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“trifling is madness”

Another Monday morning in Richmond, another editorial from the Dispatch as it leads off its publishing week. The paper criticized the British Foreign secretary for looking forward to the North’s victory in America and the subsequent total eradication of slavery … Continue reading

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dull day

Since there were over 1460 of them, I guess you had to expect a boring one once in a while. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch August 5, 1864: The War News. There was nothing at all of interest transpiring yesterday … Continue reading

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Hold Fast

The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Six, by Abraham Lincoln at Project Gutenberg PROCLAMATION APPOINTING A NATIONAL FAST-DAY. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A Proclamation. March 30, 1863. Whereas the Senate of the United … Continue reading

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