Posted on 09/07/2021 4:55:30 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Friday, Sept. 6.
The statement that the President disapproves of the proclamation issued by Gen. FREMONT, has no shadow of foundation. The President has carefully selected commanding officers, and he will in no instance interfere with their action so long as he continues them in the field. The act passed by Congress clearly gives the right to declare the property of rebels to be confiscated and the policy of summarily enforcing that act will be let to the discretion of officers, controled only by the circumstances by which they may be surrounded. If, in the prosecution of the war, it may be a military necessity to emancipate the slaves of rebels, and so declared by our Generals before the enemy, the President will not deem it incumbent upon himself to reverse their action, any more than he would deem it policy to interfere with the Police regulations of their respective camps. So those who expect a repudiation of Gen. FREMONT's declaration will look in vain.
THE NAVAL EXPEDITION.
The result of the Naval Expedition was so productive of good that the Government would be remiss not to do more.
JEFF. DAVIS DEAD.
The Government has advices which convey the conviction that JEFF. DAVIS is dead.
A VISIT.
The President, Mrs. LINCOLN, Secretary SEWARD and Col. LAMON, to-day visited Col. LAMON's Cavalry Regiment. The distinguished party also visited the encampment of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania Regiment, where they were received with unbounded enthusiasm.
ATTEMPTED MURDER.
An attempt was made last night to murder Sergeant ACKER, of Capt. GARITT's Company, of the Thirty-eighth Regiment. He was riding to a distant part of the encampment, where some pickets were posted, when a man shot at him from behind some bushes.
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The Great Rebellion: Occupation of Paducah by the National Troops – 2-3
Important from Kentucky – 3
Southern Items via Louisville – 3
The War in Missouri: Outrage on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad – 3-4
Editorial: Kentucky and the Crisis – 4
Editorial: Need of Military Education – 4-5
Gen. Fremont’s Proclamation Concerning Slaves – 5
Editorial: Loyalty in North Carolina – 5
The White Flag of Dixie – 5
New York Times. Fake News since 1861.
bkmk
Aside from the usual fog of war, there's nothing "fake" about it.
I refer you to the KY Governor's letter and Pres. Lincoln's response on page 3, also reports reprinted from the Mobile Tribune & Register, also page 3.
Expect errors to be corrected when the facts are better known.
But don't expect sympathy for Confederates, that would indeed be fake.
The folks that owned the NY Times during the war later ran it into the gound, and Ochs picked it up cheap.
Ochs didn’t buy the paper until a generation after the war (1890s). His father was unionist, but his mother had southern sympathies. Before buying the Chattanooga Times, Ochs worked for the pro-unionist paper in Knoxville.
In the 1880s the Times flipped from supporting Republicans to Democrats, the loss of readers reduced their revenues by over 2/3.
Then the financial panic of 1893 further reduced their readership to just 9,000 on Sundays.
So new owner Ochs reduced the price from $.03 to $.01, and moved its editorial opinions from Democrat to "objective" news.
People liked that and increased circulation nearly 100 fold.
Ochs' father was a Southern Unionist, and Ochs himself arguably key in uniting Southern & Northern Democrats into a formidable national political power.
None of that had anything to do with the Times during the Civil War, when it was solidly Republican in competition with Horace Greeley's abolitionist Tribune.
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