Vermont Telegraph (Brandon [Vt.])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
397 issues from 1836 to 1843, published in Brandon, Vermont, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1828, a joint stock company of “benevolent brethren” started the weekly Vermont Telegraph in Brandon to promote the goals of the Vermont Baptist Convention. From 1828 to 1835, the Telegraph was a denominational organ, providing reprints of sermons, essays on religious topics, and reports on revivals, meetings, and missionary activities. Four Baptist ministers served as editors during this period: Ira M. Allen, Nathan Brown, Warham Walker and Willard Kimball. In 1832, the Telegraph printed a notable series of articles by Baptist William Miller in which he laid out the foundation for his theory of a Second Advent. The paper, particularly under Brown and Walker, included editorials and articles calling for the abolition of slavery, reflecting the church’s principle of liberty for all.
At its annual meetings, the Baptist Convention supported resolutions recognizing the importance of the Telegraph and encouraging Baptists and others to subscribe. In 1828, the Convention anticipated that profits realized from the paper would support its activities, but by 1833 a special committee concluded that money was needed to ensure the paper’s future. Orson S. Murray, a Baptist and an antislavery activist, acquired a majority of the Telegraph’s stock in 1835. As a traveling agent first for the New England Anti-Slavery Society and later for the Vermont Anti-Slavery Society, Murray had reached many Vermonters through lectures and letters to the press. As the publisher and editor of the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Brandon, Vermont, 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