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Showing posts with label Freedom of the Press. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freedom of the Press. Show all posts
Sunday, July 5, 2020

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 15, 1864

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We have no news. But there is a feverish anxiety in the city on the question of subsistence, and there is fear of an outbreak. Congress is i...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Diary of William Howard Russell: July 10, 1861

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To-day was spent in a lengthy excursion along the front of the camp in Virginia, round by the chain bridge which crosses the Potomac, about...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Resolutions of the New York Democratic Committee, May 16, 1863

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Resolved, That the Democrats of New York point to their uniform course of action during the two years of civil war through which we have pa...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

The Ohio Democratic Committee in the Case of Clement Vallandigham to Abraham Lincoln, June 26, 1863

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WASHINGTON, June 26 , 1863 . His Excellency the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The undersigned, having been appointed a committee u...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Wendell Phillips's Freedom Speech: Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts December 8, 1837

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MR. CHAIRMAN: — We have met for the freest discussion of these resolutions, and the events which gave rise to them. [Cries of “Question,” “...
Friday, October 2, 2015

Assistant-Adjutant General William D. Whipple to Edward McKenney Hudson, August 16, 1861

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Baltimore, Md., August 16 , 1861 . EDWARD McK. HUDSON, Aide-de-Camp: SIR: I am directed by...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Diary of William Howard Russell: April 17, 1861

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There was a large crowd around the pier staring at the men in uniform on the boat, which was filled with bales of goods, commissariat store...