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Newspaper
Wilmington Post
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1879
Page
2
The Post lauds Senator Conkling's closing speech on the army appropriation battle and praises Grant while discussing Sherman as a potential presidential nominee. It recounts carpetbagger figures, Reconstruction debts, Kuklux allegations, and calls for accountability in postwar policies.
A long obituary and memorial letter recounts the life of Joan Adams Dix and public career in New York and national service. It includes criticisms of Civil War era politics, remarks on emancipation and race, and a heartrending account of Cornelia, Clay, and Willie’s deaths and a later burial in Salona, Pennsylvania, with family prayers and community mourning.
The article recalls Col Steele defending carpet baggers while condemning the term as used by others. It cites his remark that northerners who moved south to share burdens were welcomed, contrasting with his harsh attack on supposed plunderers.
The Charleston News and Courier editorializes on a large black emigration from the South driven by oppression and the pursuit of citizenship rights. It argues whites will not easily replace those leaving and predicts a politically solid but diminished South dominated by Democrats and wary of Republican influence.
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