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Newspaper Southern Standard (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856

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About Southern Standard (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856

From 1834 to 1852, Columbus, the seat of Lowndes County in east-central Mississippi, supported rival Democratic and Whig newspapers. The four-page weekly Columbus Democrat (1834-78) staunchly espoused Jacksonian Democracy. In 1856, the Democrat absorbed a competing four-page Democratic weekly, the Southern Standard (1851-56). According to George P. Rowell and Company’s American Newspaper Directory, the Democrat was last published in 1878.

The Columbus Democrat established a long-lived democratic press in Lowndes County, a traditionally democratic region of Mississippi.

By August 1836, Henry Worthington was working at the Columbus Democrat; he continued as editor and/or publisher, sometimes with partners, until his death around 1859. For more than 40 years, the Worthington family dominated the Democratic press in Columbus. Henry’s son William, a prominent newspaperman in his own right, began as a printer in 1850; two years later he was publisher of the Democrat. For a brief time, William and his brother Winfield (“Wynn”) edited another Columbus newspaper, the Mississippi Index (1865-69?); Winfield and another brother, Samuel, were the proprietors. In 1875, William Worthington left the Columbus Democrat to become editor of the state Grange paper, the Patron of Husbandry (1875-83).

Banking issues were frequently discussed during the 1830s and 40s; the Democrat’s editorials advocated small government and denounced the ideals espoused by rival Whig newspapers, such as a national bank, a national bankruptcy act, and the repayment of state-owned bonds.

Provided By: Mississippi Department of Archives and History

About this Newspaper

Title

  • Southern Standard (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856

Dates of Publication

  • 1851-1856

Created / Published

  • Columbus, Miss. : W.D. Chapman, 1851-

Headings

  • -  Columbus (Miss.)--Newspapers
  • -  Mississippi--Columbus
  • -  United States--Mississippi--Lowndes--Columbus

Genre

  • Newspapers

Notes

  • -  Weekly
  • -  Vol. 1, no. 1 (Feb. 1, 1851)-
  • -  Ceased in 1856.
  • -  Archived issues are available in digital format from the Library of Congress Chronicling America online collection.
  • -  Columbus Democrat (Columbus, Miss.) 1856 2378-1599 (DLC)sn 83016867 (OCoLC)10192978

Medium

  • volumes

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Newspaper

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • sn83016866

OCLC Number

  • 10192941

ISSN Number

  • 2378-3249

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Southern Standard Columbus, Miss. -1856. (Columbus, MS), Jan. 1 1851. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83016866/.

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(1851, January 1) Southern Standard Columbus, Miss. -1856. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83016866/.

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Southern Standard Columbus, Miss. -1856. (Columbus, MS) 1 Jan. 1851. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/sn83016866/.