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Tag Archives: Auburn (N.Y.) Prison
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From the January 27, 1872 issue of Harper’s Weekly: THE KU-KLUX. WE give on this page an illustration, engraved from a photograph from life, showing three members of a band of Mississippi Ku-Klux, who are now under indictment in that … Continue reading
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In 1861 President Abraham Lincoln appointed Anson Burlingame as minister to the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China from 1644 to 1912. “Burlingame worked for a cooperative policy rather than the imperialistic policies of force which had been used during the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anson Burlingame, Auburn (N.Y.) Prison, Auburn (New York), Burlingame Treaty, Charles Sumner, China, Chinese Embassy 1868, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, George Sewall Boutwell, Irvin McDowell, Lazette Miller Worden, Margaret Coffin Wright, Nathaniel P. Banks, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Qing dynasty, Susan B. Anthony, William H. Seward
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Couldn’t folks have been a little more bipartisan 150 years ago? From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in July 1865: Employment for Soldiers. The Auburn Advertiser days the scarcity of help among the farmers, should induce the returned soldiers … Continue reading
