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Domestic News November 16, 1870

The Cairo Daily Bulletin

Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois

What is this article about?

Opinion piece criticizing Gen. John A. Logan for seeking to suppress the Bulletin newspaper via legislation and imprison its editors, evoking past denials of free speech and press freedoms.

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Gen. John A. Logan doesn't like the Bulletin. It has been hurting his party. He doesn't, however, propose to start a paper in Egypt that can repel the Bulletin's assaults. He knows that "truth is mighty and will prevail," though a hundred Radical papers interpose. He would crush the Bulletin in a way peculiarly Radical, viz.: Pass a law to suppress it, and to imprison the editors! Freemen remember, with a shudder, the time when freedom of speech and freedom of the press were denied to American citizens. But those dark days are gone, and the Logans who would revive them, live only to be despised and execrated.

What sub-type of article is it?

Politics

What keywords are associated?

John A Logan Bulletin Newspaper Freedom Of Press Radical Politics Suppression Law

What entities or persons were involved?

Gen. John A. Logan

Where did it happen?

Egypt

Domestic News Details

Primary Location

Egypt

Key Persons

Gen. John A. Logan

Event Details

Gen. John A. Logan dislikes the Bulletin for harming his party and proposes passing a law to suppress it and imprison its editors, rather than starting a competing paper.

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