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...splendid success, even in New England, the old stronghold of Federalism. Cheered the New Haven Herald, describing the city's reaction to Monroe's visit: "The demon of party for a time departed, and gave place for a general burst of National Feeling." The Boston Centinel reported that the President's visit served to "harmonize feelings, annihilate dissentions, and make us one people." The paper applied the label "Era of Good Feeling" to the new Administration, and the label has stuck down through the generations...
Recalling Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase, the Star-Times jibed: "The Post-Dispatch of that day was the Columbian Centinel of Boston, and its conduct is described in five words by Claude Bowers in Jefferson in Power: 'The Columbian Centinel went mad.' . . . [The Centinel declared] that Jefferson had given away 'nearly all the gold and silver in the United States.' And for what? 'Wild land.' Land of which 'we do not want a foot.' Jefferson, it moaned, 'had run in debt for Mississippi moonshine $15,000,000. . . . There were appeasers...
When Robert Harper founded the weekly Adams Centinel (named for Adams County) in 1800, he bought the Ramage press that went to Franklin Institute last week, loaded it on a wagon, carted it up over the Baltimore Pike to Gettysburg. Sixteen years later Robert Harper was dead, his son, Robert Goodloe Harper, had succeeded him, and the Centinel had become the Sentinel. On June 30, 1863, when Confederate cavalry scouts made their first contact with the Union Army west of Gettysburg, the Sentinel suspended an issue for the only time in its life. Next day the Union forces attacked. After...
...Ansonia (Conn.) Centinel: "To its plan (the Harvard Crimson's) Tad Jones opposes this earnest enconium of football: 'I believe in football . . . as a developer of manhood, as a developer of all the qualities we admire. . . I hope the time will never come when the time devoted to football at Yale will be any less than it is today.' This is a sufficient reason to both the critics and the meddlers...
...Columbian Centinel, published at Boston, July 2,1806, appears the following notice...