Columbian Centinel

Columbian Centinel
Columbian Centinel
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Type Semi-weekly newspaper
Founded June 16, 1790
Language English
Ceased publication May 23, 1840
Headquarters Boston, Massachusetts  United States

The Columbian Centinel (1790-1840) was a Boston, Massachusetts, newspaper established by Benjamin Russell. It continued its predecessor, the Massachusetts Centinel and the Republican Journal, which Russell and partner William Warden had first issued on March 24, 1784.[1] The paper was "the most influential and enterprising paper in Massachusetts after the Revolution."[2] In the Federalist Era, it was aligned with Federalist sentiment. Until ca.1800, the Centinel's circulation was the largest in Boston. Its closest competitor was the anti-Federalist Independent Chronicle ("the compliments that were frequently exchanged by these journalistic adversaries were more forcible than polite").[3]

Russell "can be justly characterized as the Horace Greeley of his time."[4] In 1828 Russell sold the Centinel to Joseph T. Adams and Thomas Hudson, who continued publishing it.[5] In 1840, the Centinel merged with a number of other Boston papers—the Independent Chronicle & Boston Patriot, the Boston Commercial Gazette, and the New-England Palladium -- to form the Boston Semi-weekly Advertiser[6], which eventually became the Boston Herald.

36th anniversary ode, of the carriers of the Columbian Centinel, respectfully dedicated to their patrons with all the felicitations of this season of good wishes. 1820

Varying Titles

  • The Massachusetts Centinel: and the Republican Journal. Mar. 24-Oct. 13, 1784.
  • The Massachusetts Centinel. Oct. 16, 1784-June 12, 1790.
  • Columbian Centinel. June 16, 1790-Oct. 2, 1799.
  • Columbian Centinel & Massachusetts Federalist. Oct. 5, 1799-July 2, 1800.
  • Columbian Centinel. Massachusetts Federalist. July 5-Dec. 31, 1800.
  • Columbian Centinel. Sept. 5, 1804-May 23, 1840.

References

  1. ^ http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/18th/182.html
  2. ^ Frederic Hudson. Journalism in the United States from 1690 to 1872. 1873; p.147.
  3. ^ Boston newspapers 100 years ago. Boston Daily Globe, Dec 27, 1903; p.27.
  4. ^ American press founded at Boston in April, 1704; spans 200 years. Boston Daily Globe, Apr 18, 1904; p.5.
  5. ^ Joseph Tinker Buckingham. Specimens of Newspaper Literature. 1852; p.99.
  6. ^ http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83021192

Further reading

  • A free, uninfluenced news-paper. Printing-office, Marlborough-Street, Boston, March 11, 1784. To the publick. ... Proposals for publishing, every Wednesday and Saturday, a free, uninfluenced news-paper, to be entitled, the Massachusetts centinel... [Boston : Printed by Warden and Russell, 1784].
  • Justin Winsor. Memorial history of Boston, vol.3. Boston: Ticknor & Co., 1881. p. 617+ (includes portrait of Benjamin Russell on p. 619).

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