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Early Jeffersonian Newspapers from Boston and Washington City (Lot of 2) [116899]

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Early  Jeffersonian Newspapers from Boston and Washington City  (Lot of 2) [116899]
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1) Thursday, June 15, 1809 Independent Chronicle Volume XLI (41) Number 2937. Boston, Massachusetts Printed by Adams, Rhodes & Co. Publishers of the Laws of the United States.
The Independent Chronicle originated in 1768 as The Essex Gazette in Salem, and The New-England Chronicle in Cambridge, before settling in 1776 in Boston as The Independent Chronicle. Publishers included Edward E. Powars, Nathaniel Willis, and Adams & Rhoades; and for some time it operated from offices on Court Street formerly occupied by James Franklin. The highly political newspaper was considered one of the principal republican papers in the state. After 1840 the paper continued as the Boston Semi-weekly Advertiser published by Nathan Hale. This copy is signed on the top of the first page by E Smith, possibly Elias Smith from Salem, a man known for the rise of religious journalism in the early Republic. Nathan O. Hatch refers to Elias Smith in his book, The Democratization of American Christianity, as "...a central figure in the reform movement..." and states, "There were few characters in Jeffersonian America more inherently interesting than Elias Smith, a man of egalitarian passion and unremitting energy...." who ..."fell under the influence of radical Jeffersonian Publicist, Benjamin Austin Jr.". He goes on to reference how Smith began to translate the sovereignty of the people to the sphere of religion and quotes Elias Smith's 1809 declaration, "Let us be Republicans indeed!". In his book, Republic of Righteousness: The Public Christianity of the Post-Revolutionary New England Clergy, Jonathan D Sassi references "...Benjamin Austin's Independent Chronicle, a Boston newspaper of Jeffersonian bent, politicized two ordinary men, William Manning and Elias Smith..." In the book the Stone-Campbell Movement: An International Religious Tradition, edited by Michael W. Casey, Douglas Allen Foster, Elias Smith is describes for his Republican fervor as gleaned from his numerous political letters published in the Independent Chronicle. Because of this and additional research, we believe that the autograph on the top of this newspaper belongs to Elias Smith.

2) Friday, July 27th, 1810 National Intelligencer Washington Advertiser, Volume X (10) No. 1518, Washington City, Printed by Samuel Harrison Smith, Pennsylvania Avenue. Topics in this paper include U.S. War Ships, Emperor Napoleon's remarks on the U.S. ban on French shipping, and slave advertisements. Publisher, Samuel Harrison Smith was a close friend, confidant and counselor Thomas Jefferson. He founded the National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser at Washington in 1800, which dominated the news circuit in the Capital. In 1801 he published Jefferson's Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States". In 1813, Smith was appointed Commissioner of the Revenue for the United States Treasury Department by President Madison and in 1814 he was appointed as Secretary of the Treasury, ad interim. Between 1809 and 1835, Smith also served as the President of Bank of Washington and then the U.S. Bank until it was abolished.

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