Searching the Strib Archives

I did some digging around in the Strib archives the other day, and I found some old editorials.

Let's take a look:

I found this in the July 4, 1863 edition of the the old Minneapolis Star. It was an institutional voice editorial, believed to have been by editor and press manager Gyllers Andenhall:

The War Is Causing Rebels

As the horriffic bloodshed of the last three days in Pennsylvania has shown us, three things are indeed verific:

First, President Lincoln's War Against Secession is based on a lie. His top advisers first said the boys would be home by Christmas. Then they said General McClellan would sweep the Rebels before them. And yet at every turn, the Rebels have not only gotten stronger, put pushed farther into the North. Las year, it was Antietam. This year, they got to Central Pennsylvania. What next year - New York?

Second, the strategy of confronting Secession has seemingly only led to more secessionists! The army that General Lee led into the north was the biggest ever - and this after two years of war! The longer the war goes, the more secessionists we have arrayed against us! The war is not working.

Third, President Lincoln's strategy of going to war is misguided, and is taking resources away from the real mission, arresting and trying Jefferson Davis.