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To: rustbucket
Some of the events below may well have been legitimate suppressions if the newspaper had published troop movements, etc., and thereby gave aid to the enemy.

Some? Or most? Or almost all?

Other suppressions may have been done simply because the paper or its editors criticized the way the administration was handling the war or thought the South was correct in its interpretation of the Constitution.

Which ones? And I notice that you didn't point out that the New York World and the New York Journal of Commerce where suspended it was for suspected financial fraud. And you also failed to mention that almost every one of those papers published throughout the war. Finally, if you posted this in support of Tommy DiLusional's claim that Lincoln shut down 300 newspapers, well, you're still 272 newspapers short.

47 posted on 11/27/2005 3:28:58 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur; PeaRidge
... I notice that you didn't point out that the New York World and the New York Journal of Commerce where suspended it was for suspected financial fraud.

From Link:

Suppression of these editors began early in the war. For example, in August of 1861, the Christian Observer was closed by the U.S. marshal in Philadelphia. (62) At the same time, a federal grand jury in New York cited the Journal of Commerce, the Daily News, the Day-Book, the weekly Freeman's Journal, and the Brooklyn Eagle for the "frequent practice of encouraging the rebels now in arms against the Federal Government." This was followed by an order from the Postmaster General forbidding the mailing of these newspapers. (63)

if you posted this in support of Tommy DiLusional's claim that Lincoln shut down 300 newspapers, well, you're still 272 newspapers short.

Still trying to get others to do your homework for you? I suggest that you ask DiLorenzo himself. He can be reached over the Internet.

Here's some additional information for you:

The same day the Jeffersonian was sacked, a secessionist newspaper in Easton was mobbed, and a publisher in Haverhill, Massachusetts, was tarred and feathered by a mob.

And ...

In July of 1862 military officials suppressed the circulation of the Quincy Herald on the premise that it encouraged the work of rebel guerillas in western Illinois. Pro-union mobs also shut several papers, including the Bloomington Times, through intimidation or the outright destruction of offices and printing apparatus.

And you also failed to mention that almost every one of those papers published throughout the war.

Kind of hard to publish if your printing press is destroyed. Perhaps some papers were published again once their publishers, editors, and proprietors were freed from prison. But they were no doubt under threat of being jailed again if they published something in sympathy with the South or something against the Lincoln Administration.

When faced with presure from the public, Lincoln did occasionally back down on a paper closure.

In June of that year [1863] General Ambrose Burnside, in command of the department of the northwest, unilaterally suppressed the [Chicago] Times, as well as the Jonesboro Gazette "on account of the repeated expression of disloyal and incendiary statements." Residents of Chicago responded with a mass meeting of twenty thousand and demanded free speech. The Illinois House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning Burnside's order, and the next day President Lincoln revoked it.

And from an old post of PeaRidge's:

A mob of Federal soldiers demolished the offices of the Democratic Standard in Washington, DC, after it editorialized about military blunders during the Battle of First Manassas. This same thing happened to the Bangor Democrat when a Unionist mob completely destroyed the Maine paper’s printing facilities and demanded the hanging of the editor.

49 posted on 11/27/2005 5:39:33 PM PST by rustbucket
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