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Newspaper
Fremont Journal
Location
Fremont, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1861
Page
9
A collection of poems and political notices from January 4 1861 including a patriotic song verse by Oliver Wendell Holmes lines on national danger and duty. It also contains Virginia resolutions and Virginia Massachusetts or Ohio state commentary about secession and compromise amid rising Civil War tensions.
A partisan editorial argues Republicans must resist concessions to the South as the crisis grows. It cites a Washington caucus of eighty two opposing compromises, Albany’s 74 to 4 vote on Robinson resolutions, and warns that inaction could doom the Union. It contrasts Courier and editorial stances, urging Republicans to preserve a Union worth saving and reject treasonous concessions.
The Newark Daily Advertiser urges a dedicated hand and soul at the nation’s center to energize patriots. Free States citizens remain largely unaware that the country’s integrity is threatened or could be destroyed, doubting any plan to dismantle government and slow to accept danger.
A jumble of Civil War era notes, editorials, and notices from Louisville and Southern papers. Reports touch on Union military targets, jurists in Mobile, revolutionary rhetoric, debt and finance, and public sentiments in South Carolina, Mississippi, and beyond. The piece weaves legal clashes, treason talk, and defense fears, with scattered anecdotes of politics, crime, and science.
The Nashville Banner reports heated Alabama Convention exchanges after the body refused to submit its action to the people. Hon. Nich Davis of Huntsville urged North Alabama would not accept the convention, while Mr Yancey called for coercion and condemned dissidents as traitors, declaring North Alabama would meet them at the bayonet’s point.
A Nashville Democrat correspondent asks who feeds the Confederacy and claims daily transport along Louisville Nashville and Nashville Chattanooga lines moves breadstuffs and meat to Northern markets. He tallies nine carloads of corn seven of flour four of bacon with vast barrel, bushel and loaf counts and warns traitors will suffer. He urges Georgia and Alabama to stand by the Union and heed anti coercion committees.
A correspondent reports Mr. Lincoln has not fixed a travel date or route, but expects to leave about the 15th. He plans stops at principal points. Mrs Lincoln faces rumors of attacks but vows to travel to Washington with her husband despite danger.
The Knoxville Whig editor, Parson Brownlow, denounces South Carolina led secession as wicked and treasonous. He condemns the disunion scheme as abolitionist plots, pledges loyalty to the Union, and calls for federal enforcement and punishment of rebellious states, even at risk to his life.
Washington letter writers report a heated House clash involving Mr. Dawes of Massachusetts. He defends Union preservation amid pushback from conservatives. A Galveston German paper is suppressed for its secessionist stance, ending with “poor South Carolina.”
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