The Daily Cincinnati Republican, and Commercial Register (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,293 issues from 1833 to 1837, published in Cincinnati, Ohio, digitised for Chronicling America.
This newspaper series began in 1823 as the Cincinnati National Republican and Ohio Political Register. Its four-page issues were published twice per week, typically on Tuesdays and Fridays. A weekly edition with the same title was published concurrently. In the semiweekly’s inaugural issue, it outlined the meaning behind its title. “National” expressed the publishers’ “devotion to the principles of the Federal Constitution,” while “Ohio Political Register” reflected their desire to “record every political event connected with the general policy of the nation.” In summary, this newspaper was founded with intent to focus on the state and national politics of the day, generally supporting Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party. However, it also featured a diverse mix of news, anecdotes, and stories from around the world, and, on its latter pages, various local bulletins, bounties for freedom seekers, commercial advertisements, and poetry, making it as much a general newspaper as a political one. Beginning in January 1831, it became a daily paper (excluding Sundays) and received an updated title: the National Republican and Cincinnati Daily Mercantile Advertiser. The weekly edition also received a new name, the Cincinnati National Republican, and Ohio Political and Commercial Register.
More changes came in 1833 via sale to a new set of publishers, who re-titled it the Daily Cincinnati Republican, and Commercial Register (the weekly version was titled similarly). In the issue…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Cincinnati, Ohio, 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