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Constitutional Union (Washington)

Daily Critic (Washington)

Daily Graphic (New York)

Daily Mercury News (New Bedford, Massachusetts)

Daily Evening Transcript (Boston)

Evening Telegraph (Philadelphia)

Evening Star (Washington)

Evening Intelligencer (Washington)

National Intelligencer (Washington)

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New York Tribune

New York Evening Sun

New York Herald

Philadelphia Record

Washington Times-Herald

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