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g 1 By TRUE MACKEY during the early part of the war will pages. Correspondence by mail still 1 ‘ 1
. 1 It is said that the nomination of give the reader an idea of Mr. Bowles’ existed, but was accepted only with ’ 3 .. ‘3 1
2; Abraham Lincoln was due in part to position: “There are three ways in reluctance, when nothing better could , 1 1
s the influence of Horace Greeley, of which a Northern man can give aid be obtained. Even in the fifties, New , ‘1 -, = 1
s 1 The New York Tribune. His nomina- and comfort to the traitors who are York papers, maintained regular cor- . 5. ;
e 5 tion was a great surprise to the Demo- making war on the Union. One is by respondents in Washington and could . , ,1 ‘
e cratic journals of the North. joining them personally and helping depend for news frbm the rest of the 3 1 1.
e “ Lee, in his “History of Journalism them to fight their battles. Another is country for the most part on brief 1 ‘ ‘;
. in the United States," tells us that by remaining at home and stealthily telegrams to the Associated Press, sup- . j :1 _ 1
E; 1 “amazed at the defeat of Seward, who sending them arms and munitions of plemented by details from the local ‘ 1
v was the logical candidate, they did war. And still another is affording papers when these arrived by mail, 1 1 1
i all they could to be-little the ability them moral support by assuring them and occasionally by letters from cor- 11 . .
_ of Lincoln, whom they repeatedly re- that the rebellion cannot be put down respondents who as ikely as not were ' 1 1 . 1
f ferred to in their campaign attacks by force and by advocation of conces— volunteers. But by 1860 every New . ' . 1
t as ‘Old Uncle Abe‘.” sions to the traitors, or consent to the York newspaper that wanted to de- ‘ . 1 g 1 |
, On the other hand, the Republican dissolution of the Union, if they cannot serve that name had to maintain a 1 1 j l 1
j . newspapers called him “a. man of the be coaxed back by concession and large stafl? of its own correspondents in ‘ 1 " 1 1
people," and honest Abe." After Lin- compromise.” the southern states. Thanks to their 1, ‘ ' 1
3 wins election the conservative papers The New York Times, which pub- exertions the North knew pretty well 31 , _i 1
3 supported him and said that only revo- lished many columns of war news dur- the trend of Southern thought during ' 1 ‘ ; . 1
- lution would give grounds of resistence ing the period, gives a good index to the period; and the South might have 1 - 1 1 . . ‘
E to his authority. conditions as well as its own stance been better ofl if its knowledge of the . t1 1 1 ‘1 ‘1 1
3 / The history of a neWSpaper in a in regard to the slavery question. Ray- North had been as extensive. . .‘l 11 l
i great war is the history of the war mond was entirely in sympathy With The work Of these correspondents ‘ 1 1.1
, 1 itself with its political, social and eco- the moderate attitude on slavery. He involved a good deal of both difficulty ‘. i .‘ ,1‘
i nomic developments as well as its mili— felt that slavery in the South, though and danger. When secession came to . 1 1 1 "v. 1
tary triumphs and disasters. The files objectionable on moral and political be a fact and civil war was just around ‘ 1 . . ._ ,1
at the Springfield Republican from grounds, was a southern question; the the corner, Northerners in the South 1 , 1
: 1 1861 to 1865 reflect the growing pur- great issue of the day was not slavery were under suspicion. A number of 1 111 f
; ' pose and determination of the North, but the slave power in politics, and Northern correspondents had narrow ‘ 1 1 1
; . first to preserve the Union, and then the struggle with that power was in- escapes from lynching. 11 11" g 1
. ' to free the slaves. They reflect the evitable. When the war actually began these , 1‘ 1 331 .
f economic changes caused by the rising Although, The Times supozted Sew- men who knew the South for the most 1 1 . 11 L1 1
l 1 prices 0f raw materials essential to ard in the campaign of 1860, it gave part became correspondents with the 1‘ , .11 :!1 1
f‘ industry in general and to newspaper Lincoln much attention and was en- armies. Raymond, with some assis- ' 1 1 1.111 2' 1
. 1 production in particular; and they re- tirely fair. When the secessionists be- tance from the Times Washington .1 ‘. 1 | ‘
, flect journalistic progress and increas— gan to put theory into practice Ray— bureau, covered the first battle of Bull 1 1 1' .r 1'.
1 1 ed circulation. Careful scrutiny of the mond wrote, “We shall stand on the Run by himself. Interesting stories : i l 1
. 9 must important newspapers during the Constitution which our fathers made. are told of correspondents who snoop— .3 l 1
f , Civil War Period will reflect practical— We shall make an effort to preserve ed around generals’ headquarters and .1 1 11 ’
: 1 ly the same trends in the journalistic the old one and shall not make a new were discovered in the act of taking 5 1 311 4 1
: .. world. one, nor shall we permit any human notes in the course of discussion of 1. 1| '. ,
, r" The war stimulated the reading of power to destroy the old one... We plans for the next day’s battle. ‘; .1 -‘ .
, , newspapers throughout the country. seek no war—we shall wage no war Not only did the war cause a de- .1 1 1 ;
_ But to Springfield, Massachusetts, it except in defense of the Constitution mand for more news but it increased 1 . l
1 also brought a relatively large increase and against its foes. But we have the expense of newspaper production. . l?
I in population. Here was made the a- country and a constitutional govern- There was also an increase in circula- ‘ -.
I 1 weapons with which the war was won. ment. We know its worth to us and tion. It caused the New York Times ;1 .1
, The manufacture of the Springfield to mankind, and in case of necessity to start printing a Sunday edition 1‘ 1| , 1
_ . rifle was carried on there. we are ready to test its strength.” which was an important step in UBWS- ‘ 1. E " 1
1 Immediately after Lincoln’s election During the war the Times made an paper WOTk- 1 1 j 1
l the Republican expressed the view that excellent record not only as an organ During the war/ there arose what 3 l 1 ..
r all the Southern states except South of opinion but as a medium of the Was known as the “Copperhead Press.” j ‘ l“ 311
. Carolina would decide against session. news. It spent much money to receive This group of papers favored acced— ,f 1- 1 1
. Bowles said that the state of South true accounts if possible and the result ing to the demands of the South. Even % 1'}; 1 ‘
, , Carolina should be allowed to secede was gratifying and beneficial to the the New York Tribune advocated let- .‘ 1 1 1111‘
1 if she so desired. He said that “A position which it holds in early jour- ting “the erring sisters depart in 1. ‘1 1‘1 1 .
, : Union that must be preserved by force nalism. It might be noted that the peace,” and another New York news- 13 1 g; j
_ . is undesirable.” This was a very dif— Civil War had a tremendous efiect on paper, during the first year that Lin- 1; . i A. ‘ ',‘
ferent position from that which his journalism. coln was President, compiled a list of 1 1 ‘1. f1
. paper took a few months later, which For the first time in American his- newspapers in the free states which 1‘ . ‘51.:
j was thereaftei. maintained throughout tory since the invention of the railroad were opposed to what is called the 1‘ : , 111? 1
the war. But when Bowles saw that fand telegraph a situation had arisen “Present Unholy War." According to 11 1 . 1 v. .
‘ the rebellion was imminent he de- {in which the public wanted to know the New York World Lincoln’s election I,“ . j :.
, manded that force should be used. what had happened yesterday rather meant that the Union neither would 3 , I . .
' ' All during the Civil War the Spring- than some man’s opinion on what had be restored nor would” slavery be ab'ol- . 1 , .
field Republican was strongly in sup- happened last week. The latter type ished. Sentiment of other newspapers 1 1 1
port of Lincoln, and Mr. Bowles did bvas, and still is, European. was for the South to persevere and ‘ ,1:
not wait until after the President had Before hostilities had begun papers for the North to be condemned for ‘ 1 ‘ _i f
been assassinated to give him praise. which previously had printed not more using arms to force states to remain , 1 1
‘ The following excerpt from an edi- than two or three columns of telegraph in the Union. The “Copperhead" pa- 1 1 1." ,1
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; J‘“ t‘, ‘ position to the issuance of treasury press invented by Hoe which made it sion of the office, stopped the press, ,1
134141.4‘ JJ notes. One “Copperhead" editor, Wil- expensive to print cartoons. The most destroyed the newspapers which had
J J4i1[ J bur D. Storey. of the Chicago Times, likely explanation, though, is that been printed, placed a guard over the I
‘7; 112Jf:.4 J 1' whose editorials became so bitter that there simply were no good cartoonists establishment, and patrolled the en-
‘1; '15-, ._‘ 1- J time and time again soldiers sent word of the period. tire bIOCk during the remainder 0f the J
’1- 31314:; E 1 that upon their return from the war During the Civil War there was a night.” The immediate response was
{15,111 » they would destroy the "Copperhead noticeable scarcity of paper and other a mass meeting 0f citizens presided by
J‘ ‘ Times," was disliked by the entire printing supplies. This was caused by the mayor, and a telegram from Presi-
J1 Jig} J, North. the reluctance to use material from dent Lincoln rescinding the order of ‘
J' .4; 1. 1‘ ‘Kgg' It is interesting to note the history the North. The paper supply soon General Burnside and directing him
' 34;1"J f of the Memphis Appeal during the became so inadequate that probably to suspend no more papers Without '1
41 _;1‘1,‘Ji 4‘ .4 ‘ Civil War as it was typical of Southern every paper in the South was forced firSt conferring With the War Depart-
431 J’ J ‘J newspapers during the period. In this to reduce its size. Some Southern pa- merit. J
J’ .iJJ’J‘FJ ‘ .1 period it was driven from place to pers abolished headlines, and the D- A- Mohney, editor 0f the Dubuque, ,
41 “3515}; J place and was published away from sheets were printed in very small type Iowa, Herald, was arrested and im- ‘
J J'Ji'éj,§4‘ J , 4 home for three years. This news- and resemble handbills. Many papers prisoned for nearly three months in
J‘J‘iéjzl 4 1; ’ paper was the mouthpiece of the Con- availed themselves of common wrap- Washington, D. C-, for publishing edi-
‘ ,gJJf'iL ‘ federate Army. The first move made ping paper, writing paper, and paper torials against the Government, al-
, .4 Jim! 1 -1,1 by this paper was during the “sea” bags or even the blank side of wall.- though, no official reason for the act
J 11‘1 ‘ fight in front of Memphis when The paper. seemed to be given. One explanation .
JJ. .‘ J Appeal retreated in a box car to Gren- Among those paper sissued on wall- was that it was done to prevent his ‘
“5 J ‘ ade, Mississippi. It next went to Jack- paper were: The Pictorial Democrat, running for Congress against a Re-
1“ ,5 J son, Mississippi, where it appeared as of Alexandria, La; The Daily Citi- publican candidate since he was n0m~
J J 41 an afternoon paper and made its bow zen, of Vicksburg, Miss.; The Courier, mated a few days after his arrest,

J .[J'JfJ J ~‘ J to the public as follows: “Though driv- of Opelousas, La.; The Southern Sen- and the period 01’ his confinement gave

J14 ‘11 ‘ {4 1 en from home, we are not among tinel, Alexandria, Lat; The Courier 00101‘ to this situation, although it did

11E 3J4;§4;j141 ’ strangers." It was shelled out of Jack- St. Martinsville, La.; The Stars and not prove the truth. ’
J1‘J;':§J‘ J 1 son and retreated to Meridian, and Stripes, Thibodaux, La, etc. Early in the CiVil War, on the order 4.
.‘1JJ14JJJ‘11‘J ,3 then to Atlanta, from which it was Scarcity of ink was also a handicap 0f the Secretary, Harper‘s Weekly was 4

‘J JJJJ14J, J 1 shipped to Montgomery, but part of to Southern printers. In one instance suspended because it had printed
‘11‘JJJEJ1."J; J the staff continued to issue extra news that of the Memphis Appeal, resort sketches 0f the Federal works before.

J‘ LJJJE J ' J , slips from a proof-press. Again it was was made to the use of ordinary shoe Yorktown. 1'
‘J ‘1'4IJJ ‘ J found necessary to move on to Ma- blacking. Southern papers of the per- During the Civil War the effort of ‘4
J1 44 [4144 4 , con, Georgia. but stopped at Columbus iod were poorly set up because of poor the Federal Government to suppress

,J J J 4JJ44J ; ; 4, on the way. It finally was returned to ink. the sympathy with the South brought 1
Ji ,‘JJéJ'JJJ ‘ J Memphis in 1865. In the North the daily paper suffer- only criticism against itself and the

41‘: 4‘J‘J‘ J 4 Henry Watterson, famous editor of ed no such difficulties as found in the policy was quickly repudiated. Lin-

J, J‘JJ JJ ‘4 the Louisville Courier-Journal, was South in the matter of securing the cola—saidilnnregardntosthenorder of

H 1 4 editor of the Rebel in which he at- raw product on which to print the General Burnside suspending the Chi~

,1s‘JJi $5.41 '4 1 tacked General Bragg and was forced news. The larger dailies, however, cago ‘Times', now nearly a year 89:0. 1
5:3 “qu J, J 4‘ to discontinue his paper’s publication were forced to carry the additionally I can only say I was embarrassed with J
1J'1'J4JJ‘ J J . for a while. During rits period of heavy burdens of war correspondents. the question between what was due to 1
JiJ 4JJ'»;J J 1 J4 1 . publication the Rebel managed to keep Printing paper increased to thirty the military service on the one hand.

J ‘WJJ .4 , Just a little in advance of the Federal cents a pound. After the war started and the liberty 0f the press on the J
J J‘14'113: ‘ ‘ army, until it was finally forced to the papers on the average increased other.” 4
J14 J i‘. J i ‘ surrender in 1865. the cost of their papers about one cent UniOIl generals did not hesitate to ‘1"
‘1 g, 1 1 When the Union army captured a a month. suppress any newspaper in the South 4
JJ J4.4'i.4J J ‘ town it would probably seize the press- Was there any freedom of the press Whenever they thought such papers

4 , 1, ; es, type and other equipment of value during the Civil War? During the were guilty 0f treason. In New 01"

1,4115, 1 J : and would carry all along with them. Civil War in America while sedition leans. for example, The Bee, The Delta

J4“ 11J‘i‘ 4‘1 ‘11- , Soldiers who could set type were al- was suppressed in high places, criti- and The Crescent were suppressed at

E“:'.1[41': ‘; J lowed to use their time setting the cism was more freely tolerated on the various times. When General Wal- 1'
J ‘. [Jug J J news of Union victories in bold head- part of the rank and file who were lace suspended the Daily Augus, Of 4
J-J‘JJ J J lines. One paper, being in need of presumably without opportunity of Memphis, for publiéhing a “fake” item. '
,1 JJ“3;.J1“‘,‘ : J material, was issued on the blank side making their criticisms effective. S‘ol- about the capture of Cincinnati by

J JJfl, ‘JJ of wallpaper and was eagerly read by diers's newspapers appeared then, as Confederate troops, he allowed it to

1 IJJ‘JJJj' 1J J :1 Union soldiers. they have done during the recent war, continue publication under military

l,- JJJJ‘J'434 !, 1 " Many people considered the editors although most of them were short- supervision.

‘41; 5 J41, J J ‘J during the Civil War to be too meddle- lived and they were printed on presses In the South one peculiarity 01’ the '1
,, ‘4 J 154 4‘41 J some. Cartoonists pictured Greeley, found in captured Southern towns. war period stands out as being singu- J
J ‘ 14 4. Raymond and others as mock generals “These newspapers," says Schlesinger, lar. After South Carolina had seceded ,
J14JJ»~J:4,4, j: .4 4 stirring the pot of discontent and it “frequently assumed an attitude of from the Union, the papers of that .
[3‘ JJ,4 J .4 was thought ."by many that purely criticism and reproof toward superior state published all items from the

[g [j J: 1‘ 1 political and selfish principles were officers that would not have been tol— North under the head of “Foreign In-

J 4JJJ, )4 ‘ back of all the editorials that appear- erated in the late war." telligence.” This practice was follow—

[13, J .5 J ‘ 1 ed in the New York newspapers. The There was a slight degree of punitive ed later by all sucession papers

i‘?‘ ‘J3‘ J1, “1 New York press received more criti- censorship during the war. When throughout the war the most impor-

J: J J,‘4J 1 _; cism and Greeley was the chief recip- General Burnside, July 3, 1863, issued tant news, save the announcement 0!

J5 '4sz J1 f4 3 lent. the order that “on account of repeated a victory or of a defeat, was the long ‘
5 5‘4“,“ 111 ‘3 ’ One characteristic of the Civil War expressions of disloyal and incendiary list of dead or wounded soldiers which

[E JJ J4: ‘,‘1 J Period was the absence of cartoons. sentiments, the publication of the newspapers printed in small type.

“J, [,4 J} This was the loss of the press’s great newspaper known as the Chicago Headlines- were extremely modest and

JgJ. [J 4J {‘4- weapon to supplement the power of “Times" is hereby suppressed? it was usually read in the North, “The Re-

J_4‘1.J "11 1 4 its editorials. Probably the reason followed by the arrival of two com- bellion,” “The Great Rebellion,” “Im- 4
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1 November, 1931 THE KENTUCKY PRESS Page Five ‘ '~‘ ‘1 1‘
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, 1 over two or three columns in width STICK T0 HOMEFOLK men give them? And, on the other 1 1 1 .1111, 1
1 ' and Lincoln’s death only increased the ——-— hand, are they entitled to any business ‘ » ‘1
1 length of the headlines. The Press reprints this editorial from the private citizen may hand them? 1 ‘ 1 1 '
. ’ The most important editorial printed 1the Cynthiana Democrat and recom- A town is constituted of its citizen- 1 1 3 1
1, during the Civil War period was prob- mends that each Kentucky editor run ship and their properties. It we spend ‘ 1 1 1
1 1 ably the one from the pen of Horace the same in his paper. It is assuredly our money to build up foreign com- . 11‘ 1
Greeley. It appeared in the New York worthwhile and to the point. munities, our own must suffer. If we 1 1 1 ‘1 1
Tribune in 1862 under the title, “The (Springfield Sun) contribute to the development of finer _ ‘ 1 1f 1
' ‘ Prayer of Twenty Million.” In it Gree- The Writer is impelled to call at- school systems, more magnificient ”1 11 1
, 1ey, “sorely disappointed and deeply tention of readers of The Sun to the businjess houses, better streets andf 1‘11 111 1
.. pained” at the conduct of the Presi- fact that it pays to stick to and by roads in some other community, how ‘ , 1 1 1
dent, severely criticized Lincoln for not home folks in most everything. Home are we to maintain our town? Whole— 1. ‘ 1111'
1 enforcing the laws of Congress and business men, almost without excep- hearted co-operation on the part of 11 1 1
for not doing enough for the Negro. tion, will give you more courteous at- every citizen in any community is 1‘ ‘ 1
1 This editorial drew from Lincoln :2. tention, better merchandise, and prices necessary if tha‘q community is to 11 1: 1
characteristic reply which tended to more in keeping with quality than one prosper and grow} Without co-opera- 11 1 1 1
change the attitude of many papers may expect or receive from total tion it but a question of time. 11 1 1
of the North. Papers rebuked Gree- strangers. ___—.___—_—— 1 1 11111 1 1
1ey1 This fact was emphasized some GARRISON WINS so“ 1 1‘ 3?
In the West different conditions ex— months ago when a few Of our Citizens — ‘ ' 1 j
Y isted. Here the scarcity of paper was placed an order for a suit of clothes Circuit Judge Charles C. Marshall 11 1 j 1
eSpecially felfh The Rocky Mountain on the two-for—the-price-of-one plan has ruled in favor of R. E. Garrison, ,1 1 11 1
News, Denver, often found itself in the and, unfortunately, made a down pay- editor and publisher of the Anderson 1 - 1 1 11 1 1
same predicament as that of many ment. The cothes have not arrived News, in his suit to compel the ‘ 1 1 1 1
Southern papers. The size of western and the agent 1Wh0 t°0k the order publication of itemized statements 1 1111‘ 1 1
newspapers was considerably reduced failed to leave hIS forwarding address by the Lawrenceburg and Anderson 1 1111 -1 1
’ and mostly military orders and other So much for that. county boards of education. Named 1 £11 1
military news was used to fill the N0t10ng Since a slick-tongued maga- as defendants in Mr .Garrison’s petl- ‘ 1 1 1‘1 11?
1 sheets. The California papers were zine salesman visited Springfield and tion were Charles A. Routt. treasurer 1 1 '
' masters at “boiling down” news. solicited subscriptions as a means Ci of the city board of Education, and 1 . 1‘ 1f 3
Newspaper advertising, not only in securing a. college education Many the Anderson National bank, treasurer 1 11, 1 1
1 the South, but also in the North re- fell for it, paying more than the worth or the county board of education. Mr. 1 11 ‘ 11 1
1 flected the spirit of the great conflict or the magazine to help a. worthy Garrison asked that the defendants 1 111 1 1
1 of the period. Both governments used cause—they believed. Money COUld prepare an itemized, sworn statement 1 11 3’ 1
1 the advertising columns e