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Newspaper
Shawano County Journal
Location
Shawano, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1866
Page
2
The scene shows Blanche Rothsay guiding a hundred guests into a room where Colonel Rotheay, head waiter, introduces a banquet for widows and children of men who fell in the rebellion. The guests, once timid, share a grateful, emotional celebration as they dine under the modest hush of the crowd.
The poem ponders a baby’s unwritten history and unfathomable mystery as the infant laughs cries and grows, noting colic tears and the quick passage of summers while a nephew’s childhood slips away. The speaker imagines the child’s head full of riddles like a sphinx.
A lengthy defense of the Union’s preservation after the Civil War era arguing that the South failed to destroy the Union and that the United States remains one national power. It contrasts the Payne affair with Seward and asserts the Union party’s victory, unity, and constitutional supremacy across territories and states.
The speaker argues that southern states sought to enslave citizens and that the Union must remain loyal to emancipation. They condemn martial law and quasi state governments as illegitimate, insisting the Union now rests on freed people and military force, not conciliation. The loyal majority will govern, while disloyal minorities must learn the higher law.
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