An Account of the Newspapers and Other Periodicals: Published in Salem From 1768 to 1856 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from An Account of the Newspapers and Other Periodicals: Published in Salem From 1768 to 1856

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Excerpt from An Account of the Newspapers and Other Periodicals: Published in Salem From 1768 to 1856

We propose to give some account of the several newspapers and other periodicals, which have been published in Salem since the first introduction of the art of printing into this town until the present time. The review will carry us back nearly a century, to the period immediately preceding the war of the Revolution; and in glancing at the special purposes of the various periodicals since that time, we shall obtain glimpses of the successive states of public opinion in this place. The list of serials during these years is a long one, embracing fifty separate and distinct publications, of various degrees of interest and importance. We shall mention them in the order of their commencement, designating each by its appropriate numeral.

Salem was the third town in the Colonies, in the order of time, to enjoy the advantages of a public printing press. It was preceded in this respect by both Cambridge and Boston. The former place contained a printing press as early as 1689, and as the infant University was located there, as well as the local government of the colony, the persons concerned in it were encouraged by grants of land from the General Court. But the Puritan authorities, although ready to patronize this enterprise to some extent, still regarded the freedom of printing with a jealous eye, and accordingly, in 1662, two of the most worthy and highly approved of the clergymen of the colony were authorized by the General Court to act as licensers of the press. Thus the dispensations of grace on the part of the authorities in the matter of land were not without their equivalents in the more important matter of free printing. The press in Boston was first established in 1674, in accordance with leave specially granted by the General Court, which had previously ordered, in 1664, that there should be no other press than that at Cambridge.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.