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Showing posts with label Julius Deming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Julius Deming. Show all posts
Monday, December 20, 2021

“To serve the purpose of their party”

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Over the past couple of days, I’ve been quoting letters to the newspapers of Litchfield, Connecticut , about papermaker Elisha Horton ’s co...
Sunday, December 19, 2021

“Could not, while in the employment of Mr. Deming, act on the republican side”

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Elisha Horton ’s letter detailing what he would have said in court about Julius Deming , quoted yesterday , was actually a response to a pre...
Saturday, December 18, 2021

“Vote for those you in conscience think to be good men”

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On 29 Jan 1806, the Litchfield Monitor , the Connecticut town’s Federalist newspaper, published a long letter from papermaker Elisha Horto...
Friday, December 17, 2021

“An alledged libel against Julius Deming”

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While researching the life of Elisha Horton , as I laid out yesterday , I came across newspaper articles about a local political controversy...
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