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Showing posts with label Illinois Constitutional Convention of 1862. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Illinois Constitutional Convention of 1862. Show all posts
Thursday, February 6, 2014

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

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. . . is rather distressed that the GAZETTE should express an opinion on the Illinois Constitution.   As he concludes his jeremiade [sic] w...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

The Illinois New Constitution

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The statement industriously circulated that a number of Illinois regiments have voted almost unanimously for the new constitution, is wholl...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Soldiers Voting

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Our exceedingly [veracious] contemporary next door says, that in the Democratic Constitutional Convention of Illinois provided that soldier...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

The Republican Party

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The Republicans, as a political organization, have a family resemblance to the old Whig party, so much so that we sometimes have wondered if...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

Special Dispatches

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THE EXPEDITION FROM CAIRO WITHIN FOUR MILES OF FORT HENRY. SHOTS EXCHANGED. The Enemy Numbers 15,000. A FIGHT EXPECTED TODAY. REPORTED C...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

WASHINGTON, March 31 [1862].

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HOUSE. – Mr. Washburn, of Ill., presented a memorial from the Illinois constitutional convention, in favor of the early enlargement of the I...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

SPRINGFIELD, ILL., Feb. 5 [1862].

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The Convention occupied this afternoon in discussing the amendment of Mr. Wentworth to Judge Purple’s report, first section. Mr. Orme finis...