15 May 1868
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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1868
Page
1
The High Court of Impeachment adjourns amid public outrage over delay and alleged pressure. The piece condemns the process as a burlesque and argues for fair justice, warning that partisan maneuvers threaten the nation as Johnson’s case unfolds.
A fragmented text references a book author, dates, and quotes about great men and writing. It mentions Cincinnati and an agency idea, with inconsistently rendered phrases and unclear context.
Cameron caught Forney stealing forty thousand dollars and exposed him prompting his resignation as Clerk of the Senate as a first step toward reform. The remark recalls a fabled elephant attempting impossible feats.
A New York correspondent reports estimated advertising rates and circulations for major dailies and weeklies. Herald 21,000 Sundays 4 59,000 Tribune 25c 89,000 Times 8 34,000 World 20c 23,000 Journal of Commerce Fair 4,000 Evening Post 7,600 Evening Express 1 6,000 Commercial Advertiser 10c 5,000 Evening Mail 10c 6,000 Weekly Tribune 175,000 at $10 per line.
Ben Ware’s 1855 remark is cited to argue that the Radicals pressed for a union based on equal men but sought negro suffrage first. The critic challenges a party leader to renounce a path toward miscegenation and black supremacy, warning it would be too late to reverse.
The La Crosse Democrat reports a claim that Browntow of Browntow’s police outraged a Black woman in Memphis Tennessee. The piece questions Browntow’s ability to resist mean and dirty behavior and asserts his moral standing remains unparalleled.
The excerpt alleges Charles Sumner inherited a Southern estate with slaves and, while denouncing slavery, profited by selling enslaved people for about $60,000. It portrays him as living luxuriously on proceeds from human trafficking.
A certificate of incorporation for the Pittsburg Cincinnati and St Louis Railroad Company Consolidation was filed in the Secretary of State's Office yesterday morning. Capital stock is $10,000,000. The new company consolidates the Panhandle Road of Pennsylvania Holliday's Cove Railroad of West Virginia and the Steubenville and Indiana Railroad of Ohio.
Report notes Vanderbilt's workers requested an eight hour day and were granted a seven hour schedule with pro rata pay. An Irish worker quips about “Mike, Ewish the Commodore” and another replies that he would hold control of the entire place.
A printed debate among Brooks Eldridge Marshall Butler and Bingham attacks corruption in radical proceedings. The text includes a controversial Butler Logan Logan letter about the Alta Vela affair, impeachment pressure, and a call for executive action to claim ownership of the island. The letter is reproduced with signatures from Garfield Koontz Moorhead Stevens Blain and Bingham.
Washington reports a day of extreme excitement as the Senate impeachment trial progresses amid crowding at the Capitol. Rumors fly of a postponement due to Howard’s alleged illness while Radicals call for lines to be drawn against bolting colleagues. Debate features sharp exchanges and a caricature of the political struggle with carpet-baggers and tax details from South Carolina’s new legislature.
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