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Newspaper
Freeport Weekly Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1865
Page
1
A call for thorough reform of tax laws and better management under the Internal Revenue Service head, urging retrenchment in public spending. The speaker praises President Grant for seeking to reduce expenses and stresses citizen vigilance to ensure economical governance in peace and war.
The piece argues against lenient punishment for rebellion leaders, contending history will condemn them as causers of oppression. It cites Jefferson Davis and others, calls for swift justice, and warns future generations to view the revolt as a grave danger to democracy. It also mentions George Thomas Mesgher being offered a cabinet post and a speech in St Paul.
The piece argues Civil War fallout will persist in the South with lingering rancor, prejudice, and hostility toward the North. It urges a cool judicial approach, warns against scapegoating, and emphasizes upholding democracy and free institutions amid reconstruction. Washington reports note many Southerners arriving in the capital lacking funds to depart.
Editorial correspondence describes a Freeport to Titusville oil trip led by Currier Munn and others. The writers tour Pithole City and Cherry Run lands, gauge oil prospects, note wells, bonuses, and rising land values, predicting immense potential if development continues. They praise the Atlantic and Great Western line and report rapid town growth, extensive drilling, and high expectations for profits.
General Logan appeals in Louisville to elect a Legislature that will ratify the anti slavery amendment. He argues emancipation is a duty for Christians and condemns piecemeal abolition while noting war deaths and sacrifices caused by slavery. He stresses universal emancipation and government responsibility.
A fervent voice pleads to end slavery, recalling Civil War scars and the cost of bondage. The speaker challenges slaveholders to confront the bloodshed and misery caused by the institution, urging a united, liberty driven union. The rhetoric calls for striking slavery a death blow and restoring the nation.
An October general convention will shape the Episcopal Church with talks of a new canon allowing broader clerical relations with other denominations. Southern dioceses delegates return will add weight, while the Bishop backs his course amid clergy support and resistance. A rebel soldier’s home return reveals a wife’s remarriage and murder concludes with the wounded survivor and the rumor of a future marriage. Ford's Theatre in Washington will be remodeled as a rebel archives bureau. Chicago dry goods sales figures from 1864 show Field Palmer Leiter, Farwell Co., and Bowen Bros. leading the trade.
Advertisement notes Coes Cough Balsam as a universal remedy for coughs colds croup influenza hoarseness throat tickling chest and lung soreness claims 800000 bottles sold since 1803 and a $100 challenge from C G Cusak & Co of New Haven to prove superior cures cited by Chicago druggists and Northwest wholesalers with a 40 cent price tag.
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