[Homer_J_Simpson]

Here is a direct link to the Chicopee Weekly Journal, March 1, 1856, that Eternal Vigilance posted yesterday. Thank you EV. If you plan to post this weekly you might address it to the ping list on my profile. (Civil War list, not WWII list).

http://www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org/archives/files/original/a72b80b2f281be0534b85642ff6682c3.pdf

[EternalVigilance]

My schedule is so crazy right now, and promises to be through the rest of the year, that I can’t make any promises about reliably posting anything on a regular basis. If you or anyone else wants to adopt and use that source, please do.

Of course I’ll come in here when I can, and add when I can. Obviously, I consider the subject matter to be deeply important and engaging. :-)

[BroJoeK]

No news from the 1850s can be complete without reports about ongoing filibusters.
No, it did not then mean speechifying in Congress.

In the 1850s, to filibuster meant to go adventuring, even gallivanting, in foreign countries, especially Caribbean or Central American lands, to overthrow their governments and set up one's own little satrapy.
They all eventually failed, but included in filibustering was the idea of finding new lands for US slavery's expansion.
This particular article doesn't use the word "filibuster", though others similar do, and the Adams Sentinel of Gettysburg, PA will too, soon enough.

[BroJoeK]

March 3, 1856

Adams Sentinel of Gettysburg, PA

Politics!
Yes, they had politics in 1856 too, and here we see a discussion and prescient prediction about the outcome of the November 1856 election.

[BroJoeK]

March 3, 1856

Gettysburg Republican Compiler

Interesting discussion on exactly who is aggressing whom, North v South.
Remember, this is before the Supreme Court's notorious Dred Scott decision: