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Let No Voter (June 7th, 1861)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: Voters must not stay at home. This election is the most momentous because voters are called to vote against secession, disunion, and war.
Full DetailsLet It Be Remembered (June 7th, 1861)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: Warning that a vote for the Disunion "Peace" party candidate for Congress, George Schley, is a vote for dissolution of the union.
Full DetailsIncrease (June 7th, 1861)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: Paper urges voters to increase the majority for Francis Thomas, the Union nominee, by giving him your own vote and urging your neighbor to do likewise.
Full DetailsFederal troops… (June 7th, 1861)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: Federal troops are expected daily in Frederick.
Full DetailsDisunion Convention (June 7th, 1861)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: One delegate from Allegany Co., two from Washington Co. and about 12 from Frederick gathered in Frederick to nominate a candidate for Congress to oppose Union candidate Francis Thomas. They chose George Schley of Hagerstown after the nomination was turned down by Kunkel, Hamilton, and Lowe. The Examiner says the rebels are styling their candidate Schley as from the "Peace" party to escape "the dreadful responsibility of having inaugurated Civil War and broadcast ruin..." How can they call themselves a "Peace" party when they have stolen grain, waylaid passenger trains, robbed mail trains, etc., says the paper.
Full DetailsUnfortunate Affair (June 7th, 1861)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: C. Rentch, a "violent" secessionist citizen of Washington County and son of Andrew Rentch, Esq., imprudently boasted in Williamsport that he was involved in the April 19th Baltimore riot and had killed a U.S. soldier with a stone. He said he could "whip" any six Union men. When asked by a Union man in Williamsport to dismount, C. Rentch drew a revolver and shot the man. Rentch was shot in return, tried to run away and was ultimately killed.
Full DetailsRally, Union Men (June 7th, 1861)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: An editorial urges readers to vote for Francis Thomas, the only Union candidate.
Full DetailsBackwards March (June 7th, 1861)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: The Virginia troops opposite Williamsport have fallen back 2 1/2 miles from the Potomac and are encamped in the woods.
Full DetailsFrancis Thomas (June 7th, 1861)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: The paper states that Francis Thomas is the only Union candidate in the field.
Full DetailsTrue! True!! (June 7th, 1861)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: The Valley Register endorses the position taken by the Hagerstown Herald which says - if there was a way to save the Union without shedding blood, Union men would do it, but the "peace Disunionists" do not want to preserve the Union but to recognize the Southern Confederacy. They say it is the only way to restore "harmony." "Our town and county has a great many [Disunionists], who are busily engaged in distilling this kind of poison and diffusing it among loyal people." Beware of these Disunionists.
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