cents, then being told by the local office that returning one book to Springfield would cost ninety cents. The customer notes prior charges for both books were eighty cents and refuses the higher fee.
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Companiéé
American Express Company
Congress
Post Office Department
Springfield
Freeport
Springfeld
Express
Dai
Uncle Sam
America
James Marsh
Roy
Wentlith Bt
United States
Butler Speech On Starvation At Andersonville Memorial
Gen Butler delivers a stirring toast on volunteers and liberty then condemns Confederate prison camps Libby Belle Isle and Andersonville for starvation and murder. He condemns authorities who ordered or sanctioned such acts and calls for swift justice rather than vengeance. He notes widows orphans and mothers awaiting redress while urging mercy with accountability.
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Lowell
B F. Butler
United States
Army of the
Carolinas
Virginia
Andersonville
Libby
Belle Isle
Millon
Belle Iste
Handa
Jefferson Davis
Confederate States
Robert E. Lea
Caief
New York
West Point
Davis
Gen. Lie
Senate
Army of the United States
Equal justice for leaders and soldiers in war guilt
A tortured call asserts leaders and responsible elites share equal guilt for Confederate deaths at Andersonville and across wars. It argues for execution of leaders to warn future generations that harming the country warrants death, invoking divine justice and mercy.
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Nideraaneilis
Senate
Battlefeld
Etry Hospital
Pris
Andersonville
Miscellaneous items from a mid 19th century issue
A digest of scattered notes covers market quirks and public notices: blackberries in Madison selling at 24 cents a quart, the Atlantic telegraph cable expected to land in Newfoundland midweek, William B. Astor valued at $50 million, and 88,908 emigrants arriving in New York last month. Other items note Mexico’s $317 million debt, Minnesota Central Railroad declaring a 10 percent stock dividend and 5 percent cash dividend payable August 1, wheat smut in Bloomington, strong West Tennessee crops, George F. Robinson’s government clerkship, and Lincoln Fund subscriptions total around $100,000. Also mentioned are river flooding in Missouri and Mississippi, a haunted house in Norristown, Miss Mary Harris’s case near Baltimore, Cunard mail steamers’ safety record, rising insanity in the South postwar, Barnum’s finances, a Brownsville-Juarez interview, seven thirty loan availability, Edwin Booth’s stage return, Alton peaches shipped, Libby Prison rent bill, and Philadelphia saloon inscription. Additional notes mention Iowa’s Civil War enlistment, Marseilles bachelors’ economy convention, and Barnum’s chat with Horace Greeley.
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Madison
Ind
Newfoundland
Wm. B. Astor
New York
Mexico
Maximillion
Mlinoia Central Railroad Company
Alton
Telegraph
United States
Libby
Andersonville
Phiadelphia
Iowa State Register
Iowa
Illinois troops reassigned frontier garrison duty to Fort Kearney
From the 15th Illinois and several detachments of the 24 Brigade are moved from the Army of the Tennessee to the Department of the Missouri. They will depart for Fort Kearney to garrison the frontier. Veterans express frustration over uneven pay and bounties, longing to return home, while some fear the shift signals broader injustice in desertions and assignments. The piece also notes rising pension costs postwar, with millions paid yearly to invalid soldiers and widows, and promotes local advertisements for watches and medicine.
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Ens, Jorman
Illinois
Army of the Tennessee
Department of the
Wo. H. Herser
War era currency reform and pensions declines cited
A fragment notes Treasury action stopping five cent fractional currency and replacing with two and three cent coins. It claims many widows receive U S pensions and reports daily retrieval of fifty thousand dollars in mutilated postal currency replaced. A Cincinnati inn claims to have housed thirty three hatchling turtles.
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Secretary ” of the Treasury
Febien
Anaconda Inn Museum
Cincinnati
New Volumes From 458 Poets and Related Publications
A notice listing the third volume of 458 Poets from Tickdoll & Pieldg Raston with Whittier selections at 50 cents per volume. Includes reviews of August magazines and other periodicals such as Harwins' Macacina and The Paintan, praising religious and literary contents and urging subscriptions from readers.
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Pablishers
Tickdoll & Pieldg Raston
Mare
John G. Whittier
Coe's Cough Balsam Proclaimed Superior Remedy
An 1860s Chicago Tribune notice extols Coe's Cough Balsam as the best universal cure for coughs colds and lung ailments. It cites high sales since 1863 in Western states, a $100 challenge to outperform it, and endorsements from major Chicago druggists while claiming 40 cent pricing and wide availability through Mesara C Q Quark Co of New Haven.
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Coe
Mesara
C. Q. Quark & Co
New Haven
Lord & Smith, Fuller, Finch & Fuller
Burnham & van Schaack
J. H. Reed & Co
HH. Scovill
Chicago
Northwest
Ohisago Tribune
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Freeport Weekly
Bournel
the National Dent
Andersoonville
THE
American Exbpuess Company
Gen. Butler
Bloomington
West Tennessee
George F. Robinson
Seward
Boston Transcript
Lincoln
Massachsetts
Rhode Island
Lincoln Fund
St. Louis
Hannibal and
St. Joseph
Norristown
Mary Harris
Burrougha
Baltimore
Cunard
Great Britain
Barnum
Hox
Rio Grande
Brown
Brownsville
Juarez
Treasury Department
Edwin Booth
Marseilles
France
Horace Greely
HW. G
New Hampshire Superior Court
Expresa
Fort Leavenworth
Waltham
Ayer
Advertiser
Norway
Jow
Catharloo
WD. Huntington
Geofrey the Lollard
Chrtetlan
Gillett
Cicero
Porter
Archbishop Trench
Ministry of Art
Ililean
Charles Borioner & Co
Haurins
Macacina
Bicie Bluff
Dead Sea
Morgans
Sheridan
Marper and Broth
Fowler & Weiss
Tak
Den
Sphcial Notiozis
McGally & Co
Preeport
Auf
Clayton & Han
Gide
Oakntante and
Vand
Children'é
Catriagen
G'ge, Cabr, &O.,ac
G. M. Crayton & Bro
New York Tribune
Drake
Tribune
Ike
W. H. Waugoner
Madrid
N.Y
Philadelphia
Bae
Cqhauwick & CO
Willard’s
B. C
Dee
G. W. D. Andrewe
Soldiers’ Home
Cincinnati, Co
Kingsley
Cleveland
QU. C. Moore
Broadway
New Beovonv
Maya
Eppetite
Allenuth
Judith Rubpall
P. H. Drake & CO
Park Row, N
Dr. Marshall
Cole
Wearabach
Bby
Miareahulita
Mead
Morr & Perry
Boston
Reed
Austin A& Co
Lamann
Weed
Cutler &Co
Seth W. Fowles
Wilson
Fairbank & Co
Henshaw
Edlands&’ Co
Hay
Portland
All Druggs
Baroes & Park
Bando
As Biepnen
Paul & Oy
Tatwel Minor & Co
McKesson & Rubbing
Beovilia Co
M, Ward, Clove & Co
Bush & Gale, Ac
of ‘Sight
Ety
James Clarke
Ceersrs
J Clarke
Lyon
Ierry
Gallahd
Ohieaga
Sali
Ont
Dave Monby
Wallen
Vancouver
Cascades
Wallén
Nnr
Ce. J.C. Aven & Co
Mais
Emmert & Barrill
Cragglars
Iioe
B. Dexzthr Loveridge
Wahoo Bitters
Axp
Dexsar Loveridge
Loveridge
Ima Buffalo
N. T
Great Western
Railway
NEW
Broad Gaage
Balamanica
N. Y
Tit Railway
Akron
Prates
Bosun
Erle Wih Ah Ai
Vd Pwanesla Athweat
Atlantic & Great Western and
Erie Railways
Meadyide
Amchenry House
New Yorkron
Erie
Atlantic
Tt Company
Penns
Meadville
Corry
Prom
Generel
Goodman
Wda
James Vac Pelt
Sunny
County Court of Stephenseo Poi
Beorgin
Wits
Portheygt
Townehip
Bof
Alter
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