The Lambertville Record (Lambertville, N.J.)
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2,767 issues from 1872 to 1926, published in Lambertville, New Jersey, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Lambertville Record was started on September 24, 1872 by Clark Pierson. The paper was Republican in politics, though as Pierson explained in his first editorial, it was not going to blindly follow party politics but act on principle and truth. Pierson had been a Democrat prior to the Civil War. A crusader, Pierson saw the time as presenting great moral questions, and he intended to throw his weight behind the prevention of vice and wrongdoing. A weekly four-page newspaper originally published on Tuesdays, the newspaper began to be published Wednesdays in December of 1872.
In the aftermath of the Civil War, questions of how the South should be reconciled to the Union still dominated the newspaper and elections. Just prior to the general election of 1872, Pierson made the case for voting Republican rather than Democrat “to lift that party to power is to establish a reign of terror among loyal whites and blacks of the South; and it is to bring to the front the unrepentant rebel element, with all their false notions of ‘states rights'” (October 29, 1872). As Civil War issues eventually receded, the paper focused increasingly on local and state matters.
Clark Pierson was born in Lambertville in 1836. Leaving school at an early age, he worked in the printing office of Lambertville’s Telegraph and Hunterdon and Bucks Counties Advertiser. In 1858, he purchased the People’s Beacon (Lambertville, N.J.) newspaper. He published and edited the Beacon until 1869 when he sold his…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Lambertville, New Jersey, 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