Tag Archives: Dennis A. Mahony

The New Wide-Awakes?

During the 1860 election campaign the Wide Awakes “was a paramilitary campaign organization affiliated with the Republican Party”. The following editorial is concerned that the Republican-led federal government is wide awake to punishing dissenting opinion. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch … Continue reading

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Enforcing the Monster’s Orders

Southern Pennsylvania and Dubuque, Iowa The first part of the following article is mostly an editorial in a southern Pennsylvania Democrat newspaper. Its opposition to the Lincoln administration’s orders against the discouragement of enlistment are very similar to an editorial … Continue reading

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