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Fj.».u r«a Major Holton'* Company.—We* * ■were tbown on Monday a mon beautiful eilk Bag for Major Holton'i company,' manufactured in tbif city. Mr. Elliott did the sewiog, and Moser*. Letton Yiberta the lettering. psiuttug on*! gilding. An eagle,-screaming «»ut_ our now ratheri «queerly sounding motto of *vut* Sovereignty/' occupies one corner, wuil* on a white strips are the words—■Presented by citizens of Quincy to Holton's Guards.*' 0a itmnhtu- stripe appears“Company—/tlSlb Regt. ill. Vola.” It is amost handsome preseat, costing about,. $100,, and« - *we are sure Major IloUon. mil feel proud ol it. as an evidence of the appreciation felt for a genuinewar Democrat by bis Republican and Democratic war friends in Quincy. . -Mr. J. A. Smith, who got up the subscription for the flag, useures us of a f?ct which we could» ft* ▼hardly have believed bad the statement not come from a veracious man. Havay* that he could fo-duce but very few Democrat? to contribute a centtowards this present lor their old favorite. They* * . v , told him that *•»;! U-. ? * a ;r tatcd hi rri*/,lf yotty h~i it i- a -:rd commentary on the patriot' isui ol a p or a on oj »It? Quincy I-aioeiucy, and is the natural sequel to m? t**aW tings of the Confederate organ on Muih“ ft i- a shame that wehftve such meu ri:n jag-.t4, br.t«nQ day, When the Government w.*k .*» i » t\.° d. hger of harboringmen whose hearts ar*» with the win makedue provision for riiipjdng tuna to their “friend* down South.'*
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Quincy Whig and Republican

Quincy, Illinois, US

Sat, Sep 27, 1862

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