Lincoln's Wrath: Fierce Mobs, Brilliant Scoundrels and a President's Mission to Destroy the PressIn the blistering summer of 1861, President Lincoln began pressuring and ordering the physical shutdown of any Northern newspaper that voiced opposition to the war. These attacks were sometimes carried out by soldiers, sometimes by angry mobs under cover of darkness. Either way, the effect was a complete dismantling of the free press. In the midst stood publisher John Hodgson, an angry bigot so hated that a local newspaper gleefully reported his defeat in a bar fight. He was also firmly against Lincoln and the war--an opinion he expressed loudly through his newspaper. When his press was destroyed, first by a mob, then by U.S. Marshals "upon authority of the President of the United States," Hodgson decided to take on the entire United States. Thus began a trial in which one small-town publisher risked imprisonment or worse, and the future of free speech hung in the balance. Based on 10 years of original research, Lincoln's Wrath brings to life one of the most gripping, dramatic and unknown stories of U.S. history. |
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... slavery. Yet we have also grown to admire this man, who picked up the pieces of his destroyed newspaper and prepared to resume publishing, risking the mob violence sweeping the Northern states. Then an extraordinary event took place. On ...
... slavery. Yet we have also grown to admire this man, who picked up the pieces of his destroyed newspaper and prepared to resume publishing, risking the mob violence sweeping the Northern states. Then an extraordinary event took place. On ...
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... slavery, and Lincoln may have felt that he had a good chance to take these voters for his own not-yet-announced presidential campaign. Whatever the answer, the purchase of the German paper shows Lincoln to be far more serious about his ...
... slavery, and Lincoln may have felt that he had a good chance to take these voters for his own not-yet-announced presidential campaign. Whatever the answer, the purchase of the German paper shows Lincoln to be far more serious about his ...
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Contents
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A True Account of the United States of Ameria vs the Jeffersonian Newspaper | 193 |
Epilogue | 299 |
the Full Text of Judge Lowries Charge to the Jury | 309 |
About the Authors | 317 |
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Lincoln's Wrath: Fierce Mobs, Brilliant Scoundrels and a President's Mission ... Jeffrey Manber,Neil Dahlstrom No preview available - 2005 |
Lincoln's Wrath: Fierce Mobs, Brilliant Scoundrels and a President's Mission ... Jeffrey Manber,Neil Dahlstrom No preview available - 2005 |
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