The Negro Question in Wartime Politics and Tax Relief
The piece attacks slavery as the bloc of national peril, urging destruction of slavery to preserve the Union. It denounces proslavery zealots and argues for unity, while criticizing a county military tax and proposing redirecting funds to the families of volunteers. It calls for legislative reform to fund military relief from the tax.
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Missouri
South
Adams & Giddings
Congress
Kansas
North
Duffy
Dinah
Call for a Warren County academy department
A community urges creation of a higher education department at Union School Warren, noting idle academy funds and the old academy as a symbol of decline. The letter asks active citizens to respond and support public enterprise to elevate local education and national stewardship. John B. Henderson, a Douglas Democrat and Union man, is named to Linsten Polk's U.S. Senate seat by Lt. Governor Hall.
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Union School
Warren
Warren County
John B. Henderson
Hall
Linsten Polk
U.S Senate
Harrisburg News Roundup From January 20 1862
From Harrisburg Jan 20 1862 the House has drawn committees on contested elections with few bills beyond the one passed. A Senate move to abolish franking privilege is noted along with local county petitions and military news from Camp Pierpont. Reports include Civil War uprisings, regimental reorganizations, casualties, and strategic moves on the Potomac and southern coast.
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Harrisburg
House
Cessna
Householder
Hopkins
Judiciary Committee
Senate
Congress
Bates
Crawford
Venango
Warren
Warren County
South West
Rowe
Cowan
Federal Relations
Col. Curtis
J. Ritcher Jones
Philadelphia
Curtis
J. 8. Lytle
Samuel Richardson
Tidioute
Susquehanna
Lytle
Henry D. Moore
Cameron
Illinois the Prairie State a rising coal sugar and cotton region
The Dubuque Times quotes St Louis Sentinel praising Illinois as a vast resource state with railroad might soil diversity and coal wealth. It notes Illinois raised 70 000 soldiers since last spring plans another if needed and a sugar crop last year while Egypt is urged to grow cotton to fill blockade shortages.
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Northwest
Iowa
Illinois
Union
St. Louis
Prairie State
Egypt
Dubuque
Death Smile as Arch of Triumph Over Dark Past
Poetic line frames the death-smile as a grand, transformative force. It casts a dark past into a radiant future and elevates sorrow into a triumphal beacon.
Re-election of Henry D. Moore as State Treasurer
In latest news Henry D. Moore is re-elected as State Treasurer. Reports mention Mason and Slidell heard from via the St. Thomas route, likely in England. The President is said to nominate Sigel to command a division. Burnside’s expedition reportedly attacks Wilmington, North Carolina as Mexican news to the 10th notes Vera Cruz’s loss of interior communications. Senate executive session confirms nominations including John Lathrop Motley as Minister to Austria and Judge Swain of Ohio for the Supreme Court bench as noted from New York, January 22.
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New Orleans
Ship Island
Biloxi
Cassius M. Clay
Russia
Senate
Manassas
Cobden
Cincinnati Times
General Scott
England
Henry D. Moore
Mason and Slidell
Vera Cruz
Senate Today
John Lathrop
Motley
Austria
New York
Swain
Ohio
Supreme Court
McLean
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United States
D.titus
Pierpont
Potomac
Old Dominion
Bucktail
Drainesville
Curtin
Drainsville
G. A. Grow
House of Representatives
Keystone
Burnsides
Fortress
Monroe
Misissippi
Cairo
Allegheny
Yours, &Co
Gov. Curtin
Penn
War Department
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Tyler
Richmond
Pillow
West Point
Washington
New York Tribune
Manassas Junction
Maryland
Baltimore American
Navy Department
Gulf Squadron
Pensacola
Port Royal
Tybee Island
Richmond Examiner
Virginia
Juarez
Mexico
Jovisintun
Thomas
Cumberland
White Oak Creek
Mill Springs
Zollicotter
10Th Indiana
Jim Lane
Chicago
Stanton
McClellan
Hunter
Lane
Army of the Potomac
J. Champion Vaughen
Wilmington
N. C
Newburn
Hatteras
Goldsborough
Pamlico Sound
Hyde County
San Francisco
Sacramento
Fort Pickens
Aco'r
Navy Yard
Fulton
Porter
Ericsson
Philadephia
Lexuca Oil
New York City
Venango Spectator
N. Y
Barre
Burnside
Wilmington NC
Busti
Wm. Bullock
J. J. Burroughs
Jane Jagger
Sugar Grove, Pa
Paul D. Dean
Etters
Wm. Say- M4der
Glade Township
J. W. Snyder
Adin
Glade
Board of Relief
Commissioners Office
Borough of
Commissioners
A. BR. Ludlow
Wilhelmina
George Mathis
Warren, Pa
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