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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1864
Page
2
The call invites qualified voters to send delegates to a Baltimore convention on June 7 1864 to nominate President and Vice President. It lists a long slate of signers and state representation rules reflecting Union war aims and constitutional preservation.
In Washington and beyond, debates rage over slavery’s fate in new states, party divisions, and recent caucus notices. The piece notes Brooks and Wood opposing views, shifting Democratic coalitions, and a vivid war-time political scene with Lincoln and Sanitary Fair events.
Arkansas, once last to secede, adopts a reconstruction constitution prohibiting slavery. Ratified by voters amid rebel threats, three members are chosen for the House, and the Legislature will convene next month. Isaac Murphy, who voted against secession, is elected governor as a new state government forms in Arkansas.
A Democratic paper in Selinsgrove Pa attacks volunteers for war as the Stark County Ohio paper praises bounty schemes linked to abolition leaders. A letter notes passage of the General Bounty Bill and a Warren County provision, urging local authorities to raise bounty funds. Oakwood cord price listed at Richmond Va and pine price per cord.
Senate inquiry reveals the 450 free colored colonists sent to Apache Island, Haiti were mismanaged and suffered smallpox and neglect. The Marcia C Day returned to Virginia with 368 survivors. Separate dispatch from Charleston reports Copperhead violence in Cole County during court actions, with several Union soldiers wounded and a shooting death.
Reports describe a brutal combat at Paducah with nightlong fighting and multiple assaults repulsed at great cost. Gunboats fired 600 rounds. 300 Confederate dead lie before the fort. 14 Union and 45 wounded. Rebels plundered stores and took horses. 40 convalescents captured.
Letters remaining for names including Augusta Marsh Deloss Peakley Ira Cook Laura A. Johns Miss Maria Gray Mrs Geo Horton Miss A Persons calling for letters should say Advertiser C Smith Jr Oneil John Osborne Martin Robinson Celia Silfee Walter Wright Burt ing of the above letters Eric Penna. Walter son of their Senior Partner joins as co owner in Scott Randry Co continuing coal trade salt plaster fish water lime at Public Dock under firm of Scott Randry Co
By exonerations for Taxes by error in calculating the tax fy Com on this and Road Duplicates by amount paid to the Borough Treasurer Caleb Weatherby Road Master for 18¢3 in account with the Borough of Warren Debtor.
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