The ''Sumter News'' was a newspaper serving
Sumter, South Carolina
Sumter ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Sumter County, South Carolina, United States. Known as the Sumter Metropolitan Statistical Area, the namesake county adjoins Clarendon and Lee to form the core of Sumter-Lee-Clarendon Tri-county (o ...
. It became the ''True Southron'' and eventually merged with ''The Watchman'' to form ''The Watchman and Southron''.
History
H. L. Darr was a journalist in
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston metropolitan area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint o ...
, who moved to Sumter to establish a weekly paper.
(born January 25, 1843) joined the paper soon after.
worked for it. It competed against the ''
Sumter Watchman''.
[
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politics and described itself as a white man's paper with an editorial header stating "This is a white man's country and must be ruled by white men". Moses wrote columns and editorials calling for the development of industry in the South, criticizing "carpetbagger
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s", Northern missionaries helping establish Union League
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s, and Republican activities, especially Radical Republican
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, in Washington D.C.telegraph
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to get Associated Press
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stories on U.S. President Andrew Johnson
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's fight against the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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and impeachment.[ The paper was renamed the ''True Southron''. It eventually merged with the Watchman to become the ''Watchman and Southron''.]The Item
''The Item'', formerly known as ''The Sumter Daily Item'' and ''The Daily Item'', is an independent, morning newspaper published in Sumter, South Carolina five days a week, Tuesday to Friday with a "Weekend Edition" delivered on Saturday morning ...
'' in Sumter.
References
Defunct newspapers published in South Carolina
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