264
Cleveland Morning Leader, 20 September 1864
(ed; 3 inches)
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p.2, col.2
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264 - L. Sept. 20; ed:2/2 - News from Southern papers indicates that the
South is making a desperate effort to be cheerful, and to bolster up the
courage of the people. The movement in Georgia is causing much alarm.
The Richmond blusterers expect some foul play from Governor Brown on the
Confederacy. "Notwithstanding all their fury, it is evident that they
are beginning to distrust their own people." (3)
Confederacy
Index terms:
Brown, Governor (Georgia); Confederacy; Georgia; Richmond Va.; South
276
Cleveland Morning Leader, 16 November 1864
(ed; 24 inches)
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p.2, col.1
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276 - L Nov. 16; ed: 2/1, 2 - James A. Seddon, the Rebel Secretary of war,
has sent in his annual report to Rebel Congress. It will attract much
attention as an illustration of what a wily pen can do for a very bad
cause. Everything looks charming to Seddon. He agrees with Davis that
the fall of Atlanta means little, although Governor Brown of Georgia
says that "it is the very heart and railroad center of the Confederacy,
and the loss was a severe blow." Seddon reviews the military situation
by saying that the Rebels have resisted efforts of the enemy by defeat-
ing the largest and best appointed armies, and have thwarted best laid
plans. "We have shown ourselves to be worthy of that separate and equal
place among the nations of the earth which is our birthright, and which
has been unjustly withheld from us." He discusses the question of main-
taining the Rebel armies, also of arming the slaves. He then gives a
review of the conditions of the Rebel cavalry and of the Rebel prisoners
in our hands. He attempts justification of horrible atrocities inflicted
upon Union soliiers in their hands, by saying that the effective drain
by the blockade on their limited resources justified them in taking care
of their own men first. He winds up his harangue by holding out the
threat of arming slaves by way of retaliation. "Do it, we say, we are
anxious to have the last resource of the Confederacy brought forward.
This will complete all labors... except one, and that is, that this in-
iquitous Rebellion has closed its hel lish career." (24)
Confederacy
Index terms:
Atlanta, Ga.; Brown, Governor (Georgia); Confederacy; Davis, Jeff; Georgia; Seddon, James A.
277
Cleveland Morning Leader, 17 November 1864
(ed; 13 inches)
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p.2, col.1
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277 - L Nov. 17; ed: 2/1 - Governor Brown of Georgia is between two fires
and doesn't know how to escape. He hates Davis and Lincoln. He insists
upon the independence of the South and yet he exhorts Georgia soldiers
never to lay down their arms until the despotism of Richmond has recog-
nized the "individual sovereignty of their own State." "We look with
confidence, therefore, to the day when Governor Brown, and men of his
type, will become active in their efforts to restore the Union in more
than its original power - a Union cemented forever by the blood of tens
of thousands of the young men of every State. The duty of the Govern-
ment is to divide the South, and hasten the day of its redemption from
the darkest crimes in history." (13)
Confederacy
Index terms:
Brown, Governor (Georgia); Davis, Jeff; Georgia; Lincoln, Abraham; Richmond Va.; South