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From Washington - Impeachment Renewed (February 27th, 1868)
>From The Democratic Advocate; Westminster, MD
Summary: Paper includes a day-by-day report on action in Congress related to impeachment
Full DetailsThe Situation (March 5th, 1868)
>From The Democratic Advocate; Westminster, MD
Summary: More comments on the threats of impeachment of Johnson
Full DetailsThat Convention (March 5th, 1868)
>From The Democratic Advocate; Westminster, MD
Summary: Refers to Republication Convention to be held in Baltimore on March 6 - paper says Negroes from Baltimore had not been welcome at a previous Republican meeting so had their own meeting along with some whites - if such should be the case in Carroll County,
Full DetailsLo! The Poor Negro (March 5th, 1868)
>From The Democratic Advocate; Westminster, MD
Summary: Colored delegates attended the Carroll County Republican Convention in Westminster in 1867, but none attended this year
Full DetailsMore Appropriations (March 11th, 1868)
>From The Herald and Torch Light; Hagerstown, MD
Summary: As predicted with the passage of the new state constitution, the people of Baltimore city and the western counties are now seeing what the state legislature will do with the power it wields in the hands of Democrats. It has made appropriations for schools in St. Mary's and Howard counties while schools in Washington County are closed for want of funds. Democratic senators and Democrats in the House of Delegates are voting away the money paid into the State Treasury by the people of the western counties. The paper says this is what the Democrats of Washington County get for voting away their rights into the hands of the lower or slave-holding counties of the state.
Full DetailsNational Honors to Rebel Dead (March 11th, 1868)
>From The Herald and Torch Light; Hagerstown, MD
Summary: The Maryland State Legislature is poised to appropriate $5,000 to bury both the Union and Confederate dead at Antietam Cemetery. The Herald and Torch Light prints a letter from Hon. John Covode strongly objecting to this which will be of interest to the widows and orphans of 400,000 men who are buried between the Potomac and the Rio Grande. Covode's letter makes a strong case for honoring the victorious dead, but not for burying the rebels in the same cemetery. He says to Gov. Fenton of New York who suggested this, "I should regard your entrance into a National Republican Convention, a candidate for office, as an intrusion to which the survivors of the Union Army, and the relatives of the dead and wounded, should surely object."
Full DetailsNewspaper Improvement (March 11th, 1868)
>From The Herald and Torch Light; Hagerstown, MD
Summary: "We neglected in our last to notice the enlargement of the Mail, which is now a nine column paper, and with its new head makes quite an attractive appearance. Unfortunately, however, the new head is an artistic and not an editorial one, but we presume this makes no difference to the Democrats with whom a pretty picture goes further than a pretty sentiment."
Full Details(March 12th, 1868)
>From The Democratic Advocate; Westminster, MD
Summary: Announces retirement of Wm. H. Davis as editor of "Democratic Advocate" and new editor Henry Vanderford - Vanderford's son, Wm. H., will be the proprietor
Full DetailsElection of U. S. Senator (March 12th, 1868)
>From The Democratic Advocate; Westminster, MD
Summary: After Frank Thomas was rejected for a senate seat, Congress chose George Vickers of Kent Co.
Full DetailsRadical State Convention (March 12th, 1868)
>From The Democratic Advocate; Westminster, MD
Summary: Republican State Convention met in Baltimore on March 6 - chose delegates to National Convention to be held May 20 in Chicago - Hon. John E. Smith of Carroll Co. presided at the meeting - the delegation supported Grant for President and Creswell for Vice-
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