[CIVIL WAR] [PRESS FREEDOM] THE CRISIS NEWSPAPER

Samuel Medary

Published by Columbus, Ohio, 1863

About this Item

20.5"x13.5"x1.75" brown cloth binding of one full year of weekly editions of The Crisis, a political newspaper published during the Civil War in Columbus, Ohio. Each issue is 4 pages front and back, printed in 5 columns. Issue 2 is repeated. Title written on front and spine in black marker. Light wear, loose leaves, some discoloration. Last leaf - index to V.2 - has loss affecting some text. Good+~~Samuel Medary, a controversial journalist and political activist known as a Peace Democrat or Copperhead, published The Crisis from 1861-1864. Believers in States Rights, Copperheads like Medary vilified Lincoln, despised abolitionists, and disparaged non-white Americans. The Crisis espoused tradition over change and couched Medary s unpopular political opinions in a desire for peace with the South. His views opposing the Union war effort and encouraging resistance to Lincoln s policies angered many in the North. The newspaper officers were ransacked and Medary was charged with conspiracy, but the paper was never shut down by he or the government. ~~Of note is Medary s January 7, 1863 response to the Emancipation Proclamation being enacted on the first of the year, in which he declares Lincoln to be a "dictator" and "usurper". The language in this and other articles is reminiscent of the pervasive modern political hate-speech. While his politics have gotten no less controversial with time, his tenacious and oppositional publication contributed to ideas about American freedom of the press that remain valuable.~~~.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: [CIVIL WAR] [PRESS FREEDOM] THE CRISIS NEWSPAPER
• Publisher: Columbus, Ohio
• Publication Date: 1863
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