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Newspaper
Fremont Journal
Location
Fremont, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1861
Page
13
The document outlines 1860 tax valuation, state and local levies, and recommendations to reduce local taxation. It cites school funding, teacher counts, attendance, and building improvements, plus plans for prison and library expansion and calls for equitable reform.
The Cleveland Herald laments the North’s mistreatment in slave states and the South’s silence on protecting freemen and travelers. It notes mobs in free states, yet cries of indignities against Northern citizens traveling or residing in slave states go unanswered by Southern voices.
Selections reflect Civil War era notes from Nashville, Mobile, Huntsville and Knoxville. Union resolutions in Nashville resemble strong labor solidarity while Mobile warns poor whites to leave. Parson Brownlow comments on South Carolina forced loans and the Nashville distress with women and children suffering from disease and hunger. Disjointed anecdotes touch on religion, a hunting dog, and railroad service disruptions as secession drags on and social tensions rise.
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