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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1864
Page
1
A battlefield courier brings grim news of a recent clash with victors and heavy losses. A mother mourns her son, a wife weeps for a captain slain, and a speaker denounces slavery and urges enlistment. The writer notes rain, sand on the island, and hopes for emancipation through common effort, closing with a resolve to endure the summer.
A fragment from a veteran’s diary describes a night of hurried camp upheaval as orders arrive to strike tents and move by dawn. The 1024th U.S. Colored Regiment heads to Beaufort for camp instruction, while a pending court martial continues, a soldier facing desertion charges. The writer laments delays, red tape, and the harsh discipline shaping army life.
The piece asks what actions the public would demand if the current administration fell and Copperheads took power, questioning strategies to end or continue the war. It lists options such as raising troops, drafting, armistice, blockade, recognition of rebel independence, and the administration’s wartime policies. It notes wounded officers from Michigan units and reports the death of Eugene Hall of Detroit’s Michigan unit in Washington hospitals.
A discussion argues that the country’s wealth far exceeds its coinage and that money merely lubricates trade. It urges buying 10-40 government bonds as a safeguard, noting they will be par in gold after the war and yield gold interest from the start.
In a Toronto Globe excerpt the fourteen year old Fugitive Slave Law is discussed as a factor that intensified anti slavery sentiment in free states. The piece notes Personal Liberty laws, rescues of enslaved people, and the wartime shift toward repeal as Congress signals assent and the president may soon sign. It reflects on how the law spurred rebellion and undermined the slaveholding system.
The piece questions rebel hunger claims, noting Union observers report Confederate soldiers starved and blockade runners’ bacon rotted at Nassau. It cites damaged transport and railways, asks how Lee and Beauregard can sustain forces, and mentions the Itasca poll on the Mississippi steamer’s next president choice.
Andrew Johnson defends emancipation against critics in Knoxville. He argues slavery impoverishes Tennessee soil and seeks to persuade listeners of unconstitutionality of the proclamation while praising free speech and the pursuit of a free country. Applause follows the call to emancipation and universal freedom.
A fragment from a London Daily News column notes damage to a plant gifted to Mr. Tennyson by Garibaldi, with security measures in his garden amid intrusions by tourists. It also cites the New York Times on Lincoln’s re election aim and abolition of slavery, and The Argus on Gen. Grant’s reported losses after crossing the Rapidan, with broad war coverage and political stakes.
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