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When Will It End?

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
August
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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The New York papers cumuicut with muoli süverily npoa the arbitrary condnct nf SlauUm iu cluuing Ford's Theater. This act savors too mu uk of im perialism to sait even the New York Sun, which nsks, " Why sliould Ford be debarred froui the bencfits of his proporty ? It is true thut PrebidaTit Lioflold was murdered iu thu said theatur, but Ford wus not mpliüUted in the act, aud we fail to soo why hu should be deprived of the use of bis building, siuiply because the atrocious eveut oc; curred in it. It Secretury Staoton wants the theater to romain unoccupicd buoause of the tragedy, he should eitliur buy it, or puv the propriotor a prupec rental to secure the control of it. There may be a question of tante ibimt ruopeuing tho theater, but that is a matter coactirtHQg only the propriecor ai.d the public. The action of the Secietary of War in anntliei' atiair, and must important as additioual evidence of a dipos{ttoo to eoiiliuue liis arbitrury poli ■ c-.y. N.ithffithstauding the tcrintniïtioD of the war, he seeins to forct that the rubollum is nuppressed, and arbitrary act3 no longer neoded to represa ohstreperous individuals."

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Old News
Michigan Argus