Troy and the Burg were at war! On Sept 17, 1864 the Troy Daily Whig published the following:

“PECCAVI (I have sinned-DR). The editor of the Gazette can take our hat: he deserves it for his defence of local institutions. It is enough – we recant. “Know all men by these presents.” That the Fair Grounds which by a lapsus pen-gue were located in Troy, belong first, last and always to the ‘burgh. Who will dare question its right and title to the possession after reading the following edict, issued by the “father of the faithful?” Not we, surely:

The Troy Whit speaks of a meeting of Trojans in reference to a proposed army hospital “in our city.” At first glance, one would suppose that the Trojans designed to get up a hospital in opposition to the Fair Grounds Hospital in our village. But no- it is the Fair Grounds Hospital that is referred to with favor as belonging to “our city,” – Troy.

Does the WHIG desire to incite a civil convulsion by encroaching upon our municipal jurisdiction insolently ignoring a local sovereignty as old as “The Oldest Inhabitant” as sacred as Magna Charta, and as Dutch as the thick........

© The Saratogian