The Daily Clarion (Meridian, Miss.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
195 issues from 1863 to 1866, published in Meridian, Mississippi, digitised for Chronicling America.
The 19th-century history of Mississippi’s current state-wide newspaper, the Clarion-Ledger (1941-present), is the story of a succession of powerful and influential white Democratic newspapermen, sometimes also politicians. The paper began in 1837 as the four-page weekly Eastern Clarion (1837-63) in the town of Paulding, located in east-central Mississippi. After 1839, the new owner, Simeon Roe Adams, turned the paper into a regional powerhouse. Three years after Adams death in 1860, proprietors, Asa R. Carter and James J. Shannon moved production to Meridian, a recently established railroad boom town. Two versions of the paper were published: the Daily Clarion (1863-66) which dropped to two pages in 1863-65; and the Weekly Clarion (1863-82). After the Civil War, Shannon moved the Clarion to Jackson where it became the state’s most influential Democratic newspaper.
In addition to state legislative and judiciary news, the Eastern Clarion and its daily and weekly versions covered in great detail the escalating movement for Southern secession and establishment of the Confederate government. During the Civil War (1861-65) the paper included battle reports and news on the county volunteer companies, the Jasper Greys and the Jasper Rifles. Towards the end of the conflict, a January 28, 1865 reprint averred; “. . . We have got to abandon this war, or put Negro soldiers in our army – one or the other.”
In 1866, Clarion owners James J. Shannon and Jones S. Hamilton joined John…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Meridian, Mississippi, 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