07 Jul 1864
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Newspaper
Lancaster Gazette
Location
Lancaster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1864
Page
1
Fragmented OCR yields a Lancaster Gazette page with a sermon summary by J Newton Brown BD. Names such as REWSON DROWN and Pastor Cee appear amid archbishop style religious discourse. The text resembles notes from a religious exhortation and community notices, with scattered references to faith, sermons, and local clergy.
A long excerpt from the Atlantic Monthly July issue is printed, including a lengthy Longfellow poem and a series of 1863 placard writings and editorials. The pieces discuss patriotism, unity, and warnings against lawbreaking, with calls to support the Union and resist rebellion.
A wartime extract critiques Senator Hammond on slavery and labor, contrasting Northern workingmen with Southern slaves. It argues that Hammond’s view miscasts laborers as degraded and urges unity of free workers against proslavery factions, naming proponents and signatories from New York to Pennsylvania in 1863.
A composite 1883 to 1863 era set of excerpts, including Daniel O Connell invoking Irish freedom against slavery and a New York Republican line on terms of peace with the Confederacy. The piece laments democracy under slaveholding, urges unity for freedom, warns of traitors, and closes with Shakespearean musings and moral exhortations.
A remarkable Civil War note tells of Jefferson Davis's son serving in the Union aboard the gunboat Carondelet. He is described as the son of Eliza, once enslaved by the Confederate leader, who chose liberty over his father’s rebellion in a deeply poignant personal split within a family.
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