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Showing posts with label Corruption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Corruption. Show all posts
Saturday, January 1, 2022

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 5, 1864

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Cool and dry, everything suffering for rain. All quiet about Petersburg, but later in the day a rumor sprung up that fighting had recommen...
Saturday, September 7, 2019

Gerrit Smith: Destroy Not Man's Faith In Man!, June 12, 1862

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DESTROY NOT MAN'S FAITH IN MAN! ACCEPT THE RIGHT MAN, WHICHEVER PARTY NOMINATES HIM! A people are demoralized by being trained to...
Friday, November 16, 2018

Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, March 28, 1864

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Saw Mr. Wilson yesterday relative to the arrests of, and proceedings against, fraudulent contractors. Told him he must take charge of the m...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 4, 1862

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An expose of funds in the hands of disbursing agents shows there are nearly seventy millions of dollars not accounted for! The membe...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

Edwin M. Stanton to Major-General John A. Dix, June 11, 1861

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Washington , June 11, 1861. my Dear Sir , — It gives me great pleasure that in the midst of arduous duties you still bear me in kind re...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 16, 1861

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It is sickening to behold the corruption of the commercial men, which so much wounds our afflicted country. There are large merchants here ...
Saturday, March 16, 2013

According to Custom

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The present session of the Legislature commenced its proceedings according to custom .   And as it has been our custom heretofore to conde...