Republican Herald and Rhode Island Gazetteer, The; July 10, 1869

Providence, RI: Noah D. Payne, 1869. 52 x 70 cm. Editorial discussion of the Virginia election, ""which has resulted to give confidence in the future to all who desire to return to law and order and liberty in the Southern States. The reign of the carpet-baggers is over. The negroes are no longer sure for the ignorant and blatant Radicals who have heretofore counted so securely upon their votes."" Editorial criticizes President Grant : ""By nature and education he is a Conservative. By the force of circumstances he is a Radical. But being by thought and conviction nothing, he does not act in civil life either with tact or energy..."" Editorial comment on growing number of Chinese coming to work on the construction of the Pacific railway. What impact will this have on the newly freed negroes? Report of the celebration of the Fourth of July in Pawtucket. Editorial on The Fourth of July ""which John Adams desiderated, has fallen into desuetude.""... ""We have a President who knows the points of a trotting horse, but who does not know who may not be Secretary of the Treasury; who is a good judge of cigars and thinks Washburne a fit person to represent his country at the Tuilleries."" Newspaper, a few tiny holes in intersection of folds, very good. . Catalogs: Civil War/History.