The Late Jesse D. Bright remembered in Indiana history
The Cincinnati Inquirer reflects on Jesse D. Bright of Indiana, comparing him to Breckinridge. It chronicles Bright’s early public rise, long Senate service, leadership in Indiana politics, and influence from 1845 to 1863, noting his birth in New York and lifelong Indiana ties.
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Union
Bright
Noe
Indiana
Norwich
Chenango County
New York
Madison
Cincinnati Inquirer
Two Indiana Men for Presidential Nominations in 1876
The piece argues Indiana will be pivotal in the next election with Oliver P. Morton as a leading Radical figure and Thomas A. Hendricks as the Democratic choice. It describes Morton as unprincipled but capable, while Hendricks is praised as anti corruption and pro people. Indiana is forecast as the 1876 battle ground with Hendricks potentially defeating Morton by twenty five thousand votes in the state.
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Indiana
Ulysses Grant
Oliver P. Morton
Grant
Radical Party
Morton
Gov
Thomas A. Hendricks
Hendricka
Congress
Hendricks
Albany Ledger- Standard
Negro wage claims and Blair blood transfusion update
May 29, 1875 report notes former enslaved workers seeking fifteen million dollars from the government for wages allegedly taken as a contraband fund under Stanton’s Quartermasters during the Civil War. Also cited is General Frank Blair’s improving condition after a blood transfusion, with his family now supportive and the general able to assist himself more than before.
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United States
Frank Blair
Old Rebel Yell Fades as South Proclaims Confederacy Dead
In the Memphis Appeal a strong stance declares secession and slavery dead, the Confederacy expired, no one will revive it, and resentments are dropped while memory honors the brave soldiers who reflected American valor. The piece frames unity and a peaceable postwar reconciliation in a muted tone.
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Memphis
June arrivals and public notices from Paris to Long Branch
Mr John Hoey and family will take possession at Long Branch the first week in June with Judge Cardozo and Mr Thomas Murphy and family. The White House party is expected around June 20. In Paris the restored Vendome Column will crown Napolean as it was before the Commune and the monument restored soon. Weston still walking. A Centennial Association forms in New York to mark Revolutionary War events of 1776 with William Cullen Bryant as President. Colfax reports lecture-season receipts over 10000 dollars, close to a Credit Mobilier level.
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Jesse D. Bright
Indiana
John C. Breckinridge
Bright
Breckinridge
United States
Mr. Breckinridge
Mr. Bright
South
Tie
Breckinvidge
Kentucky
Brighs
James Buchanyn
John A. Breckinridge
Earth
Democratic Party
United States Senate
Henry Clay
Lewis Casa
Stephen A. Douglas
John Slidell
R.M.T. Hunter
John M. Mason
Robert Toombs
Sam Houston
United States Marshal
Wm. R. King
Alabama
General Pierce
Senate
William Allen
Ohio
John A. Dix
New York
Sydney Breese
Ilinois
Simon Cameron
Pennsylvania
Carmi Thespians
Carl
Slater
Martha Willis
Danny
Berry’s Hall
Arien Harvey
John Hoey
Long Branch
Cardozo
Thomas Murphy
Friday
White House
Paris
Napoleon
Commonwealth
William Cullen Bryant
A Summer Musical Festival Proposal and Political Reflections
The piece advocates organizing a summer musical festival with local talent from the Macbeth Club and the Literary Society, in a woodland setting like the Cut Off hills, to blend music with nature. It rebuts nominating Coarnes Francis Adams for 1876, endorsing Hendricks, TourMAN, and other Democrats, warning against a new party departure and noting a Kansas case where first cousins married and were told to consider themselves unmarried.
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Epiron
Macbeth Club
Gideon
Macbeth
Coarnes Francis Adams
Greaney
L. A
Democratic Party
Hendricks, Tourman
Ottawa County
Kansas
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East Main Street
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Geo. T. Berlin
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