1854 antique THE CITIZEN NEWSPAPER ny JOHN MITCHEL FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW COTTON For Sale

1854 antique THE CITIZEN NEWSPAPER ny JOHN MITCHEL FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW COTTON
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Original August 5, 1854 issue of The Citizen, the Irish-American newspaper founded and edited by famed Irish nationalist John Mitchel. Large newspaper measuring approximately 15 x 11 inches, complete with 14 pages. This issue is packed with editorial commentary, national news, international affairs, and political reporting during one of the most turbulent periods leading into the American Civil War.

Among the more notable contents are:

• Front-page installment of John Mitchel\'s \"Jail Journal.\"
• Editorial: \"The Holy War\" concerning the Crimean War.
• Editorial: \"What Can the Irish Do?\"
• Destruction of Greytown and President\'s message.
• Lengthy article on the Fugitive Slave Law and the Wisconsin Supreme Court controversy.
• Article titled \"Free Negroes and Slaves Contrasted by a Returned Fugitive.\"
• Discussion of Know Nothing bishops and priests and anti-immigrant politics.
• Kansas Territory report describing settlement, immigration, pioneer life, Native American tribes, and prospects for western expansion.
• Article on Hole-in-the-Day and Chippewa/Sioux tensions.
• Extensive Crimean War coverage with reports from Russia, Turkey, Britain and France.
• European political news including the Spanish Revolution, France, Ireland, and Great Britain.
• Emigrant Passenger Ships mortality statistics and immigrant health aboard Atlantic crossings.
• Falsely Packed Cotton court decision involving fraudulent cotton bales.
• Treasury investigation into deaths aboard immigrant vessels.
• Congress reports from Washington.
• Growth of Dubuque, Iowa and western development.
• Railroad accidents and transportation news.
• Canada currency reform.
• Numerous editorials, correspondence, literature, shipping news, business notices, and period advertising.

A particularly desirable issue from John Mitchel\'s influential newspaper, published during the explosive pre-Civil War era and reflecting strong Irish nationalist and contemporary political viewpoints. Mitchel founded The Citizen after his exile from Ireland, and the paper became one of the best-known Irish-American political newspapers of the 1850s.

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Mitchel escaped from exile in 1853 and emigrated to the United States, where he settled in New York City. In January 1854, he founded and edited The Citizen, the newspaper offered here. Through its pages he wrote extensively on Irish nationalism, American politics, immigration, and current events.

Although celebrated by many Irish nationalists for his opposition to British rule, Mitchel remains a highly controversial historical figure because he openly supported slavery in the United States and strongly opposed the American abolitionist movement. His editorials defending slavery brought him into public disputes with leading abolitionists, including Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Those exchanges, along with Mitchel\'s outspoken political commentary, make issues of The Citizen historically important primary-source documents reflecting the intense political and sectional debates of the years immediately preceding the American Civil War.

Authentic period piece related to family, historyor local heritage - well-suited for historical collections, genealogical /genealogy research, or museum acquisition.Vintage or Antique.

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