Lynchburg Virginian (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,115 issues from 1829 to 1852, published in Lynchburg, Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
Lynchburg had already established itself as fertile ground for newspapers by 1822, when the consolidation of The Lynchburg Press and the Gazette created the semi-weekly The Virginian. The paper operated under the direction of John Hampden Pleasants and Joseph Butler until the two moved to Richmond in 1824 to start the Constitutional Whig. Editor Richard Toler next took the reins, overseeing the paper’s name change in 1829 to the Lynchburg Virginian and adding the tagline “The Rights of the States, and the Union of the States” to the nameplate in June 1835. Eventually he, too, moved to Richmond to edit the Whig. A short editorial stint by a son of one of the publishers ended in October 1850 when he traded the Lynchburg Virginian to Abner W. C. Terry in exchange for the Danville Register, for which Terry had been the first editor.
The Lynchburg Virginian and the Lynchburg Republican (which had the motto, “By faithfully advocating the People’s Rights, we hope to prosper”) had cultivated an antagonistic relationship since the latter’s appearance in 1840.When Terry accused James D. Saunders of breaking a pledge to his district with his vote at Virginia’s constitutional convention of 1851, Saunders submitted a rebuttal to the Republican attacking Terry. Terry’s response in the June 5 Virginian described Saunders’s piece as the “pedantic effusion of our antiquarian hero. It is not only pedantic, but excessively stupid; nor stupid only, but is written in wretched bad taste and in…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Lynchburg, Virginia, 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