Posted on 01/02/2022 1:37:08 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
The U.D. has a long and proud history, being published in Linn since 1866.
The Unterrified Democrat has one of the greatest names in the newspaper business. How the paper got its name is an interesting story.
Lebbeus Zevely, the founder of the Unterrified Democrat, was a Democratic member of the Missouri State Senate. He had moved to Missouri from North Carolina and had many southern friends from North Carolina and southern sympathizer friends from Missouri. Zevely himself was unquestionably very loyal to the union.
On April 8, 1865, the Missouri legislature approved what was called the Drake Constitution and submitted it to the voters for ratification. The measure was intended to penalize southern sympathizers by requiring them to take a loyalty oath before being able to vote, teach, preach or sit on a jury. In that oath they had to swear they had not sympathized with the cause of the South.
Zevely, during debate in the senate, argued vehemently against the measure.
Zevely’s argument was that his constituents were honorable people who would not lie under oath and would therefore lose the right to vote, teach, preach or sit on a jury. One of his fellow senators, as a result, described him as an “unterrified Democrat.”
Fifteen months later when he started his newspaper, he named it the “Unterrified Democrat.”
(Excerpt) Read more at unterrifieddemocrat.com ...
YMMV
How very ironic... given all the terrorizing that the democrats
were to start doing over the next 100 years
!!!
—” Where is the rest of the article? Did I miss something?”
For me, it’s an unusual and interesting newspaper name.
Still publishing after all the years!
As noted: YMMV.
An interesting name and story. Looks to be conservative too. I might start reading it. I like a good small-town newspaper.
—”I like a good small-town newspaper.”
Will you still have time for the Chicago Defender?
Long ago, I knew a surprising number of subscribers to the Chicago Defender, and not a one had much of a suntan?
At the time there was a court order on hiring and the help wanted ads were the best city jobs posted ahead of the MSN papers.
A relative at the MSD could not believe how unprepared many of the applicants were.
I had forgotten about that one. I have read it a time or two.
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