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With the deadline for filings set for tomorrow night, the secretary of state expected a flood of petitions and acceptances tomorrow.— The Daily Gate City and Constitution-Democrat(Keokuk, IA), 30 Dec. 1919 The guard lines are drawn in; making our play grounds much smaller and cutting us off from our best well of water, this is done for no other purpose under the sun but to interfere with our only enjoyment and to grind us to the lowest depth of subjugation. In a memorial addressed to President Lincoln in August, 1864, by Union officers confined in Charleston, occurs the following passage with reference to the Andersonville prisoners: “They are fast losing hope and becoming utterly reckless of life.

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