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Names listed at King County Union convention include H. Van Asselt, L.T. B. Andrews, Gardner Kellogg, H. Burnett, C. Clymer, D. Bagley, Wm. Clendenin, L.V. Wyckoff, D.B. Ward, D.T. Denny, O.C. Shorey, Dr. J. Settle, R.W. Pontius, H.L. Yesler, R.M.…

Seattle Weekly Gazette_1865-05-18_Editor Slams Tilton's War Record.pdf
This is a short but nasty attempt to nullify Tilton's claim to loyalty through military service.

Other articles include "Look Before You Leap" p. 2., arguing for a straight Unionist ticket in the June election, reminding readers which party…

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This display ad calls on Union Democrats in King County to convene, in the spring of 1866, to select candidates to run for office.

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The King Co. Democrats resolved to sustain President Johnson in restoring rights to all states, and rebuke the "radicals" who seek to make the war one of conquest, for subjugation of the states formerly in rebellion, and for the negro instead of the…

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Among other resolutions in their platform, the Union Party of King County adopted the following: That the doctrine of nullification and secession held by the so called Democratic Party, is antagonistic to the perpetuity of the UNION and destructive…

Seattle Weekly Gazette_1865-05-25_Eats His Own Words.pdf
This appears to be a reply to a reply. The first piece was "Is General Tilton a Secessionist?," (Seattle Weekly Gazette, May 4, 1865). The editor (Urban HIcks) charged by the Gazette with calling James Tilton "an apologist for the Southern…

Seattle Weekly Gazette_1865-05-25_ The Copperhead County Convention.pdf
During the 1865 race for territorial delegate between Arthur Denny and James Tilton, the editor of the Seattle Gazette attacks "Copperheadism [as] disloyalty sailing under Union colors" and is just as bad or worse than "open armed rebellion," the…

Seattle Weekly Gazette_1865-05-25_ Mr. Denny And The University Swindle.pdf
On the same page is "Mr Pagley and the University" (He means "Bagley"). This is a piece in a long argument about misuse of University of Washington funds. It attacks James Tilton and rejects "the slanderous charges of Hicks against both Bagley and…

Seattle Weekly Gazette_1865-05-25_ Queer Way Of Manufacturing Proof.pdf
This is part of this Unionist editor's running argument with the "Copperhead" Hicks of the Democrat (Olympia). In addition to the matter about Asa Mercer wanting to import black labor, the editor says Hicks claimed that Arthur Denny favors "negro…

Seattle Weekly Gazette_1865-05-25_Editorial Comments on Northwest Rejoicing over Lincoln's Assassination.pdf
A man near Astoria is heard rejoicing over the assassination of Lincoln and is strung up "as long as was safe without utter strangulation." The editor of Seattle Weekly Gazette writes, "There are about two dozen of the same sort in this vicinity who…
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