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Pomeroy and South Carolina Excerpts Echo a Turbulent Era
An extended transcribed missive from January 1860 discusses South Carolina hostility to abolitionist views, detailing the James Power flogging case, Vigilance Committees, and mob brutality. It contrasts northern and southern conditions, notes local politics in Pomeroy and Meigs County, and surveys taxation reforms through Ohio's early general valuations, property assessments, and fiscal governance.
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Sora
Telegraph
Kentucky
Democratic Party
Eee
New York
Charleston
eofProm
Ew York Independent
Republic
Charleston Mercury
State House
Cola S.C
James Power
Wexford
Tréfanid
Philadelphia
Columbia
Vigilance Committee
Phe
Pomeroy
Western Reserve
Central Ohio
Conemwcs
Dam
Cdd
Little Cotemmen
Buchanan
Republican
Republican Party
Senate
Gov. Chase
Fime
Corwin
Swan
Delano
Stanton
Schenck
Chase
Tey
Bensit
Board of Equalization
General Assembly
General
Legisla
Isdacsagen
Startling
Hamilton
Fayette
Commissioner of Statistics
Opi