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Showing posts with label Universal Suffrage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Universal Suffrage. Show all posts
Saturday, May 13, 2023

Senator John Sherman to Lieutenant-General William T. Sherman, November 1, 1867

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MANSFIELD, OHIO, Nov. 1, 1867. Dear Brother: I see no real occasion for trouble with Johnson. The great error of his life was in not acquie...
Sunday, April 30, 2023

Lieutenant-General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, about January 8, 1867

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I see occasionally that a move in Congress is made about the Mormons. We shall this year and next have our hands full with the Indians, and ...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

Diary of Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes: January 10, 1866

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Wilson, Chairman Judiciary [Committee], called up Kelley's bill, providing for universal suffrage (colored) in [the] District of Columbi...
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Sunday, October 30, 2016

Edward Everett Hale to Charles Hale, August 5, 1862

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August 5th, 1862. Old Abe has called out 300,000 men by draft, and has informed us that if the 300,000 volunteers do not appear by the ...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

Diary of William Howard Russell: June 1, 1861

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The respectable people of the city are menaced with two internal evils in consequence of the destitution caused by the stoppage of trade wi...
Sunday, August 28, 2016

Diary of William Howard Russell: May 30, 1861

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Wrote in the heat of the day, enlivened by my neighbor, a wonderful mocking-bird, whose songs and imitations would make his fortune in any ...
Thursday, May 5, 2016

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Friday, May 1, 1863

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I called on General Scurry, and found him suffering from severe ophthalmia. When I presented General Magruder's letter, he insisted tha...
Sunday, November 16, 2014

Senator James W. Grimes to E. H. Stiles, September 14, 1865

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Burlington , September 14, 1865. I am astonished to learn, as I do by your letter of the 12th inst., that any one has asserted or belie...