The Charleston Daily News (Charleston, S.C.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,641 issues from 1865 to 1873, published in Charleston, South Carolina, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Charleston Daily News (1865-73) was one of the first Southern newspapers to successfully meet the public demand for information that arose during and after the Civil War. Ostensibly centered on events in the Lowcountry region of South Carolina, the Daily News was, in fact, a paper with a much broader focus.
South Carolinians George R. Cathcart and James W. McMillan and New York native Manfred Morton founded the Daily News; the first issue appeared on Monday, August 14, 1865. The publishers, however, encountered a series of obstacles, from disagreements between editor Cathcart (who supported the Federal government’s Reconstruction efforts) and his partners to competition from the Charleston Daily Courier and the Charleston Mercury for advertisers. In October 1867, Bartholomew R. Riordan and Francis Warrington Dawson bought a third of the paper for $6,000 from its proprietor, Benjamin Wood, who also published the Daily News in New York City. A Virginia native, Riordan had previously worked for the New Orleans Daily Delta. Dawson, an Englishman, had worked for the Daily Richmond Examiner, Richmond Daily Dispatch, and Charleston Mercury.
Their experience in the newspaper business notwithstanding, Dawson and Riordan faced hurdles in transforming the Daily News into a successful enterprise. Its debts totaled almost $20,000, and its presses were ancient. They expanded the paper’s coverage of international, national, and statewide events, strengthened its editorial content,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Charleston, South 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