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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1880
Page
1
From Staunton Virginia Wade Hampton urges Virginians to cast votes as in past battles. He invokes Lee and Stonewall and Lincoln, urging Confederates to resist Yankee aid and maintain Southern lines from Delaware to the Rio Grande with wartime zeal. The text includes fragmented references to Fort Pillow and slave-driver imagery.
Local notices outline postal service hours and mail routes. Postmaster J A Hays announces northbound and southbound mail times, office opening at 7 AM and closing at 1 15 PM, with northbound mail arriving at 5 28 AM and 3 PM, and southbound at 1 50 PM. No southbound mail on the 52s o clock train.
The Washington Letter discusses art in the capital, Corcoran Gallery studies, and the promising future of art education. It reports progress on the Washington Monument with engineering feats, a night electric light plan, and a national hopeful symbol. It also critiques Democratic figures and salary debates, urging party loyalty and anti scalawag sentiment.
An 1865 chronicle recalls the night Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theatre in Washington. The attack follows news of Lee’s surrender, stirring mourning across the capital as people remember fallen heroes and vow to honor their memory.
A political note says the party keeps its course with Hancock chosen as leader, viewed as a more useful decoy than Jeff. Davis, while the vows from earlier days seem likely to be forgotten.
The passage lauds Gen. Hancock as a government educated, paid officer but argues he is not a statesman. It questions who nominated him and which allies support his election, citing uncertainty about his backers and direction.
In Hagerstown August 11, Henry W. Johnson urged Republicans at Melodeon Hall to rally for Garfield and Arthur. Democrats left in silence after his critique of Southern Democrats. about 75 names were enrolled for a Garfield and Arthur club to be organized next Wednesday. J. C. McBride, a local clothing store owner, joined the Republicans for the first time.
A New York Times editorial argues that nominating a Union General by the Democrats signals loyalty to the Union but risks reviving sectional tensions by implying sympathy with resistance to nationalizing tendencies.
The New York Tribune quotes Alexander H. Stephens arguing that Hancock and BoP would win if Democrats avoid blunders. He mocks the Bourbons as having impractical demands and notes the need for restraint in political expectations.
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