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clique politics

A war widow was passed over in the appointment of a Post Master in Penn Yan, New York. A Democrat paper showed that even a Republican paper disagreed with the decision. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in July … Continue reading

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Adrift at the White House

Has the “Old Public Functionary” been replaced by the “Great Patronage Dispenser”? Lincoln’s getting his bureaucracy in order. A month after Lincoln’s Inaugural The New-York Times of April 3, 1861 is not happy with the new administration (The New York … Continue reading

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