Palladium of Virginia and the Pacific Monitor (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
145 issues from 1823 to 1830, published in Lewisburg, West Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
The United States was part of a booming market revolution in the 1820s, a move towards a cash economy, motivated by profit, rather than subsistence. Democratic-Republican and future Whig politician Henry Clay championed the American System, a federal policy based on the market economy. The American System encouraged different regions of the country to produce specific commodities for a national market connected by roads, railways, and canals. Editors and publishers printed information pertinent to the market and the modes of transportation that facilitated it in their local newspapers. One such printer was Joseph Cunningham Waggoner. He introduced the people of Lewisburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) to Greenbrier County’s first newspaper on November 7, 1823: the Palladium of Virginia and the Pacific Monitor. Waggoner’s editor, Joseph F. Caldwell, ensured the Palladium would enjoy state-wide popularity.
Caldwell filled the Palladium with articles documenting recent developments in state, local, and national politics, as well as international affairs. Reports from the St. Petersburg Journal appeared next to advice columns about grape cultivation and grafting cherry trees (July 4, 1829). Caldwell printed poems on the fourth page of every issue and usually included other works of literary miscellany. Amidst advertisements for medicine and millinery, Caldwell seldom missed an opportunity to advertise his own business. In addition to selling “a tract of good Land 32 miles west…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Lewisburg, West Virginia, 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