Lincoln's Wrath: Fierce Mobs, Brilliant Scoundrels and a President's Mission to Destroy the PressSourcebooks, Inc., 01/11/2006 - 368 من الصفحات In the blistering summer of 1861, President Lincoln began pressuring and ordering the physical shutdown of any Northern newspaper that voiced opposition to the war. These attacks were sometimes carried out by soldiers, sometimes by angry mobs under cover of darkness. Either way, the effect was a complete dismantling of the free press. In the midst stood publisher John Hodgson, an angry bigot so hated that a local newspaper gleefully reported his defeat in a bar fight. He was also firmly against Lincoln and the war--an opinion he expressed loudly through his newspaper. When his press was destroyed, first by a mob, then by U.S. Marshals "upon authority of the President of the United States," Hodgson decided to take on the entire United States. Thus began a trial in which one small-town publisher risked imprisonment or worse, and the future of free speech hung in the balance. Based on 10 years of original research, Lincoln's Wrath brings to life one of the most gripping, dramatic and unknown stories of U.S. history. |
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... Seward of New York? Seward had been labeled by one observer as the “great hero of the foreign-born.”11 What better way to take on the Senate from New York than by having silent control of a key segment of the Senate's voting base? The ...
... Seward of New York? Seward had been labeled by one observer as the “great hero of the foreign-born.”11 What better way to take on the Senate from New York than by having silent control of a key segment of the Senate's voting base? The ...
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... Seward at all costs. On the other side was Henry Raymond of the New-York Times, as part of the Seward-Weed machine, among many others. All seemed to revolve in one way or another around the candidacy of the senator from New York, the ...
... Seward at all costs. On the other side was Henry Raymond of the New-York Times, as part of the Seward-Weed machine, among many others. All seemed to revolve in one way or another around the candidacy of the senator from New York, the ...
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... Seward and Weed. Greeley had not brought Lincoln to New York, but quickly took Lincoln's success and made it as his own by giving Lincoln the pages of the New York Tribune for his speech's first printing. Greeley feared the election of ...
... Seward and Weed. Greeley had not brought Lincoln to New York, but quickly took Lincoln's success and made it as his own by giving Lincoln the pages of the New York Tribune for his speech's first printing. Greeley feared the election of ...
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... Seward's campaign. Weed also controlled the New York delegation in Chicago, and blocked Greeley from representing the state of New York. Greeley did finally get to Chicago, but as a delegate from Oregon.24 The Lincoln camp was led by ...
... Seward's campaign. Weed also controlled the New York delegation in Chicago, and blocked Greeley from representing the state of New York. Greeley did finally get to Chicago, but as a delegate from Oregon.24 The Lincoln camp was led by ...
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... Seward picked up eleven more votes. Lincoln secured seventy-nine more, forty-eight of those votes coming from Pennsylvania. When the call was read, Lincoln was only one and a half votes shy of nomination. Meanwhile, Joseph Medill, the ...
... Seward picked up eleven more votes. Lincoln secured seventy-nine more, forty-eight of those votes coming from Pennsylvania. When the call was read, Lincoln was only one and a half votes shy of nomination. Meanwhile, Joseph Medill, the ...
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A True Account of the United States of Ameria vs the Jeffersonian Newspaper | 193 |
Epilogue | 299 |
the Full Text of Judge Lowries Charge to the Jury | 309 |
About the Authors | 317 |
Bibliography | 319 |
Notes | 333 |
Index | 351 |
Back Cover | 359 |
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