The New Orleans Daily Democrat (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.
1,168 issues from 1877 to 1880, published in New Orleans, Louisiana, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1876, Henry J. Hearsey (1810-1900), a well-known Louisiana journalist, was appointed by the state Democratic Party to edit its official organ, the New Orleans Democrat, which by 1877 had become the New Orleans Daily Democrat. As editor, Hearsey contributed to the ending of carpetbag rule in Louisiana and criticized the Louisiana Lottery, a revenue-raising scheme widely regarded as a corrupting influence on state politics. In 1879, one of the Lottery’s supporters, State Treasurer Edward A. Burke (1839-1928), conspired to drive the Democrat into bankruptcy and then take control of it. Hearsey and Burke fought a bloodless duel in January 1880, but the latter retained control of the paper; Hearsey went on to found the Daily States, one of the major New Orleans newspapers of its day.
The Daily Democrat’s focus was on state politics. Under Hearsey’s management, it was the official journal of the city of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana and as such published the proceedings of the state legislature, official government and judicial announcements, and news of elections. Miscellaneous local, national, and international news filled the rest of the four- to eight-page paper, together with market news and advertisements. A regular “amusements” column carried news of plays, operas, concerts, and public balls. The paper carried a small quantity of fiction and poetry.
The Daily Democrat’s title reverted to the New Orleans Democrat in 1880. The following year, Burke purchased…
- 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