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Newspaper
Weekly Times
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1861
Page
3
Southern resolve rises as South Carolina faces invasion and vows defiance. The piece mocks Massachusetts and predicts a brutal, prolonged struggle, praising Confederate bravery while jeering at Yankee brag. It frames the war as defense of liberty and homeland, inviting fierce resistance.
A list of Lincoln Guard members and other names is followed by a long discussion on reopening trade with rebel ports. The piece assesses potential loopholes, blockade implications, and the risk of undermining the Union’s wartime embargo. It weighs permitting limited commerce under safeguards versus a broad reopening that could challenge federal blockades.
The Cincinnati Gazette notes loyalists denounce abolitionist claims as treasonous noise designed to derail the war effort. It argues secessionists resist all government measures and that treason is exposed by their antiwar rhetoric. Also recounted are a colonel’s rise in the Second Cavalry, a horse thief hanged by locals in Audubon County, and details of a horse theft case in Dallas County.
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