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Are They Loyal (March 23rd, 1866)
>From The Republican Citizen; Frederick, MD
Summary: The Citizen attacks the Examiner and the Union party for their support of Wendell Phillips and the Radicals in opposition to Pres. Johnson's plan of reconstruction.
Full DetailsWho Would Be A Disunion… (March 23rd, 1866)
>From The Republican Citizen; Frederick, MD
Summary: The Citizen asks if the Examiner is in sympathy with the "Disunionists" Stevens, Phillips,Sumner and Forney whom Johnson has called traitors.
Full DetailsIt seems strange… (March 23rd, 1866)
>From The Republican Citizen; Frederick, MD
Summary: The Citizen finds it strange that the abolitionists who have been prescribing oath to support the Constitution are now amending it to destroy it.
Full DetailsTreatment of Rebels (March 28th, 1866)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: It was reported in the Middletown Valley Register that former Union soldiers informed Dr Young, a former Confederate soldier and now a resident of Middletown, that his language and behavior was “too odious to be borne,” and asked him to leave town within twenty-four hours. The doctor apologized for his conduct and, if allowed to stay, promised to behave like a loyal citizen. His apology was accepted.
Full DetailsRemains Removed (March 28th, 1866)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Last Thursday the remains of Col. Lamar, who was killed at the Battle of Monocacy, were disinterred by undertaker F. Schroder and sent to his native Louisiana. He was once a member of the U.S. Congress.
Full DetailsTraitors (March 28th, 1866)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: The editor of the Citizen called Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens traitors much to the amusement of the Examiner. While the Examiner cannot agree with those Radicals, it says they shouldn't be called traitors as they always supported the Union during the war. President Johnson had labeled both men "traitors" but for different reasons. The Citizen never used the term "traitor" for those who supported the South during the war. "It is an idle expenditure of words to call Union men traitors and in the next breath hold up whipped rebels and their assassin sympathizers as 'the best men of the community.'"
Full DetailsPolitical Organization (March 29th, 1866)
>From The Democratic Advocate; Westminster, MD
Summary: Responds to the American Sentinel's blaming the outbreak of warfare on Southern Democrats
Full DetailsLadies State Fair - Southern Relief Fair (March 29th, 1866)
>From The Democratic Advocate; Westminster, MD
Summary: Names local women on the Executive Committee of the Southern Relief Fair and the county officers by their Election District
Full DetailsThe Opinion of a Republican (March 29th, 1866)
>From The Democratic Advocate; Westminster, MD
Summary: A Republican touring the South writes that "the Northern people cannot comprehend the condition of things in the Southern States"
Full DetailsArrest of Bradley T. Johnson (March 30th, 1866)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: Bradley T. Johnson, formerly of Frederick, “a brigadier general in the late Confederate Army,” was arrested in Baltimore on an indictment of treason.
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