19 Feb 1863
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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1863
Page
1
A damaged OCR fragment discusses a pro or con issue and mentions a cab, price, tail, and term actions. The readable text provides no clear subject, date, or place, so the item appears as a partial public notice lacking full details.
A long, dense excerpt debates Civil War policy, abolitionist positions, and slavery’s future within the Union. It covers immediate suppression of rebellion, gradual emancipation, and constitutional guarantees, naming Mr Barnes and Thad Stevens while contrasting Northern and Southern views and referencing a proposed Negro Soldier Bill with vote details. The passage also critiques political alignments and urges national unity.
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Fragmentary OCR text includes scattered words like Beate Caesar voter and Mist Waite, with no clear event, date, place, or organizational context to form a coherent news item or summary.
The Rev Albert Barnes of Philadelphia, a noted anti slavery voice, argues that the Bible must defend liberty. In a Thanksgiving Day discourse published in Philadelphia by H. Ashmead, Barnes states he has reached a mature point with little to add and outlines revised views on peace amid the war.
The article, a reading organ of the Roman Catholics in the city and Archbishop Hughes’s official organ, denounces President Lincoln’s war proclamation as a horror. It argues a conciliatory North policy could win Southern allies, warns abolition zeal threatens the Union, and predicts intensified Southern hatred and greater disasters if the policy continues.
Despatch from Chattanooga dated February 4 describes Union troops advancing twelve miles from Murfreesboro on January 30 with one brigade and six guns foraging. They attacked the rebel cavalry, shelling them into woods. Anderson's brigade arrived to help and repulsed the Union gains with about 500 killed and wounded. Rebels claim small losses. Rosecrans’ reinforcements move up the Cumberland River. sources say Nashville stores allow an early forward move.
Hartford dispatch dated February 7 reports Gen. McClellan arriving at noon and staying until Monday. Salutes are fired and bells toll in his honor as an immense crowd fills the streets, cheering the general as he passes.
From Wasuinatox February 9, the writer laments a crisis of debt and taxes and warns the administration's drift toward arbitrary power. He argues corruption erodes liberty, urges drainage of corruption, restoration of Congress independence, and broader reform to avert national ruin. The piece also notes Robert J. Walker’s praise and financial warnings ahead of 1864. A Wheeling Va Democratic ticket led by Dr. Baird is elected mayor.
A column reports that many colored citizens oppose raising a colored regiment led by white officers. Drafted men from Pennsylvania’s 167th are noted as not unique in failing to engage. Dispatches mention reluctant New York regiments and a letter in the Tribune about the 6th Massachusetts not moving. Counterfeit postage currency appears in Baltimore, and a brief note explains the Liberty cap as a symbol dating to Caesar’s murder. The piece also comments on Congress’s failure to pass the ship canal project and mentions other political items and ads from the Democrat Office.
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