New Hampshire Farmer and Weekly Union (Manchester, N.H.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
897 issues from 1901 to 1918, published in Manchester, New Hampshire, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Manchester Weekly Union was a prominent Manchester newspaper in the latter half of the nineteenth century, growing from its roots as an organ for the Democratic Party in Hillsborough County to having nearly statewide readership. The paper was conceived at a December 1850 meeting of Manchester Democrats, who felt that there was no adequate party paper. The existing Manchester Democrat had become increasingly aligned with the abolitionist Free-Soil Party. A committee of concerned Manchester Democrats resolved to establish a new paper, employing William H. Gilmore (1823-1878) as publisher. The first issue of the Union Democrat was printed on January 24, 1851, with its first editorial declaring “We shall not forget that we are strong, happy and prosperous only as we form a part of this great confederacy of States.” By February, Gilmore had brought on James M. Campbell (1817-1883), who served as editor and remained affiliated with the paper for nearly 25 years.
For its first 10 years, the Union was a strong advocate for the Democratic cause, which at that time included anti-abolitionism and sympathy for southern slave states, though as war loomed in the late 1850s, the paper’s editorials began to moderate. Gilmore departed the paper in 1855, and in 1861, the title changed to the Weekly Union. Campbell was joined by Walter Harriman (1817-1884), a local politician, and later military officer and New Hampshire governor. In his introductory editorial, Harriman eschewed the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Manchester, New Hampshire, 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