The Philadelphia Convention Leaders in Resistance and Appeal
The Philadelphia convention opened September 3 as a pivotal gathering debating loyalty and Union policy. It accuses President Johnson of perfidy and blocking representation, claims seven states lack representation, and asserts Congress alone must decide insurgent-state restoration. It also notes paymaster delays to sway soldiers’ votes and highlights renewed Unionist resolve.
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Lange
Congress
Lown
Puille Narvice
Philadelphia
United States
South
Andrew
Johnson
North
Memphis
New Orleana
Andrew Johnson
Ceneral
Republican Party
Andy
Insurrection quelled and Fenian unrest across Canada alarm
Viaropean reports state Tolish insurrection quelled while Fenian Congress in Troy prompts Canadian troop movements up to Quebec. Freedmen in North Carolina reported self sustaining and improving by the Freedmen's Bureau. Great Western cable extends to Heart's Content with two lines working. electric current intact. British government mobilizes against potential Fenian raid. Treasury shows about sixty three million dollars.
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Viaropean
Fenian Congress
Troy
N. Y
Quebec
Freedmen’s Bureau
Washington
North Carolina
Union League House
Philadelphia
Brownlow
Canada
Opeka
Kansas
M Honard
Lincoln College
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Iowa
Vermont
Maine
New Jersey
Congress
Local editor Cho to helm Marshall town paper
Cho Aldrich veteran North western Towns editor purchases Marshall town Thief and will assume charge around September 20. Holt of the Dallas Gazette aids in editorial work. The Round House project advances with ten engine stalls Foundations nearly finished Brick superstructure rising to eight feet high Valance and Machine Stops to be built next. Des Moines Valley Railroad now runs regular trains into Des Moines. Peat deposits found in several counties and on Preston Scott’s farm near Mitton. Colorado county Republicans nominate Maxwell for Recorder Brown for Superintendent Nation for Surveyor. Baptist Church work in Indianola progresses. A large mass meeting is planned at Cedar Falls on the 20th.
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Des Moinea Valley Railroad
Des Molines
Dun County
Preston’ Scott
Mitton
Quthrie County
Clark
Wm. Maxwell
Howant Brown
Elwood Brown
Nation
Baptist
Indianola
Cedar Falla
Fragmentary Dispatches and Notable Happenings Abroad
The piece surveys varied items from the era: a Puffalo dispatch on a plot to burn the city, trials in Chalons, editorial quips about editors and wives, grasshoppers damaging Dakota crops, Alabama marble findings, and Armenia expeditions. It notes Edison like telegraph feats, Atlantic cable length, and global incidents plus a forecast on a looming financial crisis in 1867 with warnings from Treasury and M Culloch.
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Puffalo
Chalons
Railroad outlook for Cedar Rapids and Missouri River line
L B Crocker, president, reports after New York board meeting that the Sioux City Pacific Branch Railroad work will be contracted immediately and completed within two years from January.grading to De Soto and the Boyer mouth toward Omaha aims next April with a view to opening the Sioux City road to locals as soon as possible.
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L. B. Crocker
Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad
New York
Sioux City Pacific Branch
R. R
Cedar Rapids &Missouri
de Sota
Boyer
Omaha
Sioux City Road
Sioux City Journal
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London
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