Tag Archives: Abraham Lincoln

marry the family

Posted on April 19, 2014 by SUMPTER

Mary, the family In April 1864 a Democrat newspaper in Seneca County, New York reprinted some alleged investigative journalism by a New York City publication: Treason at the White House. The Tribune a few days ago asserted that Mrs. J. … Continue reading →

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banning “the wolf’s dictionary”?

Posted on April 18, 2014 by SUMPTER

150 years ago Sanitary Fairs were held throughout the North to support the work of the United States Sanitary Commission. President Lincoln spoke a few words when Baltimore opened its version on April 18th. There might never be an authoritative, … Continue reading →

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one nation …

Posted on April 5, 2014 by SUMPTER

According to the Library of Congress, on March 26, 1864 President Lincoln met with three prominent Kentuckians who disagreed with the federal policy of recruiting Kentucky slaves for the Union army. Newspaper editor Albert G. Hodges was so impressed with … Continue reading →

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labor endorsement

Posted on April 2, 2014 by SUMPTER

From the April 2, 1864 issue of Harper’s Weekly at Son of the South: PRESIDENT LINCOLN ON THE RIGHTS OF LABOR. A Committee of the New York Workingmen’s Democratic Republican Association waited upon the President a few days since, to … Continue reading →

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more men for Mars

Posted on March 17, 2014 by SUMPTER

in the martial month of March This Democrat paper in the Finger Lakes region sure didn’t wear rose-colored glasses as it responded to President Lincoln’s March 14, 1864 call for 200,000 more men for the military. From a Seneca County, … Continue reading →

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foreign analogies

Posted on March 3, 2014 by SUMPTER

The Richmond Dispatch often looked at different countries and different eras for examples to fire up its readership in the South’s struggle for independence. Here the editors looked across the Atlantic for commentary on who would be selected as the … Continue reading →

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disunion … among Republicans?

Posted on March 1, 2014 by SUMPTER

In the latter part of February 1864 the Pomeroy Circular was an effort to drum up Republican support for Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase to replace President Lincoln as the party’s presidential candidate. When the “foreign journals” with the news … Continue reading →

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confusing government?

Posted on February 13, 2014 by SUMPTER

On February 1, 1864 President Lincoln ordered a draft of 500,000 men. Democrat papers in upstate New York examined the president’s words to try to figure out how many previous enrollees might be credited toward the new call. I’m about … Continue reading →

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rail-splitter’s new tools

Posted on February 12, 2014 by SUMPTER

Almost a year and a half ago Democrats in Seneca Falls, New York formed a McClellan Club. Here’s a report about an organization in New York City that supported President Lincoln and the Union. One of the speakers modified the … Continue reading →

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“salutary school of affliction”

Posted on January 15, 2014 by SUMPTER

It’s been almost two years since we’ve put up a report on Frederick Douglass speaking at New York City’s Cooper Institute. 150 years ago this week he spoke there again. The war was dragging on, and it had to be … Continue reading →

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