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The Daily Dispatch: 1862 is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Richmond Times-Dispatch has been the primary daily newspaper of Richmond, Virginia for over the past 150 years. At the time of establishment in 1850, it was one of the very few non-partisan newspapers around and featured relatively unbiased articles. During the Civil War, Richmond became the capital of the Confederate states and the Daily Dispatch decided to promote the Confederate cause. The...

into the ‘"glorious Union"’ with slavery. One of the traitors and bogus representatives thus begs his nigger loving friends in the Federal Congress for mercy: Mr. Willey, (Union,) of Virginia, proposed to amend the bill so as to obviate the objection of the Senator from Vermont, enabling the State to be admitted when it had ratified a Constitution, republican in form, with a fundamental condition that all children born after the 4th of July shall be free. In regard to Mr. Sumner's amendment, he said