03 Oct 1868
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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1868
Page
1
A half legible poem reflects on autumn and the changing season in October 1868, contrasting frost and warmth, harvest imagery, and the tone of December arriving. It evokes lingering rural scenes with apples, wheat, maple, and oak, and ends with gatherings by the hearth as a swallows’ flight marks time.
A mosaic of humorous snippets and garbled quotes from newspapers and notices. It mentions a London crowd living by pens, a query about cheese markets, a girl on a style, an Edinburgh notice denying a death, fences in a country, a New York beer saloon posting no loans under 1000, and a Baltimore clergyman puzzled by Boston church music. Also jokes about marriage cards, language misreads, arithmetic gaps, and a Nevada Indian watching baseball players asking their daily earnings.
The Monmouth report details General Singleton's stop by stop reception in the northern counties. Audiences ranged from under fifty at Ellison to about two hundred at Spring Grove, mostly Republicans, with little turnout at Keithsburg Barr's and Young America. Local Republicans prefer his absence until election day, hoping for votes from his visit.
A report from plate Ky details a Ku Klux raid in Pulaski County on the 19th inst, where seven to ten assailants killed Stephen Cummins and his daughter, wounded another child, and shot Cummins’ wife after exposing their vengeance against abolitionists. The attackers, described as former rebels now Democrats, have terrorized multiple areas for a year.
A Quincey Herald piece recalls a Civil War era speech mocking negro equality versus German and Irish workers, and references Col Robert M Douglas supporting Grant. It notes reactions of German and Irish citizens, and cites a Raleigh Standard account of Douglas praising peace, union, and the Grant administration.
The Quincy Herald reports a farmer mocked taxed goods after listener to Join M Palmer, radical governor candidate, saying taxes are imposed by Democrats for Democratic aims in Adams County. He notes no direct federal tax on items cited unless Democratic platform passes, warning old farmers will act accordingly.
The Alton Democrat vents anger at Reconstruction policy calling it despotism and slavery while arguing the people’s plan ensures peace and equal rights. The piece cites Ben Hill’s Georgia remarks demonizing Southern rebels and hints at a Vermont election outlook and Chicago death toll.
The piece reviews Illinois congressional prospects in 1868 with Republican hopes and Democratic doubts, noting district-level outcomes in 1866 and urging voter turnout. It also critiques Minister Reverdy Johnsons English diplomacy, arguing he should focus on Alabama and other issues rather than dinner-table praise.
The article notes John Surratt’s release due to the statute of limitations after more than two years between crime and indictment for conspiracy to abduct Lincoln. It cites strong evidence of guilt, questions jury bias in Washington, and predicts DA appeal unlikely. It also links Surratt to the Seymour Blair Democrats as a political exemplar.
A political appeal warns that Democratic candidates Seymour and Blair would tax households and all personal property to pay national debt, contrasting with Republican promises of no direct tax. The piece targets farmers, mechanics and laborers, urging support for the Republican ticket.
Gen James Shields, Union army veteran, is nominated by the Democracy for Missouri's Sixth District. Reports say rebel Democrats object to his anti treason stance. Also noted: William Emerson, last surviving Emerson brother, died aged 68 on the sixth.
June SM 193- summarizes a memorandum by Mr. Ould about Vallandigham and the Copperhead plan to influence the North. The note mentions holding out this year to defeat Lincoln, fears of invasion in Pennsylvania, and advice against provoking a general North-wide crisis that would strengthen Lincoln and curb constitutional rights.
Registration has commenced in Louisiana with reports from New Orleans of considerable excitement in the city as crowds gather and participate in the process.
Washington Special cites Maj. Howard and Gen. Sibley relaying a Camden Ga massacre account. A freedman survivor describes mobs firing on fugitives with bloodhounds, while whites boasted of many killed near Dr. Dasher's. Fear and unrest spread in Camilla and Albany, with calls for protection and relief for Bureau staff.
The passage notes Democrats organizing clubs called White Boys in Blue and claims each person in the Sons of Liberty conspiracy was a Democrat. A New Orleans Times poet sings a campaign song urging colored Democrats to join Blair Guards, and a November vote for Frank P. Blair is urged.
Col Phos Grosvenor, Democrat for Clerk of Cook County Circuit Court, is charged with branding more tobacco than he issued returns for in his capacity as tobacco inspector. At a Labor Congress in New York yesterday, officers were elected: WH Sylers president, O H Lucker vice president, A P Davis vice president, John Vincent secretary, A W Helps treasurer. Female members voted with the same slate.
The report covers various Illinois items including Swedes in Peoria forming a Tanner's Club or Swollen group, cattle tongue in Washington county, prairie chickens scarce, wild pigeons abundant, deaths of Hiram Keach in Carrollton and Joseph N. McDowell in St. Louis, tax cuts in Vermilion county, and shootings, robberies, and storms across multiple towns such as O'Fallon Havana Camp Point Quincy and Kansas City with mentions of railroads, lightning strikes, and crime.
An observer’s account from Aden describes German astronomers Weiss and Rhea and an Austrian at Aden observing the August 18 solar eclipse. Despite prior cloudiness, clear dawn allowed a two minute fifty five second total eclipse with photographs. Notes highlight a self‑acting photo telescope, tides, and the cool light after totality, plus remarks on the German party and their instruments.
A New York Sun discussion cites Supreme Court positions on Congress power to reconstruct the South and on military authority in conquered territories. It notes General Kearny's 1847 New Mexico suffrage code granting voting rights to all male inhabitants, including Negroes, as law until Congress acts. The piece includes a quip about General Blair and a Democratic letter from E W Miles at White Sulphur Springs.
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