The People and New Hampshire Patriot (Concord, N.H.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
258 issues from 1878 to 1883, published in Concord, New Hampshire, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1809 Isaac Hill (1789-1851), a young printer’s apprentice, moved to Concord, NH and purchased the American Patriot, a short-lived weekly established several months before by William Hoit, Jr. With his first issue, Hill changed the paper’s name to the New-Hampshire Patriot, inaugurating what would become one of the most influential Democratic publications in nineteenth-century New England. Hill, a firebrand and later prominent New Hampshire politician, quickly earned infamy by using his earliest issues to decry the politics of New Hampshire’s Federalist governor, Jeremiah Smith (1759-1842). Derided by the Federalist political class, he nonetheless became popular among his Democratic-Republican readership, and within four months had increased his subscriber base substantially.
In this early period, the Patriot, which changed titles in 1819 to the New-Hampshire Patriot & State Gazette, was one of few non-Federalist papers in the state. In 1816, Hill’s anti-Federalist writings resulted in a formal vote of censure by the New Hampshire House of Representatives; Hill was acquitted by a narrow margin. In 1827, as the specter of a second John Quincy Adams term loomed, Hill used the Patriot to lambast Adams and the formation of the National Bank. Consequently, New Hampshire’s federalist Secretary of State stripped Hill of his status as public printer, assigning it instead to the New-Hampshire Journal, a competitor run by Hill’s brother-in-law. Already involved in state politics,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Concord, New Hampshire, 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