Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Publisher Blackburn switched his party affiliation to Republican because he opposed slavery and the secession of the Confederate States of America. Blackburn was spared conviction — and automatic execution — by a one-vote margin of charges that he printed counterfeit Confederate currency. After the return of Democratic Redeemer government in Louisiana in 1878, Blackburn soon returned to his native Arkansas, where he published the short-lived Arkansas Republican newspaper. Blackburn served in the United States House of Representatives and the Louisiana State Senate as a Republican; earlier he was a Democratic mayor of Minden, Louisiana, from 1855 to 1856. Blackburn launched the first paper to bear the name Minden Herald."@en }
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- W._Jasper_Blackburn footnotes "Publisher Blackburn switched his party affiliation to Republican because he opposed slavery and the secession of the Confederate States of America. Blackburn was spared conviction — and automatic execution — by a one-vote margin of charges that he printed counterfeit Confederate currency. After the return of Democratic Redeemer government in Louisiana in 1878, Blackburn soon returned to his native Arkansas, where he published the short-lived Arkansas Republican newspaper. Blackburn served in the United States House of Representatives and the Louisiana State Senate as a Republican; earlier he was a Democratic mayor of Minden, Louisiana, from 1855 to 1856. Blackburn launched the first paper to bear the name Minden Herald.".