The Virginian. Lynchburg, Monday, February 13, 1826 Semi-Weekly

Lynchburg, Virginia: Elijah Fletcher & Rich B. Toler, 1826. Newspaper. Good. Disbound newspaper. Folded. Approximately 20.5" x 14.5". 4 pages. Printed in 5 columns. Light toning to the issue.

Contents contain advertisements for new books; fall and winter goods; opening of a new Female Academy; an article from the Philadelphia Evening Post recalling an attack on a frontier boarding house in Pennsylvania during the American Revolution; Virginia legislature; the National Road; Panama Mission; and dozens of advertisements including a twenty dollar reward for a runaway Slave.

From the Library of Congress:

Lynchburg had (truncated) already established itself as fertile ground for newspapers by 1822, when the consolidation of The Lynchburg Press and the Gazette created the semi-weekly The Virginian. The paper operated under the direction of John Hampden Pleasants and Joseph Butler until the two moved to Richmond in 1824 to start the Constitutional Whig. Editor Richard Toler next took the reins, overseeing the paper’s name change in 1829 to the Lynchburg Virginian and adding the tagline “The Rights of the States, and the Union of the States” to the nameplate in June 1835. Eventually he, too, moved to Richmond to edit the Whig. A short editorial stint by a son of one of the publishers ended in October 1850 when he traded the Lynchburg Virginian to Abner W. C. Terry in exchange for the Danville Register, for which Terry had been the first editor. (Inventory #: 34821)