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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.