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Cleveland Morning Leader, 1 January 1864
(ed; 2 inches)
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1961 - L. Jan. 1; ed: 2/2 - President Lincoln shows wisdom in making haste
slowly. Every step he has taken is well considered. Freedom in its
full measure cannot be transplanted to southern soil in a single day.
Time should be allowed for great changes to be safely and permanently
accomplished. (2)
Cleveland Morning Leader, 6 February 1864
(ed; 4 inches)
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1962 - L. Feb. 6; ed: 2/1 - Walled towns, arsenals, cattle, railroads,
cities, and broadacres are sources of power to a nation.
"If these are fruits of crime instead of honest industry, then it is
the duty and province of the legislature to ignore the sources of such
material growth. If a nation is built upon the unpaid labors of a weak-
er race, this certainly is not a glory to any nation." (4)
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Cleveland Morning Leader, 6 February 1864
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1963 - L. Feb. 6; ed: 2/2 - The late James B. Clay boasted of the attach-
ment and devotion of his slaves. To prove this, he told his old house
slave, Tom, that he might have his freedom. Tom, at his unexpected lib-
eration, was joyful and said he would leave.
"Of course Tom was never freed, but Clay thenceforth was less assured
of his servants' affection for their slave-life." (6)
Cleveland Morning Leader, 23 February 1864
(ed; 16 inches)
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1964 - H Feb. 23; ed: 1/2, 3 - "The way is open, beyond blocking up by
politicians of any party, for the complete downfall of Slavery. It is
the natural result of the slaveholders' rebellion, and in the South as
well as in the North, the feeling is becoming universal that both the
political and physical power of Slavery are over in the United States."
(16)
Cleveland Morning Leader, 8 March 1864
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1965 - L. Mar. 8:4/3, 4 - In a speech at the Sanitary fair, Miss Dickinson
referred to a story of the black man at Rodmans Point, who, when a boat
was stuck fast and swept by Rebel bullets, coolly got up and pushed it
off, remarking: "Somebody must die to get out of this and it might as
well be I." Above all groans, l;atred and sighs comes the voice of a
down-trodden people saying: "Somebody must die to get us out of this
and it might as well be we."
When she compared the Breckenridge Democrats in New York as fit
associates for robbers in the South, several people got up and walked
out, whereupon the speaker remarked; "Thats right, run away from the
truth you can't stand." (43)
Dickenson, Anna E.; New York; Northern Ohio Sanitary fair; Rodmans Point; South
Cleveland Morning Leader, 19 May 1864
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1966 - L. May 19; ed: 2/2 - The rooms of the Women's league in New York
City are being flooded by emancipation petitions. "The work should be
vigorously pushed while Congress is in session, that our legislatures
may know how strong a feeling there is throughout the Nation in favor of
Emancipation." (1)
New York city; U. S. Congress; Women's league (New York city)
Cleveland Morning Leader, 23 May 1864
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1967 - L. May 23; ed: 2/4 - On the twelfth of this month Louisiana decided
to become a free state. At a convention they adopted the emancipation
act. Louisiana is forever free. The feat has gone forth, and the action
of yesterday in the convention is irrevocable. (4)
Cleveland Morning Leader, 14 June 1864
(18 inches)
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1968 - I, June 14:2/3 - In a letter to the editor, Mrs. Frances D. Gage,
says: That Cairo, where she landed, is the stopping place for the refugees,
white and black, that flee from the terrible oppressions of the Confed-
erates. She found groups of these ill-fated people, lying, sitting, and
standing in an almost unimaginable condition of wretchedness and poverty,
squalid, filthy, pale, haggard with hurger, fever and toil. She says:
"If there is any one who has enlisted in the work of emancipation, that
has felt like turning back, let me beseech them to persevere, if not for
the sake of the Negro, for the sake of the white men and women whose hu-
manity is crushed, almost into brutishness, by this unknown monster,
slavery." (18)
Cleveland Morning Leader, 20 June 1864
(ed; 4 inches)
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1969 - L. June 20; ed:2/2 - Both houses of Congress passed the bill repeal-
ing the fugitives slave law. This shows "how inuch Rebel slaveholders
have gained by striking at the life of the nation in order to advance
the interests of slavery." (4)
Cleveland Morning Leader, 25 June 1864
(ed; 2 inches)
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p.1, col.2
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1970 - L June 25; ed: 1/2 - By the vote of the Senate, the fugitive slave
law, so long a disgrace to our statutes, has been repealed. "This is a
great achievement, and would be so regarded, were it not for the greater
deeds being done in our land." - (2)
Cleveland Morning Leader, 27 June 1864
(ed; 7 inches)
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1971 - L June 27; ed: 2/1 - The infamous law, the fugitive slave law, has
been repealed by Congress. "In repealing it, Congress has performed an
act in comparison with which, as far as mural effect and naked justice
is concerned, almost all of its other deeds sink into insignificance."
(7)
Cleveland Morning Leader, 5 July 1864
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1972 - H July 5; ed: 1/2 - A bill abolishing the laws authorizing, protect-
ing, and regulating the coast-wise slave trade was passed by Congress.
"The Rebellion is a great abolitionist." (1)
Cleveland Morning Leader, 19 August 1864
(ed; 4 inches)
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1973 - L. Aug. 19; ed: 2/2 - The editor of the WORLD has proclaimed him-
self an abolitionist, but when chided about it, declared that every man
has the right to be an abolitionist under the constitution and says the
South never denied it. He also claims that the efforts made by the free
states to abolish slavery were antagonistic.
He also declares that he has been in favor of modifying the fugitive
slave law, but "judging from his editorial opinions nowadays, it cer-
tainly does not look much like it." (4)
South; U. S. constitution; U. S. fugitive slave law; WORLD (newspaper)
Cleveland Morning Leader, 23 September 1864
(ed; 3 inches)
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1974 - L. Sept. 23; ed:2/2 - "We have asked the PLAIN DEALER whether re-
manding the Negroes back into slavery would be a 'proper' term of adjust-
ing our difficulties, but is a question which they see fit to dodge, which
is a cunning thing to do, because a direct answer would involve much
shame." (3)
Cleveland Morning Leader, 18 November 1864
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1975 - L Nov. 18; ed:2/1 - The idea of abolishing slavery by constitu-
tional amendment is making rapid progress. "If our Ohio Democracy does
not wake up, it will find slavery abolished some day before knowing
about it. The world is taking huge strides, and we may expect to hear
that Cox, Pendleton, and Long are out in favor of it in the next session
of Congress." (2)
Cox, J. B.; Ohio; Pendleton, George H. (Cincinnati); U. S. Congress
Cleveland Morning Leader, 23 November 1864
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1976 - L Nov. 23; ed: 2/2 - In order forever to set at rest the questicn
of slavery, the proposition will likely come up at the national Congress
to abolish slavery, according to the method prescribed by the Constitu-
tion.
"Who can doubt that before Lincoln's term is half through, he will
preside over a nation in whose laws and Constitution, human slavery is
not recognized." (9)
Cleveland Morning Leader, 3 December 1864
(ed; 4 inches)
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1977 - L. Dec. 3; ed: 2/2 - Several leading Democratic papers have express-
ed themselves in favor of an amendment to the Constitution which would
abolish slavery. "These are good indications and point to a better day,
not far off, when all our people will desire to get rid of slavery." (4)
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