The Pulaski Citizen (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,216 issues from 1866 to 1889, published in Pulaski, Tennessee, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Pulaski Citizen has been in continuous publication since 1866. Its origins, however, can be traced back to December 1854, when Abe Watkins and George E. Purvis purchased the Pulaski Gazette and changed its name to the Pulaski Citizen. A year later, Purvis sold his share and moved to Winchester, Tennessee, where he established the Winchester Appeal. In January 1856, Luther W. McCord purchased a share in the Citizen. The following year he bought Watkins’ share and became sole proprietor, and changed the name of the paper to the Independent Citizen. Publication ceased in 1862 when the town was occupied by Union troops. When McCord resumed publication in 1866, the paper’s name reverted to the Pulaski Citizen (and remained so into the 21st century). In his opening editorial, McCord apologized for the delay in getting the paper to press, blaming the “immense amount of labor and expense required to repair and replenish [the type and presses].” McCord reminded readers that in politics “we were not a partizan [sic] before the war, and our friends may rest assured we are much less a partizan [sic] now.” However, the Citizen regularly expressed strong opinions on subjects such as voting rights and temperance: “We will oppose Negro suffrage […] we believe social equality a humbug and an impossibility.” Although disinclined to side with any political party, the Citizen later backed Edmund Cooper, the Conservative Unionist candidate for Congress in 1867, and in the 1868 presidential…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Pulaski, Tennessee, 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