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Democrats attempt to manipulate Congress in order to fulfill their agenda, and the implications of the Breckenridge Trials, regarding the infidelity of a Democrat Senator, reaches Capitol Hill.

The Tariff bill is still fighting its way through Congress, albeit at a slower pace than expected.

Richmond’s council debates whether to publicly weigh in on the controversial new republican chairman.

The Planet draws attention to how the Constitutional Convention of Virginia defies the provisions of the act of Congress through its restrictions to voting and overall changes to the Constitution of Virginia.

A black Virginian argues against the whipping post bill in the context of the Commonwealth of Virginia and its history.

Following the Republican Convention in Lynchburg, in which “colored men were not only denied voice and vote, but membership therein,” a mass meeting is held in Chicago to protest and make amends.

Senator Butler of South Carolina withdraws from the Democratic party primary, deciding to run as an independent, further showing the disunity of the Democratic Party.

The lynching of a black man is considered unjustified, bringing national attention to the case and “alarming President Roosevelt.”

With the Spanish-American war at an end, the United States claims Spain's territories in the Western Hemisphere.

An American consul, Arthur S. Cheney, and his wife die in the midst of an “earthquake disaster”.