The Chicago Times
(Chicago, Illinois, USA)
(1854-1895)
The Times was founded in 1854 by James W. Sheahan, Daniel Cameron, and Isaac Cook with the support of Democrat and attorney Stephen A. Douglas, and was identified as a pro-slavery newspaper. In 1861, after the paper was purchased by Democratic journalist Wilbur F. Storey, the Times began espousing the Copperhead point of view, supporting Southern Democrats and denouncing the policies of Abraham Lincoln. During the Civil War, General Ambrose Burnside, head of the Department of the Ohio, suppressed the paper in 1863 because of its hostility to the Union cause, but Lincoln lifted the ban when he received word of it. (WP)
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Short description: The Chicago Times was a newspaper in Chicago.