Gaspee
Days Committee History Files
The Gaspee Torch Light c1840
Found on eBay 9/2002: A newspaper from Providence, Rhode Island, dated
1840, The Gaspee Torch Light. There is a ship with two life
boats
in the water pictured between the words Torch and Light. The phrase in
quotes is beneath the name of the paper, 'Resistance To Tyrants Is
Obedience
To God'. Published by William R. Watson. Printed by Knowles, Vose, and
Anthony, Journal Office. Articles discussed are: Van Buren and Direct
Taxes,
Who are the friends of Harrison?, Government corruption, and other
political
subjects.
According to the discussions found in "The Printer and the Press", by
H. P. Smith (Chapter V) in
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations at the End of the
Century Vol. II, pp. 563 - 611, Ed. Edward Field, A. B.
Boston & Syracuse: The Mason Publishing Company, 1902. and
presented on line courtesy of rootsweb at http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/article219.html:
One of the several newspapers that
have been absorbed by the [Providence]
Journal was the Morning
Courier, edited and published by William G. Larned from June,
1836, to January, 1840; it was a weekly paper. A campaign paper
called The Gaspee Torchlight
was issued from the Journal
office during the Harrison campaign of 1840; its opponent at the same
time was pertinently called The
Extinguisher, which emanated from the [Providence]Herald office.
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