Tuesday, June 11, 2013

While Mr. Cox of Ohio . . .

. . . was blackguarding Hayti and its Government and people in the House of Representatives and calling them a miserable set of worthless animals, unfit to be recognized by white men, the New York papers were printing the fact that the Hayti Congress opened on the 21st of April, the [illegible] of the Pope, and representatives of England, France and Spain being present.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 2

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