Semi-Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,175 issues from 1853 to 1865, published in Raleigh, North Carolina, digitised for Chronicling America.
New York native Philo White (1796-1883) launched the North-Carolina Standard, a paper aligned with the Democratic Party, in Raleigh, North Carolina, in November 1834. In 1836, White sold the paper to Thomas Loring. Despite Loring’s efforts to counterbalance the influence of the Whig Party throughout the state, Democrats blamed Loring for their party’s waning influence. Loring’s impending retirement in 1843 prompted Democrats to seek out young William W. Holden (1818-1892) in an effort to persuade him to take the reins of the faltering Standard. A onetime Whig, Holden had become disillusioned with the party in the 1840s. Holden marketed the Standard to like-minded former Whigs and waged a scathing campaign against Whig party members in its columns.
Under Holden’s careful stewardship, the once struggling Standard became the most influential Democratic paper in the North Carolina. Subscriptions nearly doubled during Holden’s first two years as editor. Holden made several improvements to the paper, including installing a steam-powered press, one of the first in the state, which he nicknamed “Little Giant” in honor of Stephen A. Douglas, an Illinois senator. Holden emphatically supported states’ rights and the growing secession movement. However, with the threat of real disunion looming by 1860, he began working to prevent North Carolina from breaking with the Union. His editorials reflect his evolving political ideology.
Although Holden had reluctantly thrown his support…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Raleigh, North Carolina, 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