Digital Extra: The Journal's 175th Anniversary

07.21.2004

The passing news

WILL OUR COLD-BLOODED murdering of Indians never cease? We do not speak from any affected philanthropy or from any exaggerated idea of the virtue and generosity of Indians. But really they are not a foe formidable enough to require such treatment as many of them have just been receiving in California, if the half that is told is true.

Editorial, Feb. 29, 1860

$10 REWARD.

Provost Marshal's Office, First District, State of Rhode Island, Providence, 17th August, 1863

A Reward of Ten Dollars and reasonable expenses will be paid to ANY ONE delivering a deserter to these Headquarters.

WM. E. Hamlin

Captain and Provost Marshal

Front-page advertisement during the Civil War

IT IS SAID that this creature Lincoln, this vulgar savage who seems to be making desperate efforts to imitate the Neros and Caligulas of old, and who appears to be desirous of witnessing the general conflagration of the whole country formerly known as the United States, now composed of the Confederate States and the Lincoln Empire, takes opiates daily which keep him in a state of general stupor.

Reprinted in The Journal, July 17, 1861, from the New Orleans Bulletin of July 8. During the Civil War, The Journal reprinted articles from Confederate newspapers, sometimes with sarcastic introductions

WE WOULD GIVE more for a Providence Journal than even for a smart battle. For heaven's sake send us a few, addressed to Gen. Patterson's column.

Dispatch from a Rhode Island soldier and Journal correspondent, July 22, 1861

OUR ONLY HOPE was to reach our camp before we were cut off. Tired as we were, we could not stop, we had to leave our dead and wounded to the mercy of the enemy. It was awful. When we reached our camp, the order was given, "On, to Fairfax," and picking our way amid baggage wagons, cavalry, and impediments of all kinds, having eaten nothing but dry crackers and drunk nothing but dirty water, we pressed on.

Letter from a member of Company C, 1st Rhode Island Regiment, dated July 22, 1861, published four days later

WE WERE OUTGENERALLED, rather than outfought, on Sunday. As the smoke rolls from the battle field, as more complete and connected accounts of the military operations on that terrible day reach us, it becomes more and more apparent that it was a mistake to make the attack at all, and that our forces were not, on the whole, well handled by our officers.

Editorial, July 26, 1861, five days after Bull Run

THE LAST STRUGGLE for the life of the republic is upon us. And we must fight with all the forces God has placed within our reach.

Editorial, Aug. 2, 1862, urging the formation of a larger army to combat the South

CENTRAL FALLS.

A boy fell from a tree while picking cherries, Friday morning, and broke his arm. The arm was set by Dr. Clapp.

Local news item, July 6, 1863