. . .for a private dispatch of a few lines, on the outside of this paper, the telegraph operator here forwarded the same dispatch to a competing Keokuk paper to be published simultaneously. If we had been charged a fair rate for it we should not have complained. As it now stands it looks very much like robbing us for the benefit of Judge Claggett. But there is no use complaining.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 22, 1862, p. 2
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