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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1862
Page
2
From Harrisburg details on Pennsylvania legislature actions including district boundaries and bank specie payment provisions. The piece defends Gov Curitn over Shoddy contracts, applauds the committee findings, and notes wartime economy. Also reports on Pittsburg Landing losses and Confederate advances, plus Emancipation progress in DC and Baltimore area.
The abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia passed the House by 93 yeas to 39 nays on the 11th. Our member Gen. Patton voted aye, as he always votes right.
The document lists Congressional districts by ward groupings in Philadelphia and surrounding counties. It covers wards I through XXIV in Philadelphia and Bucks, Montgomery, Lehigh, Chester, Delaware, Berks, Lancaster, Schuylkill, Lebanon, Northampton, Carbon, Monroe, Pike, Wayne, Luzerne, Susquehanna, Bradford, Wyoming, Sullivan, Columbia, Montour, Northumberland, Union, Snyder, Juniata, Dauphin, Cumberland, York, Perry, Adams, Franklin, Fulton, Bedford, Somerset, Cambria, Blair, Huntingdon, Mifflin, Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Tioga, Potter, Erie, Warren, McKean, Forest, Elk, Cameron, Jefferson, Clearfield, Crawford, Venango, Mercer, Clarion, Indiana, Westmoreland, Fayette, and Allegheny divisions. The Bull Run remarks summarize wartime investigations and reactions to rebel atrocities, and the article discusses Monitor and Merrimac strategies and abolitionist measures.
The Cleveland abolitionist Reverend George Gordon protests a presidential pardon while accepting liberty, lamenting being treated like a criminal as he questions the era’s laws equating slave trade on water with piracy but deeming it lawful elsewhere, and asks if admiralty jurisdiction could extend to the prairies.
The Od City Register notes 15 steamers and towboats operate between this place and Pittsburg with an average capacity of 800 barrels each. Flatboats total about 300, two thirds on Oil Creek moving oil to the creek mouth. Creek boats average 100 barrels, river boats about 500. Steamers run three trips weekly in good boating, towboats two. flatboat trips take three to four days to Pittsburg. Large bulk flatboat and raft traffic also occur. Brooklyn Eagle reports keel-laying for two larger Monitors at Continental Iron Works Green Point, with design tweaks inspired by recent Monitor Merrimac actions, to hasten completion.
The Border States delegation at the White House challenges Lincoln after his March emancipation message. Lincoln explains the conflict over slavery, proposes restricting it, and suggests federal aid to emancipation states to ease the transition while urging support to preserve the Union. The message appears in the Chicago Tribune. The second item recalls Pea Ridge fighting where soldiers’ resolve, not generals, won the battle.
President Lincoln announces the act for release of persons held to service in the District of Columbia has been approved. He expresses confidence in Congress to abolish slavery there and notes compensation and colonization principles while outlining time limits for claims and gaps for certain dependents.
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