Saturday, July 6, 2013

June 1, 1863---Burnside bans the "Chicago Times"



JUNE 1, 1863:    

In Chicago, Wilbur Fisk Storey was the owner of The Chicago Times a newspaper founded by Stephen Douglas. Storey was a vicious critic of the Lincoln Administration. Politically, he was pro-Union, but Democratic and pro-slavery and States’ Rights, with a hatred of abolitionists.



Responding to the Emancipation Proclamation, Storey’s paper printed editorials which could be read as threatening the Lincoln government. In response, on this day, General Ambrose Burnside, never one for subtle measures, issued Order No. 83 to suppress The Chicago Times, which was closed and seized by the military on June 3rd. Although some applauded the move, the public outcry was fiercely against it. 

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