Litchfield Enquirer (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,628 issues from 1829 to 1881, published in Litchfield, Connecticut, digitised for Chronicling America.
Stephen Stanford Smith founded The Litchfield County Post, which was published weekly in the town of Litchfield, CT in 1826. This was just as the “Era of Good Feelings” was beginning to dissolve into the more contentious political scene that characterized the years of Jacksonian Democracy. As a paper with a statewide audience and a vigorous editorial practice, The Litchfield County Post was clearly at the center of discussions about the fate of Republicanism and the merits of its various wings. The fact that Smith represented the most conservative wing of the Republicans can be gleaned from various letters to the editor, accusing The Litchfield County Post of federalism. Frequent editorial spats with John M. Niles of The Hartford Times, a publication that advanced from anti-federalism to support for the Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson, illuminate the politics of this period on both a state and national level.
In December 1828, D.C. McClarey purchased the paper from Smith, and then sold it a month later to Henry Adams, who changed the paper’s name to the Litchfield Enquirer. Adams ran the paper until his sudden death in 1842, after which his brother, Charles Adams, took over. In 1845, Payne Kenyon Kilbourne became owner and editor of the Litchfield Enquirer; he was pro-temperance, a member of the Whig Party and often a delegate to Whig nominating conventions. The columns of the paper during Kilbourne’s tenure (1845-1853) have stories about the growth of the western…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Litchfield, Connecticut, 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