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irrepressible

On October 10, 1872 former U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward died at his home in Auburn, New York. People in the Midwest could read all about it the next day. From the October 11, 1872 issue of The … Continue reading

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Grant nominated

Eight years after Abraham Lincoln was nominated for U.S. President at the Wigwam the Republican party returned to Chicago for its National Convention. This time the meeting was held at Crosby’s Opera-house, which was able to hold about 2500 spectators … Continue reading

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last step in Connecticut?

From the May 29, 1865 issue of The Chicago Times. (at the Library of Congress): The legislature of Connecticut, now in session, has before it a proposition to amend the state constitution so as to give the right of voting … Continue reading

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convert

I don’t know how accurate the folowing letter is, but it would seem to have been quite a propaganda coup for a Democrat paper, especially during the 1864 presidential campaign. The Lincoln administration was too abolitionist for this letter-writing Republican … Continue reading

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a persevering party

The first chairman of the Republican party, Edwin D. Morgan, opened the “National Union” Convention in Baltimore 150 years ago today. He fired up the delegates by playing on General Grant’s “I propose to fight it out on this line … Continue reading

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foreign analogies

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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Ensconsed at the Astor House

As the Civil War Daily Gazette has reported Vice President Elect Hannibal Hamlin and his wife finally made it to New York City where Hamlin pinch-hit for Lincoln by giving a quick speech from a window at the Astor House … Continue reading

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