The Texas Republican (Marshall, Tex.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
939 issues from 1849 to 1869, published in Marshall, Texas, digitised for Chronicling America.
Harrison County, located in northeastern Texas along the Louisiana border, became a major regional hub for cotton during the antebellum era. Its town of Marshall was the first in Texas to have a telegraph; by the 1850s the local newspapers, including the Harrison Flag, the Star State Patriot, and the Texas Republican, had a telegraph link to New Orleans, which gave them quick access to national news. Consequently, Harrison County papers became very influential media outlets west of the Mississippi River before and during the Civil War.
By the 1850s, the county’s dependence on cotton was apparent, as was its dependence on slavery. In 1849 the Texas Republican, an influential, pro-southern newspaper established by Robert W. Loughery, was an adamant supporter of slave-owning rights, and eventually of secession. The Republican was published every Friday; subscriptions sold at $3.00, with four pages printed for most issues. Circulation extended outside Harrison County to major urban settlements in the region, including Shreveport and Mansfield in Louisiana and Jefferson and Tyler in Texas.
Following the victory of President-elect Abraham Lincoln, the Texas Republican expressed the fear that “The South is engaged in a fearful struggle for her right, and her equality and she must maintain her position, or she is lost forever.” Texas was the seventh of eleven southern states to secede from the Union, forming the Confederacy. Although all of the Confederacy witnessed battle, Texas…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Marshall, Texas, 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