Boston Courier

{{Short description|American newspaper}}

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| type = Daily newspaper from 1824 to 1866; Weekly newspaper from 1867 to 1915

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| foundation = March 2, 1824

| ceased publication = April 10, 1915

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| language = English

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| headquarters = Boston, Massachusetts

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The Boston Courier was an American newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded on March 2, 1824, by Joseph T. Buckingham{{cite book |title=Cyclopaedia of American literature |volume=2 |chapter=Joseph T. Buckingham |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tq5tAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Joseph+T+Buckingham%22&pg=PA19 |year=1856 |publisher=C. Scribner |pages=19–20 |editor=Evert Augustus Duyckinck |editor2=George Long Duyckinck }} as a daily newspaper which supported protectionism. Buckingham served as editor until he sold out completely in 1848, after suffering a severe financial crisis in 1837 and losing much of his editorial authority.{{cite book |title=American artisans: crafting social identity, 1750-1850 |chapter="Becoming Joseph T. Buckingham" by Gary J. Kornblith|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XS7xt78zl6UC&pg=PA133 | page = 133 |editor=Howard B. Rock |editor2=Paul A. Gilje |editor3=Robert Asher |publisher=JHU Press |year=1995 |isbn=0-8018-5029-0 }} The Boston Courier supported the National Republicans, and later the Whig Party.{{cite book |title=American artisans: crafting social identity, 1750-1850 |chapter="Spavined Ministers, Lying Toothpullers, and Buggering Priests": Third-Partyism and the Search for Security in the Antebellum North by Bruce Laurie|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XS7xt78zl6UC&pg=PA98 | pages = 98–122 |editor=Howard B. Rock |editor2=Paul A. Gilje |editor3=Robert Asher |publisher=JHU Press |year=1995 |isbn=0-8018-5029-0| postscript=; (See p. 102.)}} In the period before the American Civil War, its editors, including George S. Hillard and George Lunt,{{cite book|author=Lunt, George|title=Radicalism in religion, philosophy and social life: four papers from the Boston Courier for 1858|location=Boston|publisher=Little, Brown, & Co.|year=1858|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011624166}} supported the states' right position on the abolition of slavery. From 1867 to 1915 the Boston Courier (New Series) was a weekly newspaper published by Libbey & Dennison.{{cite web|title=Boston Courier|url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=10050&recCount=25&recPointer=1&bibId=11280653|website=Library of Congress Online Catalog}}