Official Corruption In New Orleans Report Expected Soon
Washington special reports Jos. Brady has arrived to lead charges investigation into corruption in New Orleans. The piece notes implicated high officials and calls for truth to prevail, urging accountability for those who enriched themselves amid the war. It also mentions North Carolina inquiring President for voting rights for Black citizens and references Lincoln’s views on extending franchise to the formerly enslaved.
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Washington
Jos
T. Brady
North Carolina
Lincoln
Johnsons Amnesty Proclamation Replaces Lincoln Offer
Reported in Washington the Johnson amnesty proclamation is under Cabinet review. It allegedly withdraws Lincoln s unconditional amnesty and offers pardon on defined conditions to repentant rebels below brigadier general rank. Rebels in Jeff Davis government service are to be excluded from the new amnesty.
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Johnson
Lincoln
Jeff. Davis
New York Herald backs Negro suffrage in reconstruction
The New York Herald, aligned with radical change, supports granting freed slaves voting rights in reconstructed Southern states while opposing free Negro suffrage in the North. The paper argues enfranchising emancipated blacks in the rebel states would suppress abolitionist fury and end political agitation over the race question across the nation.
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New York Herald
New York
South
Aid Society to Close After Four Years of War Relief
The city Aid Society, which aided sick and wounded soldiers, plans to dissolve as battles end and hospitals clear. They urge preserving any remaining funds at home for soldiers' widows, orphans, and disabled heroes, with the Sanitary Fund and Relief Society to be replenished as needed.
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Aid Society
North
Relief Society
Sestler
Public figures fear assassination talk cited in papers
A rumor notes the Government pursuing Brick Pomeroy of La Crosse and a Chicago Times editor for urging assassination of Lincoln. The Democrat's excerpts call for violence if Lincoln is elected, while Pomeroy defends opposing tyranny and warns against steel driven governance. The Chicago Times is described as uttering language nearly as criminal.
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New York Tribune
Brick
Pomeroy Bays
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abe
The
Chicago Times
Preference for returning soldiers in employment
A Civil War era call urges business owners to hire returning soldiers first, praising their sacrifice and patriotism. It argues communities owe veterans work, noting many are of modest means and must reenter civilian life by filling public or private positions. The piece endorses Polo Press's stance on prioritizing veterans.
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Hoya
Polo Press
Home Guards
Chicago
South
Clark Street
Soyadudrese
Manker
U.S
Tomscia
Setinel de
Tobacco Amore in a Smoky Age and Moral Panics
A historical letter comments on tobacco use as a social blight, noting widespread smoking from youth to clergy. It cites a New Jersey Methodist conference bishop condemning street and vestry tobacco, lampooning if Apollos and Cephas smoked, and mentions missionaries, Union soldiers, and public figures entangled with the habit.
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Jovrnan
Segal
New Jersey
Apollos
Cephas
Suane
Captured Selma and Armistice Hints in Rebel Papers
A Civil War era dispatch from Ava April 24 1805 reports Chattanooga Daily Rebel printing by occupying troops after Gen Steele seized Selma. Notes armistice terms between Joe Johnson and Gen Sherman, local mayoral race, and a segregation enforcement order. Describes Selma's destruction and strategic value, with Gen Andrews and Gen Hawkins movements.
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Selma
Seuwa
Ava
Chattanooga
97Th
Steele
Joe Johnson
Gen. Sherman
Adams
District of Alabama
Marion Junction
N. J. Williams
Joan Ef
Haxny
Alabama and Tennessee
South
Macon
Ifere
Wilson
Andrews
Hawkins
Montgomery
Ala
Selma Federal Union
Uncle Sam's Boys
Rebel
W. B
Policy Clamor over Johnson Era Probes Mexican Policy
A 1865 editorial questions President Johnson's approach to rebels, confiscation, civil rights for freedmen, Monroe Doctrine stance, and Mexican policy. It urges patience for developments, warns against rash action, and emphasizes adherence to Congress laws and historic treaties amid postwar turmoil.
Emigration诱igate notices and political chatter mix in Union era fare
A chaotic column notes advertisements urging movement to Mexico, claims about emigration and the Monroe doctrine, and details on government, military figures, and post Lincoln loyalties. It mentions Col. Massey, Gen. Sherman, Gov. Brough, Major Gen. Cox, Gen. Steadman, and Capt. B. W. Baldwin, plus Rahway traitors and New Jersey politics. Also comments on Grant dining with the Mexican minister and various patent nostrums for cold and coughs.
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Colored Service
Regular Army
Johnson
Sherman
Raleigh
N. C
U.S. Senate
John Sherman
Brough
Ohio
Union
Cox
Antietam
Resaca
Kenesaw, Frankin
Nashville
Kingston
Gen
Steadman
Col. Rice
Congress
Ashley
Col. R
Copperfield
Weed
Greeley
Raymond
Seward
Marcus J. Ward
New Jersey
Frank P. Blair, Jr
Seventeenth Army Corps
McPherson
Blair
Alr. S. Foote
A. AL i
Ord
Admiral Foote
R. C. McQormick
Arizona Territory
Republic
Gald
Gen. Grant
Lincoln
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Freeport
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Philadelphia
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Tripp
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Roback
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New York City
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Momo
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Cleveland, C
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America
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