{"id":84546,"date":"2020-09-06T02:04:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T07:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=84546"},"modified":"2020-09-04T11:06:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T16:06:30","slug":"abolition-incendiary-fires-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/abolition-incendiary-fires-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Abolition Incendiary Fires Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Little Rock] <em>Old-Line Democrat<\/em>, September 6, 1860<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Journal, a rank abolition sheet in endeavoring to explain the abolition incendiary fires in Texas, gravely offers two &#8220;theories,&#8221; one of which is that the Texans, for the sake of pecuniary profit are &#8220;very solicitous of inducing the government to send a force of U. S. troops into the State,&#8221; the other &#8220;theory&#8221; is &#8220;that they have resulted from the extreme drouth \u00a0which has prevailed in that State!&#8221; How base must be the heart that conceived such an explanation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Little Rock] Old-Line Democrat, September 6, 1860 The Chicago Journal, a rank abolition sheet in endeavoring to explain the abolition incendiary fires in Texas, gravely offers two &#8220;theories,&#8221; one of which is that the Texans, for the sake of pecuniary profit are &#8220;very solicitous of inducing the government to send a force of U. S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":84027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/old-newspaper-thumbnail.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}