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Proclamation and political turmoil in postwar era
Merry Andrews makes a Christmas proclamation pardoning rebels while Congress debates franchise, debt, and reconstruction. reports on Treasury gold, rail disasters, Confederate debt disputes, woman suffrage plans, and local crimes, including Georgia murders and a dying confession in New Jersey.
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Merry Andrew
United States
Congress
Andy
Davis, Breckenridge, Mason, Slidell, & Co
Deoes
uUumann
Chicago Tribune
McCulloch
Mobile
Spinder
Secretary of the Treasury
New York
Smyrna
Asia Minor
Gulf of Smyrna
Ee Grant
Brownsville
Texas
Customs
Robert H. Ryan
Geo. F. Hammond
Wm. H. Phelps
Viirginia
Lynchburg
John T. Hoffman
Congressional Committee
Washington
Middletown
Lafayette
Sussex County
New Jersey
White
Methodist Church