SPARTA DEMOCRAT - - - EXTRA. SPARTA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1841. "PRINCIPLES, AND NOT MEN."
Sparta [Illinois]: 1841. Folio broadsheet, 10" x 13-1/2." Each page printed in three columns. Browned. margin-foxed. Small piece missing from blank upper corner. Good. The first issue of this short-lived weekly appeared May 8, 1840. Its predecessor was the Sparta Herald, published by John E. Detrich, who "remained publisher until..... More