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"The Land Attack on Wilmington - Defence and Fall of Fort Fisher," Charleston Mercury, January 18, 1865
THE LAND ATTACK ON WILMINGTON - DEFENCE AND FALL OF FORT FISHER Our community was much depressed yesterday by the news, which reaches here in the forenoon that Fort Fisher, the gate of the Cape Fear River, had succumbed to another tremendous…
"The Ku-Klux," April 1, 1871
The Ku-Klux.
The Ku-Klux question has become very serious. Before the war a citizen of the United States who believed in the Declaration of Independence, and said so, was outlawed, harried, and liable to be murdered in half the country. It was…
"The Impeachment Investigation," March 21, 1867
In less than a year it has passed from the simple requirements of the Constitutional amendment to negro suffrage, obliteration of State governments and supremacy of martial law. The Same rate of progress would bring it to the confiscation point…
"THE GREAT STRUGGLE," August 19, 1865
When Governor Holden, Provisional Gov-
ernor of the United States for the State of
North Carolina, says that he does not think
Union men will be “punished†in that State,
what does such an extraordinary expression
mean? When the Northern…
"The Game is Ended," Raleigh News and Observer, November 10, 1898
"The Game is Ended"
Simmons: The White Men Win.
Holton: Great Steptoe, I Thought the Black Men Would Win.
"The Freedmen's Schools," Harper's Weekly, October 3, 1868
THE FREEDMEN'S SCHOOLS. When the North gave freedom to the slaves of the South it saw the necessity of giving them also the education which was necessary to their proper appreciation and employment of their liberty. The people of the North saw, too,…
"The Fayetteville Observer Reporting of John Brown's Raid of Harper's Ferry. October 20, 1859."
Startling news from Virginia.-Yesterday’s mail brought us accounts of an outbreak at Harper’s Ferry, Va., accompanied with stories of an abolition and negro insurrection, loss of lives. It is manifest that the accounts so far are mainly guess…
"The Experience of Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years -- Chapter Second," ca. 1849
I enter now upon a new development of wrongs and woes which I, as a slave, was called to undergo. I must go back some two or three years from the time when my master died, and I was sold to Owen Holmes.The bitterness of persecution which master Jones…
"The Excuses At Washington," Richmond Planet, November 19, 1898
THE EXCUSES AT WASHINGTON.
The lawless elements of the south seems to be in “full swing†at Washington. The advisers of the President have decided that in South Carolina, where many America citizens, both white and colored were killed during a…
"The Disunion Programme," Raleigh Weekly Standard, February 27, 1861
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Josephus Daniels, 1862-1948
Josephus Daniels (1862-1848) was the influential editor of the Raleigh News and Observer during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He…