Southern Infatuation and Sherman’s Ohio Push
In 1861 John Sherman chose to stay in the Senate rather than resign to join the war, a stance noted as Lincoln and Chase believed he could aid the Union best from Congress. The column argues Southern Democrats must renounce secession, urging Raleigh conventions to sever lingering old doctrines and push for unity, peace, and prosperity, while condemning secession as a dead issue.
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John Sherman
Washington
United States
Senaator
Lincoln
Chase
Senate
Appomattox
Congress
South
Supreme Law of the Land
Cincinnati
North
Raleigh
Sublimity and peril in New Hanover politics and debt talk
A fiery critique of the New Hanover County Democratic Convention and its repudiation of national law, arguing for constitutional respect and legal process. It discusses proposed state constitutional amendments, the obligations of contracts, and a stern caution on the Republican Party's third term ambitions with reflections on Grant-era policy and conscience in politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Hanover
United States
Congress
Supreme Court of the
Jena
F. H. Darbe
Axsditiows
Samson
Kremlin
Moscow
Raleigh
General Assembly
Fwhers
The
Supreme Court of the United States
Court of Last Resort
North Carolina
Wilmington
Constitutional
Republican Party
Pennsylvania
Ltrikere
Western North Carolina railroad stock sold to Best for 50000
Old stockholders vote to sell their rights for 50000, about 35 dollars per ten thousand, a below market rate. Cape car and Yadkin Valley line project advances with a publicized ground breaking featuring convicts and local officials, indicating the Cape Fear and radio Valley Railroad at least its upper end will be built.
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Western N. C
Best
North Carolina
Cape Car
Yadkin Valley
Mt. Airy
Greensboro
D. F. Cr
Lwell
Andrew Joyce
Danbury
James W. Albright
Fulghum
J. A. Gray
W.P. Varstory
W. A. Estes
Stokes
Lyndon Swair
J. K. Hall
Tom Keogh
J. N. Staples
D. W. C. Benbow
Banner
John Shermans Dream Leu and Political Rise
A Cleveland Herald dispatch reflects on John Sherman from boyhood stages to national leadership. It ponders his possible 1880 presidency, his later Treasury tenure, and public faith in his fiscal foresight amid war debts and currency issues, noting rival candidates and editorials urging support. It also includes an old Bible anecdote and endorsements from The Cincinnati Gazette and Ohio papers.
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John Sherman
Perley Poore
Lancaster
McConnellsville
Ohio
Muskingum River
Sherman
National
House of Representatives
Representa
United States Senate
United States Treasury
Mugele
Mr. Sherman
Cleveland Herald
Honest Join Sherman Growing in Ohio Support for Nomination
Ex governor Young, back from Ohio with Sherman, says Sherman is strongest in Ohio and gaining strength nationwide. He dismisses Blaine and Grant in Ohio, notes German vote impact, and argues Sherman should win solid Ohio backing at the Chicago Convention.
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Washington
Sherman
Ohio
Columbus
Xith
Beatty
Dennison
Secretary of the Treasury
Chicago
New York Graphic
Young
Kentucky
Mr. Blaine
General Grant
Grant
Blaine
Blaine Boomer
Beaty
Louisville
Missouri
Sherman Wal Sa
Morrell on the Third Term Intra Party Clash
Congressman D J Morrell told a Herald reporter that the third term idea is over for good He noted public opposition to forcing any man or policy and blamed the Cameron influence for the Harrisburg convention tilt He predicted the Pennsylvania delegation would back Blaine at the National Convention.
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Rochester Express
Mobile
Ala
J. R. Whitherspoon
President Whitherspoon
Greensboro
van Ess
Philip Melancthon
Alfred
Cornwall
England
Mook
Faust
Guttenburg
Jerome
Dore
Bede
Ainsworth
Alabama
Whitherspoon
Dr. Whitherspoon
Dr. McCalla
Harvard
D. J. Morrell
Herald
Anl
Harrisburg
Morrell
Cameron
Blaine
Pennsylvania
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the Wilmington Post
P, Canaday
N. C
N. Y
Times
Post Office
Pension Department
Internal Revenue Service
Tim
Rearly
Tribune
Z. L. White
New York Tribune
Europe
Cincinnati Gazette
Cage
Edmunds
Massachusetts
George F. Hoar
Evens
Journal
Congressman Morrell
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