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’cause the framers punted

After an eight month hiatus, the Richmond Daily Dispatch resumed publication 150 years ago today (albeit with no runaway slave classifieds): Saturday…december 9, 1865. The past and the present. The Richmond Dispatch, which met a temporary suspension of its existence … Continue reading

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Frontier Guards in the East Room

A day after the Virginia convention passed a secession ordinance there were still lots of rumors about a Confederate attack on Washington, D.C. From The New-York Times April 19, 1861: WASHINGTON, Thursday, April 18. … REPORTED ATTACK ON WASHINGTON. There … Continue reading

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