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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1872
Page
3
A fragmented poem contemplates weighing a newborn, arguing that a baby’s true value lies in love, smiles, and tender care rather than avoirdupois. It contrasts childish measurements with priceless emotion, ending that only love makes a child dear.
The New York State Republican Platform proclaims government should secure liberty and equality, denounces Democratic risks, and pledges continued reform, praising Grant and Wilson. It backs pensions for veterans, criticizes Democratic debt, and urges canal enhancements while welcoming honest Democrats into Republican ranks.
The article argues that three states shifted away from the Democratic Party, noting North Carolina’s 4,000 Democratic margin in the last general election and contending that a Democratic Governor with less than a 5,000 majority would not be a victory. It stresses the stakes of August 1872 elections and suggests Fusionists must surpass their 1870 August votes amid new gains.
A Missouri Democrat notes the year’s early returns show five states voting but all five Republican by post election tallies. He cites New Hampshire Connecticut Rhode Island Oregon and North Carolina as turning Republican despite earlier Democratic leanings and Schurz Sumner and Greeley shifting sides.
Harper's Weekly argues Liberal Republicans press the claim that Democrats have converted to Republicanism by supporting Greeley. The piece notes Democratic leaders and papers resist conversion claims, citing past party reversals and platform fidelity, and questions the sincerity of GOP accusations while defending Democratic consistency.
A veteran letter from James H. Wilson to the Veterans National Committee at Fifth Avenue Hotel New York dated August 9 1872 pledges support for General Grant and the Pittsburgh Veterans Convention. Wilson endorses Grant as an upright leader and urges continued unity to ensure a strong national reconciliation and victory in the upcoming election. He emphasizes Grant choices over Greeley and lauds Grant’s Civil War service and presidency.
The London Era records that Edith Challis, famed in London and New York, aided an ailing elderly woman on a journey months ago. Her executors inform her that kindness was remembered in the will, granting her two thousand pounds annually for life, prompting retirement from the stage.
A reflective prose piece chronicles the Union’s stalled early war period. It contrasts grand armament, fleets, and public impatience with inaction, then credits General Grant’s emergence for decisive, strategic moves from Corinth to Vicksburg, boosting enlistment and national morale. It praises Grant’s judgment, perseverance, and leadership amid Copperhead opposition and wartime doubt.
The Chicago Journal lauds Ulysses S. Grant for rapid victories at Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge and praises his Wilderness campaigns as foundational to the Republic. It extols his leadership, comparing him to a conqueror and statesman, and claims he deserves immense national gratitude for freeing Mississippi and securing victory.
A Saratoga encounter between banker B F Beekman and Governor Hoffman reveals sharp exchanges about Horace Greeley. Beekman brands Greeley as a fool and flawed judge of men, while the Governor defensively weighs Greeley as capable, then ends the talk by dismissing the narrative and leaving past the stairs.
A compilation of odds and ends from 19th century notes including a Circleville hotel dating to 1819 gains mention, census data showing male surplus, New York tobacco culture manure trade, a widow with a life policy collecting in Washington, Hungarian volunteer army plans, Algonquin word for Michigan, California clay find for pipes, a Manchester spider’s diet, Iowa Supreme Court on railroad liability for enticed cattle, Japan’s big world fair next March, ice manufacture in New Orleans and protoxide production, milk to weight ratios in calves, fattening hay economics, and Catskills Dutch grave clothes customs described as a curious “stitch in time” practice.
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