New Orleans Republican (New Orleans, La)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,517 issues from 1867 to 1878, published in New Orleans, Louisiana, digitised for Chronicling America.
In its final issue, the editors of the New Orleans Republican looked back on the newspaper’s 11-year history. Founded in 1867, two years after the end of the Civil War, its purpose had been “to organize the patriotic sentiment of [Louisiana] into harmonious relations with the Federal government, to reconcile the defeated portion of our population to the changes in institutions and political principles produced by the war, and to readjust in accordance with those changes the relations between the white and colored races in the State-in other words, to develop and express the then latent Republicanism of this community.” The editors admitted that they had largely failed in their mission and that though the paper had claimed to have the largest circulation of any Republican newspaper in the South, those who read it risked “social and business ostracism.”
Early on, Generals Benjamin Butler and Nathaniel Banks, commanders of Federal forces in New Orleans during Reconstruction, had published a letter vouching for the loyalty of the paper’s owner, S. L. Brown & Company. The Republican eventually became one of three newspapers controlled by Michael Hahn. Born in Germany but raised and educated in Louisiana, Hahn had served as governor of Union-occupied Louisiana in 1864-65 and was elected to the U. S. Senate in 1865 but never took office because of factional struggles within the Republican Party and delays in Louisiana being readmitted to the Union. The paper continued to support…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress