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Letter to Editor
January 27, 1864
Western Reserve Chronicle
Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio
What is this article about?
R. W. Crane from Fredonia, NY, sends $1 for a subscription to the Western Reserve Chronicle, reminiscing about reading it since age 10 and now living far from Trumbull County. He mocks the depreciating 'copper head' political currency post-election.
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Fredonia, Chautauque County, N. Y., Jan. 4th 1864.
Eds. Chronicle:--Herein please find one dollar, for which you will please send me the Western Reserve Chronicle, for such time as the cash sent will pay--I don't know the terms,--address to me as at the top of this sheet.
I have read that faithful old sheet since I was a lad of ten years,--until two or three years past and I can stand it no longer. Its records of joy and sorrow becomes the more necessary now, I am at such a distance from Old Trumbull, so long my home. That kind of circulating medium known by the name of "copper head," is depreciating so fast since the last election, that it will not be long before it will take forty of that kind of coppers to pay for a ten cent postage stamp, in this vicinity. No more. Send along the paper, and at some future day I may speak again.
Respectfully yours,
R. W. CRANE.
Eds. Chronicle:--Herein please find one dollar, for which you will please send me the Western Reserve Chronicle, for such time as the cash sent will pay--I don't know the terms,--address to me as at the top of this sheet.
I have read that faithful old sheet since I was a lad of ten years,--until two or three years past and I can stand it no longer. Its records of joy and sorrow becomes the more necessary now, I am at such a distance from Old Trumbull, so long my home. That kind of circulating medium known by the name of "copper head," is depreciating so fast since the last election, that it will not be long before it will take forty of that kind of coppers to pay for a ten cent postage stamp, in this vicinity. No more. Send along the paper, and at some future day I may speak again.
Respectfully yours,
R. W. CRANE.
What sub-type of article is it?
Reflective
Political
Provocative
What themes does it cover?
Politics
Economic Policy
What keywords are associated?
Subscription Request
Western Reserve Chronicle
Copperhead
Trumbull County
Civil War Politics
Election 1864
What entities or persons were involved?
R. W. Crane
Eds. Chronicle
Letter to Editor Details
Author
R. W. Crane
Recipient
Eds. Chronicle
Main Argument
requests a subscription to the western reserve chronicle due to its sentimental value from childhood and current distance from home, while satirizing the rapid decline of copperhead political influence after the recent election.
Notable Details
Reminisces About Reading The Paper Since Age 10
References 'Old Trumbull' As Former Home
Uses 'Copper Head' As Metaphor For Depreciating Political Currency