State Convention platform contrast and treason comment
The piece contrasts the Republican platform from Des Moines with a Democratic rival and denounces arrests of Vallandigham and two other conspirators taken to Cincinnati. It argues for free speech, criticizes disfranchisement of soldiers, and calls for legislative action on voting rights and military bounty to keep recruits from other states.
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Des Moines
Hell
Vallandigham
Traitts
Cincinnati
Dubuque
Congress of the
United States
Merritt Attacks War Myth At Des Moines Pow Wow
W J Merritt, Union party gubernatorial candidate and Wilson's Creek hero, spoke at the Democratic State gathering two weeks after the event. He claimed the war was prosecuted for a myth and for the benefit of the Negro and for enslaving whites, drawing sharp rebuke from Democrats. A man named Patrick Fitzgerald drowned near Wheatland in the Wapsie on the 7th.
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Des Moines Register
Merritt
Wm. J. Merritt
Wilson
Union Party
Wm. I Merritt
Wileya's Creek
Patrick Fitzgerald
Wapsiepicion
Wheatland
Abolition attack on the President urged by editorial
The Muscating Courier cites an N. S. Independent piece headlined as an abolition attack on the President. It argues government delays hindered western and southern progress, calls for ending red tape, and urges arming a decisive General with wide discretion to achieve success.
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Muscating Courier
N. S. Independent
the Courier
Great West
North Carolina
Beaufort
South Carolina
New Orleans
Virginia
Washington
Douglas Speech Praised as Patriot Tone in Chicago Address
The article highlights Judge Douglas’s Chicago speech as the last he made in the city. It praises the high patriotic tone and contrasts it with Democratic party views, suggesting Douglas would be ousted by party organs if alive today. General McKean is appointed Military Commander of St. Louis Post by General Halleck.
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Douglas
Chicago
Democratic Party
T. J. McKean
Mfalleck
St. Louis
Iown
Missouri
Dle Coy
Gibson
Pen Ridge
McCoy
Letter from Geo Granger and Republican Platform in Iowa
A Civil War era packet includes Geo Granger's letter defending Charley Kabler against a slander about selling his wife and joining the Confederacy. It also transcribes a Des Moines Republican Party platform endorsing Lincoln, abolition, and loyalty, with notes on veterans and naturalization.
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Mra. Kabler
Charley
George Granger
War for the Union Address in Chicago
The speaker thanks Chicago for a grand reception and vows not to misuse the ovation. He warns of imminent war to preserve the Constitution and the Union, denounces disunionists as acting from a slaveholding and political conspiracy, and argues the election of Lincoln was used as a pretext to break up the United States.
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Republican Party of
Iowa
United States
Congress
Abraham Lincoln
Union
Cicago
Chicage
Waters
High Seas
United States of America
Sun of Heaven
George Washington
Washington
South
Lincoln
Southron Confederacy
Lecompton
Ecene
Maney
Kentucky
Missouri
Nesses
Virginia
No neutrals in this war united South against North
An editorial rallying support for the Union argues that war is unavoidable and stresses unity over party lines. It warns conspirators aim to trigger civil war and urges Americans to defend the Constitution, flag, and rights while avoiding violence against civilians and maintaining Christian civility. It laments factional bitterness and calls for collective action.
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Democratic Party
Forco
Douglas
United States
Trénk
Zuvery
Rinol
Trepeat
Illnois
Tom
Suneh
Pohtia
Petite
Happiness
Fava
Minois
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