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Newspaper New England Review (Hartford, Conn.) 1834-1836 New England review and advertiser

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About New England Review (Hartford, Conn.) 1834-1836

Published by George D. Prentice beginning in 1828, the New-England Weekly Review covered Connecticut and national politics from a Democratic, and later Whig, perspective. Published weekly on Monday, the Review published an average 4 pages per issue, and annual subscriptions cost $2 per year. It changed titles in 1834 to New England Review, then the Review and Telegraph in 1836, and back to the New England Weekly Review in 1839.

Prentice served as editor from 1828–1830, when he relocated to Kentucky to write the Biography of Henry Clay (1831) and founded the Louisville Daily Journal. Prentice’s incendiary editorials for the Daily Journal contributed to anti-immigrant sentiment in Louisville, and because of the paper’s wide audience and influence, contributed to the Bloody Monday riots following the 1855 gubernatorial election in Kentucky. The Bloody Monday riots took place in Louisville on August 6, 1855, and consisted of Protestant mobs attacking German and Irish neighborhoods as a result of the contentious political rivalry between Democrats and Know-Nothings at the time.

In July 1830, the influential poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier became editor of the Review, in part due to his outspoken criticism of Andrew Jackson and Jacksonism, and in part due to Prentice’s esteem for his writing. In Whittier’s first issue as editor, July 19, 1830, he declared that the paper would take an unflinchingly critical perspective on the Jackson administration, writing, “[…] we are disposed to do the thing which is right—to eschew Jacksonism as we would a pestilence and to deal with those who are the victims of its baleful influence ‘more in sorrow than in anger.’” Whittier’s poetry and essays were prominently featured on the front page of the newspaper while he was editor.

The September 7, 1839, issue goes into great detail describing the events that took place on La Amistad and the ensuing investigation. La Amistad was a ship that became famous after a slave revolt by Mende captives in July 1839. The ship, originally bound for Cuba, was seized off the coast of Long Island, New York before the captives were incarcerated in New Haven. Much of the ensuing trial took place in that city. The Amistad Memorial was erected in 1998 in New Haven to recognize the events of the Amistad Uprising, and a replica of the original ship was completed in 2000 in Mystic Seaport. It can be visited today at a port in New Haven.

In issues from the early 1840s, the Review repeatedly boasted “a larger circulation than any other paper in this city or in the State.” In addition to its strong Whig perspective on politics, the paper included local news, morality stories, poetry, and advertisements for local goods.

Provided By: Connecticut State Library, Hartford, CT

About this Newspaper

Title

  • New England Review (Hartford, Conn.) 1834-1836

Other Title

  • New England review and advertiser

Dates of Publication

  • 1834-1836

Created / Published

  • Hartford, Conn. : [publisher not identified]

Headings

  • -  Hartford (Conn.)--Newspapers
  • -  Hartford County (Conn.)--Newspapers
  • -  Connecticut--Hartford
  • -  Connecticut--Hartford County
  • -  United States--Connecticut--Hartford--Hartford

Genre

  • Newspapers

Notes

  • -  Weekly
  • -  Vol. 7, no. 329 (June 30, 1834)-v. 8, no. 414 (Feb. 13, 1836).
  • -  Published by: Wm. G. Comstock, Nov. 17, 1834-
  • -  "Whig."
  • -  Also issued on microfilm from the Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service.
  • -  Review and telegraph (DLC)sn 84023070 (OCoLC)10764256

Medium

  • volumes : illustrations (chiefly advertisements) ; 62 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Newspaper

Library of Congress Control Number

  • sn84023072

OCLC Number

  • 10762000

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New England Review Hartford, Conn. -1836. (Hartford, CT), Jan. 1 1834. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/sn84023072/.

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(1834, January 1) New England Review Hartford, Conn. -1836. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/sn84023072/.

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New England Review Hartford, Conn. -1836. (Hartford, CT) 1 Jan. 1834. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, aj.sunback.homes/item/sn84023072/.