19 Aug 1868
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Newspaper
Neosho Valley Register
Location
Iola, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1868
Page
1
A sorrowful tale contrasts a barefoot boy’s fragile joy with a wanderer’s lessons on life and mercy. An angel guides a lost child, while a discontented couple learns contentment through distant riches and a guarded feast.
A lordly household hushes a curious couple as they peek under a dish cover and a mouse leaps forth. The tale shifts to Paraguay and Brazilian frontier bravery, then to a biting critique of Union fidelity and a colorful portrait of Japanese girls’ grooming, dress, and customs with vivid detail.
The Democratic party urged war weariness and peace at any cost in 1864, while Republicans demanded a vigorous prosecution of the rebellion. By 1868 Republicans favored peace, and Democrats backed doctrines that could provoke renewed conflict, labeling Democrats as peace men in war and war men in peace.
Brick Bomeroy has spoken harshly of the Seymour faction and the Blair family but now he has surrendered and is praising them. In the Cleveland Herald cadence he swallows his former words, calling it the nastiest dish.
A sheriff in Illinois purchases Balm of Columby from a Yankee pedlar and then tries to resell it, prompting the pedlar to expose the sheriff for peddling without a license. The sheriff is fined eight dollars after a complaint is filed in the next village.
A 116 year old Italian cites simple living as the key to long life. Avoid excitement, eat well when hungry, keep feet dry and warm, shield the head from sun and rain, and maintain steady, moderate activity. The contrast with an intensely living person is drawn, warning that constant excess hastens decline.
Lieutenant Governor Dunn of Louisiana, sworn in July 10, speaks as the first under the 1868 Constitution. Senator Lynch introduces him, notes Dunn’s race. Dunn seeks equal chances in life and education, not social equality, while warning against white rebel efforts to restore power and disenfranchise Black citizens.
From a modest four page folio to a leviathan of print the newspaper has grown in size reach and influence. It now numbers hundreds of metropolitan and provincial papers publishing weekly and shaping public opinion national education and rural life through widespread dissemination and local chronicles.
Gen Canby will assume command of the Department of Washington next week, replacing Emery. The change in leadership marks a shift in the regional command structure as the new general takes over duties and supervision of operations.
A fiery speech by Col. Carroll at a nearby ratification meeting provoked a taunting Democrat. Carroll vehemently warned that no ticket from the opposition could beat Grant, delivering a sweeping, colorful tirade about steadfast Union loyalty and political resolve.
Gov Warmouth appeals to the President for troops to quell rebel terror in Louisiana and Texas, blaming Sheridan’s removal and the appointment of Hancock and Buchanan for a rise in violence and murders. The piece urges Gen Schofield to restore Union protection until Grant’s presidency.
Josh Billings answers a reader about autographs noting they are sold by the pack and that he once lent an autograph to a friend for 90 days. It circulated to banks and cost him 275 to recover, leading him to quit the business and not engage in autograph trading since.
The text contrasts rebel officers and politicians in the North abusing Grant with Union figures in the South who promised peace and prosperity. It notes the North’s exiles and confiscations were punished, while the South’s carpetbaggers were vilified as scalawags, with some murdered.
Syracuse Journal notes that the last act of rebels before the conflict was to vote the democratic ticket and that the first act after the war mirrored this, linking democracy and rebellion as a close sequence.
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