Historical Newspaper: The Port Royal Negros

Gideonites

Historical Newspaper: The Port Royal Negros

01/28/1863

Historical Newspaper

Note: See 3rd column, 2nd paragraph. Racial epithets used, and some language may be offensive to readers.

Chronicling America features a January 28, 1863 article from the the Cadiz Democratic Sentinel newspaper that publishes a letter critiquing of the Gideonites- a group of Northern abolitionist missionaries and teachers - provided by an unnamed Union soldier. Themes included: the costs to fund the missionaries' salaries and activities, allegations of misappropriation of funds, the negative impact of their work on the newly freed and the soldier's assertion that he is "not fighting for the freedom of the negro, but for the maintenance of the laws of the Constitution of the United States."

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The Library of Congress - Chronicling America (The Cadiz Democratic Sentinel, OH)

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