Thursday, February 6, 2014

Corp. Danforth, of the R.[ock] I.[sland] Argus . . .

. . . is rather distressed that the GAZETTE should express an opinion on the Illinois Constitution.  As he concludes his jeremiade [sic] with the reflection that we are following in the wake of the Chicago Tribune, we began to think that after all we cannot be very far wrong, as the Tribune is certainly next to the Argus in intelligence.

Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, May 20, 1862, p. 2

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