Democratic tumult and Army terror claims in Wilmington
The piece lambastes southern leaders and Bourbon politics, mocks Emperor-like claims of army oppression, and rails at emigrants and race politics. It defends Judge Bond, recalls Gen Richard Taylor, and mocks Blaine’s wartime troop counts to dismiss terrorism fears in the South.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
Tombs
Aleck Stephens
Burnside
Kansas
United States
Hugh L. Bond
U.S
Judge Bond
North
South Carolina
Wilmington
Blaine
Delaware
West Virginia
Mississippi
Tennessee
Florida
Charleston
North Carolina
Texas
O Hara Kitchen election dispute in North Carolina paper debate
A North Carolina paper questions Kitchen's claim to his seat over O Hara in a contested House election. It references precedent from 1871 72 and 1769 Wilkes to argue highest legal votes determine seating and criticizes Morning Star for bias. It also surveys European revolutionary movements and the struggle for liberty under autocratic rule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonathan Wild
North Carolina
House of Representative
Kitchen
O’hara
Senate
Gen. Abbott
Gov. Vance
Vance
Gen
Abbott
John Wilkes
House of Commons
Great Britaan
Middlesex
Colonel Luttrell
Col
Luttrell
Wilkes
Road from Cheraw to Wadesboro Promises Big Regional Gains
The Anson county delegation’s Charleston talks aim to build a Cheraw to Wadesboro road. The Pee Dee Herald predicts farmers gain up to sixty thousand dollars yearly and land values rise with a direct rail link to Charleston phosphate beds. It argues Wadesboro could rise as a cotton buyers hub and population may double within a year after completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anson County
Charleston
Cheraw
Wadesboro
Pee Dee
Herald
Wilmington
Charlotte
Carolina Central Railway
A Tailes Kite Dispenses With Tail in Rochester Pattern
A Rochester man crafts a diamond shaped kite that omits a tail using a Holland style bowed cross bar and hickory frame. Instructions outline how to assemble the frame, attach strings, and balance the captive cord for four foot models. Also notes Buffalo taming claims and Col Ezra Miller receiving three young buffalos for breeding with cows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
Rochester Express
Ezra Miller
New Jersey
Jeff Davis Garments Locked to Prove History in Cedar Chest
Washington report recounts Adjutant General Townsend guarding Jefferson Davis's captured clothing. Townsend describes two items a water proof cloak and a merino shawl with red border, stored in a cedar chest, later moved to Treasury vaults and then to his house for safekeeping. The secretary of war declines public display notes.
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Eater Ocean
Wasutseron
Jefferson Davis
Davis
KE. D. Townsend
Army
I Street
Washington, D. C
Townsend
Pritchard
Fourth Michigan Cavalry
Treasury Department
Adjutant General
Ordnance Bureau
War Department
Winders’ Building
F and
Seventeenth Streets
Washington
Stanton
Philadelphia Mint
Secretary of War
McCrary
Jeff Davis
United States
Congres
Penvamret Ee
Congress
Old Point Comfort
Mr. Stanton
Colonel Pritchard
Colonel Pritchards
Secretary of the War
Treasury Building
Treasury
Idle youth plague Knoxville similar to other southern cities
A public critique highlights a large idle population in Knoxville with crowds on commons and public places. The piece calls idleness a curse, tying it to poverty and crime, and echoes a New York Democratic paper urging northern Democrats to resist southern bullying and party splits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Anozrville
National Republican
N,y
Democratic Party
South
White House
Congress
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the Wilmington Post
P. Canaday
Wilmington, N. C
Saxony
Morsine
Richard Taylor
Zachary Taylor
Jeff
Edinburg
Paris
America
Harvard
Palo Alto
Bragg
Old Zack
Dick Taylor
O'Hara Vs. Kitchen
Iits
Europe
Russia
Germany
France
Spain
Italy
Austria
Lee
Curtis
Windom
Emigration Aid Society
Wilmin
Eton
North Front ST
Crown
London
Loose
Gorton & Dilworth’s
Lida Wys
Calon
M’koy
Anbe North Front Street
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