u/RallyPigeon

Their series against the Texas Stars begins tonight.

The only good ephemera dealer at my local flea market (by merit of only selling legit stuff and not selling gift shop-tier reprints) let me know he had some old newspapers a couple weeks ago. Well today I got to look through them and picked out my favorite three. It was an inexpensive purchase but one I'm excited to share with the community here.

Paper #1: *The Independent* March 6, 1856 - featuring an op-ed calling out William Lloyd Garrison and *The Liberator* for not endorsing violence as self-defense by the anti-slavery side in Kansas. The author of the article advocates violence from a Christian perspective and explains the split between people similar to themselves vs people who agreed with Garrison.

Paper #2: *The New York Tribune* June 21, 1864 - featuring the latest news from the front, including Grant at Petersburg. Published only a few months before the 1864 election when Lincoln's political fate was still uncertain by a pro-Lincoln paper. Coverage of the upcoming election features in the top right corner.

Paper #3: *The Philadelphia Inquirer* July 27, 1867 - featuring coverage of the John Surratt case. Surratt, part of the larger plot by John Wilkes Booth to kill Lincoln, had escaped in 1865. After living in Italy for a short time (where he joined the Vatican's Papal Zouaves) then fleeing to Egypt after being recognized, Surratt had been captured and brought back to the US to be put on trial. Unlike the other Lincoln conspirators, he did not face a military tribunal but instead was in a civilian criminal court.