Four hundred thousand brave souls on many a field
Speech by John A. Bingham at New Market Harrison County Ohio amid Civil War rhetoric. Extracts condemn Pendleton for advocating legal tender notes and bond redemption plans while urging faith in national debt contracts and opposed taxation on the poor. The piece frames Union sacrifices and warns against repudiation and state taxation that would hurt veterans.
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New Market
Harrison County
Democratic Party
Ohio
Pendleton
Boston
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New York
Congress of the United States
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Judy Ranney
Judge Thurman
United States
Simon
C. L. Wallandingham
South Carolina
Stewart
John Jacob Astor
Gettysburgh
Conspirators kept in Dry Tortugas casemates
A Dry Tortugas letter reports conspirator prisoners lodged in the second tier casemates. They have cool dry airy quarters and good government rations. Arnold serves as a clerk, Spangler and O’Laughlin carpenters, Mudd carpenter helper. All are healthy though thinner than normal, enjoy library access, and some reading. A man fell into a Dubuque well forty feet deep last Tuesday but was rescued unharmed.
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Spangler
O'laughblin
Mudd
Dubuque
The Columbus Journey’s Truths on Democratic Debt Burden
A broad plea argues that the Democratic party bears responsibility for national debt from the Civil War era. It asserts debt growth from aid to the rebellion, harm to public credit, and opposition to tariff relief. The piece urges Union papers in Ohio to publish these facts ahead of the next election.
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Columbus
Democratic Party
House of the Fortieth Congress
United States
Ohio
Congress
New England
McCoors Lionized in Cincinnati as Special Representative
McCoors the prize fighter was celebrated on Saturday in Cincinnati among admirers of his refined art. Crowds of boys followed him in the streets, likened to a victorious bull dog or game cock. In Monroe Michigan farmers and gardeners have planted 37,000 vines in three years, with many vineyards now bearing and yields surpassing expectations.
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Richard Smith
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Cincinnati
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Logans speech contrasts Hayes and Thurman during the war
Governor Dennison at Logan cites Hayes’s wartime service and Thurman Pendleton and Vallandigham as antiwar leaders. He praises Hayes’s prompt enlistment and promotions while accusing Thurman of neglect. The Louisville Journal notes and the Ohio Democracy’s war record are mentioned alongside a poisoning incident in Quincy, Illinois.
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Thurman
Pendleton
Vallandigham
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Ohio
Lincoln
Union Party
Ohio Democracy
Ranney
Detroit Tribune
Reminiscences of the 1837 Financial Panic at a Bank
A vivid anecdote recalls the 1837 financial crisis when banks suspended specie payments and hard cash vanished. A Frenchman demanded specie for a 100 bill, yelled revenge as he tore and trampled the note, then left the bank with Napoleon-like swagger.
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The Westchester Bull Voices Fears of a Locomotive
A homely fable from Westchester county tells of a conservative bull who detests radical change. When a locomotive enters his world he charges the track in defiant protest, only to be overwhelmed by modern progress and the train’s unstoppable advance.
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Westchester County
Spain
Washington
Keep it Before the People
A political piece argues that the party now seeking power shared secessionist and Union opposition views, condemned Union soldiers, opposed arrest and law, called the war a failure, and justified presidential murder. It urges readers to question returning such a party to power.
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Union
The
Lincoln
Dem Republicans clash over soldiers voting rights in field
The notice argues that Democrats never voted to let soldiers vote while in the field and questions willingness to permit disabled soldiers at the National Home to vote. It urges subscribing to the Barr for more updates.
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