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Cleveland Morning Leader
Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
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Southern Democratic newspapers, including the Richmond Enquirer, published advertisements offering $100,000 in rewards for the heads of over 80 Northern Republican politicians, with $50,000 for William H. Seward. A commentary criticizes this as indecent and suggests the money be used for executing the traitors instead.
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The decency of some of the Southern Democratic Disunion organs is shown in publishing sensation advertisements, offering large rewards for the heads of distinguished citizens and Republicans of the Free States. A recent one in the Richmond Enquirer offers "$25 each for the heads of the following Traitors:—Henry Wilson, Charles Sumner, Horace Greeley, John P. Hale, Joshua R. Giddings, Edward Wade, John Sherman, Philemon Bliss," etc., in all over eighty citizens of the North, and $50,000 for the head of Wm. H. Seward!
Va. F. F. V's had better expend a moiety of the $100,000 in halters for their own traitorous necks, and thus save Uncle Sam a pretty certain expense in that way.
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Richmond
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offers of $25 each for heads of over 80 northern citizens and $50,000 for seward's head; no actual casualties reported.
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Southern Democratic Disunion organs published advertisements offering large rewards for the heads of distinguished Northern Republicans. The Richmond Enquirer offered $25 each for heads of listed traitors including Henry Wilson, Charles Sumner, and others, totaling over eighty, plus $50,000 for Wm. H. Seward. Commentary advises Virginia First Families of Virginia to use part of the $100,000 for their own executions.