New England and the West Face Political Rift
The New York Commercial Advertiser argues New England’s moral influence wanes as East and West clash. It predicts Sumner Butler and Wilson cannot lead the party, while urging liberal, generous reconciliation. The South seeks alliance with the West, favoring border tolerance and magnanimity after defeat, with rising Southern calls for a strengthened union.
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New England
West
New York
Sumner
Butler
Wilson
Wendell Phillips
Ohio
Ilinois
Mississippi
South
Union
Where are the Negroes in the census and labor pools
A Macon Georgia Telegraph correspondent asks where the colored population has gone as plantation labor drops across Jefferson county. He notes each plantation seeks two to four workers, some up to forty, with larger estates better supplied. He forecasts at least one sixth fewer Negroes in the fields this year and mentions the 1870 census as a likely melancholy feature. He blames philanthropists for political gain and foresees a fearful reckoning. A Washington correspondent then summarizes Senator Yates of Illinois in a disruptive Senate moment.
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Macon
Georgia
Jefferson County
Indiana
Washington
Cincinnati
Lexington
Kentucky
Fr. Courier
Opposing the Fifteenth Amendment in Indiana Politics
A Bloomington era piece notes Democratic opposition to black suffrage while arguing broader risk to the Constitution from centralization. It decries radical editors and predicts shifts in Indiana voting, citing anti suffrage rhetoric, Black voters, and potential penalties after ratification. It also profiles Butler Dawes Farnsworth and cites the Butler leadership in party discipline.
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Staten
New Albany Ledger
Democratic Party
Gjs
Radical Party
Disunion Debate Over Virginia Representation Test Oath
The New York Evening Post argues against Drake s proviso test oath that bars former officeholders and rebels from Virginia politics. It condemns perpetual class division, political bitterness, and a breach of Congress pledges, warning of dangerous precedent and factional misuse in excluding states from national councils.
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Senate
Virginia
Congress
Drake
New York
New York Evening Post
Girl with big feet proves fitting size can vary
In Saginaw a 18 year old girl sought shoes in size 2. The cler k showed a 5, then a 7, claiming they were larger 2s. She finally found a 2 fitting when they were labeled 2 and paid, in a tale of perseverance. The rest of the excerpt mocks political claims about African Americans and a Mississippi senator, noting a push to restrict rights and misstatements about birth status.
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Saginaw
Mich
Radical Screw and Proscription in Kentucky Politics
The State Sentinel critiques Radical leaders and Senator Morton for proposing to punish officeholders violating the Fourteenth Amendment. The author predicts mass removals in Kentucky, including the Speaker of the Senate and the acting Lieutenant Governor, arguing such measures heighten division and distrust among citizens and the emancipated population.
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Radical Party
Washington Dispatches
Morton
Senate
Kentucky
Leslie
State Sentinel
Supreme Judges The Districts Engraved in State
District divisions for Supreme Judges list four districts with many counties named. The text includes a stray botanical note on sunflowers and a joke about a Sabbath school teacher and a boy, with fragmented phrases and garbled place names.
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Steuben
LaGrange
Elkhart
St. Joseph
Laporte
Porter
Lake
Starke
Marshall
Kosciusko
Noble
DeKalb
Allen
Whitley
Fulton
Pulaski
Jasper
Benton
White
Cass
Wabash
Huntington
Wells
Adam Jay
Randolph
Grant
Blackford
Howard
Carroll
Miama
Delaware
Henry
Wayne
Nash
Payette
Union
Decatur
Franklin
Jennings
Ripley
Dearborn
Ohio
Switzerland
Jefferson
Scott
Clark
Bartholomew
Clinton
Tipton
Boone
Hamilton
Wendricks
Marion
Hancock
Shelby
Brown
Lawrence
Jackson
Orange
Washington
Crawford
Harrison
Morgan
Madison
Perry
Johnson
Fountain
Warren
Park
Putnam
Montgomery
Vigo
Clay
Vermillion
Sullivan
Green
Owen
Dubois
Daviess
Knox
Gibson
Pike
Martin
Vanderburgh
Warriors
Posey
Spencer
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Bayless W. Hanna
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Ohio River
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Evansville
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Poplar Ridge
New Harmony Ferry
Phillipstown
White County
Joan Fitzgerald
Larkin Bailey
Wm. C. Bozeman
David Elki
Furney Lewis
Lee the Peace
Robb John S. Trainer
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Poseyville
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P. T. Barnum
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Hartford, Conn
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Wabash River
Josiah Calvin
Wash
Dixon
Anne Rippeto
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Mount Vergon
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Model “City Drug Store
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