Near as I can tell, none of those are legit, certainly not important enough to be recorded in histories of newspapers.
So those words should not be part of this discussion.
But PeaRidge's point -- that Southern slavery was a secondary issue in the North -- is certainly correct.
That's directly because: the United States Constitution was first agreed-to in 1787 on the basis of Northerners accepting Southern slavery, and that agreement still held for Northerners in 1860.
So before November, 1860 the US had never, ever before elected an openly anti-slavery President and Congress, and their elections were enough to drive Deep South Fire Eaters berserk with anger, first declaring secession then starting and declaring war on the United States.
In a nut shell.
Then you don’t know where “The Red Badge of Courage” was first published.
You said: “Near as I can tell, none of those are legit, certainly not important enough to be recorded in histories of newspapers.”
OK, here we go.
The Philadelphia Press
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Philadelphia Press (or The Press) is a defunct newspaper that was published from August 1, 1857 to October 1, 1920.
The paper was founded by John Weiss Forney. Charles Emory Smith was editor and owned a stake in the paper from 1880 until his death in 1908. In 1920, it was purchased by Cyrus Curtis, who merged the Press into the Public Ledger.
Before being published in book form, Stephen Crane's 1895 novel The Red Badge of Courage was serialized in The Philadelphia Press in 1894
Notable contributors
Thomas Morris Chester, African-American Civil War correspondent
Benjamin De Casseres, proofreader, theatrical critic and editorial writer
Elisha Jay Edwards, investigative journalist
John Russell Young, chief Civil War correspondent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philadelphia_Press
NEW ORLEANS DAILY CRESCENT: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015378/
Union Democrat
https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/teaching-resources/sixteen-months-to-sumter/newspaper-index/manchester-union-democrat/let-them-go
I hate to use the term lying, so I won't, but you continually make things up.
Remember your "Harriot (sic) Lane" debacle from last year? You went on and on for days in spite of irrefutable proof of you ignorance. Just can't man up and tell the truth?
I would think even rockrr and the rest would get fed up at some point.