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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 16 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 21: Newspapers, 1775-1860 (search)
competitors awoke the beginnings of that rush for the earliest reports which was to become the dominant trait in American journalism. The editor evolved into a new type. As a man of literary skill, or a politician, or a lawyer with a gift for polemical writing, he began to supersede the contributors of essays as the strongest writer on the paper. Much of the best writing, and of the rankest scurrility, be it said, was produced by editors born and trained abroad, like Bache of the Aurora, Cobbett, Cooper, Gales, Cheetham, Callender, Lyon, and Holt. Of the whole number of papers in the country towards the end of the decade, more than one hundred and fifty, at least twenty opposed to the administration were conducted by aliens. The power wielded by these anti-administration editors impressed John Adams, who in 1801 wrote: If we had been blessed with common sense, we should not have been overthrown by Philip Freneau, Duane, Callender, Cooper, and Lyon, or their great patron and prote
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
Confederate state, 320 Clarissa, 396 Clark, Lewis Gaylord, 152, 167 Clark, Willis Gaylord, 152 Clarke, James Freeman, 166, 226 Clarke, Jennie T., 304 Clarke, Joseph H., 56 Clarke, Matthew St. Clair, 119, 120 Clarke, Rebecca, 402 Clarke, Thomas, 286 Clarkson, Thomas, 45 Clay, Henry, 45, 50, 71, 86-88, 90, 93 n., 116, 135 Clemens, S. L., 157, 159, 360, 363, 379, 405, 406 Clemm, Virginia, 58, 58 n. Cleveland plain dealer, the, 158 Clouds in the West, 306 Cobbett, Wm., 181 Cobwebs from an empty Skull, 387 Coercion, 305 Coffin, Charles Carleton, 404 Coffin, Joshua, 44 Cogswell, Joseph G., 111 Cohens vs. Virginia, 74 Coke, Sir, Edward, 77 Coleman, William, 184 Colenbrander, H. T., 146 Coleridge, 65, 66, 197, 213 College of California, 212 Colonial ballads, 311 Columbia, 298 Columbian Centinel, 180 Columbian magazine, the, 114, 161, 368 Columbus, 128, 254 Columbus, 128 Commemoration ode, 252, 256, 279, 303 Commen