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Correspondence (October 4th, 1866)
>From The American Sentinel; Westminster, MD
Summary: A letter from "D" regarding Col. Wm. P. Maulsby who was "Southern" in his attitude but took up arms for the Union during the Civil War and is now a Democratic candidate in the current election.
Full DetailsMeet Rebels with the Witnesses (October 4th, 1866)
>From The American Sentinel; Westminster, MD
Summary: Newspaper urges Union men to look at lists of registered voters and see if they include "rebels" and make sure that Registrars do their duty to disqualify those who "sympathized with the rebellion."
Full DetailsShall we be Taxed to pay for the Slaves Emancipated? (October 4th, 1866)
>From The American Sentinel; Westminster, MD
Summary: The Sentinel repeats its claim that the Johnsonites want to control the legislature and change the MD constitution in order to compensate former slaveowners, which will place a disproportionate tax burden on the counties that had the fewest slaves.
Full DetailsRebel Hatred (?) of Negroes (October 4th, 1866)
>From The American Sentinel; Westminster, MD
Summary: The Sentinel tells "More Anon" that Frederick Douglass is better than "any Rebel who walks the earth" because he "smells neither of Bribery or Treason."
Full DetailsUnion Meetings (October 5th, 1866)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: Notice of Union meetings at New Market, Mt. Pleasant, Mechanicstown, Burkettsville, Jefferson, Libertytown and Frederick
Full DetailsHave Judges of Election the Right to Refuse the Vote of a Registered Voter? (October 5th, 1866)
>From The Republican Citizen; Frederick, MD
Summary: Letter to the editor asking if the Judge of Election are allowed to refuse a registered voter the right to vote; the Citizen answers using examples from the Constitution saying, Yes a Judge of Election can refuse the right of suffrage if they see fit to do so [continued from September 28, 1866 - ID # 10175]
Full DetailsYankee's Coming (October 10th, 1866)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Last week a number of government wagons went through town for Sharpsburg where they are to join a regiment of soldiers who are sent there to exhume the bodies of Union soldiers who were killed in the battle, in preparation for their re-interment in Antietam Cemetery. Local “rebels” mistook the wagons and the soldiers with them as a part of the 1,000 soldiers Gov. Swann is said to have requested to supervise the coming election in the region.
Full DetailsNew Market Meeting (October 10th, 1866)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: An Unconditional Union meeting was held in New Market last Saturday, which had a large attendance. Speeches were given by Dr. T. Sim, Upton Buhrman, Col. Black, Thomas Gorsuch, Col. Steiner, Robert Lease, Lt. Goldsborough, and Milton Urner.
Full DetailsThe Freedmen's Bureau (October 10th, 1866)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Editorial against the Maryland Union's view of the cost of the Freedmen's Bureau bill. The Examiner, using communication from Governor Patten of Alabama and Gen. O. O. Howard, head of the Freedmen's Bureau, shows that the people of Alabama, both whites and Negroes, are very destitute and relying upon the rations handed out through the Freedmen's Bureau. The Alabama governor had requested three more months of rations for his people. There are about 2 whites helped by these rations for every Negro according to the statistics. The rations, a part of the Freedmen's Bureau bill, are helping members of both races. The Examiner says, "When the Union again undertakes to show that the Freedmen's Bureau bill is a cause of reproach to those who voted for it, we advise it to produce stronger arguments than those it contained last week."
Full DetailsSoldiers, Attention (October 10th, 1866)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Advertisement of R.P. Gustin & Co., Baltimore, agents for bounty and pension claims from soldiers and soldier's widows and heirs.
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