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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
February
Year
1864
Copyright
Public Domain
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The administration lias ra sed the siege of Charleston for the purpose, as it now appears, of coüquering tbe State of florida. General Gilmore, mth ton thousand men, is now in the niidst of the swanips of that península. Of course no military purposo to&k bim t'nere, as the conquest of Florida will do no moro to put dowu the rebcllion than ?ould the occupation of Yucatán or, Coney. Island. The object is politica!. Florida haibeen maiked out as oue of the rottou borough States vvbich is. to help uiako Mr. Lin ooln President. Qenorl Shennan's ïBovetnout In Misissippi, whieh is sa puSzHfig the military strategists, is, as will presontly be diseovered, to conquer that State for the t-ame purpose. So we go; the war for tiie Uuiou is fiist per rerted into a war for abolition, and now it is a war fcr tho republioan sucuession.

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Old News
Michigan Argus