Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Wiroa-Week-15 Title A name given to the resource This Week in Reconstruction, April 15-30, 1871 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Megan Wiora Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 15-30, 1871 Description An account of the resource The Ku Klux Bill is at the forefront of issues during the past three weeks. The bill is being prepared, presented, and passed with amendments. The Dispatch disagrees with the passing of the bill because it breaches and violates the duty of federal powers. The South views this bill as a direct threat against their freewill, even though its applied to every state in the country. They are aghast at the bill, and claim they would not perpetrate violence against anyone based on their race, despite evident proof that the Ku Klux has committed acts against African-American people. Southerners object to the bill because they believe that, "Congress had no right to pass any such law. It trenches upon the rights and duties of the States. It makes Federal judges, who at present are the mere creatures of the President, masters of the property and the persons of the people." Virginia, a state that has already dealt with great amounts of animosity from Congress, feels personally victim to this bill. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The Dispatch has kept the public fully informed of the progress made by the United Sates and city engineers in tho improvement of the James river. The weather now i-s most favorable for the work, and it is being pushed ahead with a great deal of energy. Yesterday an examination was made of the Rocketts reef, and an experiment was made. by Mr. Townsend, of Boston, on the removal of the rock by the agency of Dualin the new Prussian explosive compound. The experiment Was eminently successful. At Drewry's Bluff Prof. Maillefert is still busy on the wrecks of the Jamestown, Richmond and other steamers, and has gotten out a vast quantity of iron, which has been sold to metal dealers in Richmond, the demand for it being great. Prof. M. expect-to get through with his labors at Drewry's Bluff in a few weeks, but it may require a couple of months yet. Colton Co.. of Philadelphia, with a large force, two steam-dredges, and a tug, are steadily employed at Dutch Gap, and are getting along finely. Considerable progress has also been made in the crib-work for retaining dredging material at Warwick's bar. and the city dredges are at work on the channel at Rocketts, preparatory to deepening it from Warwick up. Altogether, we have reason to believe that this important improvement is getting along quite as well as could be expected, and those having it in charge are entitled to the thanks of all public-spirited citizens for their energy and general efficiency. URL http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=DD18710426&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1871-04-26 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context WioraMegan-18710426-ProgressoftheJamesRiverImprovements.pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Richmond Daily Dispatch Title A name given to the resource Progress of the James River Improvements