Tag Archives: Democrat Party

“Is this Democratic?”

Posted on September 25, 2015 by SUMPTER

150 years ago today Daniel Sickles wrote a letter to Hugh Judson Kilpatrick criticizing the New Jersey Democrat 1865 platform (see last section of the linked post). Moreover, New Jersey Democrats were even lagging behind South Carolina: The party in … Continue reading →

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Democrats for the disabled

Posted on May 26, 2015 by SUMPTER

The The Grand Review of the Union armies occurred in Washington, D.C. on May 23rd and 24th. The soldiers would keep heading north to their homes and the next stage in their lives. The New-York Times promoted the government employment … Continue reading →

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home and way

Posted on April 7, 2015 by SUMPTER

Apparently a Medal of Honor recipient from Seneca Falls, New York was home on furlough during at least some of the dramatic events in the first part of April 1865. Two clippings from Seneca County, New York newspapers in April … Continue reading →

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worn out

Posted on August 28, 2014 by SUMPTER

The Democrat National Convention opened in Chicago on August 29, 1864. 150 years ago this month a local Democrat publication found reasons to believe that the Lincoln administration was on the way out. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper … Continue reading →

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the wolf/sheep party

Posted on January 27, 2014 by SUMPTER

If this war ever ends, I’m going to miss the rhetoric in the Richmond Dispatch. I’m certain … I’m pretty sure sometime in the last three years I’ve read an editorial that maintained Northern Democrats were bigger threats to the … Continue reading →

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Unconditionally prostrate

Posted on October 30, 2012 by SUMPTER

Son of the South provides an excellent service by hosting the digitized Harper’s Weekly from 1861-65. Here’s a couple political cartoons published in the October 25, 1862 issue. They comment on the upcoming election for New York State governor on … Continue reading →

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New Club in Town

Posted on September 22, 2012 by SUMPTER

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in September 1862: McClellan Club. The undersigned hereby form themselves into a Club, to be known as the “McClellan Club of Seneca Falls,” to [be] organized to support “the Constitutio[n,] the Union, and … Continue reading →

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Can’t bomb them into submission

Posted on July 20, 2012 by SUMPTER

From the Richmond Daily Dispatch July 21, 1862: Ex-Governor Seymour, of Connecticut, Opposed to a war of subjugation. Ex-Governor Seymour, of Connecticut, has written a remarkable letter to the Hartford Times condemning the use of his name as a Vice … Continue reading →

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Doughface Convention in New York City

Posted on December 17, 2010 by admin

Ex-president Millard Fillmore was right – there was going to be another meeting of Southern sympathizers in New York State – specifically in New York City on Saturday, December 15th. Here are excerpts from a very long article in the … Continue reading →

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