Blair to declare Reconstruction Acts null and void
The text quotes Gen Blair urging the President elect to nullify the Reconstruction Acts and argues against social and political equality. It portrays Blair as a revolutionary and defends white citizen interests while condemning racial equality and union ideals.
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Frank Blair
Gen. Blair
Colfax
Blair
God's
Green Earth
General Grant
Christ
Belise
The Revolutionists and Race Law Debate in Illinois
Gen Frank Snairn denounces a law forcing white men to swear social and political equality for black citizens before voting. The piece targets Radical allies and mocks compulsory school desegregation, framing it as a social upheaval and threat to white supremacy.
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Frank Snairn
Illinois
Frank Blair
General Blaire
Urepares
Uresande
Arkansas
Legislative’ Assembly
Political Calcualtor Sees Seymour Victory in Electoral Map
David Naary editor of the Trenton True American offers an electoral forecast totaling 817 votes with 159 needed for a majority. He assigns states to Seymour or Grant, notes Arkansas North Carolina and Wisconsin as doubtful, and argues Seymour could win despite losing rebellious states.
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David Naary
Trenton
True American
New Jersey
Georgia
Minnesota
North Carolina
Kansaa
Ohio
West Virginia
Seymour
Grant
Arkansas
Wisconsin
Doolittle
South Carolinia
Press Critique of Congress Urges Cuts and Change
The Cincinnati Gazelle criticizes Congress for tax cuts, unused revenue capacity, and oversized land grants. It urges reducing army and navy, ending the Freedman's Bureau, and a new Congress if current policies persist. The Enquirer notes lawmakers like Schenck Exleston Lawrence Bingham Garfield as re election candidates.
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Congress
Cincinnati Gazette
Gazzette
Schenck
Exleston
Lawrence
Bingham
Garfield
Congras
Conersa
Army
Navy
Cincinnati Enquirer
The Popular Uprising Awakens the Nation
The piece claims a widespread, sudden awakening of the people to act against what it labels Radical governance. It links alarm over Congress spending, debt, taxes, and living costs to a belief that Radicals threaten the country. It imagines two looming forces named The Popular Retribution and The Republic Saved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sumpter
Congress
Republic
Dayton Parade Ends in Frightened Scare
In Dayton a Grant Guardsman was struck by a tomato tossed from a sweetheart’s window. He imagined Ku Klux villainy and fainted in a comrade’s arms crying for his mother that he died for right reason, then urged comrades to avenge him.
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Dayton
Grant
Greevey Warns of Novem ber Backlash Over Jacobin Tactics
Brother Greevey reflects on Jacobin maneuvers to sway votes and warns that parties hold too many tail feathers of the people to win easily. He predicts the public will turn against them in November.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Br. Greevey
Horace
Appointment of John Taylor Smith to last office in city
Springfield register notes the appointment of John Taylor Smith to the last office in the city replacing Prence Wright. Smith is praised as a well known, courteous, capable, and trustworthy public officer who will serve with urbane diligence. The piece also critiques a tax bond discussion, humorously noting labor and wage figures in a dated civic context.
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Springfield
John Taylor Smith
Wright
Song of the CarpetBagger Excerpt
A historical verse from New Hampshire mountains to Wisconsin plains echoes xenophobic and racist themes. It railed against Black people, praising carpetbagger mobilization to bring enslaved or coerced race mixing, with multiple regional references and calls to action against inviting outsiders.
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New Hampshire
Green Mountains
Nantucket
Lake Ontario
Huron
Wisconsin River
Iowa
Plains
Saturday Night Sermon Reflects on Loss and Hope
The La Crosse Democrat reprints an earnest meditation on Saturday night as a gateway to the Sabbath. It recalls past loved ones, memory, sorrow, and gratitude, urging readers to cherish home and family while recognizing life’s fragility and mortality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grim Reaper
Criary
Gop
Aiden
la Crosse
Radical marriage scandal shocks Whitely County politics
A Whitely County resident named David M. Long, a leading Radical, allegedly married a Black woman in Michigan and forced his sixteen year old daughter to wed a Black man. Indignation spreads as Radicals abandon the party amid rumors of the affair.
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Smith Township
Whitely County
Indiana
Columbia City Post
Namch
David M. Long
Michigan
Jome A. Bivouss Meeting Commented in District Saga
Fragmentary text suggests a discussion involving Jome A. Bivouss and Basger in the Fifteenth District. The note mentions poor support for a speaker and legal voters influenced by temper and district tensions.
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Jome A. Bivouss
Basger
Ighias
Fitveonih
Deere
Under the Sea Expedition with Submarine Armor
A narrator recalls a daring underwater voyage with a friend who claims a suit can walk beneath the sea. They descend from a Floridian coast into a dim, phosphorescent world, encounter reefs, jellyfish, sea creatures, and a forest of submerged flora and fauna, climbing a rock face to a sunken, cavernous realm.
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Florida
HSS
Wez
Mantic Forest
Descent into Oceanic Wastes and Edenic Undersea Vision
In a desolate wreck graveyard a narrator recounts floating palaces and bone strewn shores. They explore a sunken porthole of wrecks and meet uncanny figures before discovering a paradise valley of coral beds and gemstrewn rocks lingering with beauty and sorrow.
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Ponce de Leon
Brazil
Hindoostan
Newfoundland
Carolinan
Wavesael
Hades
Paradise
Turkeys
Agate
Almandine
Earth
Persia
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Day & Leslie
J. W. Anderson
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WG Denzer
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Jes H. Baker
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Marshall, I Ilinois
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