Union State Convention urges reelecting Honest Abe
The Union State Convention of Pennsylvania reports harmony and enthusiasm as delegates call for the re election of President Abraham Lincoln and the defeat of the rebellion. John Patton is placed on the electoral ticket for the 19th Congressional District.
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Pennsylvania
Abe
John Patton
Itarrispurg
Baltimore
Senate
House
Philadelphia
L.—R. C. Tittermary
J. C. Duhad
Wm. Simpson
W. J. P. White
Wayne McVeagh
State Central Committee
House of Representatives
Serrill
Delaware County
John P. Penney
Penney
Bergner
Henry Jolson
Johnson
Samuel Alleman
Dauphin
John H. Stewart
Alleghany
David L. Barnes
Fayette
George H. Moore
Conrad Schindle
Schuylkill
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Messrs. Frazier
Fry
Olmstead
Bound
Householder
Wm. V. Lawrence
Washington County
Lawrence
Union Party
Messrs
Campbell
Wallace
Wilson
Tioga
Delaware
Rowe
Franklin
Lincoln letter to Hodges on Slavery and national course
The piece presents President Lincoln’s letter to Mr Hodges of Kentucky explaining his stance on slavery. It praises the President as honest and decisive, arguing that a higher power is guiding emancipation and that the nation’s Civil War grief points to future repentance, triumph, and peace.
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Lincoln
Hodges
Kentucky
Bramlette
Pennsylvanians Rally to Reelect Lincoln Across Counties
The piece notes all county conventions in Pennsylvania unanimously instruct delegates to vote for Lincoln’s renomination. It claims public sentiment near Harrisburg and across Lancaster, Chester, Montgomery, Lehigh, and Allegheny aligns against rebellion and in favor of reelecting “Old Abe.”
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Lincoln
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Lancaster
Chester
Montgomery
Lehigh
Alleghany
Abe
Letter by Edward Everett on relief for fugitive freedmen
Everett writes to a St Louis lady endorsing a $100 relief fund for fugitive freedmen. He warns that sweeping social changes in slaveholding states will cause suffering among freed people and urges current generations to lessen this distress until many can become small plantation proprietors.
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Edward Everett
St. Louis
Pennsylvania Reserves Muster Out Pending War Dept Assurance
Gov Curtin has positive assurance from the War Department that the Pennsylvania Reserves shall be mustered out after three years from entering state service. They entered federal service two months after taking the oath. Re-enlistment is contemplated, but their return will cost Gen Grant about 5,000 effective men for summer campaigns. Col Fish, former Baltimore Provost Marshal, was tried by court martial, cashiered, fined 5,000 and sentenced to one year in Albany Penitentiary for government fraud. authorities act promptly to detect and punish rascals.
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Col. Fish
Baltimore
Albany Penitentary
San Francisco
House Military Committee
New Jersey
War Department
Shipman
United States Circuit Court
New Haven
Sheffield
Cincinnati Hayquirer
Pope
Milwaukee
Washington
Union
Maine
Philadelphia
Lancaster
Bucks
Dauphin
Alleghany
State Central Committee
Jeremiah Nichols
Charles Humphreys
David Kramer
W. H. Kemble
Charles M. Neal
Egbert K. Nichols
George Hammersly
B. H
Lincoln
Curtin
Pennsylvania
Keystone
Harrisburg
Lowry
Messrs. McClure
Ketchum
Wasutheton
A. G. Hodges
Frankfort
Kentucky
Bramlette
Dixon
United States
Fremont
Cameron
Hunter
North
South
A. Lincoln
Morehead Renominated for Fourth Term in Congress
AF Von J K Morehead of Pittsburg was renominated last week for his fourth term in Congress by acclamation. He is praised as a thorough worker and correct voter and his constituents are urged to keep him in office as long as possible.
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AF von. J. K. Morehead
Pittsburg
Congress
British Ministry Defeated in Commons by Eight Vote Margin
The foreign arrivals note the British Ministry’s defeat in the House of Commons by eight. It remains unclear if the outcome will affect relations with America. The President has signed Judge Scofield’s bill changing the district name and part of Presque Isle to Erie district.
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House of Commons
America
Scofield
Presque Isle
District of
Erie
Maryland Convention Elects Goldsborough President
The Maryland Constitutional Convention met on the 22d and elected Hon. Henry H. Goldsborough permanent President. Eighty members were present.
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Maryland
Henry H. Goldsborough
Tax bill debate and oil taxation in Congress 1864
Washington and Warren County items describe Congress rushing a tax bill after two weeks of session. The bill taxes refined petroleum twenty cents per gallon and coal oil fifteen cents, with crude oil untaxed. Debate centers on equity for poor taxpayers and stockbrokers. Also notes Reconstruction debate, a committee on Secretary Chase charges, and upcoming conventions and local teachers events in Warren County.
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Washrleton
Congress
House
Committee of Ways and Means
Oil
Scofield
Myers
Illinois
Farnsworth
Onliie
Crassus
Davis
Reconstruction
Mai
Gen
Blair
Brooks
Chase
Gen. Garfield
Ohio
Fenton
Chautauqua
le Se
Various 19th Century News Snippets from New Jersey to New York
A collection of brief items notes a draft for several states, a push to bring banks into a national system, Missouri grape harvest earnings, a Buffalo pioneer obituary, silver bullion for a sanatorium fair, a naval disaster inquiry, a Canada Oil Springs gas explosion, the Stuyvesant Pear Tree bloom, patent rubber shirt collars, and legal outcomes from the Heenan King prize fight.
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New Jersey
Massachusetts
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Missouri
Congress
Herman
Jas. A. Webster
Orangeville
N. Y
Buffalo
Nevada Territory
St. Louis
Chenango
Canada Oil Springs
Stuyvesant
New York City
Holland
Petrus Stuyvesant
the Tribune
India
England
Heenan
Sayers
Mace
King
Lincoln's letter on emancipation and preserving the Union
In a long letter from the executive mansion Lincoln reflects on slavery, the oath to the Constitution, and the duty to preserve the nation. He recounts moments when he blocked military emancipation and argues emancipation broadened the Union's strength with about 130 000 new troops. He urges Union supporters to judge their stance against supporting the war.
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the People
President Lincoln
Warren County
T. Allen
T. Daggett
Warren
Warren County Teachers Association
Sugar Grove
G. W. Allen
Mr. Dalrymple
Miss Green
Sion
Pax
Mr. Penney
Simon Cameron
Wm. B. Mann
James Campbell
Alex. McClure
Morrow B. Lowry
A. H. Reeder
W. W. Ketchum
P. Frazer Smith
Thomas Cunningham
George Landon
Darwin Phelps
Thomas Howe
Alexander McClure
Howe
le Mann
Smith
Reeder
Morrow Lowry
Mr. Ketchum
Mann
Thos. Cunningham
Beaver
Morton McMichael
Robert P. King
George Morrison Coats
Henry Bumm
Wm. H. Kern
Barton Jenks
Chas. H. Rump
Robert Park
Aaron Mull
John Hiestand
R. H. Corryell
Edward Holliday
Charles I. Reed
Elias Hate
Charles Schreiner
John Wister
David McConegy
D. W. Woods
Issac Bunson
Samuel Dick
Everhard Bierer
Ebenezer McJunkin
J. W. Blanchard
H. D. Moore
McGrath
Uv de Do
Penn
Baker Geo C
Brant Lousia Barns
Thos Cole
Frank Dickenson
Dove LE Dick
Emily C
Flanagan
Jones Ladema Persons
Aly
Sylvania
Luce Jennie Segwich
Morris
McCormick
Nesmith
Ella M Royce
Oliver Spaulding
G “Stevenson
Warren Mary
GC. Smith, Jr
P. M
J. B. Brown
A. Dolton
L W. Arnetts
L. W. Arnett
Warren, Pa
Cbos
Schnur & Ruhlinn
Wm. Messner
Water Street
J. N. Schnur
Zoapré4tfe
A. Ruhlman
Roger
Crandall’s
Arnett & Galligan’s
Warren, Warren Co
M. Garpenter
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