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GALLA YOUR-TOLE.
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HAVING mado erient
389
HISTORY OF THE PRESS.
monthly and numerically designated as Volume I, Num- ber 1; Volume II ending with Number & in December, 1853, with W. B. Herrick, M. D., as editor, assisted by H. A. Johnson, A. M., M. D., and with Ballantyne & Co. as printers and publishers, in the new post-office building, corner of Clark and Randolph streets, oppo- site the Sherman House. Dr. N. S. Davis succeeded Dr. Herrick as chief editor in May, 1854, Dr. H. A. Johnson continuing as assistant editor; the publication being in the hands of A. B. Case, book and job printer, Chicago, who in 1856 was succeeded by Robert Fergus as printer and publisher. In 1857 N. S. Davis, M. D., had sole editorial charge of the Journal and the pub- lishing was done at the "Chronotype" book and job office, Barnet & Clarke, printers. The December num- ber, 1857, terminated this issue of the magazine under the name of The Northwestern Medical and Surgical Jour- nal. Relative to the gentleman who had the sole charge of the Journal at that time, an extract from the North- western Christian Advocate of June 1, 1853, will give the estimation in which he was held by his fellow-citi- zens : "Speaking of Prof. Davis, we may not here sup- press an expression of that admiration of his character, which, in common with many others, we have so often felt. His learning and professional skill are not, as is so often the case, employed for mere purposes of money-getting; but amidst the pressing engagements of the duties of a professorship and a private practice he finds time-takes time-to labor with all the efficiency of his superior qualifications in the great reforms of the day. In the columns of our City Press, and our popular lecture-rooms he is to be found, for example, advancing the cause of temperance, and exploring the long and dark train of evils that have their rise in the fontal curse of our race."
THE GEM OF THE PRAIRIE was begun May 20. 1844, by K. K. Jones and James S. Beach, from their office in the Commercial Building, 65 Lake Street, and pur- ported to furnish literary miscellany and general in- telligence, on four pages, of sixteen and one-fourth by twenty-one and one-half inches, for $1.50 per annum, the issue being weekly. William H. Bush- nell, now of Washington, 1). C., was general contributor. After about a year's management Messrs. Jones & Beach sold the paper to J. Campbell and T. A. Stewart, who continued business at the "old stand," and after a short editorial and proprietary career by this company, Mr. Camphell retired. Thomas A. Stewart, subsequently of the Tribune, continued it under his individual man- agement until the latter part of 1846, when he asso- ciated with him James Kelley. In May, 1850, the edi- tors were John E. Wheeler. John L. Scripps, afterward of the Democratic Press, and T. A. Stewart ; Stewart & Co. were the publishers. In July, 1850, John E. Wheeler retired, leaving Messrs. Scripps & Stewart as editors, and Stewart, Waite & Co., publishers. In 1847, the Gem had been purchased by the management of the Tribune, and was issued until 1852 from that office, when it became wholly merged in the Tribune. AAmong the contributors to this paper were: Joseph K. C. Forrest, Mrs. Mary Clarkson Hoard, E. A. Guilbert, Lila F. Trask, Joseph Vial Smith, the Misses Collins daughters of J. H. Collins . B. F. Taylor, and W. Il. Bushnell.
THE GARLAND OF THE WEST was projected by Robert N .. Garrett and Nelson W. Fuller. But one copy was issued, July 30, 1845.
THE SPIRIT OF TEMPERANCE REFORM was started in 1845 by J. E. Ware, but soon died.
THE WESTERN MAGAZINE, the first literary maga-
zine published in Chicago, was issued in October, 1845, by Rounseville & Co. In September, 1846, John Jay Moon purchased the concern, and published two num- bers, when the periodical ended its brief life .-
THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS, a Liberty paper, had a short existence, from the latter part of 1845 to Janu- ary 6, 1846, under the management of Eastman & Da- vidson. This was the first daily issued without a weekly edition. S. W. Chapel was assistant editor.
THE CHICAGO VOLKSFREUND, the pioneer German paper in this city, was begun in December, 1845, by Robert B. Hoeffgen, as a weekly. It was continued until the spring of 1848. J. J. Waldburger was an edi- torial writer thereon.
THE ILLINOIS STAATS ZEITUNG was established in April, 1848, by Robert Bernhard Hoeffgen, as a weekly newspaper, the amount of capital invested in the enter- prise being about two hundred dollars; but in those primitive days the energy, mental and muscular, of the editor and publisher, atoned for lack of funds, and the one-man power that comprised the editorial staff was frequently the same individual momentum that wielded the lever upon the " man-killer " press. Mr. Hoeffgen's staff consisted of a boy, who received the emolument of seventy-five cents a day; and the editor, after writing his articles, locking up his forms and going to press, took the edition under his arm and distributed it to his subscribers. Shortly after its establishment, Dr. Hell- muth took the editorial chair, and under the manage- ment of this gentleman the Staats Zeitung commenced to manifest its political potentiality, and to champion and elaborate those principles that were afterward the tenets of the Republican party. In December, 1848, Arno Voss became the editor, and he, in 1849, was suc- ceeded by Herman Kriege, whose name has become widely known by his work, "The Fathers of the Re- public," and who, years afterward, became insane, and died December 31, 1850, in New York City. Un- der the direction of Mr. Kriege the issue was made semi-weekly, and then tri-weekly ; and the circulation was accredited, in round numbers, at one thousand. At that time George Schneider was at St. Louis, en- gaged in the publication of a daily newspaper entitled the Neue Zeit, a paper with anti-slavery tendencies. His office being burned down about the time that Mr. Hoeffgen solicited Mr. Schneider to take the editorial management of the Staats Zeitung, the latter gentle-
man accepted the proffer, and on August 25, 1851, took possession of the sanctum and increased the issue of the paper to a daily imprint. Toward the end of 1852 the paper was enlarged and George Hillgaertner became one of the editors. This gentleman was one of the refugees of 1849. and came with Dr. Gottfried Kinkle to Chicago. where a large meeting was convoked to welcome them : Mr. Hillgaertner married a sister of Arno Voss and settled permanently in Chicago. During that year Mr. Schneider purchased a half-interest in the paper and became co-publisher and proprietor with Mr. Hoeffgen. In 1854, the publication of the Sunday Zeitung wa- commenced, the first Sunday edition of a daily news- paper issued in Chicago; and in this year Edward Schlae- ger was also made a member of the editoral staff. This gentleman had commenced the publication of the Deutsche Amerikaner, a daily, in 1854, antagonistic to
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the Nebraska bill, but the fulminations of the Staats Zeitung against that bill were so tense, forcible and per- tinent that there was no public need for another paper enunciating the same principles as the Zeitung. The Amerikaner was discontinued. On the 29th of January, 1854, George Schneider convoked the first meeting to oppose the Nebraska bill and the extension of slavery. The meeting was held at Warner's Hall, on Randolph street, near Clark, and was probably the first meeting publicly held for this purpose in the United States. At that meeting resolutions were passed embodying the sense of the participants in that demonstration. A copy of these resolutions was sent to Hon. John Wentworth, then member of Congress, and he, recognizing the voice of the people and their wishes in the matter, voted ad- versely to the Nebraska bill. His was the first Demo- cratic vote cast in the House against that celebrated measure. With how much reason the Staats Zeitung claims the inaugural movement that resulted in the for- mation of the Republican party, its historical adherance to the Buffalo platform and its hostility to the Nebraska bill and slavery will demonstrate without comment. During that year also an attack was made upon the Staats Zeitung by a mob the establishment being then at No. 12 Wells Street) and numbers of citizens prof- fered assistance to resist the attack; but Mr. Schneider said that while he controlled the paper he would defend it, and the determined front presented by that gentle- man and his assistants, who were all armed, cowed the mob and they retired without perpetrating any violence. To revert to an item that concerned the newspaper per se in this year, it is a matter of fact that Dr. Aaron Gibbs, who was a fierce anti-slavery man, collected such a multiplicity of advertisements that an extra had to to be issued in order to provide space for their insertion. Subsequently H. Beinder became incorporated with the editorial staff; as did Daniel Hertle, a refugee of 1849, who was one of the most accomplished writers ever upon the paper. Edward Remack then was appointed editor of the Sonntag Zeitung, then designated Die Westen, and his caustic and witty articles will long be remembered by the readers of the paper. He was also noted as a musical and dramatic critic, in which role he had hardly a superior. He left Chicago and settled in New York City. where he died. In 1855, another ineffective demonstration in mob force was made against the paper, growing out of political feeling; but as in the former instance, no damage resulted to the Staats Zeitung; the armed neutrality of the pa- per forming a bulwark, whereon the turbid waves of discontent dashed into a mere spray of threats. The Staats Zeitung lent its voice in calling the first Editorial Convention, held at Decatur in February, 1856, which was attended by that noble son of the great State of Illinois, Abraham Lincoln. At that convention the native American party were strongly represented by adherents of the party as delegates; yet that organiza- tion framed resolutions inimical to slavery, and favora- ble to foreign-born citizens, despite the native Ameri- can disciples. How much, or how little, of this result is ascribable to the influence of the newspaper is, of course, an open question, but the bases of those resolu- tions were tenaciously and unwaveringly championed by the paper; therefore, it is only just to accredit the Staats Zeitung with having wielded some power that assisted in this consummation; the more especially as Mr. Schneider, the editor of the paper, was present and argued untiringly for the resolutions he had introduced. Govenor Palmer, Abraham Lincoln, Norman B. Judd, B. C. Cooke, and others, favored those resolutions and
they were passed amid a tumult of excitement, under the special advocacy of Abraham Lincoln, who stated to his old Whig friends (the majority of whom at that time were in the Native American party . that "the resolutions of Mr. Schneider contained nothing which had not been said in the Declaration of Independence." The State Convention at Decatur called the Blooming- ton Convention of 1856, and there resolutions of similar liberal character were passed. There Mr. Schneider was elected Delegate-at-Large, to the Philadelphia Con- vention, where John C. Fremont was nominated as a candidate for the presidency. It is known to history that the party called the North American (a euphemism for Native American party, had their National Con- vention in session at the same time and anticipated and desired a co-operation with the new party, whose nucleus was formed by the adherents of the resolutions adverse to slavery and in favor of the foreign-born American citizen. To prevent any such amalgamation. the Illinois delegates, Palmer, Schneider. Judd, and others, at once rallied their forces and compromised on the election of Henry Lane, of Indiana, for president of the convention, who pledged himself to support the Illinois resolutions; and the committee on platform was organized with that view, which committee incorporated those resolutions in the platform of the new party. When the report came before the convention the ut- most turbulence prevailed, and after the section favor- ing the Illinois resolutions was read, even such a man as Thaddeus Stevens arose and denounced them as an Insult to the great American party of Pennsylvania, and moved their rejection by special amendment. The Illi- nois delegates had friends in most of the Western dele- gations, and, pending any decision upon Mr. Stevens' resolution, it was determined that, should such amend- ments be passed, a demonstration should be made of leaving the convention en masse ; but the president, (Mr. Lane of Indiana;, on the vote of the convention, declared the resolutions adopted amid the greatest up- roar from the dismayed North (or Native) Americans .* The German-American party claim that this epoch was the birth of the National Republican party, and was a decisive check to the Democratic party in the North- western States, because the door was opened to affilia- tion in the new party by foreign-born citizens in those States. In consequence the Old Line pro-slavery) Whigs joined the Democratic party, and the liberal por- tion cast their lot in with the Republicans. . It is now generally conceded that without this division the ques- tion of slavery would not have had the decision of the people as soon as it had, and the new party in its con- flict for ascendancy in the State and the final issue upon the battle-field, would have been without the co-operation of the liberal portion of the Democratic party. As an- other result, two-thirds of the German papers all over the Northern States joined the new liberalized party, and shortly thereafter the effects were demonstrated at the popular elections in the Northern States. The Staats Zeitung by its indomitable zeal and unwavering championship, converted most of the Germans to the new faith. Its editors were prominent among the most influential speakers at the various meetings where the politics of the day were discussed, during the memor- able Fremont campaign.
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