[Homer_J_Simpson]

Recent Operations in Virginia: A Cavalry Expedition to Catlet’s Station – 2
Terror in Virginia: A Slave Insurrection Feared in Culpepper – 2
The Surrender of Harper’s Ferry – What Ought to be Done – 2
Editorial: Sucking the Treasury – Colonization Schemes – 2-3
Negro Hanging in the South – 3
Rebel Great Guns – 3
A Prospect of Rebellion Against the Rebels – 3
News from Washington: Our Special Washington Dispatches – 3-5
Wants of the Sanitary Commission – 5
Amusements – 5
Wadsworth and McClellan – 5
The Same with a Material Difference – 5

[BroJoeK]

"Editorial: Sucking the Treasury – Colonization Schemes – 2-3"

Once again, our editors mock and rail against schemes to recolonize freed blacks in central America, correctly reporting that most or all want to stay here, no doubt with expectations of being treated as if "all men are created equal".

So efforts will be made, on a larger scale than before the war, still using relatively small numbers of volunteers, but with terrible results.

[BroJoeK]

"Negro Hanging in the South – 3"

Another Washington newspaper claimed that "seventeen negroes" in Virginia were hanged for the crime of possessing a copy of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation -- the alleged hangings being blamed on Lincoln!

Our editors argue it's nonsense to blame Lincoln, then say:

"Mr. Lincoln did not issue his Proclamation primarily from sympathy for the slaves, but from antipathy and hostility to rebel masters.
If cruelties are inflicted on the slaves by reason of the President's act, the fact will only establish the injustice and inhumanity of the slaveocrats who commit the deed..."

Those words are noteworthy for the argument itself, but also for that word "slaveocrats" which I had not previously seen used back then -- had just assumed it was a relatively modern neologism.