Monday, July 25, 2011

XXXVIIth Congress -- First Session

WASHINGTON, March 10.

SENATE. – Mr. Harris presented a petition asking that the Democratic Newspapers now excluded from the mails, whose editors are not convicted of treason, be allowed the same privileges as are allowed loyal newspapers.

Mr. Sumner presented several petitions in favor of the emancipation of the slaves.

Mr. How presented a memorial asking Congress to permit no abridgement of the freedom of the press.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 11, 1862, p. 1

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