Daily American Organ (Washington, D.C.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
618 issues from 1854 to 1856, published in Washington, District Of Columbia, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Daily American Organ was published in Washington, D.C., by An Association for Native Americans and ran from November 13, 1854 to November 14, 1856. As a platform for the American Party, also referred to as the Know-Nothings, the paper was printed every afternoon Monday through Saturday, and a weekly edition, the Weekly American Organ, was printed every Monday morning. The paper’s slogan, “The perpetuation of American freedom is our object; American rights our motto; and the American Party our cognomen,” appeared underneath the masthead. A prospectus printed in the first issue predicted a new era of patriotism in the United States, one in which the American Party would take on the “manifold evils that have come upon us,” which were due to the “disastrous operation of our laws of naturalization.” The Daily American Organ as a forum for political discussion was important to the formalization of the American Party’s stances during election cycles. Restricting immigration was of primary importance; the party was against allowing immigrants the right to vote or hold public office, and was for instituting a 21-year naturalization period. The American Party reached the height of its popularity in the 1850s.
The editor of the Daily American Organ was Vespasian Ellis, a judge, Chargé d’affaires to Venezuela, and president of the Missouri Native American Association. Ellis was active in political debate, and his writing appeared in other newspapers local and afar. He also served…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Washington, District Of Columbia, 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