Negative Reception for The Unionist
Windham Times,
Windham Times, 5 August 1833
Negative notice
Transcription
We have received the first number of a new paper published at Brooklyn in this state called “the Unionist.” It proposes to be an independent paper, which means absolute dependence on two or three individuals—it is a one-party paper which is to be understood as opposing the democratic party—and unionist signifies disunion, discord and dissension, provided it is in the power of two or three persons of long purses, negro friendship and church and State view to create them. The Advertiser which is printed at Brooklyn is conducted with far more ability than any paper which ever preceded it in that county, and is more expressive of the feelings and sentiments of the citizens. We doubt whether Tappan & Co. will be able to control the people of Windham county, or whether it is in this power to enlighten them. They best know their own interest, and the Unionist will not unite them in favor of the negro school.
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The Windham Times, aligned with the pro-colonizationist and Jacksonian forces, is unimpressed with The Unionist
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