Daily National Intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
17,526 issues from 1813 to 1870, published in Washington, District Of Columbia, digitised for Chronicling America.
The National Intelligencer, & Washington Advertiser began as a tri-weekly newspaper in the new city of Washington, D.C., on October 31, 1800. It claimed to be the “first Paper printed in Washington” and is remembered for its extensive coverage of the congressional debates during the early years of the republic.
Thomas Jefferson, then vice president and a candidate in the presidential election of 1800, persuaded Samuel Harrison Smith, publisher of Philadelphia’s Universal Gazette, to launch a paper in Washington. In this era of aggressive partisan politics, most newspapers took a strong political position. The National Intelligencer had a strong attachment to the Republicans, and to Jefferson in particular. However, Smith generally avoided the scathing personal attacks common in other newspapers such as the Federalist Gazette of the United States and the Republican Aurora.
Jefferson never wrote for the National Intelligencer himself, but he encouraged cabinet members to submit letters and articles. His support continued after he was elected president, as the National Intelligencer was provided with official notices, government proclamations, and government advertising. Smith benefited as well from information obtained through his personal relationship with the president. The National Intelligencer became the official newspaper of the Republican government, and Jefferson referred to it as the only reliable source of information regarding government actions and positions.…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Washington, District Of Columbia, 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