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Newspaper
The Weekly Echo
Location
Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1868
Page
2
The article describes postwar tensions with threats to the legislature and calls for suppression of secret political groups. It notes loyalist defenses, militia concerns, and distrust of Radical policies shaping race and voting. It also includes a poetic insert about a count and his family in a ruined castle.
The piece argues Radicals fear adjournment and a rising Democratic tide after the Civil War. It contrasts party panic with a call for restraint, urging loyalty to the Constitution and Union, while praising Robert E. Lee as a model figure for national reconciliation.
The Terre Haute Ex press reports a showman discovering a male and female in Greens County Indiana. Aged twenty one and twenty two, they stand only twenty nine inches tall and the male is said to lack a spinal vertebra. Raised in the wild with sixteen other siblings, they eat once daily and show little intellect yet can grasp basic speech. They were reared under a guardianship of their own.
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