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The Daily Dispatch: January 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], Sale of negroes in Tennessee. (search)
sale of negroes in East Tennessee was sent to a gentleman of this city from a friend in that State: Morristown, Tenn., Jan. 21, 1862. To-day there was an auction sale, at this place, of forty-six negroes. The following are the ages and prices of some of the sales: One negro girl, age 17 years, brought $1,505. Another girl, age 17 years, brought $1,570. Negro fellow, age 28 years, brought $1,880, blacksmith. Negro fellow, age 29 years, brought $1,800. Negro girl, age 13 years, brought $1,805. Negro girl, age 15 years, brought $1,500. Negro girl, age 12 years, brought $1,100. All of them were purchased by citizens of the neighborhood and country. They were a lot of negroes belonging to the estate of L. D. Franklin, deceased, and before and at the time of his death a resident of an adjoining neighborhood, and was one of our wealthlest citizens. His estate, clear of liabilities, turns out to be worth between $700,000 and $800,000.
The Daily Dispatch: January 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], The case of Senator Bright in the Washington Senate. (search)
ntroducing Thomas B. Lincoln. Mr. Lincoln was born in Philadelphia and reared there, and came West to live. He did the largest business of any man in Indiana, as a wholesale merchant, and established a character for truth and probity; he then went to Texas and engaged in the raising of cattle; he came here afterwards to forward the project of the Pacific Railroad. He (Mr. Bright) had no recollection of this letter, but he must have written it. He had also given Lincoln a letter to Capt. Franklin, and would read both to show that they were similar in language. When he addressed the letter to Davis by his title he was only following the example of Senators in this body at that time; and if Lincoln had told him he had an improved cotton gin, he should have mentioned it, the same as he did the firearms. If any one had asked him for such a letter after the proclamation of the President he would have answered "No." He did not believe there would be war. He did not believe that mad f