[rockrr]

I appreciate your efforts to keep the LCL's honest - that's a fulltime job! Here's what Wackypedia says about the Chicago Daily Times: The Chicago Daily News was an afternoon daily newspaper published between 1876 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

So it ran for a short period but postdate the Civil War.

Similarly there was a Philadelphia Press, but so far I haven't been able to find a searchable index for any particular story or edition from 1860.

[BroJoeK]

rockrr: "Similarly there was a Philadelphia Press, but so far I haven't been able to find a searchable index for any particular story or edition from 1860."

PeaRidge to BJK: "Then you don’t know where 'The Red Badge of Courage' was first published."

More searching did produce data on the Philadelphia Press, including "The Red Badge of Courage" so does look like a legitimate paper, but no searchable text we might use to verify PeaRidge's quote.
Regardless, if we consider PeaRidge's quote on its own merits:

"It is the enforcement of the revenue laws, not the coercion of the State that is the question of the hour.
If those laws cannot be enforced, the Union is clearly gone; if they can, it is safe..."
~Philadelphia Press, January 15, 1861"

The quote itself seems legit because it reflects pretty well President Lincoln's First Inaugural words:

"In doing this there needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the national authority.
The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion -- no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Where hostility to the United States in any interior locality, shall be so great and so universal, as to prevent competent resident citizens from holding the Federal offices, there will be no attempt to force obnoxious strangers among the people for that object.
While the strict legal right may exist in the government to enforce the exercise of these offices, the attempt to do so would be so irritating, and so nearly impracticable with all, that I deem it better to forego, for the time, the uses of such offices."
President Lincoln, First Inaugural Address March 4, 1861

So, even if we can't verify it, PeaRidge's quote "sounds about right".
Lincoln did in March 1861 intend to continue basic Federal functions in secession states.

And that is why many secessionist newspapers called Lincoln's First Inaugural a "declaration of war".
Lincoln intended it to be the opposite, but secessionists were looking for excuses to use battlefields for deciding such issues.

Thomas Chester: "From August 1864 to the end of the Civil War in May 1865, Chester worked as a war correspondent for the Philadelphia Press which was a major daily newspaper at that time."

Will look at those other quotes later.