Negative Reception for The Unionist
Columbian Register
Columbian Register 10 August 1833
Negative notice
Transcription
“A paper has just been established at Brooklyn, Windham Co. called “The Unionist,” by Charles C. Burleigh, Esq. It is a red hot Abolitionist, and its columns are filled with the martyrdom of Miss Prudence Crandall. It has much to say of Col. Judson’s negro oppression law, Watkins’ cell, &c. &c. Instead of Unionist, the paper should have been called Divisionist, Rebellionist, Pull off your Hat to the Blackist, and Knock your Teeth down your Throatist; and the editor, instead of announcing his name as Chas. Burleigh, should say, “published by Hurly Burly, near Canterbury.”
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The Columbian Register of New Haven was always a stalwart opponent of Black civil rights in the United States. As masters of newspaper sarcasm, the use of "Hurly Burly" to describe Charles C. Burleigh is to be expected.
