CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1862 Abstracts 3651 - 3656 POLITICS & GOVERNMENT (Cont'd) State 3651 L Jan. 10; ed: 2/1 - "The Chicago TIMES, the organ of that portion of the Illinois Democracy who oppose the war and denounce the administration, advocates the introduction of colored apprentices to raise cotton in the southern part of the state. How many of the white laborers of Illinois will oppose the suggestion?" (3) 3652 - L Feb. 20; ed: 2/3 - "We are happy to see that the Senate of Kentucky purged itself by the expulsion of two notorious traitors, Dr. S. M. Johnson, of Paducah, and W. T. Anthony, of Warren, Allen and Edmonson district." (2) 3653 - L Aug. 6; ed: 2/1 - It is established that there are not less than 15,000 Knights of the Golden Circle in Indiana. The grand jury at Indianapolis has indicted 60 of the leaders on evidence submitted. This organization is pledged to discourage enlisting, obstruct all action against the Rebels, and resist the collection of war taxes. It is a significant fact that 500 revolvers were sold on the day of the Democratic convention in that city. It has been ascertained that the exis tence of the order is known to the Rebels, and that signals have been arranged so that they will not harm each other in battle. The secrecy of this order and its objects make it a menace. There is no doubt that this treasonable organization exists in Ohio, and juries ought to clean up all suspicion. "Hunt up the traitors and bring them to the tribunal." (8) 3654 - L Nov. 4; ed: 2/2 - The PLAIN DEALER charges General Wadsworth with neglect of duty for leaving Washington long enough to make one speech at New York. "What will it say of Seymour, who has never gone to war at all, but spends his whole time in making speeches in favor of his own election?" (2) 3655 L Nov. 18; ed: 1/1 - "More words for the Political Vocabulary. The emancipationists of St. Louis, who are opposed to Frank P. Blair, are denominated 'Charcoals' and the supporters of that gentleman 'Claybanks. "" (1) 3656 L Nov. 27; ed: 1/1 - It is said that one of the editors of the Louisville JOURNAL has an $1,800 sinecure clerkship in the office in the clerk of the house, for which he does no work whatever. Loyal Kentuckians demand his removal, and they are not alone in the demand. This country is not yet rich enough to pay $1,800 for such loyalty. "If the statement is true, off with his head." (2) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1862 Abstracts 3657 - 3663 POLITICS & GOVERNMENT - State (Cont'd) 3657 L Dec. 8; ed: 2/3 - "Governor Pierpont's message to the legislature of West Virginia, which convened at Wheeling on Friday last (Dec. 5), is an able document and full of the most uncomprising loyalty...and gives most cordial support to the Emancipation Proclamation of Sept. 22." (2) United States 3658 L Jan. 10; ed: 2/1 - "The United States Senate is at work in earnest to ferret out and dispel disloyal Senators, and it is to be hoped it will 'spare not' till the last member tainted with secessionism or possessed of secession sympathies shall have been driven out in disgrace. One disloyal legislator can inflict greater injury upon the government than ten thousand armed foes." (2) 3659 L Jan. 11; ed: 2/2 "We are under obligations to the Hon. A. G. Riddle for a copy of the Congressional directory for the second session of the Thirty-Seventh Congress. (1) 3660 L Jan. 13; ed: 2/1 - "Among the members of Congress who voted against laying on the table the bill for the abolition of the franking privilege, we notice the name of Hon. A. G. Riddle, the member from this district, who believes in all retrenchment of national expenses in this time of financial necessity." (2) 3661 L Jan. 16; ed: 2/1 The change in the secretaryship of the war department is still the main subject discussed throughout the country. Edwin M. Stanton, the successor of Cameron, is an old school Democrat. Since the war broke out Stanton has not been sufficiently before the public for them to know just what his position is upon the conduct of the war. "It is to be presumed that while he is in favor of a vigorous war, he will not coincide entirely with the bold position taken by Cameron, regarding the contraband question." (12) 3662 L Jan. 18; ed: 2/1 "The rumors of further changes in the cabinet are as yet supported by no evidence." A dispatch to the Philadelphia INQUIRER says that Chase is marked out for the Supreme Court judgeship, if it should become vacant by the weight of years inducing Justice Taney to resign. "But it is more than probable that the necessities of the financial bureau of the cabinet will so demand his skill, ability, and prudence that he will not feel at liberty to resign. His post has been an arduous one, and well has he fulfilled his trust.' (3) 3663 L Jan. 18; ed: 2/1 "We publish elsewhere the bill reported to the Senate by Trumbull, from the Judiciary Committee, and we urge a careful reading of it upon all of our readers. It is full, complete and practicable. The property of all rebels is confiscated to the U. S. and all rights and CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1862 Abstracts 3664 - 3668 POLITICS & GOVERNMENT - United States (Cont'd) title to it shall thereafter rest only in the U. S. The second section provides for the liberation forever from all service to their former masters, of the slaves of all persons who may take up arms against the U. S. or give aid and comfort to its enemies. The bill provides for the colonization of all colored persons set free, who shall give their consent, they to have all the rights and privileges of freemen." 3664 L Jan. 20; ed: 2/1 - Edwin M. Stanton, the newly elected secretary of war, is an Ohian. "As a man of talent both able and sagacious, he has but few equals and no superiors, and from his known ability and stern honesty, none will hereafter charge dishonesty or inefficiency on the War Department, and if speculation does exist his searching eye will find it out, and the man who dares to cheat the government or to rob the soldiers, will find himself in the hands that will punish him with remorseless severity.' (7) (10) 3665 L Jan. 21; ed: 2/1 In the House of Representatives on June 15 there was pending a resolution, "that the House should proceed, without necessary delay, to discharge the first duty imposed upon them, namely, to provide for the common defence and the general welfare, and for the suppression of the rebellion, which strikes at the nations life and which is unparalleled in the history of the past." Vallandigham moved its postponement for a month, that he might have time to prepare a speech in opposition to it! "By that time he doubtless hopes either through foreign interference or rebel success, to see the Confederacy triumphant." (5) 3666 L Jan. 22; ed:2/1 - Colfax of the congressional postoffice committee is a newspaper publisher himself and therefore the bill which he has lately reported to the House is the more inexplicable. It prohibits after Apr. 1, any express railroad company from carrying printed matter, that is newspapers, otherwise than in the mail, for hire, sale, or distribution, unless specially licensed by the postmaster general. "Should this bill pass it will be one of the severest blows struck against the general dissemination of news that could be given." (7) 3667 L Jan. 24:2/1 Our new Secretary of War, Stanton, is going to work in earnest and is putting his official house in order for a thorough and determined prosecution of the active work devolving upon his department. He has called for and received two additional secretaries, and has marked out their departments. He will be a terror to evil as well as a power at the wheels of legislation and action. (12) says: Your edi. 3668 L Feb. 11:2/2 - In a letter to the editor, "Union" torial on the senatorial question in the Feb. 8 paper gives satisfaction to Union loving people. We have tried Ben Wade for 12 years and know him to be true to the best interest of his country. B. F. Wade combines CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1862 Abstracts 3669 - 3671 POLITICS & GOVERNMENT United States (Cont'd) talent and experience, and in this critical condition of our country we need just such men in our Senate. (3) 3669 L Feb. 14; ed: 2/1 - "Chivalier Wykoff has been confined in the guard house of the Capitol for contempt of Congress. The Chivalier remarked that this was a kind of Capital punishment he had not anticipated. days or weeks there will do him good." L Feb. 15; ed: 2/1 See Cotton A few 3670 L Feb. 15; ed: 2/2 - Our special dispatches had reported in brief Sumner's resolutions touching on the condition of the seceded states. "These resolutions are based upon sound logic and irresistable argument. They come from a man who can afford to throw away no time nor reputation upon any ill conceived impractical scheme. The are well considered and so strongly fortified with common sense and constitutional authority that even secession lawyers must admit their force of reasoning. You let those who have been in much haste to cry out against the 'radicals' and 'emancipationists' meet this argument fairly, and if it is sound support it." (15) 3671 L Feb. 21:1/1,2 In a letter to the editor, Donnelson says: It becomes quite evident to one who reads the papers and studies the signs of the times that a wily and covert effort is being made by certain ambitious political cliques to bring about the election of another in the place of our noble Senator, Benjamin Wade, and one deeply interested in the welfare of the country and conscious of the importance of the part which the U. S. Senate must take in the affairs of the government during the ensuing senatorial term, I cannot refrain from calling upon your readers and all lovers of the truest and highest interests of the Union, to put down the effort to injure Wade, and through him every lover of liberty and the constitution. And now I ask, is this the time when the services of such a man can be dispensed with? Tried and true, able and willing, Wade stands before the people after ten years of senatorial service with a record untarnished with a single blot a record of which every true Ohioan is proud; a record which shines like a star through the gloom of his country's tribulation. The individuals who have been put forward by those opposed to Wade are doubtless some of them, perhaps all of them, good men. I would not be understood as intimating to the contrary; but what I do say is that an old hunter who is going into battle to fight for his life will not exchange the old rifle, tried by the experience of many a campaign, and known to be reliable and true, for any new and untried weapon, however fine or prepossessing may be its exterior. (25) 556 CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1862 Abstracts 3672 - 3677 POLITICS & GOVERNMENT 3672 L Feb. 26; ed: 2/1 - "We publish this morning an interesting sketch of the discussions in Congress when the question of the Constitutional right of man to hold property by man was first presented to it in a debatable form. The article is from a forthcoming political history, by one who has had many years participation in national politics and policy. It will be read with interest." 3673 L Mar. 19; ed: 2/1 through Columbus sends a and politicians of Ohio. - A pretended "volunteer officer" who passed letter to the HERALD commenting on the politics He also derides some of the national officers. We do not like "outsiders" or "interlopers" commenting on our public men. "Oh, modest youth! Oh, gentle officer! Well is it for the rebels that the 'pen is mightier than the sword'; else you would cut down whole regiments with a single swoop of the arm which destroys presidents and cabinet officers with one dash of the pen. "The 'volunteer officer' has spoken; let the earth be dumb." 3674 L Mar. 26; ed: 2/1 "Mrs. Lincoln, who has been quite ill since the death of her little Willie, is reported convalescent. But, on account of the recent domestic affliction, and the constant occupations of the President with important public affairs, the usual reception at the White House will probably be omitted for some time to come." ་་ 3675 L Apr. 7; ed: 2/1 "Our special Washington dispatches state that 3676 L Apr. 28; ed: 2/1 "Fighting Qualities of a High Order." (3) (10) "This is the PLAIN DEALER'S tribute to Vallandigham. The traitor insulted the House by applying indecent epithets to Senator Wade, who was at the time discharging his duties in the Senate chambers." 3677 L May 28; ed: 2/1 - The speech by Representative Riddle of this district was delivered in the House of Representatives on May 20 upon the proper treatment of Rebel states and territories. "It is an able speech, and contains many new and powerful arguments.... It is an exhaustive speech, and one that will do to study upon. It is very moderate, its arguments being mainly directed to the treatment of the rebels, as such, and not in their connection with slavery.... "Mr. Riddle's opening paragraph is one of great beauty and full of suggestive thoughts as he looks forward to the close of the war and the restoration of peace. ་་ (1) (1) (4) (21) |